Capt Thighbiter

CapnJake, I am learnin concertina too. Got a G/D Stagi 20 button for x-mas. I love it, its so different from fiddle, my main instrument. How are you coming along? any tips or tricks you want to share?

This is a good link for a black powder cannon message board, with links to BP handguns and rifles, etc etc. http://greybeardoutdoors.com

A new concertina, Stagi 20 button anglo that I intend to work into our stage act with the Brigands. very nice sounding too. Robosapien, lol, that i am training to bring my pick case to me A Makay's pirate hat Several Pirate related books ( nothing historically significant tho) Some dress shirts H.D. playing cards What i gave: New fly front breeches to me oldest son New chemise to me lady along with a kitchen aide mixer and a vibrator! skate board to me youngest son

I'm surprised that no one has delved into this, a prime topic. Think about it, at the time, almost all goods moved by water, especialy bulk goods. The food you ate, the oil you saw by, the clothes you wore and the tools you used, etc etc. Piracy disrupted this. SO the receipients never got what they had paid/waiting for. I think we underestimate the amount of disruption it caused. Imagine if hordes of hi-jackers were to intrupt the food supply to even one American city for a week. Imagine how the citizens might feel twords the hijackers. THe out cry to the authorities. On the other hand, the city that the hijackers spend thier money will love these same people.

"Bloody Seamen" the new Cd from The Brigands, is now available from our website, http://thebrigands.com It features two original songs, "The New Mainsail", "HMS Hellion" and songs from the foc'sle and the Captains cabin plus lots of music recorded live at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire.

Cut out the Constellation.. now yer talkin !! ANd they installed additional heaters just for this event!

Bumping it up there mate. Its going to be a blast, literally; we are bringing all 4 cannon, and all 5 locks, all to be fired at midnight!

We. The Brigands , are sorely grieved to hear of the loss. We met David 3 years ago at the Blackbeard Festival, and a more gracious and friendly man we've not known. Letting a rank amature band swarm his decks to take publicity photos, explaining endless questions on the ship and its rigging and even taking delight in our music. Each year at Blackbeard, talking with him was always a high point of the Festival. Saying he will be sorely missed by friends, patrons and especially his shipmates is a sad understatement but will have to suffice. Truely a Master and Commander in every sense of the word A fair wind and a following sea to you, Sir, and may the Lord take you into your well deserved berth. Al, Erik and Brett Mueller The Brigands

Thankee, mate. Recorded live at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire on the last day, last set of the season!

Far a limited item, you can download a copy of "Brandon's Prelude" off our new CD "Bloody Seamen" from our website http://thebrigands.com Right click on the song link and choose the "Save target as" option to copy the MP3 to your computer. Works best with DSL or other high speed internet access. We hope you enjoy it! The Brigands

Odd... with all the Pirate history here on Long Island, I have been unable to get much interest at any venue or town to put on a pirate festival... even NYC's South Street Seaport, blocks away from Capt Kidds residence in NYC was not interested. Thats wy The Brigands have to travel to Virginia to partake of a good ol'e fashioned pirate party! Red Cat Jenny, ye doesn't sing by th bye do ye? Our home base is in Brentwood - for the looks of ye map we be neighbors!

This tune was written for a stage prodution of Treasure Island in the early 1900's and seems to have a life of its own! "Fifteen men on a dead mans chest" indeed. The other tune " Yo Ho A pirates life for me" is a disney creation for the ride, I believe.

So true, so true

Dam ye , lass why did ye no say hello? I'd a let ye fire the cannon off !

For you scallywags needin to rape or pillage or rape AND pillage, this weekend is the Pirate Invasion at the Connecticut Renaissance Faire in Hebron Ct. There be lots of special acts being brought in for it and of course the Faire's resident Pirate band, The Brigands, will be there, just chock full of piratey goodness. For more info http://ctfaire.com A faire wind and a following sea to ye mates!

I agree with all on the quality of Frost items. However if your wanting the genuine article, they a website Joesalter.com He deals in actual antique guns and blades and has a VERY nice cutlass there now. Spendy, but then the real deal usualy is.

Yes, Lady, an annual event. YObS Capt Thighbiter

No one from Northern waters?

Kass, aye naive and un-learned I be. Thats why I posted.

I am a fashion neophyte compared to some of you folks, but i often wonder reading the discussions on fashion and coats and frocks and other fine points if we place a bit too much weight on crude wood cuts and the occasional painting. I doubt that the artists were trying to accurately depict the exactitude of fasion in the pictorials, but rather the act going on in the scene. Also, think about how wild and veried fashion is today. How many variations of a basic neckline today for instance. Why would the fashion in the GOaP be different? Each seamstress would have perhaps made his or her little change to an existing pattern or maybe saw something and decided to give it a twist. Not doubting the woodcuts and pics have significance but to claim that it was THE way fashion was is kinda narrow vision, to my mind of thinking.

I dunno mate, I've seen a cast iron cannon rip apart at the breech from firing too much BP or from wear an tear ( i never found out which) . I personally would not be firing ANY cannon made from ABS and styrofoam. Hope ye have a LOT of insurance!

Spiking.. I'd not heard that one afore. Thanks, thats what I'm looking for. Over the Barrel - similar to Kissin the Gunners Daughter, right? Any one else?

I am needin differnt techniques for torture or punishment used on board ship during GAoP. Things like keel hauling , but prerferably a bit more obscure then that. Not to worry mates, its for the lyrics to a song I am writing, no practical application anticipated

Just bumping it up there, lads. SHould be a good time for all

Just got the mixes down in the studio, the crew is pretty psyched! With the blessing, we shall have the CD ready for the CT Renn Faire season! HELLION G D C G C D G The Hellion was His Majestys ship, a two mast weatherly bark G (walk down) Em C D Commanded by John Mowett, a man both stern and dark G D C G C D With letters in hand to haras the French, she sailed the Spanish main G D C G C D G By the grace of God to sail from the Yard and then sail back again. chorus ( or burden) C D G C D G And Up Sailed The Hellion, with her cannon blazing wide C D G C D Boarding party in the forchains, and lining the weather side C D G C D G Hoisting up the mainsail, on the starboard tack she lies C D G C D G Make 'em strike thier colors lads, make 'em strike or die Now who were the crew of the Hellion, the ones who made her sail? There were Sailing Master Thighbiter to see the winds not fail Firstmate Bloody Bill Marley, and Butch Cannon, of the gunners crew But the Sailing Masters failing was he shipped his young son too chorus And the blood was spilled from many a ship, many a prize they took but never a copper for the common hand, n'er on the gold they looked In a chest of iron it were locked , on the orlop deck it be For the good of the Crown they might drown, to serve his Majesty chorus Was off the coast Tortuga, in the Spring of fourty four The Man-O-War, Terrible' sailed to settle up the score A French 32, with three hundered souls that stood before the mast with an order from Le' Govenor to sink the Hellion fast Le Capitan' Fromage spied the Hellion with his glass and He clewed up his fors'le to make his broadside pass They fired their guns at a biscuit toss into the Hellions side Was in the fray as they pulled away, the Master's son did die But the Hellion had the weather gage and was able to escape Mowett bade the crew to leave the dead, for repairs they had to make No service for the Master's son, which it nearly broke his heart Gave twenty two lashes to the crew, and the mutiny did start Was late that night in the officers mess, the crew all did decide and Capitan Mowet was given a Jonah's lift RIGHT o'r the side now the Hellion sails, a pirate ship, forever more to be And she lives on in this song for all eternity Chords: briskly