Wait, Wait...
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is bagpipe superstar (and yes, that’s a thing) Ally the Piper, who was an award-winning bagpiper before she started posting TikTok videos playing covers of songs by Metallica and Iron Maiden. Her conversation with host Peter Sagal is absolutely wonderfully entertaining. Her stories about getting into bagpiping are very funny, as is her tale that relates to posting Metallica video on Facebook – which brought out both hate from a Metallica fan and love from Metallica -- but best is her dry sense of humor and total acceptance of how improbable the success of her career has been.
This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts a bit after the 20:45 mark.
And of course I have to post a video of her performing. Two, actually. One because it’s a great example of her heavy metal work, and the other because it’s just too joyful, of a popular piece of music.
First, this is her official music video of Ozzie Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.”
And second, this is her arrangement of the “He’s a Pirate” theme from the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean, which here, needless-to-say, she calls “She’s a Pirate”.
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