"We are all connected...to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the universe, atomically...and that makes me smile." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I've known Eric Rigler for many years, what a fantastic player and a fine gentleman.
Eric played the pipes for Braveheart and Titanic and hundreds of other films and TV shows.
Bear McCreary used Eric's piping quite a bit in the score for the Battlestar Galactica TV show, and it was a natural for this great team to continue in Outlander.
I've worked for Bear, he's a cool guy, and obviously the perfect choice as composer for Outlander.
About "nobody likes bagpipes" I heard a story that James Horner, composer for Star Trek The Wrath Of Khan, was dead-set against using bagpipes for Spock's funeral scene, but was forced to, and therefore made the pipes as short as possible and sound as bad as he could get away with. I just watched the clip, the pipes are playing Amazing Grace rather quickly and the pipes aren't quite in tune and aren't recorded very well. The piper was a very good one, but said that when she was in the studio they didn't give her time to fully tune the pipes. (The pipes would have been recorded in a recording studio at some other point, with the actor pretending to play a silent dummy bagpipe on the set.)
The irony is that Horner made such fantastic use of Eric Rigler's piping in Braveheart and Titanic.
Last edited by OC Richard; 27th August 15 at 06:18 AM.
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