Hello from Scotland

richie_dionysus · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Scotland

hello all,...hope your day is going well. just thought i would say hello as i will be using this forum frequently searching for ideas, asking advice and learning from like minded people.

seraph · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject:

Hi richie
welcome to electro-music.com Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject:

Hey Richie!

Welcome! Very Happy

richie_dionysus · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Scotland

cheers,..it seems a very international forum,....one reply from Italy another from Norway and i'm from bonnie Scotland. Very Happy

seraph · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. that leaves the question how your father got the name Dionysus..

Shouldn´t it really been more .. uh.. like McDionysus ?
Shocked

Norway, Italy and Scotland? Hmm.. that is definitively not the Bermuda triangle.. Cool

seraph · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

richie_dionysus · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Scotland

mosc · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject:

Richie. Glad to have you here. I visited Scotland with my wife and daughter sever years ago. We went on an auto trip along the trail of the distilleries. Laughing

A highlight of the trip was the Scotch Whiskey Heritage Museum in Edinburgh. There, they give kids tastes of Scotch after they show them how to make it. At the end of the of the show there, there was a movie. I still remember the theme at the end:

Scotch Whiskey; it builds character and warms the spirit.

Ha Ha... and Jewish people think they invented chutzpah. Laughing

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

whouldn´t that be whisky?

..and ... this place has a great one..
http://www.laphroaig.com/

mosc · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject:

richie_dionysus · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Scotland

Ponk · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

I can't drink whisky (it makes my eyes water), but Edinburgh is quite possibly the nicest and the most beautiful city I've ever visited. And the Scottish accent... the dialect of gods! I love it. They speak weird Swedish in Skåne, but it can't beat Scottish.

mosc · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject:

I loved Endiburgh too. There are lots of bagpipes marching by the castle making great sounds. I made a cultural mistake when I was there though. After a bagpipe concert, I went up to one of the players and told him I liked the music. That was OK. Then I blew it. I asked him where I could buy an excellent set of bag pipes as I was a musician and would like to have a set to play.

Agag... never tell one of these guys you want to play the pipes. Apparently they resent any implication that one can caually play these instruments. He categorically told me I could never master the pipes and he refused to tell me where to buy them. He even said, even if you find a store, they won't sell them to you. I felt like a black person asking to use the rest room in Alabama during the 1950s. Shocked

richie_dionysus · Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Scotland

mosc · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject:

Aye, it disproves the stereotype that Scots are cheap. Otherwise he would have taken me to a store in order to get his commission on the sale of an expensive set of pipes. Laughing

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:39 am Post subject: Ivor Cutler

Mosc, I also recommend that you get a few recordings by Ivor Cutler (to drink with the malt)

http://www.ivorcutler.org/

You will never see the world in the same way again

Stanley Pain · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:41 am Post subject: