Middlesex County Volunteer Fifes and Drums
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2007
- Middlesex County Volunteer Fifes and Drums
Music: The White Cockade - The Hawk - Batch't Cant - Bonnie Prince Charlie - Speed the Plough - Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore - The Clumsy Lover - Yankee Doodle - The Girl I Left Behind 
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Easily the classiest organization and best Fife and drum ever
+P lane - Your cheque is in the mail. Let me know when you've exhausted your funds I have some more postings for you to comment on. ;)
p lane youre completely right
God bless America. God Bless the Bill of Rights, and God bless the Constitution of the United States of America.
Thanks as an American. We've had a pretty shit time though these days.
Those were the best volunteers I have ever seen in my life!
Proud Middlesex county man. God bless The Republic.
We actually go a great many muddy places in all that white, we use a LOT of bleach...makes it easier for all parties involved!
The solo snare is not a very young guy, we just have a very tall line except for him.
Fifes and drums were for both entertainment and for keeping a cohesive line.
We are not from Quincy specifically. We consider ourselves to be from the the greater Boston area, but our headquarters is located in Middlesex County, hence our name.
Thanks for all the great comments!
Always enjoy watching this group. Thank you
Finally a 18th century style band.
The MCVs are carrying the thirteen stars and stripes of the Continental Army and a version of the British Red Ensign. Theirs has a pine tree instead of a St. George's cross. The pine tree flag was used as a regional flag for New England.
Specifically, It was the Battle of Bunker Hill flag (I know it was breeds hill)
What a drum line! I've heard MCV at the Deep River (CT) muster and this is a totally first rate group.
AS a proud Brit, I have to say the MCV are magnificent...wonderful precision... and the pride, nay sheer hauteur of that drum major really are something else
Absolutely great to see a marching band of this quality.
White Cockade is my song! I totally rocked it at the Vermont Large Ensemble festival with my personal field drum (impressed my class mates). Got to solo with the piccolo player. We totally pwned at it.
This very performance made me become the Tattoo-Lover that I am until this day. Thank you and God bless.
Good band. I played in a flute band in scotland but i like the sound of those fifes and drums better.
Long live the republic!
that solo snare drummer killed it! and he looked farely young too
See that flag with the tree? It's a tree of freedom that needs the blood of patriots and tyrants to live.
+Poop Snake k
The Flag of New England
As Les said , New England, look at Bunker Hill. You are right in the other respect
We do this very well :) haha. im playing with this group next year. Theyve gotten even better since this. much better.
Musically perfect!
Colonial militia playing the White Cockade; two treasons in one lol 😆
excellent !
do we need this Kraut spoiling it
this has 1200 some-odd views and no flipping comments wow this band kicks f-in ass......
the crown and lion are on almost all of the maces nowaday
@Iceman5164 that's exactly what I say I do living history "renaissance" in Europe and we have already drum and flute. Basically I reply to a comment suggesting that the U.S. avé created this art, I say that in middle age it already exists in Europe in the Battle.
Nah it was cut down by a loyalist in spite of the colonists. The stump remained, but the location was long forgotten until 1966 when congress resurrected the site with a bronze plaque to commemorate the revolution and the existence of the tree.
I dont know how to play the fifes or the drums, but hey I can hold the colors!
it is called the bunker hill flag
What’s the brief tune they play after Yankee Doodle for the exit? I’ve heard it a amillion times but no idea what it’s called.
Its the Girl i left behind
@stevenogorman
No Steve ,only the Shamrock Shore is Irish
Playing the side drum the way it was meant to be played - no one using the new-fangled match-grip.
True, but with today's carriers, it isn't really necessary. Playing on the flat snares is really only done for visual effect now. I AM displeased that teachers don't even seem to be starting kids out with traditional grip anymore. Bummer.
jazzbanjo1 it is cause match grip messes up your muscles
Ian Rogers--Logically, that's the other way around, but in any case, no it doesn't.
Thanks for your answer - By chance is that particular tree you speak of is still existing?
Long live the holland rangers
What is the flag with the tree represents?
Every time I hear a fife and drum sound, or music from the revolutionary war, it always sounds so upbeat. There's no bad in it. Does that make sense?
Fife & Drum Marches were intentionally spirited & Jaunty to inspire the Patriots going to battle & those who were watching them depart. Funeral Marches were not for US & didn't suit an Army that would have nothing less than Victory.
What brand fifes do they use and in what key?
These are Healy Bb Fifes, which are technically in Ab
Thank you!
Only if there foreign policy was this good
americans really do this shit well
They should all be carrying muskets, at the least.
3:45
As a joke they should play Metallica on their fifes and drums - just to see the crowds reaction.
@gogole888
of course they did? are you Blind? the American war for independence was from around 1775 to 1782... I'm pretty sure fife and drums existed than...
drkorn5 i thing nobody have andunrstand mi comment yes i know we have fifres and drum in european army in 1776 an large time before im european and medieval reenactor ( 1500ct) and we have drum and fifres .....
I'm sorry to disillusion you, but actually the whole point is that normally Americans do this shit badly...usually very badly...however, these guys are an exception and do it incredibly well, earning everyone's respect...
these guys atleast are wearing acurate uniforms from wear there from. they sound better than williamsburg!!
uhhhhh HELL NO cogi....., not by a long shot
The tree goes further than that brought to the new world by endentured servant Scots and Irish , with their tree worship and such lol
I hope everyone realizes what this really means. Not the song, necessarily, but the idea. It's an idea of limiting government and that the power is really in the hands of the individual. Socialism is a complete lie in this respect. Socialism says that you have freedom through others. This song represents freedom FROM government.
gogole888 for american fife and drum corps read british/french, thats where they came from. american ancient history aint got no europeans in it. the europeans made the american history when they arrived and conveniently ommitted the native americans from it. the scots didnt take fifes with them, they took bagpipes, much better sound. dont you think? SLANTJE! (scots for good luck)
I don't see any women?
+Jørgen Danielsen You are correct Jørgen! The ones I saw all looked like young girls. And Jimmy Walker - Please don't be a credit to your tight-fisted clan by complaining about the Dutchman voicing over a few of the tunes (actually announcing for an audience). Open your cob-webbed purse, Laddie, and buy the CD from Middlesex and we'll all be happier for your generous contribution to society and the furtherance of military field musick.
What in the actual fuck.
American art ?? is a joke ??? the american nation not exist wen we use fifres and drums in europe army ....