![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That took me back a bit and I thought, ‘Yeah I should write it’. He didn’t think there was anyone else who should write it. To his benefit John just said, ‘you should write it’. I’d had a few drinks and I was so frustrated that Gordon’s modern masterpiece was being butchered in such a way that I just schooled this poor guy for the best part of forty five minutes on the real Thunderstruck, and the real man and the real genius – and how I’ve always wanted someone to do the play. The backing was playing Thunderstruck and he was just adding random notes over the top but he had flames coming out of the top of his pipes. “I was at the Globe Theatre in London and in conversation with an English actor, and when he found out I was a piper he showed me a video clip entitled Thunderstruck which involved a bagpiper playing Thunderstruck, but he wasn’t really playing it. Despite saying you should have a look at this guy Gordon, he did amazing things and he had all these conflicts in his life, really theatre is about conflict, and if you have a life with all these conflicts, not just personal but professional, that essentially creates great theatre, I couldn’t get anyone interested. I then worked with Communicado and the same thing happened when I spoke to them. I spoke to Gregory Burke and he very patiently listened to me and then carried on with his Channel 4 stuff. I’m pretty much a shoo-in for whoever decides to write it, because I can do the job and I can just about do the thing as well’ – ‘Dave the actor’ just wanted someone to have a look at it. I think Gordon’s story had rattled round my head as an actor for a long time, because ‘Dave the actor’ thought, ‘there aren’t going to be many actors who can do it. The writer of that play was an amazing Fife writer called Gregory Burke. “For about two and a half years it was the biggest play in the world. The obvious place to start was how does an actor in one of the most successful plays of recent years come to write and perform a tribute Gordon Duncan? “I was in a big play with the National Theatre of Scotland called Black Watch”, explained David. I had the pleasure of seeing the play as part of Celtic Connections in January 2019 and was then lucky enough to catch up with writer and performer David Colvin for pizza, beer and conversation on how the play came about. This is not in anyway to diminish the impact of a whole host of other players in this story such Fred Morrison, Martyn Bennett, Robert Mathieson, Dougie Pincock, Duncan McGillivray, Gary West, Finlay MacDonald and Chris Armstrong to name but a few, and plays, films or operas, may well come to be written about their impact on the piping world but Thunderstruck by David Colvin has at it’s heart the impact that first hearing the man, that Hamish Moore called ‘a National Treasure’, had on him and how he thought about music. Like this story? Sign up for the SAP Business Trends newsletter here.That impact had a lasting effect on many, and some of them went on to build on Gordon’s legacy to get us to the place where we are now, where it’s the music that counts, and the old and the new sit very comfortably side by side. And if BadPiper makes a keynote appearance at SAPPHIRE NOW or becomes the next TED Talk phenom, remember where you heard about him first. And it looks like he’s got the promotion thing down, influencing millions of people to buy into his unique brand of “hardcore, cranking Australian pub rock – with a Scottish instrument.”ĭoes the BadPiper change your perception about thought leadership? It certainly doesn’t have to be a white paper delivered by a guy in a tie. He’s authentic (I doubt he’s stealing his flame-throwing, head-banging shtick from anyone else). He’s definitely credible, even if his bagpipe playing is a little off message. And it’s tough to convince people that being credible and authentic is more important than staying “on message.” Promoting and measuring content effectiveness via social tools add another layer of time-consuming complexity but it’s how I stumbled upon (via StumbleUpon) the below video which inspired me to write this post.ĭon’t let the BadPiper’s green Mohawk fool you. It’s a lot of hard work managing two popular thought leadership channels for SAP. ![]()
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