@Mukahara The man whom the song was written about was a hero not for his martial prowse, which was considerable, but for who he was as a man. A father, a husband, a self made man who rose through the ranks to attain a commission and all by his own hard work and determination. I would dare say if we had more like him today and others, the world would be a far better place than it is. He was a man of courage, honor and decency. In the end, he was destroyed for being so. That is a hero.
@Cl0ckcl0ck
2 жыл бұрын
When the king tells you to shoot yourself in the head to protect your name rather than face a court martial and you do it.... He totally deserves this song but it does seem the king was right. The tragic hero is the best kind of hero.
@satansteddy
3 жыл бұрын
I'm related to Hector. My family are very proud of Him. It would be nice to meet other family memebers of Hector. :)
@Joeymac582
6 ай бұрын
Hi @ satansteddy.. my great grandfather was a first cousin to Sir Hector Macdonald.. I live in Adelaide South Australia.. cheers Andrew
@delgadosfan
13 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most beautiful tunes ever written!!!
@payback_carter
8 жыл бұрын
As a Piper, one of my favorite performances. God Bless Fighting Mac may he rest in peace. BYDAND.
@alasdairmcdonald8775
5 жыл бұрын
My Mother, Hannah Margaret (Bunty) MacCuish, lived at the Mulbuie school house. She knew Bessie Mackenzie, Sir Hector's niece. As a young boy back in the 60's, our family would take an annual holiday up to Scotland, staying in Muir of Ord. On these trips we'd visit Bessie & her husband Donnie at Rootfield. On one occasion, I vividly remember sleeping over at Rootfield & Bessie telling me that I was in Sir Hector's old bedroom! I have photo of me as a 10 year old boy, holding a ceromonial sword, that was presented to Sir Hector by the King. I also remember the large collection of memorabilia that adorned the hallway of Rootfield. Even at that tender age, I was fully aware of his legend. These are wonderful memories I hold, of that true Scottish hero. Alasdair McDonald (SW1P)
@truefalse207
11 ай бұрын
If London were a Scottish city it would be ranked #3 in terms of popuation by Scots
@robwinters7410
6 жыл бұрын
I was there at the Tattoo in 1998 and heard this firsthand... Such a lovely and meaningful tune.
@rahulkemp8347
6 жыл бұрын
#metoo
@ScotsmanDougal
5 жыл бұрын
Me too. I was 20
@joep5080
5 жыл бұрын
lucky. the last few more recent ones ive been to were a bit lacking
@karlmylnere5712
Ай бұрын
The arrangement is actually a Wolf stone creation , it translates well to the massed pipes and drums .
@daviddebroux4708
7 жыл бұрын
The actual tragic story behind it makes this tune an even bigger of a tearjerker.
@tullochgorum6323
5 жыл бұрын
@jane rae What's your evidence for that?
@tonysharp5935
3 жыл бұрын
@@tullochgorum6323 Where's your evidence that he did?
@satansteddy
3 жыл бұрын
@jane rae Hi, I'm a relative of Hector, (on my Dad side of the family) I live in New Zealand. Nice to meet you :)
@satansteddy
2 жыл бұрын
@jane rae Sorry for the delayed response. I have a facebook group for family ONLY dedicated to Hector called "Looking for Relatives of Sir Hector ("Fighting Mac") MacDonald".
@Joeymac582
6 ай бұрын
@@thenoahzacky1 hi.. my great grandfather was a first cousin to Sir Hector Macdonald.. I live in Adelaide South Australia..
@findmejak1
10 жыл бұрын
This lament was written by James Scott Skinner for Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, KCB, DSO (4 March 1853 - 25 March 1903) born at Rootfield, near Dingwall, in later life he was also know in gaelic as Eachann nan Cath ('Hector of the Battles'). The son of a crofter and stonemason he was promoted through the ranks of the British Army on merit alone, he was disliked by the ruling classess as he not born a gentleman. There was rumours circulated about Sir Hector forcing him to take his life, by shooting himself in a Paris hotel on 25/03/1903. RIP Sir Hector
@billpower370
6 жыл бұрын
Beinn Uais
@windybaer
14 жыл бұрын
They did this again in 2002. One fiddle, 792 pipers. We were there. And you could hear the audience humming along. Totally awesome feeling.
@bernietaylor8535
Жыл бұрын
I was there also Always brings a tear
@danno232323
11 жыл бұрын
We were there too for the 50th jubilee, my father and I, WWII RAF pilot and DSO recipient - one of the highlights of my life.
@Outrider21
15 жыл бұрын
I was there in '98 also..It's such a special event..This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. So..very well done. Bravo!
@shauncallaghan7034
Жыл бұрын
Not heard this for a while. As soon as those pipes kick in its beautiful.
@satansteddy
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tune in honour of my family memeber and a true hero
@pjbrenna01
13 жыл бұрын
I have been to the tattoo six times. This is one of my favourite pieces on my ipod. Bravo.
@pjbrenna01
13 жыл бұрын
A fantastic tune combining brass, electric, strings, vocals and the king of music, the pipes. From an Irishman.
@joeobeirne3896
11 жыл бұрын
We were there in 2002 and this piece was done that year also. The highlight of the night - fantastic!
@georgiebrownletsgo1137
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful my heart was bursting
@evelynhofmann4537
2 жыл бұрын
Proud of my Scottish heritage.. Clan Campbell...love the pipes. Thank you for this beautiful video.so heart warming...The pipes always Give me peace ...Thank you again
@annewilliams5527
Жыл бұрын
I believe that the gentleman who had this tune written for him actually lived and was born around this area, Dingwall and its environs. It makes me cry hearing this, and I boil with rage that he was tainted through jealousy from his “comrades “.
@annewilliams5527
9 ай бұрын
@@harelaw3487 I used to live on the West coast, and came over with hubby and children. I didn’t know what to expect, but people and countryside etc, were great.
@richardlongues4695
5 жыл бұрын
Outstanding version, it adds even more beauty to the previous ones !!
@kelvinbagley8719
2 жыл бұрын
Brings tears to my eyes
@VaupellGaming
3 жыл бұрын
Man,, i was there as a young soldier.. Memory lane..
@lace972
11 жыл бұрын
Very inspiring music, brings a tear to the eye
@charlesduguid4811
6 жыл бұрын
What a mix the sound man did........ not easy!!!!!
@pemacal57
3 жыл бұрын
I say, HONOR, RESPECT AND MEMORY for a BRAVE , " Fighting Mac", Gen. Sir Hector Archibald McDonald
@muneca68
8 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing!!!
@mikedehel3413
7 жыл бұрын
my favorite 2002 edinburgh tattoo , as I was there and have dvds of same
@karahan246
13 жыл бұрын
Magestic and gorgeous... but in the same time very nice and gentle tune
@josevicentejimenez9070
11 жыл бұрын
oirlas emociona,tocar una gaita te engancha de por vida
@mikedehel3413
7 жыл бұрын
my favorite 2002 , I was there , have dvds
@MrIbgrant
8 жыл бұрын
I agree with amc3, we could easily have dispensed with the electric guitars. Love the rest though!!!
@moonchild1011
6 жыл бұрын
how wonderful!
@Psgurl90069
14 жыл бұрын
Aw I was at this. Great, great time! :)
@anne-christinemarcou4481
Жыл бұрын
RESPECT🙏🤲🇬🇷R.I.P🌷
@murfenator923
12 жыл бұрын
What a fine display!!
@bond238
14 жыл бұрын
nice i was there in ediburgh that year 1998 great
@ZeitgeistWI
13 жыл бұрын
@Mukahara Hector MacDonald wasn't in World War I which is what I think you are referencing but I understand what you were trying to say. This man was a man of quiet strength whose only fault was that he rose up through the ranks into the officer corps. That made certain "gentlemen" of the officer corps not only jealous but also dangerous. The British officers who were of "high birth" had a real problem with a man rising through the ranks who was not born a "gentleman
@afyerheid
15 жыл бұрын
Bang on,one o Scotlands finest.
@rodilhector
9 жыл бұрын
My song !
@user-rc1wy8qj2q
7 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤😢
@davidarchibald50
10 ай бұрын
In another land, another hero has risen. His powers are different from Hector's, but he too is a gift to his nation, indeed the world. Pray that this time we honour our hero as he should be. Slava Ukrainia!
@Drewburn17
14 жыл бұрын
I really like the flute part at 2:39, but you cant hear it in this one :(
@gdedoedelzakker6816
2 жыл бұрын
also here a piper from holland, my favorit,gr /gerrit with scottisch roots
@thewindthatshakesbar
13 жыл бұрын
I want to go there, to watch or to play bagpipe! my biggest dream...
@MarkLowrie-jn2hw
Жыл бұрын
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
@grahamfleming8139
8 ай бұрын
Eachan mor nan cath Cuimne ar daoine 😢.
@swelsher
15 жыл бұрын
Heh, cool. This is basically the Wolfstone arrangement of the tune.
@davidgraham8299
5 жыл бұрын
The guitars seem out of place here
@adrianbartlett6131
6 жыл бұрын
Drummer boy
@laionemeihetahikoulakanate9515
Жыл бұрын
Hactor Visily
@dazgregs
14 жыл бұрын
@lewis1936 touche....
@CailleachMor
10 жыл бұрын
Who is playing the fiddle solo?
@pauljordan11
9 жыл бұрын
Lisa Hoss I'm afraid it was me playing fiddle solo! Hope you liked it, the Tattoo is one of these really special events that always remain with you and it was an honour to be part of it. I remember it was so difficult to keep in time with the military band who were about quarter of a mile away at the other end of the Castle esplanade so the slight sound delay took a bit of practice. Thoroughly enjoyed playing this piece.
@sdgsfgsdggfsgfsdfgsg3153
9 жыл бұрын
Paul Jordan that was wonderfull Paul thanks a lot, really enjoy listening to it every few days amazing!
@arthurofalbion
9 жыл бұрын
Paul Jordan I have listened to many versions of 'Hector the Hero' through KZitem, and your performance is the best that I have heard delivered with a fiddle or violin. Setting aside this little exploration of mine, your performance is magnificent, expressing great skill and aesthetic love. You also express the emotion that is proper to the particular piece you are playing, but neither in paucity nor excess. I love it immensely! On the other hand, it annoys me that your final moments were 'stepped on' by the harsh notes of the electric guitars, or whatever they were. But thank you for your unforgettable and uplifting expression of the greatness of (traditional) Britain!
@pauljordan11
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your very kind words, very much appreciated.
@gilliser
14 жыл бұрын
Hector MacDonald eh.
@BenApplegate
9 жыл бұрын
"Died tragically in 1903." I guess back in '98 it was still too early to say on TV that he was forced to commit suicide rather than face trial for homosexuality.
@MrIbgrant
8 жыл бұрын
+Brian Morgan Or you!
@xetalq
8 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, but General Sir Hector MacDonald was indeed faced with these charges - unjustly, I feel, but he was so charged nonetheless. MacDonald was a brave man - and favoured personally by Queen Victoria, a significant factor at the time, considering the scurrilous allegations made against him; by 1898, he had been promoted Colonel and was one of Her aides-de-camp. It was Queen Victoria who knighted MacDonald a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ('KCB') - the fourth most senior of Britain's Orders of Chivalry. A knighthood in the Order of the Bath is conferred upon the advice of Her Majesty's Government (HMG). MacDonald was thus knighted with the support and recommendation of Balfour's Conservative Party administration. By this point, MacDonald was thus a fully-fledged and accepted member of Britain's Establishment, and was wildly popular in both England and Scotland. But MacDonald was unconventional for an army officer, being a native Gaelic speaker and born into very modest circumstances in Dingwall, north of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. MacDonald was a DSO and a genuine war hero, and when posted to Ceylon (ie Sri Lanka) as C-in-C British Forces Ceylon, he was promoted to Major General. But MacDonald ruffled feathers in the Ceylonese expatriate community. He began imposing professional army discipline on the local militia, which was comprised largely of the indolent sons of local wealthy and influential figures, who enjoyed flaunting themselves in their assumed military finery. At one point, he even yelled at the Governor, Sir John Ridgeway, to get off the parade ground. Considering them all dilettantes, which likely they were, MacDonald declined all social invitations and made no friends amongst the expatriate community, finding the company of the Ceylonese (ie Sri Lankans) more congenial. And in colonial society, 'going native' was considered the ultimate sin. MacDonald had married late in life - in 1884 - (and then had a son), a situation which he proceeded to keep largely secret. Perhaps this was due to the fact that his bride had been merely 17 when they married (and he 31), and because he was only a Lieutenant - a rank then considered too lowly and too poorly-paid to support a wife and family, unless the officer was of independent means (which MacDonald was not). But the mistaken belief that MacDonald was single made the gossip against him all-too-easy to believe in Ceylon's turgid expatriate community, and it was Governor Ridgeway himself - latching onto the salacious allegations against MacDonald (presumably borne of resentment) - who eventually laid the formal charges against MacDonald of sodomy and homosexuality, in March 1903. In the face of this local scandal-mongering, Ridgeway 'advised' MacDonald to leave Ceylon and return to London. In return for his leaving, Ridgeway told MacDonald that he believed that the allegations could subsequently be quashed and "... a scandal avoided ...". In London, Queen Victoria having died in 1901, King Edward VII was by then on the throne, but MacDonald did not enjoy the same personal relationship with the new monarch that he had enjoyed with Victoria. MacDonald then sought out Lord Roberts, his former CO from the campaigns in Egypt and Sudan (1888 to 1898), and by now C-in-C of the entire British Army. Having campaigned together for some ten years in Africa, by 1903, Roberts was an old friend of more than 15 years standing. But even Roberts could do little to help MacDonald in the circumstances, without the active support of the King, and so Roberts advised MacDonald to return to Ceylon and clear his name. Taking Roberts' advice, MacDonald departed London for Ceylon, and having spent the first night of his journey in Paris, MacDonald read the newspaper over breakfast the following morning, in the dining room of his Paris hotel. There, on the front page of the newspaper in Paris, MacDonald read about the formal charges that had just been laid against him by Governor Ridgeway, and of the Court Martial that was now awaiting him in Ceylon. Usually, a C-in-C on colonial posting could and would expect the firm and unflinching support of the colonial Governor, under such circumstances. But since it had been Ridgeway himself who had laid the charges, MacDonald knew that not only would he get no such support from the Governor, he could expect Ridgeway to be leading the attack against him. Given the personal hatred against MacDonald from everyone of relevance in Ceylon, he knew the outcome of the Court Martial was a foregone conclusion. MacDonald returned to his hotel room, and shot himself on 25 March 1903. But MacDonald did so out of despair, not out of shame. A Commission was immediately appointed by HMG to investigate MacDonald's suicide, and three months later, on 29 June 1903, issued their report completely exonerating MacDonald of all impropriety. The Official Report was unsparing of the Ceylonese colonial government and society, and made it categorically clear that the Court Martial charges against MacDonald arose purely out of "... vulgar feelings of spite and jealousy of his rising to such a high rank of distinction in the British Army; ...". The Report continued that, having taken evidence "... from every conceivable source ...", there was "... not visible the slightest particle of truth in foundation of any crime ...". The Commission further found officially that "... the late Sir Hector MacDonald has been cruelly assassinated by vile and slandering tongues." MacDonald was actively and "... honourably acquitted ... of any charge whatsoever ...", and the Commission deplored the "... sad circumstances of the case that have fallen so disastrously on one whom we have found innocent of any crime attributed to him." The British (both Scottish and English) establishment in the United Kingdom stood by MacDonald throughout. It was the expatriate colonial society in Ceylon that turned against him.
@brianmorgan4523
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for telling the real story about this great man, may his soul rest in peace.
@brianmorgan4523
8 жыл бұрын
P.S Hector the Hero was written by my great great uncle James Scott Skinner.
@xetalq
8 жыл бұрын
Interesting - 'Hector The Hero" is a wonderful piece of music and one of my favourites; emotive and soaring, yet carefully stated. Although my mother is a Highlander (from Inverness) and my father an Australian, I'm an Englishman through and through (born in Putney and raised in Surrey). My mother's brother (my favourite uncle) was also in Sir Hector's regiment - the 92nd Gordon Highlanders - and served 3 years overseas during the 1950s. But it was not from my uncle (he never spoke to me at all about MacDonald) but from my school in England that I learned about Sir Hector MacDonald, during history lessons on the Egyptian and Sudanese campaigns of the 1880s and 1890s. Needless to say, we were not taught about his sad end in Paris, nor the allegations made against him - the focus was on his bravery and his military achievements. But 'Fighting Mac was a hero to schoolboys in England, too. :)
@lewis1936
14 жыл бұрын
I take it you mean " never read so much" ...Anyway for your elucidation read Wikipedia Sir Joseph West Ridgeway 1844 -1930
@dazgregs
14 жыл бұрын
@lewis1936 Never heard so much pish in all my life - it was his peers who made the allegations....them being his Scots counterparts....
@lewis1936
15 жыл бұрын
Hector the hero,destroyed by an English upper class conspiracy.
@macs7641
3 жыл бұрын
Ohhhhhhh really(here we go again with the anti-english upper class malarkey), and what is the basis upon which your assertion is made? You could possibly further expand on how it came to be that he was able to scale the dizzy heights of the ranks of the British Imperial Army when the 'English upper class' was so keen to destroy him?
@colindouglas7769
5 жыл бұрын
One of the great melodies of Scotland! Unfortunately, it has been completely butchered, as far too much of our music often is at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, by a bandleader looking to make a name for himself. Why can't they just play it as the composer James Scott-Skinner intended … with a modicum of sensitivity and feeling for the tune? End of rant!
@sgm2112
3 жыл бұрын
Colin, I think that all music evolves, and this tune has through the years with even Mike oldfield giving it a nod with the Hero. I highly recommend that you listen to Wolfstones version of Hector the Hero, it might change your mind, but you never know 😬
@02887727356
2 жыл бұрын
i hope all the scottish lads knew they were only cannon fodder for their english overlords
@stevenriley1445
2 жыл бұрын
Another Gay hero who laid down his life due to discrimination
@MacLeuthen
11 жыл бұрын
Stupid electric guitars... real heroes died with the sound of pipes, or fiddles, or whistles... They didn't need electricity to be men...
@amc3
13 жыл бұрын
Never in my life have i heard such a pathetic version .......of such a great piece of music...... Please leave this to Janna Reid and Ally...thanks
@delgadosfan
13 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most beautiful tunes ever written!!!
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