Capt Thighbiter

Our ship is the Hellion, formerly HMS Hellion, but we had a disagreement with the management.

She has served us faithfully lo these many years and has taken her share of prizes ( and a few lamp poles too, as anyone who was at Fells Point this year can tell you).

Pics can be seen on http://thebrigands.com

We are very proud to say the The Brignds will be back as the host band for the Pirates Ball at Blackbeard this year. We have lots of new songs

(including "The Guns of Hampton") and tunes for your enjoyment and we look forward to seeing old friends and shipmates.

2011 is our 10th Anniversary performing together as The Brigands, and it started right there in Hampton at Blackbeard.

Despite what other festivals may have going for them, we always consider the Hampton Blackbeard Festival to be the heart of Piracy on the East Coast.

See you all there!

Could it be the ultimte examples of doing work for the Government, ie the lowest bidder gets the job. Then its up to the winning shipyard to now turn a proffit with the meager bid that they won. Which means all kinds of short cuts and damn pursers tricks. Robber bolts, twice laid rigging, masts made to look like spruce, and a host of other obfustications may have been the norm, unless the ship owner oversaw the entire build themselves.

Even then the shipyard likely could pull some funny business.

So it is time to unveil the new tune at last, "The Guns of Hampton". We'll be performing it for the first time, appropriately enough, at the

Pirates Ball at the Blackbeard Festical in Hampton. I think the various crews and ships will get a charge out of the song, we managed to get every gun listed into the lyrics, no easy feat given that none of the rhyme!

We hope you all like it!

Foxe, I'm sure your presentation will be entralling to any who attend.

When ever we are asked to talk ( as opposed to playing music), I always spend several minutes trying to make the audience know and FEEL just how important shipping was to the civilization of those days, how critical is was in the day to day lives of citizens, especially those in the colonies. Modern audiences have no concept of this, so the whole idea of piracy is at least once removed from thier minds, if not further. Once firmly fixed in their heads, a talk on piracy has a more intense effect, I find.

Attendees should feel priviledged to be able to hear one of the best authorities on the subject; making it more personal to them could only enhance your presentation.

Of course, I could be full of **it , too! Sorry I can not attend this.

"I'll Kill anyone that gets in the way of me killin' 'em"

Yellowbeard

The Pirates Salty Ball - come and have a testacular time!

Hear The Brigands introduce songs from the upcoming new album, "Ship Happens", tunes like "The Guns of Hampton",

"Burbon Street Reel", "Markus Hook Reel" and "The Undead Sailor's Hornpipe", along with a full boat load of traditional shanties, songs and tunes, plus hear the lovely harmony work and spirited ballads of the Bawdy Buccaneers, plus

witness the smutiest, ribald, x-rated bunch of pirate music what ever was played from a stage.

Mar 12, Manchester CT @ the Main St. Pub, 8-12 PM

I can vouch for adjacent barrels setting others off. My double barrel pistol ( Middlesex) does that all the time, to the point where I don't prime the second barrel until the first is fired off. Oddly my double barrel flinter flowling piece never does it.

That QA on the top looks right good to me!

Me, I'm with Foxe in that Henry Avery always embodied what I think of as a Pirate King.

The Pirates Salty Ball, Mar 12 at the Main St Pub, Manchester, CT. 8-12PM, $20 at the door w/light buffet. Accomodations can be had at the Super8, Manchester,

643 1864, area code 860, mention The Salty Ball and the rate is $63.00

Join The Brigands and the Bawdy Buccaneers for fun, music, danching and smut!

The Pirates Salty Ball, Mar 12 at the Main St Pub, Manchester, CT. 8-12PM, $20 at the door w/light buffet. Accomodations can be had at the Super8, Manchester,

643 1864, area code 860, mention The Salty Ball and the rate is $63.00

Join The Brigands and the Bawdy Buccaneers for fun, music, danching and smut!

Gonad this date to ye calendar! Mar 12

That's my issue with a lot of these ballads - sung to the tune of " XYZXYZXYZ" and if'n ye know not the tune, it's just so much poetry. Luckily, the site you gave has some MP3's of folks singing the tune, making it ever so more useful. A good resource, says I.

The Pirates Salty Ball, Mar 12, 6-12PM, Main St Pub, Manchester Ct - The Brigands and the Bawdy Buccaneers present an evening of dancing, piratey fun and mayhem. For our New England friends, this is The Brigands only scheduled 2011 appearence in N.E. No holds barred, no Faire Management looking over our shoulders. ...$20.00 at the door, w/light buffet dinner. Pirate or formal attire required. More info -631-434-7091

The Pirates Salty Ball, Mar 12, 6-12PM, Main St Pub, Manchester Ct - The Brigands and the Bawdy Buccaneers present an evening of dancing, piratey fun and mayhem.

For our New England friends, this is The Brigands only scheduled 2011 appearence in N.E. A no holds barred, no Faire Management looking over our shoulders evening. ...$20.00 at the door, w/light buffet dinner. Pirate or formal attire required. More info -631-434-7091

LOl, I just saw it and came here to ask the question about the roller buckles....

The pitch has indeed been rising over the centuries. In fact, bagpipe are the most singular example of this. As any one who has tried to play with pipes knows, they are pitched in B flat. But not really. Not quite B flat, not quite A, and one must tune to the pipes. The reason for this is that over the last two centuries, pipe players have asked the pipe makers to pitch the pipes slightly higher then concert A ( 440Hz), in order to stand out more in a group. Decades and decades of this has resulted in bagpipes being pitched between the two notes (closer to B flat though).

Issac Stern, the notable virtuoso violin player, regularly tunes to 442-443 in order to stand out from the rest of the orchestra.

Dont even get started on temperament, which is how each scale is tempered to suit the pitch. Look up well tempered scales in Wiki, and you will understand why pitch is relative.

Oh Arthur, that was just wrong.... funny, but wrong!

QM James, I happen to be going to China on Fri, want me to show it to a few people?

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This is the list as it is now, and I'll update it as we add the names of the last few.

Larboard Guns

1 - Patricia Morgan: 4 pounder

3 - Nemesis: 6 pounder

5 - Dangerous Donna: 6 pounder

7 - Jupiter: 6 pounder

9 - Hell,s Breath: 4 pounder

11 - Andrea Doria: 4 pounder

13 - Veritas: 4 pounder

Starboard Guns

2 - Maeve: 4 Pounder

4 - Discordia: 6 Pounder

6 - Loud Lucy: 6 pounder

8 - Mars: 6 pounder

10 - Titan: 4 pounder

12 - Kraken Slayer: 4 pounder

14 - Aequitas: 4 pounder

The names all come from members of the Mercury then and now who wanted to or who were invited to contribute. I've seriously considered renaming Jupiter and Mars (which I named after a discussion in chat), and I welcome your thoughts on any of the names.

Tis a shame ye waited so long, Master Red Wake - lyrics for "The Guns of Hampton" have been written fair by the ship's clerk and we are practicing even as we speak. Nice names though - much more lyrical then some of the names other crews sent us.

We had our favorite rum this weekend - Cruzan Black Strap Molasses Rum! Relatively inexpenive but what a taste! Like pancake syrup, but with authority. In fact Mr. Cannon tried some on his pancakes Sat morning.

FWIW - we were perforing in NYC thurs at some hoitey toitey society book signing. Up scale liquor store down stairs.

Now we all knew the prices were going to be high, and we guessed from out side the shop what might be the most expensive bottle they had. Marley guessed a wine, Cannon a congac, McQueen a rum. Me I guessed a bottle of single malt Scotch.

I won - a single bottle of one brand was ..... $5,500 US greenbacks! Sheesh , who could drink it?

CANCELLED

We were told the Bounty had to put in for dry dock repairs, so the Port Jefferson people pulled the plug. But who knows. In the world of fairs and festivals , there is almost as much behind the scenes BS as in other business ventures.

Supposedly re-sheduled for Thanksgiving weekend, but again who knows.

We, The Brigands, will be performing on Bounty during the day and at the pubs in the pub crawl in the evening, both days. I believe some of Valhalla Pirates, and some members of Dark Rose II will in attendance, plus the new Pirate King of New England, the recently coronated Tazzy, the Pansy Pirate, will be there both days. For a free event, this is looking to be quite a bit of fun! And, you may get to be on camera!

southern wwaaaaa? im commin to pip if thats what yee mean.....speaking of mandolin playing.....expect a pm MMUUHAHAHAHAh....thanks again all, i look forward to the monies.......and yes there shall be choreography....dancing sailors in cute little outfits too........

Sorry Mr. Cross, er, I mean Capt Cross, thought you was going to be there. My mistake.

Congrats Capt Cross!

( Now, work on that mandolin playin! We expect you to do a tune with us down at the SOuthern Pirate Festival!).

Not to disparage the current members o the Dozen, but it seems ta me that all the inductees so far hae been pirates from Southern waters! May I remind ye that New York was once a hot bed o freebootin? And that several crews called RHode Island home waters?

With that in mind I puts it to the Dozen that THe Brigands be the first group ta be added to the Dozen, as a single entity! If elected we promises to share the booty ( yya right) and ta promulage piracy in all it's manifestations at every event we performs at. WHy, just think o the coverage! The De'ils Dozen will be known up an down the Eastern Seaboard!