I loved those kilts! I too remember standing outside the circle in bellahouston park watching this with Larry Willis, of The Clan. Highlight of my youth piping.
This is an impressive playing band it doesn't change that I wasnt too far away and enjoyed it enormously. There was quite alot of uneven patches in drumming but as whole band Amazing. I believe most believe Dysart changed it in 1980 with orange and blue in Blue bells then banjo break down.
I am the person who filmed this in August 1987 with an umbrella in one hand with a shoulder mounted VHS camera. Spent most of the day filming the top bands and still have the original tape. The recording I have is top quality, as what you see here has been copied multiple times, which accounts for the poor quality, not because of the technology of the time. I video'd Simon Frazer, Strathclyde Police, British Caledonian Airways, Polkemett, Shotts, Edinburgh Police and Dysart.
would be amazing to have the original tape in better quality uploaded to youtube... also with the other bands too, would be really interesting. Thanks for preserving this classic contest!
I remember being up in Ontario with the Midlothian band... maybe Fergus & massed bands were delayed waiting for the news and what news is was. It was so cool for all of the bands present to cheer, scream & getting ready to toast the 78th Frasers in the beer tent! Thanks for sharing! Funny how most everyone had much darker hair compared to today!
I heard these guys play at the South Florida games not too long after this. They sounded like one 'pipe & one drum. They were so tight and so together. Amazing.
I was there behind Livingstone '1 down' from the circle and though no one spoke in my immediate area the amount of chatter on the videoside is so annoying; why bother to come and listen?
I agree with you that the Strathclyde Police Band was almost in a league by itself during the 80's and 90's. Their piping on Black Watch Polka and Royal Scots Polka are pieces I never tire of hearing on CD. Few Grade 1 bands include them in their repertoire, maybe because most pipe band aficionados remember the standard Strathclyde delivered -- a quality that very few pipe bands can even approach.
@@r.crompton2286YOUR WRONG NOT 80S AND 90S . I BELIEVE IT REALLY STARTED FROM 1976 MCLENNAN PATIENTLY BUILDING AND GETTING THINGS IN ORDER FOR A BARAGE OF TROPHIES & SUCCESS AFTER SUCCESS REALLY STARTED FULL STEAM 1979 we know what happened from then to 1991MANY TOP PIPERS believed STRATHCLYDE SHOULDVE WON THE WORLDS 1992 .Strathclyde wasnt the same after 1992 IM NOT SAYING THAT THEY SHOULDVE WON IT IN 1992 . STRATHCLYDE went back a little 1993 KEPT GOING FURTHER BACK 2 SEASONS. FM VIC POLICE POWER OTOOLES Simon Fraser Even SHOTTS HAD ALREADY MADE UP BIG GROUND TO TAKEAWAY THE MANTAL of once the strongest piping force THE REPUTATION THAT WAS BUILT UNDER THE PIPE MAJOR WHO HAD BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. SO PIPING IT WAS BECOMING NOT AS CONSISTENT AS OTHER DAYS.. WINNING the Worlds 90 and 91 doesnt make you dominate all of the 90s Fact. The BEST BAND CONSISTENT PLAYING AT HIGH LEVEL IN THE WORLD SINCE 1989 TO PRESENT DAY FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY COMING FROM NORTHERN IRELAND IF THEY ONLY HAVE 11 WORLDS HOW MANY SHOULD THEY REALLY HAVE I CAN NAME 6 CLEARLY THE FM AINT MY FAVOURITE BAND LET ME TELL YOU THEIR NOT.SHOTTS ARE MY BAND SINCE 4YEARS OF AGE.
