Arrest warrant issued for Richard Bridge

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 03:17 PM

It is taken as fun, honest. Please keep contributing.
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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 04:15 AM

Did I mention "wig"? Perish the thought.

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,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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Tootler
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 06:12 PM

'Tis a far better thing ....