Capt Thighbiter

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!

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!

Yup for sale for sure. The guy who owns her is on Long Island. In fact, the Bounty will be in Port Jefferson Ny, here in the Island, Nov 6 & 7 as some filming takes place on her. Port Jeff in turn has declared a Pirate Festival on that weekend and all crews are invited to come up and be a part of the mayhem. Contact Ye Pyrate Brotherhood for more details. O' course, we are performing too, if that sways ye one way ( or t' other).

Our thanks to The PLankhoue Crew, for being such good hosts; The Sons of the Sea, for a superb Sat night feast and great company; the Crew of the Archangel for being good audience, even when we strayed into the classic Rock tunes! Duncan and the Crew of the Vigilant, for lettin' us amatuers fire long guns ( even though my Master Gunner, Mr. Cannon, forgot the powder!). An altogether great weekend, and we hopes to see all next year!

If one had a tractor trailer available, how cool would it be to literally bring all the stuff that would fit into a ships hold? Bales of cotton, barrels of molasses, logwood plus all the spars, masts, rigging and ropes, to show this off to patrons!

Dam, the crew of Vigilant AND Archangel and the Plankhouse crew? It's gonna be Fells Point all over again! Just remember, tonite is last night of Roshashanna (sp?) and traffic is gonna be extra heavy.

Ahoy mates, twill be a good 'un, as The Brigands host the Fri nite festivities, including the crowning of this years Margret ( see the event website on exactly who she WAS and IS). Sat is expected to be no less entertaining and with a great site such as this, steeped in history and stuff, is right up yer alley for Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Stupid duplicate post!

Alas, The Brigands were in negotiation to perform at the St Louis Pirate Festival, but tis not to be this year, at any rate. Have a bloody blast and tip the crather o' rum for us lads!

Scurvy Ye can use our tune "Flemish The Rope", an instrumental we wrote - on our Pirate Scum CD. Snappy litle tune that sounds very piratey.

I want one!

For a trigger mechanism , try using a fire sprinkler solenoid, kinda like a dump valve. IT actuates very quickly, to release the CO2 the same every time. Then you can just regulate the pressure it sees and get some pretty good repeatability on your shots. My brother made a CO2 rifle with a air tank, thats what he used. WHy did I not see this at Rock Hall? Oh right, too busy playing music!

That's an accurate lil bugger, but I believe someone on the GBO cannon forum makes one smaller that uses BBs for ammo. A caution to all: All cannon, regardless of size, can quickly become a pipe bomb instead of a cannon , unless designed and made properly.

OK we have 5 new tunes so far for our 6th venture into recording, the working title for the CD is "Ship Happens", also the name of one of the tunes. What think you of the name? Too risque, for us? Bear in mind our other CD titles: Meet The Brigands Bloody Seamen Pirate Scum X Inner Buccaneer As usual, we perform the new stuff for a season, and then record it, so release will not be til Yule or thereabouts.

Any news Silkie? The writing has commenced!

This is great info folks. I need the name of the guns on the Nykle, if anyone knows them. If a given crew has not named thier gun, sorry, we can;t have any 'un named' guns in the tune. They may get lumped in one catagory ( such as all them other guns).

We are wrting a new song, titled "The Guns of Hampton" and we need help from the crews that fired at the Blackbeard Festival. We neen the names of your long guns and the names of the crews who fired them. We have some but not all of this. Thanks in advance for everyone's help Capt T.

Great seeing some folks from here at Blackbeard. I appologize if we didnt see everyone, holy cow, were we busy. Also have to appologize to the Camp Mom for not making the Sat Nite sing, which I really did want to go and record. We were waylaid by Crudbeard and..... rum. Hope all got home safe and that you had a good time!

AHoy Dutch, Capt Sterling, we'll be seeing ye at Blackbeard in 2 weeks! Scuttlebutt is that the Festival is much expanded for this year.

Let's see - two motorcycles, Roadstar and 535 virage (Butch Cannon's), washer, dryer, table saw, camping equipment, workbench, sound equipment collection from playing in bands for 35 years, Spray painting equipment, riding leather collection, lawnmower, weed whackers, overhead storage with HO train board, trains, buildings, boxes with 1000's of HO scale trees, old books, boxes of the ex's old shitte, boxes with half filled oddball liquors, but no cars and no boat. Old dinghy in the backyard.

Seek ye the crew of the Black Rose II - though they be more rennfaire pirates then anything, a good crew and active. www.blackrose2.com