Famous Mudcatters

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Compton
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 08:09 PM

I think Harvey Andrews is a bit famous!!...and dips in and out of Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: John Routledge
Date: 21 Aug 03 - 08:11 PM

Harvey must be top of the Famous and Nice table

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: GUEST,potbelly
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:49 AM

i once met bob dylan at earls court iwas drunk stoned as you are iwas lost down below some where and he came out of this side door he said something like how you doing, ijust came out with not now ime to f---ing busy,and still did not my seat, went back to eastend pub 1976 i think ah well.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 11:09 AM

In the folk world not so many. Met Martin Carthy once Billy Bragg (twice) Kate Bush very briefly a long time ago. Billy Connolly as well.Kathryn Tickell once nodded at me.
My wife was area secretary of The Beatles fan club back in the day.
She attended a special screening of Magical Mystery Tour with John & George on one occasion & met Paul on another.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 11:18 AM

I once appeared on stage with Bernard Wrigley and Keith Donnelly!

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 11:49 AM

A famous folk musician is a household name for one tenth of one percent of the people in this country. :-)

Total obscurity comes in a close second..

Jerry (Still obscure after all these years and lovin' it.)

(Maybe we need a thread to determine who is the most Obscure Mudcatter..)

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:04 PM

There's me, although I've been on the stage and even played in public.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: GUEST,reggie miles
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:18 PM

I agree with Jerry. I think the idea of a most obscure rating or ranking would be much more fun.

I'll start. I'm so obscure that a recent fan email poured into my inbox the other day asking when and where my next performances would be. I had to email back that I had no scheduled performances to offer. The fan was so obscure that the email wasn't even signed.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:23 PM

The last stage that I was on was when I was told to get out of town before sunset.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:26 PM

I just googled "purple foxx" & apparently I was used as a foot phaser pedal by Brian May of Queen.
Must have had one too many that night.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 06:08 AM

Aah've played in front o' the Prince of Wales!

I've played in front of a lorra different pubs actually.

Aah've MC'd a lorra festivals an' aah've had the pleasure of 'working' with a lorra lovely famous people but......

The high spot was deein' support for Richard Thompson at The Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in July 2004 - Magic!

Gerruptivit Man!

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: GUEST,strange
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 08:56 PM

rick your sweet - but not as sweet as you seem.....lol

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 09:34 AM

My nephew is fairly famous in the UK (in a non-musical context)- lots of results on Google, a page in the IMDB. recognised in the street, and now has an expensive house on the Thames and a new Porsche. However, he now ignores the rest of his family, reduces his mother to tears when she has to admit that he never returns her 'phone calls, and has never acknowledged a lot of work and time I put into a personal favour to him. So the devil's pox on fame if that's what it does to you.

Hugs and kisses,

Rusty

(My next-door neighbour used to wash the Hollies' shirts, I've met Les Paul, and I once opened for Gordon Giltrap. Damn, I AM famous after all!)

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: eddie1
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 10:42 AM

I've met lots of famous people in my time but the one I'm most proud of – I know a man who knows the guy who was the body double for Compo in "Last of The Summer Wine"!
Now he really has a claim to fame.

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 11:57 AM

I was Mr Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice of 1949, and my photograph was in the window of the Ministry of Food when I was a baby.

Really after that, everything else was a bit of an anti-climax....

Subject: RE: Famous Mudcatters
From: NightWing
Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:29 PM

I know one guy who is immensely famous ... but nobody knows his name.

In George Thorogood's song "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer", he gets kicked out of his place:

So I go down the streets,
down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man I'm outdoors you know,
can I stay with you maybe a couple days?"
He said "Let me go and ask my wife"
He come out of the house,
I could see it in his face
I know that was no
He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, you know"
I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"

I know the man who was/is that friend. He had only been married a short time and his wife hated George's guts. George verified it was him. (So I guess I've met TWO famous people :-)

Very funny guy, too. *LOL*

BB,
Little Head