List of Nontraditional Bagpipe Usage - Bagpipes in Rock (single or Few Songs)

Bagpipes in Rock (single or Few Songs)

• Nazareth used bagpipes on their song "Hair of the Dog"
• Gwar, the US metal shock-horror fantasy combo use bagpipes in the song "The Horror of Yig" on the album Scumdogs of the Universe
• The White Stripes used bagpipes in their song "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn" on their 2007 release Icky Thump.
• Depeche Mode on Songs of Faith and Devotion featured uilleann piper Steafan Hannigan on "Judas"
• Gary Barlow also uses Uilleann pipes (again featuring Hannigan)on the late 1990s solo release Twelve Months Eleven Days on the track "Yesterdays girl"
• The Animals, a British rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, featured Highland bagpipes on their 1968 anti-war song "Sky Pilot", released in the UK on The Twain Shall Meet album, and as a hit single 45 record in the USA.
• The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart used bagpipes on their version of Bonnie Dobson's "Morning Dew" (1968) featured on the album Truth.
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, a Scottish group which featured the bagpipes in their 1974 single "Anthem."
• Wizzard, a UK rock band, featured bagpipes on their singles "Are You Ready to Rock" (1974) and See My Baby Jive (1973).
• Glen Campbell Featured and played Bagpipes on "Bonaparte's Retreat" a single released in July 1974
• The hard rock band AC/DC first gained renown for the marriage of bagpipes and rock and roll with their 1975 song "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)"; Highland bagpipes were held in the video by band member Bon Scott, who in his youth had played bagpipes and drums in the Fremantle Scots Pipe Band. There were two other pipers recorded for the song.
• Paul McCartney's song "Mull of Kintyre" (1977) with the band Wings, made strong use of bagpipes for a characteristically Scottish sound.
• Dave Kelly Scottish singer/guitarist in his 1980 album "Crowning of a Simple Man" featured a bagpipe solo blended in with Celtic fiddle and penny whistle on the song "Ballad of J.C."
• Don Henley, on his 1982 CD I Can't Stand Still, makes use of the uilleann pipes on two tracks: "L'Eile" (a short solo instrumental by Paddy Moloney) and "Lilah",(a vocal number with Moloney playing backup).
• On Van Morrison's 1982 album Beautiful Vision, Sean Folsom played uilleann pipes on the song "Celtic Ray"; the song was later re-recorded with The Chieftains.
• Australian singer John Farnham used bagpipes in his hit song "You're the Voice." which was released in 1986.
• In 1987, Ron Wilson of the Surfaris, the drummer famous for the surf rock song "Wipe Out", recorded the song "Louie Louie" with Sean Folsom on Highland bagpipes, as well as the song "Moonshine" with Sean on the uilleann pipes. The album is called Lost It in the Surf.
• Australian band The Church (formed 1980) featured a bagpipe-like sound (using an eBow) in a portion of their 1988 hit, "Under the Milky Way." Their guitarist, Marty Willson-Piper, also featured bagpipes on the songs "Melody of the Rain" and "Forever" from his 1989 solo album Rhyme. The piper on the latter two tracks is identified as "Tusker the Busker"
• Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road", released in October 1988, makes use of bagpipes throughout the song played through a keyboard.
• Dave Shaw plays pipes on The Men They Couldn't Hang's CD Waiting for Bonaparte released in 1988.
• British progressive rock musician Kate Bush featured Davy Spillane performing on uilleann pipes during the title track to The Sensual World, released in October 1989.
• Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk to Me", from his 1992 album Us, features an opening passage played by bagpipes. He also incorporates bagpipe-like synthesizer effects on his track "Biko" from his third self-titled album.
• Phil Collins plays the bagpipes himself on songs Both Sides of the Story and We Wait and We Wonder, from his 1993 album Both Sides.
• Sting used Northumbrian smallpipes, played by Kathryn Tickell, on his hit song "Fields of Gold," from his 1993 album Ten Summoner's Tales and on the song "Island of Souls" from his album The Soul Cages
• The German power metal band Blind Guardian used bagpipes played by a guest musician on the tracks "The Piper's Calling" and "Somewhere Far Beyond" from Somewhere Far Beyond and later by drummer/flutist/piper Frederik Ehmke, on the albums A Twist in the Myth and At the Edge of Time.
• British group Tears for Fears incorporated the bagpipes into their 1985 hit "Shout".
• Bagpipes were used in Graveworm's symphonic death metal cover of "Fear of the Dark" by Iron Maiden on their 2001 album Scourge of Malice.
• The Darkness used bagpipes in the song "Hazel Eyes" on an album released in November 2005.
• Bob Weir & RatDog, the ex-Grateful Dead rocker featured American champion piper Jori Chisholm live in concert and on a live concert recording.
• Scorpions, a German heavy metal group, used bagpipes to open their song "Wild Child" on their album Pure Instinct, released in 1996.
• Lacuna Coil, an Italian Gothic rock band from Milan, featured Highland bagpipes on their 2006 song "Virtual Environment" released on their album Enjoy the Silence.
• The punk rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes feature a purposely horrible bagpiper in the song I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.
• French black metal band Artefact used bagpipes on the song "Blizzard Dwarf Army" from the album Magic Spellcraft released in May 2006.
• Ben Upton played bagpipe in the 2003 song "Beer in the Shower" by Toxic Narcotic, a hardcore punk band.
• Australian alternative rock band Jebediah featured bagpipes on their single "Fall Down", released in October 2001
• Madonna used bagpipes on her Re-Invention World Tour in 2004 when Lorne Cousin performed onstage individually and with her as part of "Into the Groove".
• Muse had a bagpipe accompaniment at one of their shows in Scotland, whilst performing one of their songs.
• U2 features the Uilleann pipes played by Vinnie Kildruff in the song Tomorrow on their second album October.