Capt Thighbiter

Callenish, I am interested in one o' yer blunderbusses, make sure to hook up with me on Sat. I will be bringing many cannon with me and perhaps we might effect a trade? See ye there, mate!

aye, swivel guns be the darling o'the gunners mate. BTW, if yer firing that piece ye might want to check in with http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/fo...9aa0d2078199b65 its a very good blackpowder cannon and mortar board. Cannon - is there anything they cant do!

actually, i have read that there are some serious inconsistancies with this site and that this may not be the QER after all.

Here is our lads

" haven't stollen anything on the Ocean or rivers or anywhere the Admarilaty controlls" Thighbiter looks up at the sky and whistles most absently. Do dinghys count? http://thebrigands.com

Make that definately 4 cannon. Just made it speak for the first time last nite. I think you will enjoy looking and working this one Hawyns, it appears to be a very well made bronze tube, 30" x 1.650 bore. I susspect it is a lot older then the carriage.

Thanks. I kind of wrote it as a bit o' piratey irony.. so the ending stays as she be. Not all battles were successful. THanks again, and we will post the MP3 file when the recording is done.

Aye Hawkyns, ye be welcome to help out Sat morning with the cannon barrage. We are bringing 3 , possibly 4 guns and can use the extra hands and perhaps learn a bit from ye.

I too am web-challenged but here goes with our list starting with the big boys Jumping Billy - 1.7" bore bronze Victory cannon from Bronzecannons Death Knell - 1.5 bore cast iron gun from Hern and home made carriage Jacks Revenge - 1" bore bronze swivel gun, I c0mpleted from a casting bought on e-bay Bishop of Wolverhampton - 1-5/8 bore bronze x 30" gun on oak carriage Small Arms: Queen Anne flintlock ( from pedersoli) .65 flintlock - picked up 20 years ago in London at a antique store .75 Tower repro flintlock pistol Swords: Too bloody many to list

Aye Hawkins, she were a might narrow in the beam.

bump - only because it's a good cause

The Mid-Hudson Mayfaire will be held on May 13 and 14 at the Ulster County Fair Ground, in New Paltz NY. This is a first year fair held to benefit the Queens Galley, a non-proffit food kitchen and nourishment awareness organization. If you are in serious need of some Faire early in the Northeast season, come on by! The faire will have a pirate flavor since they have my group , The Brigands, and two other pirate based groups as part of the entertainment. And, we we will doing a black powder cannon demonstration times daily. http://queensgalley.org http://thebrigands.com Rob't Thighbiter Hellion 48' 023" 125' 49"

Thanks to all. Some good info here and food for thought. I still cant see a pirate crew singin a rousing round of Capt Ward, lol. The pirates get caught ( at least in some versions). THe research continues!

From what I have been able to research, there are lots of songs circa 1700 or so that are ABOUT pirates, but precious few tunes that may have logically been sung BY pirates. My thoughts: Whaling songs and shanties are out. Possibly some few broadside ballads may have trickled aboard. For those British ships and men that went on account, possibly some songs popular in Royal Navy may have been sung, though it's hard to imagine men who are now wanted for piracy singing songs about hearts of oak and british tars. Any comments on the above or better yet a lubber line in the right direction from the august body of knowledgeable folk here?

Sir, we, the Brigands, stand ready and looking forward to the upcoming festival. If all goes well, we are bringing four cannon with us. Our same two from last year , one that I made from a bronze E-bay casting and another bronze 2 pounder, en-route from England as we speak! Lets hope the old family vanster can handle the weight o' 4 guns! Aye, twil be a grand time. http://thebrigands.com Rob't Thighbiter Bloody Bill Marley Butch Cannon THE BRIGANDS

Corsiar, Thankee for doing such a great job with the Invasion! Me first mate meself had a rollicking time. What a great place for the Invasion and hardly any whores trying ta pick me pockets. Hopes to see ye we do, down at the Hampton Blackbeard Festival! Fair winds and smooth sailing mate! Rob't Thighbiter Bloody Bill Marley Hellion 45' 60" -120' 23"

Could it be because the Dutch traders were such extremely shrewd business men that all thier piracy was done"legally"? From what I read, enterin into a business arangement with a bloody Dutchman, ye were more n likely to get a quill in the back then a dirk.

Wow, thats an ambitious project ye have there, lad. To make a full lenght motion picture and borrow/steal/wheedle the cameras, costumes, music and sets from folks. I like it! A very piratey way o making it happen. I can give ye some music o course and possibly lend, LEND mind ye, a costume or two. That is of course unless you two run out o what ye been smokin and decide by the light o day it be a phantasm.

The Brigands Ship be the Hellion, formerly HMS HELLION, taken from her bleedin Majesty's trusted Capitain, John Mowett, off the coast of Tortuga in '44

Aye, mate , and music too. I am bringin me sea-going fiddle, to liven up things. The bloody Admiral Fell be booked solid, so we are bunkin half a leauge away from the festivities. See ye at Mikes!

Aye, Duncan, we will be at Hampton this year, with new songs, new garb and NEW CANNONS!!!!! The Brigands had a good year! :) See you on the 25!

Mate, ye have 2/3 of the Brigands making the voyage from the port o' New York! Any inns ye might know of, where a gentleman of fortune could sling his bunk?

I have 4 soon to be 5 cannon The bronze Victory Cannon, given to me by my company for my 25 anniversry, in lieu of a watch - wonderful piece a grey star 1/2 scale cast iron barrel - i got the barrel only and made my own carriage - cheapest entry into large scale cannons that i know of, but a LOT of work finishing off the barrel a brass rail cannon, 1" bore that I bought as a rough casting on ebay and then fdrilled and finished it off and commisioned a yolk and swivel - nice voice for a small cannon old ironsides .69 cal cannon from Connon-mania, nice gun for the $ but small and lastly , on its way from England to NYC a bronze 1.625 dia beauty, from an E-bay sale CHeck Ebay regularly, you will find good deals on plain barrels every now and then, but be carefull that you know what your buying, like always

thankee, mates. Twas my attempt at some irony... all of that happen in one day and the thing thats remembered most is.. the raising of the new mainsail, seadogs the crew of the Hellion be. Am - G - E be the chords if'n ye wants ta try try yer hand of it. Melody wise, now ye be on yer own course, I be ignorant of the pen in that regard, in a manner o speakin. Rob't Thighbiter Hellion 42o 14' 128o 35'

I'd have to play around with it. Me personally, i dont hold with taking new words and seting them to old melodys nor with taking new melodys and settin old word agin them. the song above, the melody is a slow and very modal tune, more like a drag shanty.