So, eine Frage zu dem Intro das Bruce vor dem Song immer spricht, dieses: "Half a league, half a league... usw.

Was genau soll das bedeuten? Gibt´s da nen geschichtlichen Hintergrund? Das tät mich ma intressiern...

Aja, der Song is einfach ein Klassiker und wie ich finde, neben Hallowed das beste Lied, das Harris je verfasst hat...
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keine ahnung was du meinst das intro kenn ich nicht

hör dir ma RIR oder sonstwas an bzw. schau dir das Video an, da wird der Spruch(Zitat?) eingeblendet...
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also der spruch geht irgendwie so:
half a league, half a league
irgendwa mit valley of death
road the six hundered
cannon to righter them
alle himmelsrichtungen und so irgendwie

aber bruce sagt den spruch immer in einer neuen kurzen fassung

genau das isses aber ich weiß net, ob das en filmzitat oder sonstwas is und übersetzen klingt irgendwie en bisschen komisch, also weiß da jemand was?

aja, der genaue Wortlaut sieht so aus:

Half a league, half a league
half a league onward
All in the valley of death
Rode the six hundred
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred

Könnte irgendwie auch en Gedicht sein...

Das is das, was vor dem Video zu sehn ist, aber die Live version sieht wieder anders aus, da stimmt Wattos Version eher...

Into the valley of death
rode the six hundred
cannon to right of them
cannon to left of them
cannon in front of them
volley´d and thunder´d
The Trooper...
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ma des von rir kenn i eh aber auf der original is des nicht

Das ist ein Auszug von einem Gedicht von Alfred Lord Tennyson: Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. All in the valley of death. Rode the six hundred.

Mehr weiss ich nicht...

Respekt!!
Hey Blink41, zeig dem mal dein Smile mit dem Banner!
Up the Irons

Stimmt, hab da ma nach gegoogelt, wirklich net schlecht...

Danköö...
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Tag auch.
Der Song ist wahrscheinlich inspiriert vom Krim Krieg 1853-1856. Anbei eine Textpassage ,in der auch die Russian Guns genannt werden.

The Light Brigade were being kept in reserve, after the successful charge of the heavy brigade, but the slow advance of the British Infantry to take advantage of the heavy brigades success had given the Russian forces time to take away Artillery pieces from captured redoubts. Raglan, after seeing this ordered the light brigade "to advance rapidly to the front, follow the enemy and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns. This message taken by Captain Nolan, to Lord Lucan, the cavalry Commander.
One of the Officers of raglan's Staff, urged Lucan, who could only see the main Russian Artillery Position at the head of a valley. Lord Lucan rode over to Cardigan and ordered him to attack these guns. So the Light Brigade charged these Russian guns, and not the guns being taken away by Russian forces from the redoubts.
The Carnage was great, from the 673 men who started the charge, 113 men were killed and many others wounded. The Light Brigade was made up of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 8th and 11th Hussars and the 17th Lancers. A Spectating French Officer General Pierre Bosquet proclaimed "It is magnificent but it is not war".
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Caton Woodville
The all time classic image of the disastrous Charge of the light Brigade which included the 17th lancers, who lead the charge. against the twelve Russian guns.
Lord Cardigan is shown on the left, dressed in his 11th Hussars uniform. The light Brigade reached the Russian guns only to be counter charged by the Russian Cossacks.
The light Brigade had 195 mounted survivors and 231 unhorsed, and 134 wounded with a total of 113 dead

Gruß
Jens