"Battleship" movie disappointment

[piperdbh]

The Mrs. and I went to see "Battleship" last night, primarily to hear OC Richard's 'piping in the soundtrack. Much to my disappointment, it must have been edited out. There's a brief (4-5 seconds) snippet of the 'pipes, but none of the harmonies and complex playing that OC R mentioned in a thread here a few months back. The movie itself it OK, full of explosions, aliens and a very attractive blonde young lady , but if you're wanting to hear lots of good 'piping, it ain't there.

[Nick the DSM]

Hmm. Movie-wise it looks...well, wierd. But I'm used to watching C listed SciFi/ Terror movies...

[flyrod6057]

The only piper listed in the credits is Eric Boyd

I saw Eric Rigler play tonight. He's doing a couple shows with Gaelic Storm, and he evidently did some work with the movie, too. No listing in the credits, though. (He did the Uillean pipes for Braveheart...)

[OC Richard]

It's too bad that they ended up not using the piping, but fairly typical. There have been many times that I've played on a TV show or movie or "spot" and when the thing appears the piping has been taken out and a crappy synth bagpipe, or orchestral music, or what have you has been put in.

In an ideal world the composer gets the film in its final edit state, composes the music to match, hires the musicians, and the result is wonderful music.

But in the real world the director often decides to re-edit a scene after the music has been recorded, meaning that the lovely music created at immense expense (using an orchestra of Union musicians) no longer matches the scene. But now it's a week before release and there's no budget and no time to write a new score, arrange it, bring in an entire orchestra, and record it. So they slap on a synth thing and hope nobody notices it.

BTW the pipers were Aaron Shaw (Wicked Tinkers), John Allan (Stand Easy), Eric Boyd (formerly of 1916), Kevin Weed (classical composer/arranger/conductor but also a fine piper), and myself.

We played around five different "cues". One was simply holding long notes High A, High G, etc. One was a nice jiglike thing but in A minor (concert Bb minor) so we had to crossfinger all the F naturals and C naturals.

Here we are! L-R Kevin Weed, myself, Aaron Shaw, Eric Boyd, John Allan

[TheOfficialBren]

Wow! That's an AWESOME old school tracking room! Did they mic you guys with Neuman U-87's? I primarily do rock music but I did some overdubs with my practice chanter on a song a couple of years ago and the U-87 was what I used.

[davedove]

Just a little comment about the movie - the man who played Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales, the double amputee, was played by Army Colonel Gregory D. Gadson, who lost both legs while serving in Iraq.