The 4 Hornsmen of the Apocalypse | Funny Solo | The Bands of HM Royal Marines

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  • The outstanding 4 Hornsmen of the Apocolypse featuring music arranged by Band Corporal Joe Rowlands and script written by Jonny King, performed at the Mountbatten Festival of Music 2022 in the Royal Albert Hall, London.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 421

  • @immu2261
    @immu2261 Рік тому +1071

    Some people: "Royal Marines are serious, and there is no room for ridiculousness!"
    Royal Marines: "Hold my Kazoo"

    • @Phoenix8492
      @Phoenix8492 Рік тому +23

      Graham Chapman: “Alright, stop that! It’s silly!”

    • @debramoss2267
      @debramoss2267 Рік тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @zayfardplays7742
      @zayfardplays7742 Рік тому +8

      More like: " ..... right ..... hand me that kazoo"

    • @harrisonbs
      @harrisonbs Рік тому +4

      Royal Marines: "Hold my dunny"

    • @nvlfs1995
      @nvlfs1995 Рік тому +4

      Royal Marines: "Hold my bazoookaa!"

  • @BodaciousWench
    @BodaciousWench 2 роки тому +1153

    ‘Anyone can walk into a shop and buy a clarinet. There’s no background check’

    • @marthahawkinson-michau9611
      @marthahawkinson-michau9611 Рік тому +50

      As an American citizen who lives in fear of gun violence… I felt that joke. It’s scary over here.

    • @debramoss2267
      @debramoss2267 Рік тому +7

      Someone needs to start a petition.

    • @PhoenyxRysing
      @PhoenyxRysing Рік тому +35

      And yet they're not worried about the piccolos? Gimme an amp and a mic and I'm pretty sure I could ruin more than a few peoples' ears with the higher-register notes even before getting the thing in tune... There was a reason I practiced with earplugs in--or better yet, did most of the early rehearsing on the flute!

    • @marthahawkinson-michau9611
      @marthahawkinson-michau9611 Рік тому +10

      @@PhoenyxRysing fear the piccolo!!!!

    • @meaninglesscog
      @meaninglesscog Рік тому +5

      @@marthahawkinson-michau9611 end the war on drugs and most of it goes away

  • @AmosPressley
    @AmosPressley 2 роки тому +561

    Wonderful! Anybody who has played a horn of any type has an idea of how hard this is to do. Very impressive!

    • @franziskaweie3898
      @franziskaweie3898 Рік тому +11

      Here a French horn player telling you how true that is especially for French horn

    • @totalcrazy9720
      @totalcrazy9720 Рік тому +2

      Bro is this man like 90

    • @motkceb1635
      @motkceb1635 Рік тому +5

      especially the toilet player

    • @rhysnolan7458
      @rhysnolan7458 10 місяців тому

      Equally anyone who has played tympany will know the same.

    • @deirdremcnamara385
      @deirdremcnamara385 8 місяців тому

      Closest I gotten to "horn" was my toy trumpet - "stolen" from me on Christmas morning - not sure I've forgiven them yet (parents trying to sleep) - and recorder... so can only imagine. Add to that the "adaptations," and that they are relying solely on breath control and the skill is breathtaking - if you'll excuse the pun. Love to all.

  • @jarod997
    @jarod997 Рік тому +339

    What people need to understand, is humans added valves to brass instruments to make them easier to play (yes, even in trombones). In order to change the pitch, the player has to extremely carefully change the shape of their lips, how tightly they're pressing them together, and how hard they're blowing, (which is collectively called embouchure). To play like these four horsemen did was outstanding. Bravo Zulu!

    • @alonecomplexe
      @alonecomplexe Рік тому +1

      its new to me that i need a Mouth to play the Guitar.....well i´ll go back Practicing and add Brass to the Strings then

    • @rogerrabt
      @rogerrabt Рік тому +5

      *hornsmen!

    • @BigBrotherIsTooBig
      @BigBrotherIsTooBig Рік тому +1

      Trombones yes, but not really.

    • @marietteestabrook4098
      @marietteestabrook4098 10 місяців тому +1

      Extremely outstanding!

  • @Lighting_Desk
    @Lighting_Desk 2 роки тому +147

    I love it when orchestras have a bit of fun.

  • @lizzynunez4906
    @lizzynunez4906 2 роки тому +37

    It takes a VERY confident man to wear that custome for the entire world to see! OMG!!!!!!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Priceless!🦸

  • @marvindebot3264
    @marvindebot3264 Рік тому +73

    The sheer delight on the faces of the bandsmen does it for me.

  • @BlackieLeone
    @BlackieLeone Рік тому +167

    British humour - you just gotta love it.
    It was - especially for me as a German - hillarious that the cliche german horeman of the apocalypse was not on time but "Bad Timing".
    But all the rest of this much - more than I want to type now because it gets too long and nobody reads long texts on the internet - was outstandingly well done.
    I tip my hat to you, good Sirs and Madams who were part on making this marvellous piece of art!

  • @MegaMan-bs3oy
    @MegaMan-bs3oy Рік тому +99

    Ill say it. I am not ashamed. I got chills when he hit that superman theme.

  • @thessie
    @thessie Рік тому +18

    It's the sheer glee on the faces of the HM Royal Marines sat behind them that makes it -look at the grins :D

  • @vincentvalentine142
    @vincentvalentine142 Рік тому +67

    I figured that would happen. The 4 horns would sound terrible separately. But once all played together harmoniously flawless. Lol. Great job everyone.

  • @rcb3921
    @rcb3921 Рік тому +69

    I love the lady behind the 'construction worker' at 5:30 and 5:37... she's blown away (haha). You know she's like, an outstanding musician in her own right. And she's just wide-eyed, agape and grinning. You know it's high talent on display.

  • @niaashmore9227
    @niaashmore9227 2 роки тому +139

    Outstanding and totally fits with these amazing men and women. Pity all conflicts couldn’t be solved this way.

  • @kimothy1701
    @kimothy1701 2 роки тому +21

    Love how all their band mates are killing themselves laughing.

  • @wmgthilgen
    @wmgthilgen Рік тому +11

    Any and all of the staunch and starchy classic musician's of the past are rolling over in their graves. This was a great presentation of how classical music can be played.

    • @ThePiesEndure1985
      @ThePiesEndure1985 Рік тому +2

      Many of those staunch and starchy classic musicians of the past weren’t so staunch and starchy ;)

  • @TheDeathMongrel
    @TheDeathMongrel 2 роки тому +141

    How awfully wonderful :) The accuracy of failed pitches! This made my day! Well done!

  • @captainscarlett1
    @captainscarlett1 Рік тому +68

    For those who don't know it, army bandsmen aren't just musicians. In battle they act as medics. Those medals they wear are earned. Their job in peace and war isn't easy. Same with cooks, they get shot and blown-up too. Contrary to popular belief they are respected by arms soldiers.

    • @allydalessi3371
      @allydalessi3371 10 місяців тому +3

      Thank you for pointing that out as most think they’re just ceremonial

    • @tazika2988
      @tazika2988 9 місяців тому

      @captainscarlett
      Some real war lessons:
      My father, who was sucked in WW2 as a 17 (seventeen) years old soldier, during the war wore 2 warring uniforms and in spring 1945 was dressed up in a third one, taught me a lesson he learned the hard way: "If there would be a war ... " (No it won't, why would it be, laughed I, but he never laughed nor was he light-hearted as far as the war is concerned) - "If there would be a war, stick close to the kitchen. Peel potatoes, wash pots; medals and ranks are connected with nothing but death and destruction. What every army protects the most is their kitchen. In case of losing the battle, soldiers are punished in a more or less cruel manner, you peel potatoes dressed in a different uniform." said my wise father many times.
      So YES, cooks (and potato peelers!) are both loved and respected by arms soldiers.
      As for "during the war (he) wore 2 warring uniforms" - for "zaraćene" online dictionary keeps giving me only "warring", but when I translate it back in my language it gives me something like "war uniforms". What I wanted to emphasize is his belonging (bc of uniforms he was put in) to the two warring powers, Axis and Allies. 3rd uniform he was put in - or it was put on (him) - was stuff half of Europe wore when it was given to the Communist block. He was never given a choice of the uniform he wears, nor could he go (as a healthy male) through the war ununiformed, just like the majority of Europeans in WWs.
      I haven't heard of a book or a film presenting some of a zillion refusals to harm people wearing warring uniforms, and we all know that in a war there's a death penalty for "deserters", bravest of the brave, actually the only ones that should get war medals (together with the defenders, of couse).

    • @seren5502
      @seren5502 3 місяці тому

      sorry, love how you want to defend the band but this is the royal marines, who do all this amazing stuff, i just thought you might wanna know :)

  • @6777Productions
    @6777Productions 2 роки тому +28

    I relate to the horseman that sits upon the white throne. Tis the best throne in the entire galaxy

    • @Moondog-wc4vm
      @Moondog-wc4vm Рік тому +4

      You should hear the notes I play while sitting on the white throne, off key is not enough to describe them. They are almost as bad as disco! I know that a bad workman blames his tools, but I honestly think my horn might be broken.

    • @col4574
      @col4574 Рік тому

      For when thou sitest upon this throne,you encounter your own mortality!

  • @fernandomazarro2551
    @fernandomazarro2551 2 роки тому +8

    When you know how to laugh at yourself, you show your great class...

  • @elizabethturner2421
    @elizabethturner2421 2 роки тому +7

    I totally did not expect this to turn up in my YT feed. SO GLAD I clicked!

  • @krisrobinson2019
    @krisrobinson2019 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant!!! Any musician who is truly a musician. love to play fun. all the time!!! hilarious!!!!

  • @jamielee9350
    @jamielee9350 Рік тому +2

    26 yrs a para , but still love these Bootneck's.. The best musicians of all our forces 💯

  • @brianmcd9492
    @brianmcd9492 4 місяці тому +2

    I Think that was a "Super" performance 🙂👍

  • @RareSense
    @RareSense 7 місяців тому +2

    Clever and very entertaining got to love the Poms!

  • @antoonfeyaerts6089
    @antoonfeyaerts6089 Рік тому +4

    Sometimes the greatest jokers are the most serious responders in a crisis situation. Love to you funny people !

  • @RandomJ2023
    @RandomJ2023 Рік тому +53

    I am sincerely moved! This was EPIC! Retired US Army Musician here, thank you for your service!

  • @a.katherinesuetterlin3028
    @a.katherinesuetterlin3028 Рік тому +55

    Loved that bit about the "no background check for clarinets." 🤣 As a Statesider keyboard and brass player, I approve this humor! 🤣🤣
    And the whole "Superman" shtick? As a Superman fan, that was golden!

  • @StarkRG
    @StarkRG Рік тому +37

    Me: A nearly 8 minute video of people playing horns? I'll probably just skip to the funny bit.
    The funny bit: *_Starts immediately and never lets off_*

  • @mrp3930
    @mrp3930 Рік тому +2

    the fun you can have with music is endless, that was pure class and talent.....

  • @MojoPup
    @MojoPup Рік тому +8

    Having played the trumpet, HOLY CRAP these guys are amazing!

  • @adventure002006
    @adventure002006 Рік тому +8

    Amazed at the quality of music from their unusual instruments. Very entertaining.

  • @artie
    @artie Рік тому +34

    WOW!!!!! Love this!!! Amazing talent. It takes time and talent to play in key. It’s takes great discipline to play in a bad key lmao!!! Love it!

  • @toscatattertail9813
    @toscatattertail9813 Рік тому +3

    I played French horn for years, this was fun and amazzing.

  • @tylercollins9323
    @tylercollins9323 2 роки тому +4

    anglia tv ident from the guy wearing the helmet! absolutely love it

  • @MsTJPink
    @MsTJPink Рік тому +3

    Years ago, I used to play the trombone, I wasn't any good at it, didn't have the lung power! But these guys clearly do! Amazing performance !

  • @marciasouza3622
    @marciasouza3622 2 роки тому +10

    Creative,funny and perfect! Amazing!💎💎💎💎💎⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • @ivyhussein9923
    @ivyhussein9923 2 роки тому +10

    Ha ha ha. Really good and very funny. 😂😂😂😂

  • @imjelo
    @imjelo Рік тому +2

    5:40 As the son of a trumpet player, I know that the guy playing that "instrument" is also a trumpet player just by that hand gesture. My late father would have also love watching this. He a jovial person with many stories about his days as a musician.

  • @elainehowell2836
    @elainehowell2836 2 роки тому +6

    Like the music and them being funny and good

  • @terrenceseidel3054
    @terrenceseidel3054 Рік тому +2

    Groovy, & Funny!!!

  • @gailknight3128
    @gailknight3128 2 роки тому +36

    Brilliant, and very funny. Well done to them all

  • @johnathonf1
    @johnathonf1 Рік тому +40

    I totally adored this performance. And way to go to the "Superman" to wear the tights--- BTW looks great( I am now a personal fan) !!!. After trying a bugle, a trumpet, a valve trombone, and a French Horn, I took up the tuba in Junior High. All I can say is that these musicians are awesome!!!

  • @debramoss2267
    @debramoss2267 Рік тому +6

    Incredible talent. Brilliant idea. I'm a little scared of the loo, now 😳

  • @beryleades327
    @beryleades327 2 роки тому +9

    This is wonderful, great fun.

  • @MorganHealing
    @MorganHealing Рік тому +5

    so much talent, so much hard work and SO good!
    Thank you all so much for sharig this with us

  • @fernandomusicoautodidacta1977
    @fernandomusicoautodidacta1977 Рік тому +13

    Ha sido un auténtico placer escucharlos y disfrutar de un buen rato de buena música y como no, de humor.

  • @plouismarie
    @plouismarie Рік тому +4

    Incroyable de fun et de precision. Du grand art à la portée de tous. Merci !!!!

  • @hb3331
    @hb3331 Рік тому +5

    Bloody amazing piece of work

  • @rabibbibar6134
    @rabibbibar6134 2 роки тому +10

    Amazing, different and entertaining. Fun to watch

  • @elainehowell2836
    @elainehowell2836 2 роки тому +7

    That was fantastic music

  • @RichTheEngineer
    @RichTheEngineer Рік тому +2

    Reminds me when Dennis Brain would play Mozart's Horn Concerto. On a garden hose. Of course, it sounded great!

  • @Felitaur
    @Felitaur Рік тому +1

    Superman even has the spitcurl.

  • @robertshrewsbury4241
    @robertshrewsbury4241 Рік тому +3

    Enjoyed the musical humor and expertise.

  • @1stUfonium
    @1stUfonium Рік тому +2

    GREAT humor and artistry. BRAVO!

  • @brittenmusic6923
    @brittenmusic6923 Рік тому +8

    Now that was excellent and helped to put a smile on my face amidst a sad time for me. Thank you :)

  • @linda6987
    @linda6987 Рік тому +1

    Well done you! You make yourselves proud!!!! And entertaining! ♥️

  • @womanofsubstance8735
    @womanofsubstance8735 2 роки тому +6

    Excellent!
    I thought the last one might be the William Tell Overture, done in brass.

  • @BISMVIDEO
    @BISMVIDEO Рік тому

    Superman in ALL his glory!

  • @karenattwood5035
    @karenattwood5035 Рік тому +4

    Phenomenal, I have no idea how difficult that was, but I have my suspicions x

  • @BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas
    @BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas Рік тому +17

    7:03 not so rare shot of percussionist beating some strange gadget that is heard by exactly no one

    • @fatherf5550
      @fatherf5550 Рік тому +4

      It's called a Vibraslap. I was thinking the same thing when that part happened. The disappointment when I couldn't hear it though 😕 😪 😔 😐

    • @AxellSlade
      @AxellSlade Рік тому +2

      Actually, it was heard by a total of 0 people from the audience.

  • @juliakarczewski8875
    @juliakarczewski8875 Рік тому +2

    True musicianship right here to pull this off. Well done! Gave me many belly laughs..

  • @michaelhitchingham869
    @michaelhitchingham869 2 роки тому +3

    Pure awesomeness!

  • @jacquelyngravina1169
    @jacquelyngravina1169 Рік тому +3

    Fantastic!!! Well done!!

  • @lawrencequave7361
    @lawrencequave7361 Рік тому +9

    As a life-long trumpet player who began by first teaching himself to play a bugle, I am truly impressed. On a bugle, you only have 5 notes to work with, but make the instrument long enough (such as the one Superman was playing) and you get a full chromatic scale without the use of valves or holes. Truly amazing--the physics of sound. This skit demonstrated all this superbly--while also demonstrating that military bands are not confined to playing just classical and march music. As for silliness, as a US Marine I've watched several boot camp graduations. I love it as the band marches out all 'prim and proper' (as all expect a military band to be), stops in front of the reviewing stands, then breaks ranks and goes crazy playing jazz music with all sorts of silly antics. Then, with a wave of the drum major's impressive baton, all become straight-laced, dignified Marines again, and march away in formation playing Semper Fidelis. Much fun.

    • @primrose4514
      @primrose4514 Рік тому

      Totally 🤩😍🥰AWESOME

    • @historex54tamiya
      @historex54tamiya Рік тому +1

      So true, I was a Royal Marine drummer and bugler, and Eb trumpet.
      I always preferred the drum, no practise can help a last post or parade call when your lips freeze to the mouthpiece, we weren’t allowed to ‘Mouth’ the mouthpiece to warm it up.
      I finished as Drum Major Royal Marines and know many of these, including my last new entries now Sgts and above.
      They do us proud!

    • @lawrencequave7361
      @lawrencequave7361 Рік тому +1

      @@historex54tamiya As a Marine and bugle player, I volunteered more than 20 years ago to play Taps for Bugles Across America. About five years ago in the early Spring when it was still chilly here in Dallas, I was to play Taps for a mid-day service. When I took my assigned station as the funeral party arrived, though the temperature wasn't cold, I was facing directly into the wind that was blowing at about 15-20 mph. Less than 10 minutes later, when it came time for me to play, my cheeks had 'frozen' enough that I completely botched my performance. It was embarrassing. I should've had the honor guard play the recording.

    • @historex54tamiya
      @historex54tamiya Рік тому

      @@lawrencequave7361 We have all been there mate lol. I could never understand why drum went with bugle, I know historically correct but 2 completely different instruments.
      I did 24 years and finished Drum Major Royal Marines in 2012.
      My best wishes to you!

    • @historex54tamiya
      @historex54tamiya Рік тому

      @@lawrencequave7361 And Semper Fi brother, worked with you in Iceland, the Marlborough bar, Virgina and London, great times!

  • @mrwally54
    @mrwally54 2 роки тому +1

    loved it had a giggle with some of the way's it was put together

  • @primrose4514
    @primrose4514 Рік тому +1

    BEST MUSICIANS EVER - from TIP TO TOE🥰
    Made my day💋

  • @Trace631
    @Trace631 Рік тому +1

    This retired US Army bandsman gives a big thumbs up!

  • @jamielee9350
    @jamielee9350 Рік тому

    Needed cheering up , so come back to this again , never fails.

  • @lp-fluzaotf
    @lp-fluzaotf Рік тому +3

    Excellent job. Congratulation. Luiz Paulo - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

  • @magaroo7349
    @magaroo7349 2 роки тому +7

    👏👏👏👏Love it!!

  • @neilbowers6956
    @neilbowers6956 Рік тому +2

    This is just brilliant! Thank you for posting this.

  • @johnaskew4718
    @johnaskew4718 Рік тому +36

    Sincerely hope Corporal Rowlands gets a third stripe for an exceptional arrangement! A superb performance ❤️

  • @ericemmons3040
    @ericemmons3040 Рік тому +1

    This is funny. One doesn't expect a dignified military organization like the Royal Marines to do something like this. I remember that in the early seventies, my dad and I drove from Sacramento to Oakland, to the Coliseum (well, Dad drove; I was 12 or 13) to see the Scots Guards, Welsh Guards, or somesuch members of the Household Regiment, and the Pipes and Drums. At one point in the performance, the band had finished playing and was lined up in a broad V-formation when the bandmaster strolled over to one of the tubas, reached into the bell, and pulled out a neon-yellow Oakland A's baseball; everyone clapped and cheered. Then, he reached into the tuba again, pulled out an Oakland A's pennant, and held it up for everyone to see! This was during the time that the A's were doing their world champion three-peat. Upon seeing the pennant, everyone clapped and cheered even louder! I certainly had not expected a British Army bandmaster to engage in such shenanigans. . .

  • @raistraw8629
    @raistraw8629 Рік тому +6

    Are this the new Marvel Heroes Bavariaman, Armyman, Toiletmann and Superman?

  • @zacmumblethunder7466
    @zacmumblethunder7466 Рік тому +2

    That's official then, noises from a toilet sound better than anything I managed to produce in two years of learning the recorder at school.

  • @lindawilson2210
    @lindawilson2210 2 роки тому +4

    Love it

  • @ChristophS
    @ChristophS 2 роки тому +6

    That was absolutely amazing and also hilarious!

  • @kenbearsley8322
    @kenbearsley8322 11 місяців тому

    Love how the armed forces have fun. Doesn't matter what armed force from what ever country, they all have to have their fun, relieve tension through being goofy in a band.

  • @colleenedwards5317
    @colleenedwards5317 Рік тому +7

    absolutely briiliant. A credit to our military musicians

  • @hankcuccina5260
    @hankcuccina5260 Рік тому

    Entertainment at its best.

  • @sakurapablo671
    @sakurapablo671 Рік тому +1

    Who say that they can’t have any sense of humour for once.😊

  • @anthonyhaylock6655
    @anthonyhaylock6655 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant and hilarious at the same time

  • @elgun6125
    @elgun6125 2 роки тому +20

    Loved that. Very talented musicians.

  • @saturdayplayer2492
    @saturdayplayer2492 6 місяців тому

    Brought a real smile to my face.

  • @outrageousalan7780
    @outrageousalan7780 Рік тому +4

    Mark Upton is an amazingly talented trumpet player.

    • @HornMouf
      @HornMouf Рік тому +1

      I agree! He is good at what he does!

  • @janakasanjaya6926
    @janakasanjaya6926 Рік тому

    I love this program

  • @johndurrans733
    @johndurrans733 3 місяці тому

    wonderfull and amazing

  • @meggraham8394
    @meggraham8394 2 роки тому +1

    Great fun. Cheered me up no end

  • @ProbablyBacon
    @ProbablyBacon Рік тому

    Beautiful. Just… beautiful

  • @Collateralcoffee
    @Collateralcoffee Рік тому +7

    That was actually really bloody awesome! :)

  • @paultate9283
    @paultate9283 Рік тому +1

    Great talent

  • @GourmetPawsTales
    @GourmetPawsTales Рік тому

    Excellent. Bravo 👏

  • @jaynedawson5576
    @jaynedawson5576 Рік тому +1

    Amazing!!!

  • @FretboardToAsh
    @FretboardToAsh Рік тому +1

    The very definition of work hard play hard.

  • @pamz7531
    @pamz7531 2 роки тому +1

    What fun!

  • @susanashton4098
    @susanashton4098 Рік тому +3

    Absolutely hilarious and so well done. Just shows the level of talent. My late father, an ex para and lover of military bands, with a brilliant sense of humour, would have loved this.

  • @Telukin
    @Telukin Рік тому +4

    This was amazing!

  • @ZephodBeeblebrox
    @ZephodBeeblebrox 2 роки тому +1

    That was pure fun!

  • @gezelgunther
    @gezelgunther Рік тому +1

    it is epic in all ways

  • @richa.s9912
    @richa.s9912 Рік тому +2

    WOW 😲😳 Great 👍😃 music 🎶🎵 ‼️