Ancient Metaler reacts to new Alestorm with Patty Gurdy 

Alestorm definitely NOT the first pirate metal band I know of several previous ones. First seems to be "Black Jack" from Australia 1979, followed by "Running Wild" from Germany. Alestorm, possibly the best, sparked off a revival of Pirate metal from about 2006. Patty Gurdy has featured on several Alestorm albums. She was previously in still active German Pirate Band "Storm Seeker" but left to pursue a solo career. A hurdy-gurdy has a wheel and keys and to me, often sounds a bit like bagpipes! It has many sounds though. They have been a feature in Central European folk for a LONG time. Patty of course is still rather young and as far as I know has only been a member of the one band, though has performed as a guest with several. Patty is as much a singer as a hurdy player. She has sung with Pirate band Storm seeker of which she was a member and with Alestorm previously as well as on most of her solo songs and as a guest for other artists and bands like D'Artagnan. She plays as a guest on all Alestorm albums now, even sometimes touring with them, but I don't think she wants to join as a member - after all she already left one pirate band to start a successful solo career.

Have you ever heared of the Band "Running Wild"? They formed in 1976 and their Album "Under Jolly Roger" form 1987 is probably the Beginning of "Pirat Metal". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Wild_(band)

Great song. Nice reaction. Patty used to play with the German pirate metal band Storm Seeker, who are pretty good.

Just FYI: The hurdy-gurdy was originally a huge, two-person instrument (one spinning the wheel, one playing it) that was the main instrument in Catholic churches up until the pipe organ as invented. After that the instrument was shrunk down to one person use.

.....stop interupting the song every two seconds and listening to it...!!

Check it out - Scardust - Congrete Cages feat. Patty Gurdy

I discovered Alestorm because RU-vid recommended this song after I repeatedly listened to a song by Feuerschwanz that featured Patty Gurdy. It was called "Song of ice and fire". You should check it out.

Pirate metal is usually considered a subset of folk metal. Alestorm is the most prominent and successful representative and were also part of the big wave of folk metal bands founding in the early 2000s. But if you're looking for a pirate from the Movies, it doesn't sound like Alestorm. Visions of Atlantis has the right sound for this and sounds completely different: VISIONS OF ATLANTIS - Pirates Will Return (Official Live Video) | Napalm Records Patty is certainly not one of the pioneers of metal's Hurdy Gurdy Players. I think Anna Murphy from Eluveitie is the better choice. Patty shows up 10 years later. But Patty is probably the most successful solo Hurdy Gurdy player ever. This will have positive consequences because she has become a role model. Because of her we may see more hurdy-gurdy players. When Patty isn't playing and singing for others, she writes and publishes her own songs and goes on tour with them. She calls it Celtic Pop Folk: Patty Gurdy - "Run" Live @WGT2022 I wouldn't compare the sound of the hurdy-gurdy to an organ. It is and remains a string instrument. But the predecessor Organistrum was intended as an organ replacement. That didn't catch on and was long forgotten. An original does not exist: ORGANISTRUM (Symphonia coelestis) XII century sacred music

Thx for your reaction. I've tried before to comment, but RU-vid sometimes just ignores me. Ok, so shorter this time: Patty has worked with Alestorm before, she was guest-musician on their last 2 albums, so why surprised? Currently she is part of their UK-tour. If you want to see Patty playing her Gurdy and her singing in metal, you should check out "Concrete cages" from Scardust (progmetal-band from Israel, and friends of Patty) featuring Patty Gurdy. You love solos? Then you will love that one.

Not only does she have the talent but also the humor to take on the Alestorm dudes, one just have to look at Kaufmann & Maid (Merchant & Maiden). That one originated from a satirical skit on a German tv show featuring pop singer Sasha and was a roughly one minute long, overly clichéd, annoyingly cheesy snippet of a medieval folk song. Some members of a few bands from the medieval folk/ rock/ metal scene thought it was hilariously funny and offered Sasha to expand it into a full length song and to record it with him leading as "Sasha the Bard". Besides Sasha, participants were Patty Gurdy and members of Saltatio Mortis, Subway To Sally, Feuerschwanz, dArtagnan and Tanzwut. It was put on the bonus disc of the limited edition of dArtagnan's album Feuer und Flamme, Feuerschwanz played a slightly rewritten version (Hauptmann und Maid [Captain & Maiden]) featuring Saltatio Mortis and Patty Gurdy on their live stream concert Die Letzte Schlacht, which was subsequently released on DVD and as a live album. Talking Feuerschwanz, have you seen their colaboration with Fabienne Erni (as you've mentioned Eluveitie), Bastard von Asgard, which captured the Nordic tale of Fenrir aka the Fenriswolf?