BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST, Ebbie
Date: 15 May 05 - 12:58 PM

I finally, finally get it. 'Fictitious' is what it's all about. 'Fantasy' is another name for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST,Chicken George
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:13 PM

"Kut kut kut ku-TA-A-A-A-kut!!"

(Would you have expected anything else?)

The only kind of picking Martin Gibson is adept at is picking his nose.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:16 PM

"Thanks for all of the attention. It's irrelevant to me."

Wow... you wish that were true almost as much as we do MG... and your feeble protestations will only prove my point...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:41 PM

Congratulations on emerging from the gutter, "Martin". Hope you don't feel homesick.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 May 05 - 01:48 PM

Also, "Martin", someday you might want to open your eyes long enough to realize that even in a bluegrass group, there are instruments which don't use a pick.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 May 05 - 04:26 PM

I was worried that Martin had deserted for greener pastures--but, fortunately, he is still around. 100% fictitious, or not, he is still a barrel of fun. Still haven't figured out if the 100% fictitious includes the music part--

For those who are curious, there is a real guitarist/performer named Martin Gibson who has been mentioned in another thread--

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST, Eb
Date: 15 May 05 - 05:09 PM

Which part of "100%" don't you understand? *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:19 PM

Well, gol danged, Martin. You say you can play a banjo, a guitar, a bass, a trombone, a zylaphone and a kazoo all at the same time??? Hmmmmmmmm? I'm glad you ain't showin' cause I'z always had trouble with mixing the trombone in with the others... Seems they just don't make a handy stand fir it to play while playin' all the others at the same time....

But we will sho nuff miss actually seein' and hearin' ya gettin' yer butt kicked in the pickin' challenge at the Getaway by this ol' hillbilly but not to worry.... Plenty of folks got yer nummer right here in Mudville....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 15 May 05 - 07:10 PM

Yeah Ron Davies. Sure there are instruments in bluegrass that don't use a pick. I heard that you play a pretty mean skin flute in time with the Wabash Cannonball.

bobert, picking challanges bore me. Making good music with people interests me. Take a few more lessons first. As for a few Mudcatters having my "number" (correctly spelled, bobert), who cares. I'm having fun with those few.

BTW, if there is a "real" Martin Gibson somewhere, I could care less. He should change his name. Maybe to something like Ron Davies, a real man with a real name, but a chest like a woman.

Ron, men stand when they go pee-pee. Didn't you learn that?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 May 05 - 07:40 PM

Well, heck, Martin.... I was gonna *give* you a lesson in pickin' but I reckon yer happy just playin' at the beginner/intermediate level???

Go figure???....

But I'm glad yer at least havin' some fun being embarrassed on a daily basis here in Mudville...

BTW, I knew you wouldn't accept the challenge, not because you like keeping you anon status but because you really would hate gettin' whupped up on by an ol' hillbilly who you say needs to "take a few more lessons first". Haha...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 May 05 - 07:53 PM

100% of it, Eb--but that's the whole point, isn't it?

And Martin! Be careful! These people are not what they seem!

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 May 05 - 08:48 PM

Ah, "Martin", back to the gutter again. Well at least you'll be more at home there.

Perhaps you'll tell us about your experiences playing the skin flute in your band. I've never heard of a band using that instrument.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 May 05 - 11:21 PM

So, "Martin", you combine paranoid delusions with delusions of multi-instrumental prowess. You are certainly one for the books.

Don't bother to tell us about alleged paying gigs. Based on your past history, you are, sadly, not credible.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 May 05 - 02:14 AM

If you pick it - it only tends to get worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 May 05 - 02:31 AM

You'd know Shambles....

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Kaleea
Date: 16 May 05 - 03:20 AM

Well now, I suppose that my trash can (it's galvanized, too!) bass needs no pick. However----Bass player in our band plays the Bass Violin uses his fingers, a bow, AND a gigantic sized guitar-type plastic PICK. It's about 8 inches tall. I don't know where the boy got it, but when we're doing some of the "everybody's flatpickin'" tunes, he pulls it out to use on his bass. Darndest thing I've seen in a pick.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 May 05 - 04:06 AM

This is (at least in its inception) a music or culture related thread. Perhaps some anonymous volunteer will move it upstairs?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Bainbo
Date: 16 May 05 - 04:12 AM

I keep getting e-mails offering me an 8" pick (I think).

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: robomatic
Date: 16 May 05 - 08:00 AM

Well, I'm sure I haven't seen it ALL, but 'n sum ya-hoo starts a thread 'n order to solisit abuse from o'r dear ol' MG, ah shore feel ahm gittin' thar

Bobble burt yo sho sum gud 'nuff mutherplucker, now yo go bak to 'r thread bout gittin' long wid' dose bears! mebbe if'n yore po-lite yo kin find wun waddle playwidyu.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Bobert
Date: 16 May 05 - 08:31 AM

Now thats some fine typin' there Robo... See, practice do make perfect... Sho nuff do... You keep at now 'cause it'll jump the ship on ya in a heartbeat...

An' whads this 'bout am 8" pick?

Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 05 - 10:20 AM

Bobert spelled the word equidistant correctly in the first post to this thread. Kudos fer dat. It causes me to wonder whether next year a Bobert/MG spelling bee might also be a real crowd pleaser.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST,M. Cyrano de Bergerac
Date: 16 May 05 - 12:18 PM

Ah! We have an American challenging an American! But, mes amis, the American Code clearly states:

If either principal, on the ground, refuse to fight...it is the duty of his second to say to the other second: "I have come upon this ground with a coward, and have to tender you an apology for my ignorance of his character; you are at liberty to post him."

This is in the work by George Hooper, which is entitled "Down the River; or, Practical lessons under the Code Duello" (New York: E. J. Hale, 1874), p. 247.

Eh maintenant, you must reconcile, pluck, or be posted. It is your choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 16 May 05 - 12:26 PM

I reckon Bobert and Martin Gibson are the same woman posting under two separate names.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 05 - 12:32 PM

nope - Bobert has witnesses to his being a guy.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: M.Ted
Date: 16 May 05 - 01:23 PM

"Political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum. "

                                                                                                         Aaron Burr to Alexander Hamilton
                                                                                                         June 21, 1804

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 16 May 05 - 02:14 PM

Actually bobert has witness to him being a gay.

Ron Davies, I knew I would get to ya. It's so easy. You are like a nice Catholic girl should be, Ron.

Watch out for friction throwing that skin flute of yours a bit sharp.

What a riot ripping this moron.


As for credibility on Mudcat, what's the difference, really? This will never be real life to me anyhow.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: jpk
Date: 16 May 05 - 04:33 PM

they say that if you put enough monkeys on type writters,given enough time,they might write a good play.well maybe,if you put enough martins on guitars,they might just be able to limp out a tune by accident.[hopefully,tis an experament that twill nought a happen,sein hows one o'them tis foul enouf;]

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: jpk
Date: 16 May 05 - 04:43 PM

p.s. if you look close enough,you will see that all the things martin is critical of,are the very things that has shown himself to do,or that he has said that he does,or has done.so leave the poor 'thing' alone,least for as long as he enjoys raggen about hisself.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST,Ralph Stanlee
Date: 16 May 05 - 11:57 PM

Martin was a bit late checking in today--the mailroom is always extra busy on Monday mornings--You should have finished that associate degree program, old Buddy--

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 May 05 - 08:35 PM

bout 15 years ago - I first realised I was getting old. I recall the day. I went with a couple of friends one freeze your tits off January morning to a local technical college to learn how to log on, switch a computer on, and surf the net....

anyway ten minutes later, there I am ....sulkily putting names into Yahoo for information about people I knew too much about anyway.... Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, etc.

the lady next to me leans over and said, what are you talking on line about.....oh just music! I'm talking to Jim in Sydney.

Jim asked, what are you wearing?

Oh gosh Jim - don't be surprised! but I've got to put my nurses uniform on in an hour and go to work at the clinic....it's white nylon and it's so thin you can see right through it! but its still early morning here, and I'm putting off putting even that on.... its SO hot here in Spain, i'm just sitting here in my panties.....etc

I'd not thought about that day for years and then this morning I read Martin's spunky replies and VERY personal comments....and I thought you lot... you're all 'Jim in Sydney' to this guy and he's getting off on it!

all the best

big al whittle

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ron Davies
Date: 17 May 05 - 11:48 PM

I think we're all aware that nobody need either post to or read a given thread.

That said:


"Martin"---

You're absolutely right about credibility on Mudcat-- you just can't believe everything you read here, can you?

Now let's see--on Mudcat you've told us you live in a million-dollar house; you've given wonderful market advice (such as buying "mature" (read: rotting) stocks.....Walmart--to pick a purely theoretical example); you've just gotten a promotion and a raise; you can play uncounted numbers of instruments (and all at the same time, of course)---though you're obsessed with just one instrument, something called the "skin flute", whatever that is--but it must be your true virtuoso instrument.

You have a nice gig lined up; you're working on a new demo----and the list goes on.

I'm sure it's all absolutely true--- (even though it actually seems questionable that you can get along with people enough to even be in a group of any kind--your advice, that it's more important to play with people rather than compete, rings strangely hollow coming from you--I wonder why.)

Nonetheless I'm absolutely sure every bit of it is completely true.

And even if it isn't, it makes your life easier to accept. So that's good. We all want you to be happy.

But please, you really do need to go back on your thorazine (or whatever they have you on.)

And what did you say you got a medical discharge from the military for?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 10:59 AM

Ron Davies, yep most is totally true, except what you lie about.

So glad you love to take the time to analyze everything. I'm glad you find it so interesting.

On the other hand, your life and posts here totally bore me, except for the morbid curiousity that I have on your fixation for what I write here.

Maybe you are the one who needs medication for that condition.

I figure that you like to read colorful grafiti in the men's room also and then come out and pretend to be completely offended.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:28 PM

Much as I hate to say it, I think it's pretty likely that "Martin" is indeed a pretty fair picker. If he weren't a player, what the hell would he be doing here, among so many of us who disagree with him about just about everything outside of music?

According to my latest theory, the elite job and high income are more likely to be figments of his imagination than the intrumental prowess. There are loads of deluded low-to-middle-income Americans who toe the Republican/Neoconservative line because of their pathetic belief that they, somehow, are going to become one of the privileged few whose greed needs to be protected from taxes intended to serve the common good. MG shows all the earmarks of a member of these brainwashed masses.

He's probably not highly socialized, and probably spends a lot of time by himself polishing his instrumental technique (and perhaps polishing one of his intruments as well, ha ha, the much-maligned skin flute).

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 May 05 - 01:36 PM

we don't have to be socialised - we're musicians. martin has some interesting and colourful opinions, but then so did my dad, and he was wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:30 PM

but my dad was right.

get a good education and work hard.

So, when I tell you that I do work for a Fortune 100 company and make good money, I'll swear on his grave anytime for his fine guidance.

And yes, I can pick with anyone. guitar, banjo, bass, whichever is the most needed.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Steve-o
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:34 PM

"I will be in the studio tommorrow night working on a new demo and I have a nice gig lined up for next Saturday for a private function. Thanks for all of the attention. It's irrelevant to me." He sure does return to this thread a lot for a guy who's not interested, don't you think? I'm sure all the stuff about his demos and high-paying gigs is true though- we all know how much covers of Jimmy "Honeycomb" Rogers, Trini Lopez, and Vaughn Monroe songs are in demand.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST,Really?
Date: 18 May 05 - 02:54 PM

Now lounging in a bathtub can be an enjoyable experience at any time, but I wasn't aware that Martin Gibson's planning on taking his annual bath this coming Saturday qualified as a "nice gig lined up for next Saturday for a private function."

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 03:06 PM

steve-o

I come to this thread because it has my name in it, so please stop talking with your flapping rectum.

I never said my gigs were high paying. I said my day job was. But they do pay and when they don't they are still rewarding in other ways. As far as my new demo session I did in the studio last monday, it went excellent.

BTW, i don't do covers of those people you mentioned, but they all were very successful at what they did. You show what kind of pompous ass you are for ridiculing them.

for some reason, your immense arrogance and what is and what is not in demand is far from being impressive, steve-o buddy-o.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Steve-o
Date: 18 May 05 - 04:21 PM

I'm not so pompous and arrogant that I wouldn't buy your album when it comes out. Let us know when it does, Mr. Impressive- I'd love to hear your pickin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 04:23 PM

It's just a demo, to use for getting more gigs.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: GUEST,Fund raiser.
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:05 PM

Why don't you sell your demo here on the Cat?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Once Famous
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:21 PM

Maybe, but maybe not. It's a 4 song demo that represents what I do. I interpret various songs. The demo was made to give to club owners for that reason. when you start selling records, you are now involved with paying royalties to publishers.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Bobert
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:36 PM

'Cause if it were any good then whoever it was that he got to do it fir him might want royalties...

Meanwhile, if he was all that good, he'd show up at the Getaway and prove it...

No matter... The better half of the dueler's will be there...

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:37 PM

Oh, I didn't realize you intrepret songs. You mean, like this?

You are my f****** sunshine,
My only f******sunshine
You make me f******* happy
When skies are f****** grey
You'll never f******* know, you f******
How much I f****** love you
Pleae don't take the f****** sunshine away
You f*****

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: PoppaGator
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:40 PM

For Marty to give us a listen to his recording, he'd have to reveal his real-life identity. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen!

Of course, that's the same reason why he'll never show up to take up Bobert on his pickin' challenge, either. And I suppose that's OK ~ things just wouldn't be the same around here with a Martin Gibson who owned up to his parallel 3D existence.

I'm surprised at MG's silence in regard to my cage-rattling. Almost everyone else gets a response (insults, name-calling, whatever), but not me. Perhaps I'm hitting too close to home ~ ??

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: robomatic
Date: 18 May 05 - 05:46 PM

I have to say I've learned something from this thread.

There's probably more'n one born ever' minute.








______________________________________________________________
"My brudda would like to sing 'Some Enchanted Evening' and he wants ya t'play it in 5/4 time."

"But 'Some Enchanted Evening' is in 4/4 time."

"My brudda would like to sing 'Some Enchanted Evening' and he wants ya t'play it in 5/4 time."

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 05 - 06:03 PM

So, play it in 5/4, robo! It would no doubt be texturely interesting.

Seriously - a man I know is an excellent accordion player. I've never known anyone else that I would classify as such. It is not my favorite instrument.

Dale Wygant (he's also a clarinetist) plays a lot of different styles. He's part of a group that does jazz and cajun and swing and just about everything you can imagine. By himself, he does a lot of Eastern and mid-Eastern music. Once I was listenig to him play for an International Folk Dance revue.

At one point he said, Now this next one is a Hungarian tune and it has 11 beats to the measure.

I listened carefully and decided, OK, I guess I hear 11.

Then he said, And the one I'm going to do now is a Bulgarian tune and it has 13 beats to the measure. No problem - I'll just add two more.

I gave up.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: robomatic
Date: 18 May 05 - 06:27 PM

Ebbie:
YOU INSPIRED ME!

My real 'brudda' told me that joke which I only typed the first half of, inspired by your version of Martin's lyrics.

A lounge act is interrupted by a well dressed guy from 'joisey who looks like a thug, er excuse me, tug. he'd like his brudda to take the mike for a song but "play it in 5/4 time." Eventually the player figures out how to do this, the brudda takes the mike and belts out:



"SOME ENCHANTED F-----' EVENING!"

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 05 - 06:38 PM

hahahha Thanks for the unexpected, robo!

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert v. Martin Gibson Pickers Duel....
From: robomatic
Date: 18 May 05 - 07:14 PM

Anything for a fellow Alaskan m'dear ;-)