Capt Thighbiter
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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
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Aye Hawkins, she were a might narrow in the beam.
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bump - only because it's a good cause
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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.
Rob't Thighbiter
Hellion
48' 023"
125' 49"
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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!
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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?
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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.
Rob't Thighbiter
Bloody Bill Marley
Butch Cannon
THE BRIGANDS
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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!
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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?
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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
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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'
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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.
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Speakin fer meself mind ye, I be full o' piss and vinegar, a right tartar when crossed. Me mates know this full weel, and gives me a wide berth when the mood is on me, in a manner of speakin.
Tis much the same with most piratical folk, no?
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Well now mate, know ye of an establishment that might be in the way of needing some ertertainment fer the event? Some tavern like as not or mayhap an eatery that would like some lively music from the foc'sle and a few from the Capt's cabin.
The Brigands would love an excuse to make the journey from our port in NY on the Isle of Long.
Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated!
The Brigands
Hellion
Latitude: 410500N
Longitude: 0730000W
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Lets see:
Fiddle
Guitar
Mandolin
Drums
Piano
Sax
Clarinet
Flute
Piccollo
Main instruments are the fiddle and guitar. All self taught. Some day I will learn to read that sheet music stuff.
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aye, mate, while i have a reputation as being a right bloody tatar, the niceties of genteel folk are not strange to me.
A round, inn keeper, for the lads and lasses, if ye please!
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If yer looking for a Pirate Band, check out The Brigands.
We are based in NYC but travel as far as Virginia and Toronto for Festivals and Faires. We have one CD out, " The Brigands", and are working on our second one, tentatively titled " Bloody Seamen".
Available for parties, boat christenings, port stormings and the like.
Email: wrench13@aol.com
Phone: 631 434 7091
Capt Rob Thighbiter
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Me name is Robert Thighbiter, elected Capitan of Hellion these last three years. Out of the port of. New York on the Isle of Long.
Our band, The Brigands, have been appearing at a few Renn fests and Pirate festivals and are going to be going after some more this season. Hope to catch ye some day!
Theres a link to our site 'o the web http://thebrigands.com
Cap't Rob't Thighbiter
Hellion
N'west 'o Sandy Hook
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Here now lads is a new tune writtin by meself fer me band The Brigands.
Appreciate yer comments, if ye have any
The New Main Sail
Was well before dawnin when the bosun he spoke
Get up me lads, the forward topyard has broke
On deck in the teeth of a sou'wester gale
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
With all hands on deck, up the rat lines they went,
Bart Higgins, the reefers, and old Davis Bent
Four men fell from the riggin, in the water did flail
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
We fished up the new yard with a standing voyol
But another man died to pay the death toll
Macduff crushed between aft-boom and taffrail
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
At a cry from the top all hands looked to sou'west
A French flag a flying from a prize we could best
With our new nine pound cannon, we thought to prevail
The day that we raised up.... the new main sail
The main topyard carried away by the first broadside
And the larboard watch reefers to a man of them died
Even at this none of our lads did flinch or quail
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
Then a ball we did take be-tween the mainchains
which unshipped a gun leaving only blood stains
No tears would be shed for that minor detail
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
Was yard arm to yardarm when at last we did board
while our brave lads were raked with pistol and sword
A ha'dozen men on French pikes were impaled
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
Blue Edward cut the yards while firing was hot
Then the mainsil was holed with a round of chain shot
We pulled away with stuns'les as the attack was curtailed
The day that we raised up .... the new main sail
Twenty one souls were lost on that day
Twenty one souls and the Devil to pay
for all of those men, this song we regail
The day that we raised up ....the new main sail
This will be on our second CD, released hopefully in Sept
Hope ye likes it
MId Hudson Mayfaire
in May
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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.