Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge

Subject: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:00 PM

The Folk Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Richard Bridge, who, while proceeding in a variable direction in Markbeech, Kent, England, is alleged to have sung a Bob Dylan Song and a Who song; also using the riff from "Route 66" as a sound-check - AT A FOLK ALE - as well as having used rhythms so as to cause the spontaneous outbreak of dancing on "Famous Flower of Serving Men", and "Ramble Away"; and "rocking" (whatever that is) "Gentlemen of High Renown".

Further charges include speaking favourably of an Eric Kaz (contemporary American) song, failing properly to attribute "Coalhouse Door" and barracking well known comedy singers.

Allegations that he spoke of "Watercress-Oh" (Roger Watson) as a folk song were dismissed.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:06 PM

Lock him up and throw away the key!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Folknacious
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:07 PM

Sorry, you can't get arrested.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:15 PM

Have you seen this man?

Richard Bridge gushed and admitted to gushing on the Blatant Publicity for Pig's Ear thread.

You heard it here. Go read it if you don't believe.

Maybe this is a clone Bridge. Maybe the real Bridge was abducted by aliens.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:18 PM

lol
is there a reward for his capture ?

LOL

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:18 PM

I thought the original Bridge had been dismantled and re-assembled in Arizona as a tourist attraction.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,synbyn
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:21 PM

Are z-cars looking for him? or just the lynch mob....?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Wesley S
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:36 PM

Richard - All of this could be cleared up if you could just let everyone know - "What is a folk song"?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 03:50 PM

Ha ha ha! Wesley fell into the trap.

Oh? This thread is not just another "1954 definition of folk" thread, cleverly disguised is it?

RB- say it isn't so. Say you are introducing Outlaw folk. In the way Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and others made Outlaw country.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: open mike
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:04 PM

info on the arizona bridge
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:15 PM

This could be a re-run of a trick used in a John Le Carre novel in which a spy appears to go public. Lots of others then pop out of the woodwork thinking it's safe.

So those above who have come out for Richard should watch out. The Folk Police will be feeling collars and checking song lists.

L in C

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:17 PM

a John Le Carre novel is far more interesting

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:19 PM

Ewww... and there was be about to come out about being an Englishwoman singing The Great Silkie out in public!
Of course it's never actually really happened, so I've got nothing to feel anxious about...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:23 PM

A spokesperson for the Folk Police said tonight

"We also heard he was considering playing songs brought to public attention or written by the Rolling Stones, Bad Company, the Spencer Davis Group, and Jefferson Airplane, in which case we would have pressed for the maximum penalties. The public need to be protected against enjoying themselves. It inevitably leads to hard drugs and the breakdown of society."

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:23 PM

Perhaps I ought to stop doing my English Country Blues Band stuff then !!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:26 PM

hanging's too good for him...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:31 PM

Don't fall for it he is an agent provocateur. You will all be rounded up and made to sing Pleasant and Delightful, without ale until you drop

L in C

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:43 PM

As long as I can sing the 'Wrong' last lines all the way through - -

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:43 PM

With gestures

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:44 PM

Ahmmm   I also heard he was doing Elvis impersonations!!
don't tell anyone .. or the FBI will be there quick

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:49 PM

Well, bless my soul, what's wrong with me?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:49 PM

Richard... get yourself a good lawyer...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Neil D
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 04:54 PM

And remember anyone who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Mick Woods
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 05:01 PM

I witnessed the accused singing "Who Am I", a Country Joe McDonald (USA) song in the Kentish Horse on the evening of Saturday 30th May 2009 and the following day enthusing about how good a certain "Rock" band, playing in the festival Marquee were!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Rafflesbear
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 05:22 PM

I thought the folk police were only interested in singers going too fast

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 05:38 PM

Hey, Richard...wanna become the folk version of Bonnie and Clyde? ;0)
The Two Most Wanted by the Folk Police

But, I've heard tell it's Kate Rusby's mum they're looking for I've also heard she's probably gone into hiding...

You sang....a...WHO...song?

Richard, I am sooooo impressed! :0)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 05:43 PM

AHA! It's obvious now you know.

Bridge > Suspender.

This man is really Shane McPorridge aka Sinister Sporran in disguise.

The public are advised not to approach; he is armed and dangerous.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 05:58 PM

Did you see his movie A Bridge too far, or his new book the a-bridged version of Folk

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 06:09 PM

I'd comment on this, but it might come out that I recently sang "Dead Flowers" at an old time jam, and I'd be finished if that ever became public knowledge.

Charles

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Tootler
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 06:12 PM

'Tis a far better thing ....

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Folknacious
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 06:24 PM

Checks diary. It's OK, it's still 1953. It's not all over now.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: bobad
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 07:32 PM

♪♫ I fought the law and the law won.....♪♫

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 08:24 PM

" wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours" ?
Or
" people try to put me down,
At the Pig's ear singaround"

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 08:35 PM

As long as they dont find out that I was singing Spider John Koerner AND Tom Lehrer the other night

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Lock and Key
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:12 AM

I don't really see how the folk police could even know that those songs he sang in his car were not American folk songs. Some police you have there.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:43 AM

A NOT very folk rendering of Muddy Water by Mr. Bridge?

This was in March 2009. So the problem has been going on for a few months now.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:56 AM

Is that a false beard? There might be a clean-chinned version running around somewhere...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Will Fly near Brighton beach
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:56 AM

Last post was me...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:12 AM

That's the OTHER country song I do. Joe Babcock wrote it. There is a short version recorded by the Grateful Dead as well as many others eg Elvis the Pelvis...

It is not a false beard, and it is not a wig.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:15 AM

Did I mention "wig"? Perish the thought.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Will Fly, near Brighton beach
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:17 AM

Still near the beach. Don't know if I can stand much more of this sunshine, sand, shimmering sunlight, warm breezes, etc. with the prospect of being mugged by a folk singer on the "Wanted" list.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:47 AM

If you ask me this warrant has not come too early! I was there at the 'offending' performance and can confirm that some high grade heckling was going on. My pacemaker had its work cut out I can tell you. I had to go outside at the end of the performance and top up my vitamin D levels in the sun :o)
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 05:10 AM

Will he be forgiven if he pays the money back and sings "Bridge over Troubled Waters" ?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Captain Jack Sparrow
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 05:36 AM

If Richard sings a Show of Hands song, the Folk Rozzers will detain him, although avasting the fRoots galleon the other day, I heard their singing Galway Farmer, probably from the Bert Loyd transcript.

Funny ol' world, innit?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:40 AM

And I always thought Richard was the Folk Police Commissionaire...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,T D L
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:57 AM

We think that should read Folk Police Commissar! We witnessed many of these crimes against the 1954 definition, they include willfully tuning a twelve string with due care and attention, smiling during his performance, and ending his open mic spot with "Substitute", though he tried hard to disguise it.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 08:38 AM

A certain folkie fellow from Kent
Once to a rock concert he went
This chap (Richard Bridge)
Played "Ride On" on a didge!
But his Martin started many a lament.


Is there a Bounty on his head - or does the coconut get stuck under his plate?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: naughtyforty
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 08:57 AM

There is photograpic evidence of Mr Bridge smiling here:-

Smiling Mr Bridge

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 09:00 AM

And sticking to the slot length, and doing the core of Famous Flower in 4 minutes 30 seconds...

There is a rumour that next year I plan to get Patrick Spens down to under 5 minutes... (and do that Jefferson Airplane song, and maybe one by Love as well)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 09:11 AM

naughtyforty

There is photograpic evidence of Mr Bridge smiling here:-

Smiling Mr Bridge

MY GOD! The man has a Pewter Tankard! We should have been warned.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 09:48 AM

He's not smiling. He's just incredibly pissed!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 09:55 AM

By the way, am I right to assume that all previous comments on this thread are based on the 1954 definition of Mr. Bridge?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 11:25 AM

Ah - naughty40, to be fair to me the photographer had me pulling different faces for 5 minutes while he got the shot he wanted. He wanted me simultaneously (a) looking at the camera (b) looking as if I were about to drink my pint (which at that time was in fact orange squash) (c) pursing my lips as if about to pull at my pint and (d) smiling. You try doing all those at once - and looking natural after 5 minutes of it.


I look forward with interest, however, to reading the 1954 definition of me since I am September 1948 model (well, that was when I rolled off the production line, so maybe manufacture (or womanufacture) started just in 1947). 1954 was the year we came back from Australia (through Suez, not round the horn).

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 12:41 PM

From another thread -

Richard Bridge

Oh, and in case any other dimshits have not got it the point of my "arrest warrant" thread is to demonstrate that knowing the difference between folk music and other types does not prevent enjoyment of the other types, nor does it inhibit the folk process.

I was beginning to wonder.

Has anyone ever made such claims? Sounds just as daft as Lizzie's rantings about peasants and professors.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 12:48 PM

Oh, and in case any other dimshits have not got it the point of my "arrest warrant" thread is to demonstrate that knowing the difference between folk music and other types does not prevent enjoyment of the other types, nor does it inhibit the folk process.


Indeed not - pedantry in all things however so benign the eclecticism. It's no less than we've come to expect.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 12:57 PM

Real beard, real hair, real tankard, and a real midfriff much contributed to by real ale.

In 1954, Mr. Bridge upon returning to the UK, landed himself in care. Unfortunately the only household able to cope with his Ozzie ways was Gram and Pappy Trad. Their home was a bit over crowded with dancers and musos that society just did not want. Misfits.

After a number of years hard graft in the Morris Dance Mill, the still young Mr. Bridge experienced a foray into the dark seamy underworld of rock and roll, much to his foster family's dismay.

Fortunately, due to the love of his foster family, the good work of the social care system and a really scary "unbrainwasher" called Bubba, Mr. Bridge came to his good sense and returned to his roots. He flourished for some time in the tradition.

Sadly age and dementia seem to be taking their toll, as Mr. Bridge is experiencing backsliding and a regression to youthful bad habits.

Let us all form a song circle around Richard, that he may be called back in the folk fold.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:07 PM

There - you see. Guilty as charged!! Not EVEN 'Round the Horn' but via Suez. And you should be 'bound for South Australia' rather than leaving. And as for smiling *&$£&***, whatever next? And no finger in ear either. The pewter pot doesn't fool me you know.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:13 PM

Wait a minute.

Comes from Australia, claims to be an authority on what is and isn't folk music.

Not only is he Insane Jockstrap, he's WalkAboutsVerse as well!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:26 PM

I take it you're not a big fan of RB then Snail?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:34 PM

I saw him eating Escargot a few weeks back. No wonder TheSnail has a problem - they were relatives!
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:44 PM

Sorry. All intended in fun. This thread did start off with a rather silly premise.

My only contribution that was intended to be taken mildly seriously was my response to Richard's "dimshits" remark. He seems to be attacking a straw man.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:17 PM

It is taken as fun, honest. Please keep contributing.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:50 PM

Not only is he Insane Jockstrap, he's WalkAboutsVerse as well!

The Sycophantic Mollusc slimes past again! Don't you just love Mudcat during a heatwave?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:54 PM

Don't go there - stop it now!!!!!
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:26 PM

(CHORUS)
Hang down your head, Mister R Bridge
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down you head, Mister R Bridge
For boy, you're goin' to die.

'Way over there in England
There he made Folk a wreck
Played them a piece by Dylan,
The Who, and "Route 66" for a check.

(Chorus, if you can't figure it out for yourself)

Folking Police done caught him
Now he's marking time
Tomorrow he'll be drawn and quartered
Around a quarter of nine.

(Sing the Chorus until you're sick of it)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:37 PM

"Not only is he Insane Jockstrap, he's WalkAboutsVerse as well!"

take deeps breaths, slowly, in out, in out.....now I need a cup of tea.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:47 PM

Another man done gone
He sings another song
Another man done gone
His folking days now done
Another man done gone

I didn't know his game
Folk by another name
I didn't know his game
It's just a crying shame
I just can't play this game

Say so long to the chain
1954 defamed
Say so long to the chain
Now trad is on the wane
Say so long to the chain

Another song done gone
And Bridge has done us wrong
Another song done gone
From the roots tradition
Another man done gone

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 05:07 PM

In the year '54 '54,
With Winston at the door,
And Eden, waiting for,
His chance to take the floor.

That's the year, oh yes indeed,
Some academic saw a need,
To up and plant a lasting seed,
And give us all a rote, a creed.

A definition, that to most,
May just as well be writ on toast,
So that all may stand and boast,
We are the ones that know the most.



A thought in progress - John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:03 PM

I went to Australia in '51. Also through Suez.

Love the songs (apart from the tenet of yours, John - is it supposed to resemble Zager and Evans 2525?).

Snail, many many many people (particularly horse definitioners) here seem to think (or at least say) that I somehow disapprove of non-54-folk   music or that I think people should only sing '54 songs, or that I say that '54 songs should only be sung in the manners in which they were originally (whatever that means) were sung. Of course I don't and the '54 definition with reasonable specificity allows for the folk process (ie change in the songs) and evolution of the styles of songs.

I hope I have laid that ghost, and may the japing continue.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:48 PM

He's a man you don't (wanna) meet evry day.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 08:46 PM

Richard Bridge

Snail, many many many people (particularly horse definitioners) here seem to think (or at least say) that I somehow disapprove of non-54-folk   music or that I think people should only sing '54 songs, or that I say that '54 songs should only be sung in the manners in which they were originally (whatever that means) were sung. Of course I don't and the '54 definition with reasonable specificity allows for the folk process (ie change in the songs) and evolution of the styles of songs.

I must say that I have never noticed anything like that and I spend more time on here than is good for me. I would have thought that it is perfectly obvious that you hold the 1954 definition in respect and place great value on the music that it seeks to define (as do I) but that you are also enthusiastic about other styles (as am I, but not necessarily the same styles).

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 09:14 PM

Well, they handed him his orders in Oxford, England,
Sayin', "Richard stay way behind the times.
This is not 2009, it is Nineteen Fifty-Four
You must never sing after that time."

Well, the artist he said to his greasy old soundman
"Shovel in a little more roll,
And when we cross that Dylan singin'
You can hear my Martin roll."

It's a mighty hard way from "Lord Randall" to Led Zeppelin
Like road with a ten-mile grade
It was on that grade that the folk police caught him
When they saw what a jump he made.

Now listen all you Folkers, you must all take a warning
From this story a lesson learn
Never play nothin' that would raise the FP's suspicions
They may take you and you'll never return.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 03:26 AM

You got it Richard - May the farce be with you :o)
John

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 03:54 AM

Ah, thank you Snail. I feel sure that others have laid the charges that I mentioned against me in various "what is folk" threads. But I'm not going to go over them all to check!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 04:25 AM

Hmmmm... I still maintain anything sung by an inveterate folkie like Richard Bridge is Folk regardless of musical type (or even personal hype) and certainly nothing I saw in the YouTube video persuaded me otherwise. This is what Folk Music has become; in every Designated Folk Context there'll be someone like Richard, self-consciously doing their bit for eclecticism wholly innocent of the fact that whatever old bollocks they're singing fits the 1954 Definition like a glove. I feel sure an ethnomusicological study of the phenomenon that is Richard Bridge would only serve to confirm this.

So maybe it's time to replace the horse definition with The Bridge Definition: if Richard sings it, it is folk.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: romany man
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 04:30 AM

never mind rb, just dont mention the electric mando and stuff, you can always run away, i will sell ya a good orse an vardo, they will never find ya

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: fisheye
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 04:47 AM

Perhaps I could arrange a personal interview with this Mr.Bridge, then without drastic cutting it could be shown on You Tube for the world to see the real man (i believe he does fit this gender somewhere). As a Folk Singer he does fit this description perhaps a little biased, as a solicitor his advice (free) in the past has been useful,as a beer drinker he can hold his own. As a friend I am proud to add him.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: The Barden of England
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 05:02 AM

as a beer drinker he can hold his own

He certainly ain't holding mine, the f**k police would have another charge :-)
John Barden

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 05:12 AM

John, I would never interfere with your beer: a man could lose his hand for less!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 12:54 PM

I think the definition of a "folk song" is that it is sung by a folkie.
Richard is a Mudcat member - ergo he is a folkie, and is therefore entitled to sing whatever he likes.
Wether WE like it or not is our problem :-)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 01:18 PM

Dead Horse?

Errr...


Go!


Please.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:42 AM

I do. Frequently.
But I keep taking the tablets......

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:45 AM

No doubt what the tablets are for...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 10:39 AM

I think the definition of a "folk song" is that it is sung by a folkie.

Whilst it might not be the definition, it certainly counts for something with regard to a more pragmatic, or even folkloric, understanding of the phenomenon post-1954. As I said above somewhere, if Richard sings it, it must be folk...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 08:51 PM

"...the phenomenon post..."
I missed that one. What thread was it in?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:09 AM

This is boringly obvious but, the definition of a folkie is...?

Bryan Creer

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:15 AM

Someone who sings (&/or otherwise enthuses about) folk songs...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:17 AM

'"...the phenomenon post..."
I missed that one. What thread was it in?'

It's a gaily painted piece of wood, approximately 5 feet high. And when you walk past it, you are taken aback by its appearance and you say "Blimey!".

An alternative version, often used by those of exceptionally low intelligence, is the "phenomenon plank".

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:23 AM

It is, of course, a folk-art...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:26 AM

I'm still worried about the beard proliferation. The Kent area is getting very hairy these days. Seeing Richard Bridge on YouTube was one thing, and then bugger me if Dead Horse hasn't grown a chin thatch since before Christmas. Gave me quite a shock last week. The Folk Police had better arm themselves with Gillette Mach 3s.

We have licences for such things in Sussex - beards, I mean, not Mach 3s.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:34 AM

And the definition of a folk song is...?

Bryan Creer

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:44 AM

Come off it Will. When I saw the video of Richard I thought, for a moment, it was you.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 06:51 AM

Mine's a licensed beard - and actually quite trim and modest at the moment - without the magnificence of Richard's growth. Anyway it was the Dead Horse beard that startled me the most - a most exotic and luxuriant variation. I can't compete with these two.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:01 AM

I don't think I'm acquainted with Mr Horse (or his beard). Does he sing?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:09 AM

He's a lean, mean Cajun man living on jumbo gumbo and wild turkey down in Kent. And he owns a very fine Cajun accordion which I've been wrestling with, until last week, for some months.

However, getting back to beards in general, would you say Richard's is a Folk Beard according to the 1954 Definition?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:49 AM

The difference is obvious. Will's beard can play the guitar. Mine can't. Don't even sound same. Simples.

My beard however is of a type adopted into the community and adapted by it (compare Brian Blessed) and I have been wearing it since 1965 - the height of the revival, so plainly it is a folk beard.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 07:51 AM

PS, Mr Horse, of course (of course) disproves the Horse definition. After him you can say that you have heard a horse sing. Therefore not all songs are folk songs.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:07 AM

Beards. Oral transmission. Not sure that I want to think about that.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 05:24 AM

snork! Gotta love the beard envy thing goin on here.

Harness your hirsute happiness

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 06:19 AM

Ye gods - a plaited beard! I see from the web page that the US is now the world's beard superpower in these championships. There's certainly some stiff competition...

I prefer mine short these days - got a very expensive beard trimmer for Christmas - and I go once over all round the face on setting no. 7, once a fortnight. I could give Richard and Ken a run for their money if I tried, but mine would hold too much soup and biscuit crumbs. Still, keeping it short is better than shaving legs, I suppose. As for waxing - SHUDDER!

Beards look good on "wanted" posters, though...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 06:21 AM

That really is quite terrifying. I couldn't face watching the video. I suppose, until this year, it was the best thing about Norway. Not that this year's Eurovision winner was good.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

Yah Will. You know how it is with us Americans. If we can't be better we shore as shit can be bigger (and thicker - read dumber).

Not speaking from personal experience (yet). Just hit 51 in April, and waiting to see if the hormones will start confusing the hair growing locations. No chin fur yet, but my eyesight is pretty bad.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:17 PM

Never mind the hairy bits - its the phenomenon that intrigues me.
I guess melodeonboy, or more to the point, his shirts, must fall into that category, given his definition = "It's a gaily painted piece of wood, approximately 5 feet high. And when you walk past it, you are taken aback by its appearance and you say "Blimey!".
So, a gaily painted shirt, of approximately 50 decibels loudness, that makes you go "Blimey" as it passes within vision - just before you go blind yourself as a result.
Gefinately not a "folk shirt" as there is no place for the mandatory slogan i.e. DYLAN ROCKS, LES BARKER FOR PRESIDENT, RICHARD IS INNOCENT, etc.
Besides, I got this dimple in my chin which is a bugger to shave without taking off the odd bit of skin, so I lets it grow.
It has now been trimmed somewhat, but as it continues to grow, will soon be back to its grewsome fulness.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:19 PM

And no, I dont sing,
I perform shanties, or murder ballads !
I often murder ballads.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Girl Friday
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:45 PM

Tam- if you have no hairs on your chinny-chin yet, it won't be long. I remember my mum pulling whiskers from mine- and she's been dead ten years. Mind you- I started early! It's always the eyes that go first. Not surprising when you consider that we use them constantly when awake.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:07 AM

Is this aBridged version?

Does he have arch enemies?

Would he be annoyed or cross that bridge?

(to quoin a phrase)

If he was merely suspended would that be a suspension bri........

I already have my coat and walking...................

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

Errr.

Last time I saw Richard he was attached to twelve strings. Or was it that there were twelve strings attached to him?

He might be a puppet for someone and therefore someone else is pulling the strings.

Chas

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 09:17 AM

If I correctly identify the occasion, Fidjit, that was at Miskin, so the 12 strings in question were on a Bjarton BJ-12E, which now lives in Canada.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:56 AM

Gone to a better place. :-)

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:09 PM

Apart from winter, bears, caribou on the roads, Franglais, etc...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:36 PM

Errr.

Actually at Broadstairs a year later I think, but I'm glad you remember as I do, Miskin. All together now. Aaaah, Miskin!

The point was about the other end of the strings !

Chas (wiping away a tear).

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: fisheye
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:41 AM

I left my beard and long hair in my american truck when i came home. I thought it was not British.   Bloody stupid in hind site, to compensate i acquired a bottle of Aramis and the women have been chasing me ever since. does not help with the guitar or banjo playing, so i am reverting back slowly.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Girl Friday
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:55 AM

Are you sure that wasn't Hai Karate Richard?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:58 AM

What doesn't help with the playing? Is it Aramis, women or lack of long hair and beard? Or all three?!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:31 AM

Lynx supercharges your maraccas...

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:34 AM

Stynx.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Pigstrings
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:54 PM

Still trying to figure out...

a) if a folk song is a song sung by a folkie and
b) a folkie is someone who sings folk songs
c) where does this leave female folksingers (with/without beard) who aren't Richard Bridge? Or people called Dave? Or male folksingers (with/without beards) who transform themselves into rock musicians when they reach a Dangerous Age (the old skyflynts)?

Well, I'm not grassing them up. I refuse to answer all questions from the Folk Police unless they can be answered "mine's a pint"

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,pigstrings
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:56 PM

PS - don't tell 'em your name Richard!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:32 AM

I'm glad you brought up names...

Keep a wary eye out.

I gather that someone variously calling himself "Richard Bridge" or "Hoff Bridge" is posting messages of support for the BNP at digg and sending abusive messages to members of the "folk against fascism" facebook group.

"Hoff" is short for "Hoffmeister".

There are only a very few places where I have used or been referred to by both names - and the 'cat is one of them.

But "Hoff Bridge" isn't me (as is neither that other Richard Bridge).

You may want to keep a wary eye on Daily Mail Reader - I suspect that he or his cronies are the guilty parties.

Tells you quite a lot about the BNP, really, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: fisheye
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

You can always tell a BNP song...........Banjo's Not Playing.... it lacks that complete sound of the twiddle bits in the middle, mandolin's try to perform but they run out of steam.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Kev The Clogs
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 07:17 AM

Never mind all of that - I have photographic evidence of Mr Bridge drinking Pepsi Max from a bottle whilst at a folk event!!!

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: melodeonboy
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 07:54 AM

Appalling! Has the man no shame?

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 08:40 AM

Kev. You should publish and Richard be damned. Let's look at the evidence.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 08:42 AM

Surely that must be one of the other "Richard Bridge" or "Hoff Bridge" characters.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: GUEST,Girl Friday
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 09:58 AM

I found a Richard Bridge playing a didgeridoo. There is a club for such people in Maidenhead.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 10:03 AM

But I think he is from somewhere near Torquay.

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Jun 09 - 12:50 PM

Hangman hang man slack a rope
Slack it, can't you see?
That imposter making crime against folk
I swear it wasn't me.


Note very clever spelling play on "impostor"

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 05:25 AM

i liked the muddy water clip

Subject: RE: Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 08:30 AM

Someone in Britain has heard of Erasmus Hall High School's own Eric Kaz? Wow.