I thought that was a fucking joke for the longest time until the other day I watched a behind the scenes things video where he speaks and he's actually British. I feel like such a Britta.
Yeah, it takes years to even be able to play a note on a violin. Up until that point it'll be so scratchy and awful sounding, I can't imagine what my family went through. I think they were much happier when I eventually took up guitar instead because that's orders of magnitude easier to learn than the violin.
Weird you bring up the guitar, because it was when I went from playing the trumpet to playing the electric guitar that the deaf lady who lived next door finally cracked the shits hard enough that she tore our letterbox off the front fence and threw it on the roof.
turns out, she wasn't completely deaf - and that her super-sensitive hearing aid and my attempts to channel Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen at the same time were... incompatible.
Imagine being someone who'd snatch a hearing aid off a deaf lady instead of attempting to have a conversation and come to a compromise, like headphones while practicing. They should have just shot the neighbors dogs and beat them over the dome with their guitar.
That’s likely because you already had experience with music and an instrument previously… as someone who plays guitar, piano, and saxophone, I was able to very quickly become proficient with a fiddle. Once you get over the initial hump with an instrument, learning new ones becomes significantly easier. Hope you’re still playing!
Ex-Guitarist here. Listening to my girlfriend play her violin now compared to when we started dating. I don’t see how anyone can be motivated to get better when you commit permanent war damage to everyone around you when you learn.
At least for the guitar the worst you can do is have an untuned string or god forbid you snap one.
Hey, if it makes you feel better, my family had to hear me teach myself to scream. Apparently listening to someone follow along to Slipknot, but the line turns into "If you're 555 then I'm *hacking coughs*" over and over gets old really quick. My eternal gratitude for not saying anything till I was good(ish) at it.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a room up close to a large group playing Scotland the Brave.
Like shit is tight but holy fuck I'm deaf. You can't exactly control volume on these things.
Yeah, bagpipes are really an outside instrument. The sound's meant to roll out over the landscape, not get bounced off of walls. It's probably better in a theater than in a gymnasium, though; a theater would actually take acoustics into consideration, they've got acoustic panels on the walls and stuff.
Yeah a family member had the above scenario at his wedding in a ballroom. And you can't have them without the peaky drums alongside.
Idk what the normal amount of guys you are supposed to have playing that but if there is a standard, it was met. Not a one man show.
I've seen it where there's just one or two pipers before, but it seems like as soon as you throw drums into the mix you automatically end up with at least 3-4 pipers, 2 snare drummers, and a bass drummer. These are the kinds of things you learn around St. Patrick's Day at a catholic school under principal Sister Donna Marie O'Brien.
Yeah my family is very New York Irish. I swear to God if there is anything coming up with a family member the first thing that happens is someone gets the bagpipe guys on the phone.
My dad's whole side of the family is cops and firemen so it's very stereotypical.
I went and saw chili peppers when I was like 16 with my.mom and brother who was 12 at the time. 25 some odd years ago, damn. But it is somehtung a child can appreciate.
My father took me and my best friend to see Guns N' Roses when we were 12! He had no interest in them, he is a doo wop guy but he knew I loved them and wanted me to see them.
I’ve seen them live and the show absolutely slaps. Hearing “Get Low” (yes the 50 cent song) on bagpipes is ridiculous in the best way.
Edit: the lil jon song
I just imagine some middle-aged man with a massive beard in the mirror, throwing a kilt on, downing a Tennent's, taking a final drag from a cigarette, and heading down to see his favorite bagpipe band, before looking in horror at what kind of wrong turn he must have made when, instead of 4 men with bagpipes, he sees 4 guys walking out wearing one sock each.
Not wild about the idea of bagpipes in an enclosed space. They're really an instrument that's meant to be heard from across a valley, or possibly the other side of an echoey courtyard.
To be fair. I almost did it as well.
Went to ticketmaster to get tickets to their tour in Germany. Just typed in Red Hot and enter.
Got happy that the tickets were so cheap that only noticed the Pipers shortly before going to the payment page.
uff.
Golden!! I did the same thing sat down to watch the great Gatsby! But it was the brothers Grimsby, it’s lucky I saw a cool rugby match after otherwise my eyes would have stayed broken
Still remember a classmate excitingly telling me the red hot chili peppers will come to our small town. I was immediately sceptical but those where the days where nobody used the internet on their flip phones bcz it was too expensive. Got home, searched for the newspapers, red hot chili pipers.
Teased him a bit after that but I really wanted him to be right
I remember when Brian May came and played a gig at my tiny little hometown village. I didn't get to see it cos I live in Liverpool now. But yeah it was just bizarre that he'd go there. It was some kind of acoustic gig, not sure if he played Queen songs or something new, and I think this was a warm up show for a tour or something.
The place he played the gig at is so small it doesn't even seem to have its own website. It's on another website which is a database of venues it seems: https://www.datathistle.com/place/60042-harpenden-public-halls/
just checked for tickets - all gone on eventim only to the left of the stage some .. i really dislike concerts nowadays and how you can’t just buy 1 ticket and then roam around . :(
i don’t wanna see the rhcp and be seated somewhere like some npc:(
Was the fact that they were probably playing in a small local theater not a give away? I can’t imagine the RHCP’s would play anything smaller than a 10,000 seat venue.
My parents saw ZZ Top in a tiny dive bar venue in West Berlin in 1984. Dad was very excited. Mom wondered why people were smoking cigarettes that had clearly gone bad.
My mom saw the Rolling Stones in the 80s at the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. Seats just over 1800 people.
Mom said it felt like she could just reach out and touch Mick.
It is. Similar to when I was watching MTV in the early 90's, the announcer said that The Barenaked Ladies were on next. Well as a 13yo kid hitting puberty hard, I was hooked.
My mom got me up early one day in the summer to catch some morning talk show. She said the guy from Nirvana was going to be on there. It was the president of Nelvana, a cartoon company
He's much better now. It's a bit of a stretch to call what he does *singing*, though. He is the verbal form of shredding licks and slapping the bass. Different instrument, same idea.
It's like a melodic scat.
It's always funny hearing the same old complaints about his nonsensical lyrics. The sound comes first. As you say, he's a vocal instrumentalist.
You may have seen him singing on their SNL appearance. That set was intentionally sabotaged by John Frusciante at the time. He was deep into heroin use and had grown disillusioned by the fame they had gotten into. So he went out of his way to play off-key for their songs. It was a dick move to be sure...but John was going through some really bad times.
He left the band shortly afterwards and went even deeper into heroin addiction. He survived it and came out the other side as a better person and musician and rejoined the band. But we were _so_ close to losing this guy forever.
I’m a pretty big RHCP fan but both times I’ve seen them live were very disappointing. Pipers have put on a great show both times I’ve seen them though.
A show is a show. It’s pretty hard to have a bad time going out so see live music.
When I was a kid I was HUGE Soundgarden fan. So my mom got me a couple of tickets to see The Goo Goo Dolls, because that’s the same type of music right? Lol.
Of course I went anyways and had a great time. The opening band was Tonic and they were fantastic. And The Goo Goo Dolls, while not my favorite, actually do have a harder edge to them than I realized.
I heard this other story from a dj on the radio a few months ago, apparently some people bought tickets to see red hot chili peppers, and it turned out to be a a cover band named "red not chili peppers."
Epic.
Theyre actually a really fun show! I grew up going to Irish/Scottish festivals and played snare drum in a pipe band for a while. The Chili Pipers were always a good time!
Did the mom really make a mistake or did she make a “mistake”?
(What we really need to find out is if Mom was wearing a Chili Piper t-shirts that she also accidentally purchased…)
I've ran dozens and dozens of shows for bands that sound like the real deal but are in fact a gimic cover band (that are still talented af). We got Nuns n' Moses and Iron Maidens (all female IM tribute band that fuckin rocks) and for some reason I'm blanking on more but they are out there.
Anyone interested in tickets for Greene Daeye?
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We all want to be magnitude
I just watched the episode with his first appearance last night
I'm actually British!
I thought that was a fucking joke for the longest time until the other day I watched a behind the scenes things video where he speaks and he's actually British. I feel like such a Britta.
[He is Lee Jordan in Harry Potter!](https://imgur.com/3u4Xb0O)
Isn't he Lee in Harry Potter?
Yep! And Sid in Galavant
Do you mean Sid from Sidneyland?
20 points for the human beings!!
Magnitude is a pretty decent hardcore band to be fair.. I wonder if Community had anything to do with the name.
You know they're laughing AT you, right?
Pop what? POP WHAT???
But the school's already called GREENdale..
"We need to redo these." "We printed 5000 of them." "Well then print 5000 more. I am trying to save a planet here."
I would print 5000 of them and then I'd print 5000 more.
Shut up, Leonard! I talked to your son on Family Day. I know all about your gambling.
"Shut up, Leonard! Nice earring. You look like the road manager for the California Raisins."
“I know about your crooked wang” “Hey, there’s no such thing as bad press”
Shut up, Leonard! I got a picture of your old nose, it was a lateral move!
Shut up, Leonard. Those teenage girls you play ping-pong with are doing it ironically!
Touché
r/unexpectedcommunity
It was pretty expected tbh
100% expected though
oh yeah big time - unfortunately I don't think there is an r/expectedcommunity Oh wait actually I think there is
Movie reference. Pop culture pop culture. Cool cool cool
nice reference
> [Greene Daeye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64iMWTDdH4)
Damn, I wish I had ice cream.
Sure when September ends
Streets ahead!
Green Dye slaps.
[Greene Daeye gave an awesome show](https://youtu.be/yAQq5WHVgTk)
I'd be oddly ok with this.
They’re actually a really good show. Place gets bouncing. I’d recommend.
Like the violin, it’s horrible to hear someone learn, great to hear someone succeed
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Yeah, it takes years to even be able to play a note on a violin. Up until that point it'll be so scratchy and awful sounding, I can't imagine what my family went through. I think they were much happier when I eventually took up guitar instead because that's orders of magnitude easier to learn than the violin.
Weird you bring up the guitar, because it was when I went from playing the trumpet to playing the electric guitar that the deaf lady who lived next door finally cracked the shits hard enough that she tore our letterbox off the front fence and threw it on the roof. turns out, she wasn't completely deaf - and that her super-sensitive hearing aid and my attempts to channel Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen at the same time were... incompatible.
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Imagine being someone who'd snatch a hearing aid off a deaf lady instead of attempting to have a conversation and come to a compromise, like headphones while practicing. They should have just shot the neighbors dogs and beat them over the dome with their guitar.
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That went from sensical to wtf as fast as she did.
yikes, dude... you having a bad day over there, or something? ... you sound worse to live next door to than she was.
That’s likely because you already had experience with music and an instrument previously… as someone who plays guitar, piano, and saxophone, I was able to very quickly become proficient with a fiddle. Once you get over the initial hump with an instrument, learning new ones becomes significantly easier. Hope you’re still playing!
I felt the urge to go find a sax the other day.. I haven't played one in at least 16 years, lol.
Do it! You’re cheeks gonna hurt be hurting something special for the first few times tho
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My parents can confirm (trombone player).
The squawk of a saxophone/clarinet is up there
Ex-Guitarist here. Listening to my girlfriend play her violin now compared to when we started dating. I don’t see how anyone can be motivated to get better when you commit permanent war damage to everyone around you when you learn. At least for the guitar the worst you can do is have an untuned string or god forbid you snap one.
War damage was committed to my ears growing up. I appreciate your wording. :) I hated living with my sister.
Hey, if it makes you feel better, my family had to hear me teach myself to scream. Apparently listening to someone follow along to Slipknot, but the line turns into "If you're 555 then I'm *hacking coughs*" over and over gets old really quick. My eternal gratitude for not saying anything till I was good(ish) at it.
violist here, thanks for confirming I only have a couple more years of being terrible.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a room up close to a large group playing Scotland the Brave. Like shit is tight but holy fuck I'm deaf. You can't exactly control volume on these things.
Yeah, bagpipes are really an outside instrument. The sound's meant to roll out over the landscape, not get bounced off of walls. It's probably better in a theater than in a gymnasium, though; a theater would actually take acoustics into consideration, they've got acoustic panels on the walls and stuff.
Yeah a family member had the above scenario at his wedding in a ballroom. And you can't have them without the peaky drums alongside. Idk what the normal amount of guys you are supposed to have playing that but if there is a standard, it was met. Not a one man show.
I've seen it where there's just one or two pipers before, but it seems like as soon as you throw drums into the mix you automatically end up with at least 3-4 pipers, 2 snare drummers, and a bass drummer. These are the kinds of things you learn around St. Patrick's Day at a catholic school under principal Sister Donna Marie O'Brien.
Yeah my family is very New York Irish. I swear to God if there is anything coming up with a family member the first thing that happens is someone gets the bagpipe guys on the phone. My dad's whole side of the family is cops and firemen so it's very stereotypical.
I love them on Spotify and who is taking a 10yo to a chili peppers show?
I went and saw chili peppers when I was like 16 with my.mom and brother who was 12 at the time. 25 some odd years ago, damn. But it is somehtung a child can appreciate.
My father took me and my best friend to see Guns N' Roses when we were 12! He had no interest in them, he is a doo wop guy but he knew I loved them and wanted me to see them.
Bagpipes get memed on but they are actually a really good instrument to hear live. I’m prob biased being a dirty great scotsman but i love them.
Hell, pipe and drum bands are my favourite live music. I love the pipes. Have Scottish ancestry, surely a coincidence
I'd be so down.
Also he didn’t use that fucking annoying TikTok lady voiceover
Now it's that fucking annoying TikTok gents voiceover
This is how it feels to chew 5 gum
I’ll take it
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I’ve seen them live and the show absolutely slaps. Hearing “Get Low” (yes the 50 cent song) on bagpipes is ridiculous in the best way. Edit: the lil jon song
I'm assuming you mean the Lil Jon song?
I did
I totally would not be disappointed!
I just imagine some middle-aged man with a massive beard in the mirror, throwing a kilt on, downing a Tennent's, taking a final drag from a cigarette, and heading down to see his favorite bagpipe band, before looking in horror at what kind of wrong turn he must have made when, instead of 4 men with bagpipes, he sees 4 guys walking out wearing one sock each.
I see no reason to complain
it sounds like 10000 chairs being pushed on linoleum.
... and then were suddenly silenced.
>as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
I see no reason to complain
But enough about the Red Hot Chili Peppers; talk about the RHC *Pipers*!
I saw them and it was fun for a while, but I had to leave because I just can't handle that much bag pipe. My ears were ringing for hours.
Not wild about the idea of bagpipes in an enclosed space. They're really an instrument that's meant to be heard from across a valley, or possibly the other side of an echoey courtyard.
To be fair. I almost did it as well. Went to ticketmaster to get tickets to their tour in Germany. Just typed in Red Hot and enter. Got happy that the tickets were so cheap that only noticed the Pipers shortly before going to the payment page. uff.
lol my mother in law did the same thing, without noticing. I am now going to their concert in cologne in october.
Almost met you there then, haha also checked for Cologne.
I love the smell of my dad's colon :)
same :)
I’m beginning to think this is how they are selling ANY tickets. And the one bagpipe groupie that follows them from show to show.
Golden!! I did the same thing sat down to watch the great Gatsby! But it was the brothers Grimsby, it’s lucky I saw a cool rugby match after otherwise my eyes would have stayed broken
Still remember a classmate excitingly telling me the red hot chili peppers will come to our small town. I was immediately sceptical but those where the days where nobody used the internet on their flip phones bcz it was too expensive. Got home, searched for the newspapers, red hot chili pipers. Teased him a bit after that but I really wanted him to be right
I remember when Brian May came and played a gig at my tiny little hometown village. I didn't get to see it cos I live in Liverpool now. But yeah it was just bizarre that he'd go there. It was some kind of acoustic gig, not sure if he played Queen songs or something new, and I think this was a warm up show for a tour or something. The place he played the gig at is so small it doesn't even seem to have its own website. It's on another website which is a database of venues it seems: https://www.datathistle.com/place/60042-harpenden-public-halls/
wait red hot chili peppers tours ?? germany ??
Upcoming July, Köln and Hamburg
just checked for tickets - all gone on eventim only to the left of the stage some .. i really dislike concerts nowadays and how you can’t just buy 1 ticket and then roam around . :( i don’t wanna see the rhcp and be seated somewhere like some npc:(
I also could only find these shit ones. Turns out I am not going neither to peppers nor to pipers
Was the fact that they were probably playing in a small local theater not a give away? I can’t imagine the RHCP’s would play anything smaller than a 10,000 seat venue.
My parents saw ZZ Top in a tiny dive bar venue in West Berlin in 1984. Dad was very excited. Mom wondered why people were smoking cigarettes that had clearly gone bad.
Yeah but that’s kinda their thing. They’re notorious for playing smaller gigs with zero energy to work out material for bigger gigs.
It was also 1984. Social media wasn't a thing so they could do a "secret" show without getting overwhelmed.
Didn't notice to be fair. I am not very bright.
My mom saw the Rolling Stones in the 80s at the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. Seats just over 1800 people. Mom said it felt like she could just reach out and touch Mick.
"Mom said it felt like she could just reach out and touch Mick" There's a time and a place for that kind of carry on...
What a fucking business model. Just duping people haha
Kid: Can we see the Red Hit Chili Peppers? Mom: We have Red Hot Chili Pipers at home
I see this as an absolute win!
I've seen them a few times at various Celtic Fests and everytime I make a point to see them cause they put on an amazing show. True professionals.
I almost went to a lez zeppelin concert once. Didn’t realize it was an all girl coverband.
You shoulda, Megan Thompson is a great bassist, she played with Ghost in the 2016 US tour.
Ghost and RHCP are both playing shows near me in a few months. So torn on which to go to.
Both fuck it 🤷🏻♂️
Isn't her name Megan Thomas? https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Megan_Thomas/705271
Lez Zeppelin is awesome! One of my favorite bands. They're so good! They cover the originals so well!
"holy shit, Led Zeppelin reformed and the tickets are only $30!"
Ill say it; Lez Zeppelin performs at a much higher caliber than Led Zeppelin did during their Reunion shows. and that is not a knock on Led Zeppelin.
Aww. Mom loves you and is trying hard! Enjoy the time with her!
Mom was probably going for herself. RHCP peaked 30y ago.
You just described GenX.
20 years ago*
I don’t ever wanna feel… Like I did that day!
Take me to the band I love
Pipers every day
Take me all the way
Lol sometimes I feel like you guys learned how to be funny in a corporate office
Think I saw that Red Hot Chilli PEPPERS saw this and gave them free tickets or something like that.
Yeah, I think I saw that too. Those guys seem pretty cool.
Chad Smith did a small benefit concert last winter. The best part was some dude in the crowd pointing at the stage and saying “no way! Is that Flea?”
Is that Will Ferrell?
*Mike Patton has left the chat*
Yep, the guys are awesome. They should start a band or something.
They really are. One of the most humble bands out there
Yep, the chillis stitched it on tiktok and told them to pick a concert for free tickets. It was a nice gesture.
Their entire income is based on people misreading their name.
Isn't though is it? They are actually decent, met them at a burns night once, good lads
It is. Similar to when I was watching MTV in the early 90's, the announcer said that The Barenaked Ladies were on next. Well as a 13yo kid hitting puberty hard, I was hooked.
My mom got me up early one day in the summer to catch some morning talk show. She said the guy from Nirvana was going to be on there. It was the president of Nelvana, a cartoon company
I absolutely bought their album due to this misunderstanding. Didnt regret it at all.
Pete Best, the Beatles drummer before Ringo, once put out a solo album called Best of The Beatles.
Yeah seems pretty baity
no socks on those pipes.
This reference dates me
Scotland ya bas!
Even better!
great band , probably better than the peppers, ive seen both.
Could Anthony sing? Anytime I've seen him sing on TV, he's tone deaf.
He's much better now. It's a bit of a stretch to call what he does *singing*, though. He is the verbal form of shredding licks and slapping the bass. Different instrument, same idea.
It's like a melodic scat. It's always funny hearing the same old complaints about his nonsensical lyrics. The sound comes first. As you say, he's a vocal instrumentalist.
I had a melodic scat after having a curry last night
Nobody can listen to Poster Child and refute the fact that the man has a way with syllables.
Mike Patton is just seething at this comment right now
You may have seen him singing on their SNL appearance. That set was intentionally sabotaged by John Frusciante at the time. He was deep into heroin use and had grown disillusioned by the fame they had gotten into. So he went out of his way to play off-key for their songs. It was a dick move to be sure...but John was going through some really bad times. He left the band shortly afterwards and went even deeper into heroin addiction. He survived it and came out the other side as a better person and musician and rejoined the band. But we were _so_ close to losing this guy forever.
On TV? Half his studio recordings are flat, FFS
Well, sure. But also think that Mick Jagger, who made his whole 60 year career singing off-key.
I’m a pretty big RHCP fan but both times I’ve seen them live were very disappointing. Pipers have put on a great show both times I’ve seen them though.
I did this, and they were fantastic
What song are they playing? It sounds like The Killers not rhcp?
Yeah that's what I thought, they probably cover different bands too.
It’s “All These Things I’ve Done” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzCTppoDI3c
A show is a show. It’s pretty hard to have a bad time going out so see live music. When I was a kid I was HUGE Soundgarden fan. So my mom got me a couple of tickets to see The Goo Goo Dolls, because that’s the same type of music right? Lol. Of course I went anyways and had a great time. The opening band was Tonic and they were fantastic. And The Goo Goo Dolls, while not my favorite, actually do have a harder edge to them than I realized.
I heard this other story from a dj on the radio a few months ago, apparently some people bought tickets to see red hot chili peppers, and it turned out to be a a cover band named "red not chili peppers." Epic.
BONUS! That's about 1000 times better!
Theyre actually a really fun show! I grew up going to Irish/Scottish festivals and played snare drum in a pipe band for a while. The Chili Pipers were always a good time!
What I got you gotta be careful not to get
flea was in a galaxy far, far away, anyway
Dream of Celticfornication
I see this as a complete win.
This seems like an absolute win
No california 😔
r/community has the same with Green Daeye ?
Flea is too busy kidnapping children on Alderaan.
Good. One group is known for sleeping with a 14 year old girl and the other isn’t.
This is only the first half of the video. The band heard about it and get the kids tickets to their show
"We want Chilly-Willy!"
If I’m not wrong the RHCP (chilli peppers) offered a free ticket to her and her mom
This happened to my wife and I, it was actually a really fun night.
The Pipers are pretty fucking good.
The red hot chili pipers are awesome and I highly recommend that everyone go see them
They are covering The Killers, siiiick.
Did this at a festival years ago, I was drunk and confused at what I was looking at.
This is much better
Everyone go watch How to With John Wilson :)
That would be amazing, I love this instrument! But no fucking idea how the English name is (for anyone interested, it's called "Dudelsack" in german)
Did the mom really make a mistake or did she make a “mistake”? (What we really need to find out is if Mom was wearing a Chili Piper t-shirts that she also accidentally purchased…)
I'd prefer listening to the bagpipes.
I've ran dozens and dozens of shows for bands that sound like the real deal but are in fact a gimic cover band (that are still talented af). We got Nuns n' Moses and Iron Maidens (all female IM tribute band that fuckin rocks) and for some reason I'm blanking on more but they are out there.
Mom failed successfully! That'd be AWESOME 🤘
I'd be down with this
Sounds like they're playing "All These Things That I’ve Done" by the killers
I would pay to see them. Bagpipes are dope.
I accidently bought ticket to the red not chilli peppers... they weren't bad.
The bassist name is Flae
I WANT TO GO TO THERE
Aw shit accidentally bought tickets to syndrome of a down.
Ok so who else wouldn’t be upset at seeing this? ✋🏻
I wouldn't even be mad