I love how brass bands are able to play both classical music, marches, jazz, rock and pop music. Brass is the most universal and versatile type of orchestra.
I played bass saxophone all though my college years and graduated school and was lucky enough to have a professor who could write scores-a saxophone player, and wrote scores for saxophone that were unbelievable. I really enjoyed and miss that era of my life
I passed out at one point after changing from a Yamaha to getzen (broke the Yamaha so was getting fixed) I could hit the note on yam but getzen was a much harder blow so body said no
I can think of no reason why this cannot be at least considered the greatest piece of music ever written in whatever arrangement whether musical or vocal Jimmy Webb is truly a genius
Absolutely love it, we played it in the school band everyone else hated it but I loved it and so did the teacher so we always got to play it when i asked :D
There is an annual set of competitions in villages across the Pennine hills in the UK. About a dozen take place on the same Saturday. You pick your village, go sit outside a pub, and the band s arrive on coaches, set up, and play their set. Then pack up and move on to the next village. You then wait, talk and drink till the next band turns up. There is just nothing like it on a pleasant summer's day.
@@gfghjfgfghfj Brassed off is a fictional band, many pits had bands. The music for the film was played by GCB and some of members appear as members of the band in the film.
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These are the best versions I've heard ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0fGs59veJNU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cOKZ5zSDaAA.html You're welcome.
Also.. I interpret the Story as Allegory... McArthur Park Eternal Explanation of Music and Inspiration: Several versions all have one thing in common.. they are very long instrumental and diverse in lyrics.. To understand this music the experience returns you to Genesis the first creation of sentient being Adam and Lilith. No Eve was not Adam first wife.. Eve came second...a part of Adam God created man in his image ( think imagination) God already created Angels spiritual beings and the Forth Dimension Universe ( let there be light) Time and Space Existence as we currently know it. Macarthur Park is the symbol of the Garden of Eden and what happened there. Lilith left Adam for his refusal to accept her equality and right to choose The Song tells of Adams Remorse and Heartbreak The first human emotion Second only to Gratitude. The cake left out in the Rain..ignore nature as God is the Baker .. time ..it took so long to Bake It.. That recipe lost to transcend the Next Dimension Man's lost Love Lilith Then came Eve who bore their first Children Cain and Able .
As a young child of 8 years old way back in 1959-1960 I use to live on Cemetry Road (number 30) in Grimethorpe. My father was a cornet player in the Grimethorpe institute....When travelling through North Yorkshire on a Sunday at one o clock I'll tune my car radio into BBC York and listen to Yorkshire Brass for the two hours and often here the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band mentioned....Cheers Lads. Keith Lloyd son of Sydney Lloyd.....
This band is so great with togetherness,,,,harmony...emotion can't hear it enough .I played the cornet in my younger years so really enjoy them with Immense pleasure
Well that brought tears to my eyes. A treat for the ears. Fantastic music played by musicians who are obviously in love with their craft too. The smile on the tambourine player says it all.......and that cornet player WOW.............I'll bet he dreads that last note every time they play that piece. BRAVO!!!!
Woah! I first heard the original pop version of this in the late '60's as a young brass player, never suspecting that it could become an amazing brass band transcription like this!
Now THAT is the best interpretation I've ever heard of that great piece of music. Goosebumps throughout and tears in my eyes by the end. Fantastic is not strong enough a word.
Christopher D. Lewis That's what it's all about. Absolutely no point playing if you don't enjoy it - and these guys clearly do :-) It really is a thrill like no other to be playing great music in front of an audience that's enjoying it. You can keep your crack cocaine, give me my cornet and my fellow musicians any day :-) But you're right, these guys are the best, lovely to see they still enjoy it so much.
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Just fantastic, one of my favourite Grimethorpe pieces from one of the most entertaining of brass bands. How they really embrace and enjoy their performance too.....brilliant!
LOVED IT! One of the greatest pieces of our time, well played and interpreted by a great brass band. Great to see the players and the conductor looking happy to be performing such a good arrangement. very entertaining. 👏👏👏
What stood out to me was the Coronet player. He brought back memories of when I was a kid. I started playing trumpet at the age of twelve with a used Coronet my dad purchased from a friend. I was the only one in the band who had a Coronet and I felt inferior to the others who owned trumpets. Listening to the mellow beauty of the outstanding Coronet player had me wish I was him playing in the orchestra.
So lucky. I have long loved brass bands but have never heard one of the truly great bands ( Grimethorpe, Cory, Brighouse etc.) live. Our local band is excellent, great people who play well but the step up to this kind of band is big. This is comparable to any orchestra.
+tigerarmyrule very true! I play cornet with our local brass band and love every minute, but these guys are in a class of their own. I managed to have a natter with the sop cornet player, he was very nice and answered a few problems I was encountering. So all round good eggs 😁
amandanectar You point to one of the many attractive things about the culture of the brass band........here is a great musical ensemble like the Grimethorpe, comparable in my mind to any in the world, and they're normal people willing to share time with you me or any other lover of the art form. Normal decent everyday people who get together and produce music to rival the Berlin Philharmonic.
This composition and arrangement, and no doubt this performance of it, have set extraordinarily high standards for so-called pop music as it crosses over into being a classic for the ages. So well done! Loving this enormously!
@@williamredpath861 Its better than the other versions you have presented in this commentsection. Soloists playing on the fugel sounding as if they are being choked and then just screaming on their trumpets in the end. Wow, what GREAT music.
@hiimrezgaming9885 that soloist happened to be Derek Watkins, then man only played in every Bond film before he died. You clearly can't distinguish between armature and professional musicians.
@@williamredpath861 JUST because someone is getting payed for the music they are performing, does not automatically make them better than an amature. Im just saying me, and many others, dont agree with your take here. The majority of people really enjoy this performance, regardless if they are amatuers or not. So, me and many others have our preference, and so you cant win us over by saying "oh, but he is getting payed and played in bond movies". In the end, its subjective, which is why there is no reason for you to spread negativity like this.
@hiimrezgaming9885 When a guy has played on Superman 2, Gladiator, every bond film from Dr No to Skyfall, played with the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the James last Orchestra, the beatles, Eric Clapton and famous Jazz musicians like Dizzy Gilespie who even nicknamed him "Mr Lead", it's safe to say he's automatically better than any armature musician. That much is simply not subjective. It's a question of how good ones ear is to distinguish the difference. It's not negativity to recommend things of a higher quality.
Such incredible individual skills AND ensemble. The group dynamic range and changes were phenomenal all while maintaining balance. Absolutely blown away! BRAVO
@@mustlovepretzels perhaps but he is also known as being very humble. He has said this song was given to him by God for his own healing and to share with the world, and that it proved to be prophetic for him. Like much of his work it is a song informed by the tragic circumstances, great hopes and dreams, and great loss and broken dreams, of Jimmy's adolescence and young adulthood as a poor Okie most in LA. Having lost first his mother who was his almost sole artistic support at the time to death, then his dad who moved away and they quit speaking for 40 years, Jimmy then lost the young but very deep love of his life Suzie Horton who finally married another man after her and Jimmy had a years long back and forth, often in between or long distance, yet emotionally very close and intense romantic relationship. Facing expulsion from community college and soon to be homeless and a budding but as yet unproven and truly poor young artist, the pain was too much and he wrote and composed this masterpiece.
As a child in Melbourne my mother and I would sit on blankets in Melbourne's best gardens and listen to my father playing the euphonium in the Sunshine City Band, Sunshine being a western suburb. "Brassed Off' and this video bring back so many memories. Fantastic! :-))
When I think how rare it was for a kid in Idaho to hear music like this fifty years ago, I feel blessed to live now. But now, thanks to You tube, it's almost too common place.
Здорово, вспомнил свою студенческую молодость, когда сидел в оркестре Волга-Бэнд.Молодцы ребята, вот бы поиграть с ними, вдохновляет очень такая музыка!
I absolutely the last few bars, the soprano cornet at the end is fabulous. They must get to the end of this and think to themselves " and THAT is how its done"
Awesome...Don't know how many times I've watched and listened to this. That muted trumpet part, the soprano trumpeter, the tambourine guy and the overall arrangement and filming are definite highlights.
This is a great arrangement of this song. Jim webb and alan fernie have done an arrangement that is readily available for brass band. The guy playing Eb soprano cornet is Kevin Crockford one of british brass band all time greats. Top playing!!!!
OK - I want my trumpet back - for those of you who never felt this music live, do it. Go hear a real band; it'll swell your chest & bring good tears to your eyes, I promise.
Jeremy listen to this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v42j7xwOaIw.html Lynn was featured trumpet player for Maynard Ferguson; I met him in my home town of las vegas- he is the greatest!
