After the shop, I went back to the hotel to blog, well one of my friends comes in the lobby from the games (no more than a half mile away), mentioned that some guy was playing guitar and singing. i was like, that has to be Dougiw maclean, so we ran all the way down in our kilts (i did pretty good, not everybody did, mine must of been heavier or something). And the stage was empty... ;( ;(
But.... all the bagpipe band were together on the field and started playing Amazing Grace, which was awesome, hundreds of pipes and drums all playing... :0
Long story short, after that, I was looking around for Dougie, and then finally spotted him going back to his car. So we went up yo him, and got to talk to him for about 10 min, shook his hand, and the I had him autograph my highland games ticket!
Although, he is not a christian, it was still very neat to be able to do this, coming across the guy who wrote the famous song "Ready for the Storm" which Rich Mullins recorded and said he wich he had written it, but dougie got it first. Dougie also recorded "The geal" which is better known from the soundtrack from the movie "last of the Moeinains (Sp???)", recognize that one Gabe?? :) So he actually lived fairly close to where the games were at. So even though I didn't hear him play (some friends did though, but they didn't know who he was quite) it was still great to talk to him. ;)
Nore: I do not endorse the movie (never seen it, or know anything about it) but the one Celtic piece I do endorse (Sp?)! LOL
~Tyler~ Going to dinner now
Ready for the Storm by Rich Mullins~ i did not make this video~
The soundtrack version of The Gael, I also have Dougies version CD as of Today, but it's about the same.
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8 comments:
Very cool! Too bad you missed him singing, but that's the way it is sometimes. But if you had, you may not have had the opportunity to speak with him like you did.
I think you wrote this post really, really fast didn't you!!?!? lol You know what I mean :)
Love,
your former grammar and spelling teacher, aka, mom!
Oh, and BTW - you HAVE seen Last of the Mohicans!! We have this movie. It's about the French and Indian War. All history buffs like you should know this!! ha ha
We'll watch it again when you get home, how 'bout that?!
Okay, I did write this really fast... i had to go to dinner and etc....
Okay, I have never seen it, or the movie even in our house. When did we get it?? And when did i see it????!!!!
BTW Rich's version of ready for the storm is slightly different than Dougie's, he switched/added a word or two in a verse or two and made it more meaningful to a Christian.
Will be going to Ireland in two days..
We don't have the movie in a case, we recorded it off the tv years ago....there's another movie on the same tape - maybe The Alamo, not sure. I'll look for it..
We'll forgive your quick post....better to see your pics and such and not worry too much about the grammmar!
Well there's drums along the Mohawk in the same tape, I know that 100%. And that is on the revolutionary war/fighting Indians. Are you getting the two mixed??
When are you goin to Ireland
Tyler arrived in Ireland earlier today....yesterday for him! He is currently getting some very much needed sleep!
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