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Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band
OFFICIAL
worldwide supporters club
A supporters club for a pipe
band? are they mad? Well, just about as mad
as the band actually. The club was started by
Paul and Kenny McLean, Paul is a Scot from Perth
- well, living in Perth but not from
there, but that's another (long) story. Kenny
meanwhile is over the water, living in USA with
the Rochester gang ( the rest of the McLean clan
of NY State). So why do it? We asked ourselves
that also!
our
mascot; Pigasus (or Hamish to give him his real
name)
It really came into being when
Paul and Ken made the now infamous "Walmart
Raid" (link).
It was the first time Ken had donned the kilt,
and he just loved it! A drunken night followed
( to Ken's mum: we mean we had a drink or two,
to Paul's mum: we had a lemonade) where he
wanted to get more into the kilt, the pipes and
the country - he is trying is hardest to get
into the country next year for the Clan Maclean
gathering on Mull ...
www.mcleanscotland.co.uk/mcleangathering.asp
Look out ASDA!
The band supporters club idea
came from Paul, who being the kind person he is
(aye come on, we all know that to be true - so
his mother tells us) wanted to help Kenny fulfil
his dreams. So a club was formed ( well
actually we have waiting until July 2006 to do
it!). Members are being sought out to join the
swelling ranks of the club, well by swelling we
mean: Paul is a fatty (swelling belly due to
copious amounts of the falling down liquid) and
Ken is a swell head when it now comes to being a
pipe band supporters club founding member - how
many other people in USA can say that). To date
we have supporters in England, United States of
America and Scotland. For some strange reason,
all the club members have the same surname
(including HAMISH),
och well, it's a start! Why do we support them?
Someone had to!
We aim to have a news column
posted every now and then - when we can be
bothered, some photos, a club annual gathering
once a year either in Scotland or USA and openly
encourage others to join and be D&D Pipe Band
"groupies" - well we are mainly old enough to
remember them!
WANT TO JOIN US? well just drop
us a line to
madmen@mcleanscotland.co.uk
PIGASUSNEWS
THE
NEWSPAPER OF THE DENNY & DUNIPACE SUPPORTERS CLUB
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LETTER
FROM HAMISH TO PAUL:
Dear Paul,
I am getting fed up chasing you around
the country! You're hamming it up all
over the place. I trotted all round
Perth the other day to find you'd gone
to Pitlochry!
Talk about
bringing home the bacon! Went there to
try and get hold of the ever so handsome
Drum Major of our Band (editors note:
who and what?) but he'd just left for a
bacon roll!!! Yeeeeuch!
I went
rind and rind trying to get hold of
someone to help me find you. A guy in an
apron offered to help but yon big Sghian
Dhubh looked a wee bit suspicious to me!
I was offered a hot dog, pork! I need to
get a hold of you as yon big DM's nicked
all the whisky and I need some more for
stuffing! Gotta go!! Someone's just
mentioned crackling!!!!
Squeal ya later!
Hamish
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PITLOCHRY HIGHLAND GAMES 9th SEPTEMBER
2006. Paul's version ... I
left Perth with Wendy Reid (good
Scottish name) from New Zealand. Little
did Wendy know she would be meeting the
Denny & Dunipace Pipe Band! World
Champions no less, also, she is a member
of the supporters club and I knew the
band would give her a warm welcome! This
came as a real surprise to her,
big Andy in particular is very
good at the meet and greet business – on
another note, sidetracking again here,
Andy is available for guided tours, a
driver of experience and his knowledge
of Scotland is – well, almost near half
as good as mine! Not that I am saying
I’m good, just that I am “gooder - er”
than him! You need be Scottish to
understand what the hell is goin’ on
here by the way. From the moment we
arrived to the end it shone down on us.
Did we have a drink with the band? I was
allowed one drink as a driver, that’s
the lot! Irn Bru and water thereafter.
We shared some drinks and craik with
some of the band, notably Andy and Gary
– always a great story from each of
them, Wendy was in fits of laughter at
both, and Gary – that story needs an 18
certificate rating mate. We saw the Drum
Majors display, the massed bands and
that hair – standing –on - the – back –
of – the – neck … massed bands playing
Amazing Grace. Stirring stuff.
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Atlanta,
Stone Mountain Highland Games, October:
Paul is going to Atlanta
in October to attend the games. While there he
will meet up with several pipe bands. He's really
looking forward to it as after the games, he moves
up to Nashville later on! More on the web later.
Hamish is away already, flying slow ...
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7 JULY 2006. 16.10
hours Scottish time.
Och for goodness sake! This page
has only been live for half a day and
already we have notification of the
HAMISH THE FLYING PIPER SUPPORTERS CLUB
sent to us! Are you guys out there
even more crazy than us! Go get a
life ...
"Hello all at the D&D
Pipe Band Supporters Club. Or
DandDPiBSoC. We love the site and have
taken wee Hamish to our hearts, we have
therefore started an appreciation
society for him. Our hastily formed
crew hails from Liverpool and we love
the pig! Thanks for bringing him to
us. Yours with a grunt,
Liverpool Crew"
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His new
nickname - given by my PAUL's pal
Ray in Perth (4 August 2006)
PIGASUS!
It is rumoured
that Hamish the flying piper
will be making an appearance at the
Worlds in Glasgow! He last appeared in
Tennessee sharing a drink with Kenny and
Paul. A note was left on a car window in
Perth, stating he would be flying in to
help out the band. As far as we can tell
he only appears after you have enjoyed
some six or more pints of heavy – then
again, it’s a rumour.
2 August 2006: FROM AMERICA: Paul has just told me of the excellent
results the band had at both the
European Championships and Callander
(where’s that?). Well done to all the
members of the band, lets hope the news
is just as good from the Worlds and
Cowal! The flying pig is getting known
around New York State – well, in the
sticks. I am working with Paul to get
some things together for October when he
comes over, we are trying to build up
the supporters club! Well done to you
all. My entries for the caption
competition:
A. I know I had a drink or three, but
where is the band?
B. two good looking hunks eye up a beer!
C. what do you mean beer? It was funny
juice!
Kenny McLean, New York State.
3 August 2006: FROM SCOUSE LAND:
(Liverpool - for our worldwide
friends)
a’right ya boozers, see ya won sumfin!
Great news, sound! Lets see if yiz can
win a bauble at Glasgow. The supporters
club here had a drink on yer tonight,
cheers. Couple of jokes for yez all …
Q. What's the difference between a
bagpipe and an onion?
A. No one cries when you chop up a
bagpipe.
Q. Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
A. Moving targets are harder to hit. (a
Liverpool thing!)
We have written a ditty
to Hamish
Ode to Hamish:
Fly Hamish fly!
Up in the air like a pie.
Play the pipes loud,
Coz it’s really sound,
We hear you in the ‘Pool,
You are no one’s fool,
Bacon and pipes,
Give us sleepless nights,
Fly Hamish fly!
Liverpool Crew.
The band website is
at
http://ddpb.tripod.com/index.html
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Sent: Thursday,
August 03, 2006 11:03 PM Subject:
membership
Hi, Paul McLean highly recommended
your club, so I am requesting official
membership to the supporters club.
Chris and Brian Wickes - Greenville,
New York
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re: HAMISH:
Paul, Just once, Id
like to see what madness goes on inside
that head of yours...or maybe not! What
the heck is this? I mean I’m in...God
love Ken! and yourself too! Is he going
on the Mclean Gathering trip with you?
What a trip that'll be! Maybe you should
change the name to Mclean Insanity Tour!
Slainte!
Janis Emery, Tennessee USA
Paul, I was just showing this to some of
my friends then you send me this.... You
have opened the wine haven’t you? No
seriously, now that I'm official, Do we
get tee shirts? Will they be Hamish
Pink? Or maybe hats instead of tee
shirts...everyone has tee shirts....pink
hats with little Hamish tails on the
back.... Porkfully Yours,
Janis
editors note:
Janis is a friend but what she
means about my head I really have no
clue!
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PAUL MCLEAN
HAS SENT ME INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CLUB,
AND I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO JOIN...
SOUNDS LIKE FUN. PLEASE SEND ME
INFORMATION NEEDED AND AN APPLICATION.
THANKS, LYNN ELLEN MCCUTCHEN THOMPSON
Roanoke, Virginia (in the heart of the
Blue Ridge Mountains) USA.
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AS YOU CAN SEE,
PIGASUS
IS NOW A WORLDWIDE STAR! Any more
wanting to join please drop us a mail
to:
pigasus@mcleanscotland.co.uk
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THE
TRUE STORY
OF HAMISH MCLEAN - HAMISH THE PIG,
OR as we love to know him: PIGASUS
Above and below: Andy himsel' keeping
fit! Wee man on his right is
saying "you've been caught Mister".
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