BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit

Subject: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 08:06 PM

My Rog and I were listening to Prairie Home Companion, this afternoon, when Garrison was waxing on about Leon Redbone and how one could try to imitate him: get a hat, gravelly voice, etc., be mysterious. Anyway, my Rog started joking about what could be offered in a Mudcat Musician's Kit: guitar, pick, pick guard(maybe), Mudcat t-shirt and badge...just think of the brand marketing this could entail. Soon, kids would want trainers/sneakers with Mudcat logos, etc. this could go big! And, think of all those "new" recruits to folkdom! **bg**

What would YOU put in a Mudcat Musician's Kit? Green Jello?

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 08:13 PM

a bodhran and a gross of ear plugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 08:40 PM

(Jeeze, Jack, that's a mere 72 songs. Surely the bodhran player would have been injured before that. Two dozen plugs ought to do it.)

Well, a necessity (that's a luxury I've got used to) would be a string winder/peg winder. They cost about three bucks and save a lot of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 08:45 PM

string winder/peg winder

and a power drill to wind it.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 09:01 PM

Well, my own sort of carry round with me "kit" is:

Small (one of those mains testing ones) screwdriver
Small electrical wire cutters
Capos (curved and flat)
Selection of flat picks
Strings
Tuner.

And always in the banjo case:
13mm Spanner
8mm Socket and handle

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Janie
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 09:24 PM

An exquisitely soft black leather jacket and a wonderfully dry sense of humor.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 09:30 PM

Small (one of those mains testing ones) screwdriver
Small electrical wire cutters
Capos (curved and flat)

I misread "capos" as "caps" and I thought you were going to add plastic explosive or something similar.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 09:32 PM

My musician's kit would have to contain a musician because I am not one!

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 09:45 PM

LOL, Rapparee. I can assure you the only "explosive device" I ever made consisted of a key, a piece of string and a nail. Used to put the red bits of the matches in the hole of the key, push the nail in and swing it against a wall. As kids, we used to call them "key bangers".

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 10:06 PM

What?! You need further instructions! Something like the book "Backyard Ballistics" as a primer.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 11:14 PM

Don't forget a 'Pub Prop' - the rubbery clamp that holds onto your guitar while you go back to the bar. Mitch would be lost without his.
See one here.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 11:30 PM

ChanteyLass, I almost named it "Mudcat Music Kit." If that accommodates you better, please add your Kit List! Of course, yer own musician is grand, too.*smile*

My Rog really larfed at the bodhran and ear plugs!

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 11:56 PM

Don't forget the Fielding-Cutler Banjo Mute!

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Clontarf83
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 02:16 AM

It used to be just a guitar. Then things got increasingly complicated...Now my checklist for a gig includes:

2 folding chairs
CDs to sell
Mikes, patch cords to plug into our compact sound system
Boom mike stand
Guitar stand
Music stand
Song lyrics and fiddle tune binder--used to remember all the lyrics and tunes--now I need prompters...
Clothes pegs--for outdoor gigs like street markets--to pin down pages of song binder from gusts of wind
Seed money for guitar case and change for CD purchasers
Replacement strings, kapos
oh--and a guitar

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 03:48 AM

Kit includes:

1 guitar
1 tenor guitar
1 mandolin
1 violin
1 tenor banjo (for playing for people I dislike)
1 foot rest

A blue shirt and khaki trousers with pockets in the legs for wallet, picks, mobile phone, tuner, capos, keys, etc.
Sandals in summer and brown brogues in winter
Dark pink jacket
A selection of hats - trilby, fedora, beret, cloth cap, straw hat, etc - essential for looking cool in all situations

A warm smile, a hearty handshake - and a kiss for the ladies

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 05:37 AM

A spare set of strings,
a string winder/cutter,
an electronic tuner,
about 12 sharksfin picks,
nail clippers/file,
pub prop (see above)
polishing cloth
2 capos
hip flask

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 06:27 AM

Wot no kazoo? Or washboard? *BG* Add a stick-on beard and a bald wig!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 07:03 AM

As John Mac's list above, plus -

"Sully's" hand-made leather strap.
Three or four thumb-picks (they get bust easy if you drop and tread on them.

and minus -

The sharksfin picks (but plus 10 or 12 Fender 351 medium gauge celluloid flatpicks).
The Pub-prop (too easy for clumsy numpties to play football with my guitar).
The hip-flask (teetotal nowadays).

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 07:32 AM

BEER !!

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 09:38 AM

...and the instrument straps would have to be Rick Fielding or Bill Sables originals.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 09:47 AM

Me for picks, Clayton Ultem 0.80, 1.0 and Jim Dunlop Nylon .73, .88. And once in a while I might use a Stubby 2.0.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 09:52 AM

Enough money to get back home....

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 12:30 PM

Condoms

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: olddude
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 12:37 PM

And a bottle of aspirin for all of the arthritis

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 06:05 PM

A towel. As per Douglas Adams.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: gnu
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 06:10 PM

Rap... "Enough money to get back home...."

Hahahahahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 06:39 PM

Rapparee, that reminds me of the penny loafers my sister used to wear. She kept dimes in them, so she'd always have a dime "to call home."

Love the suggestion of a fake beard and bald pate!

Based on Jean Ritchie's recommendation, I always have a dulcimer strummer made from the plastic lid of a margarine/cottage cheese container.

No capes, feathers in caps, or fancy pantaloons for "period" pieces?

Clothes pins will do in a pinch to mute a fiddle, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: olddude
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 07:59 PM

Probably one of the new fangled battery watches also instead of an old time pocket watch like I use. Then you won't be 2 hours early or late for your gig.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: PHJim
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 08:11 PM

olddude- I keep a bottle of Advil and tube of Voltaren in my case at all times.
Depending on the instrument, besides the things already mentioned:
Autoharp or hammered dulcimer - a tuning wrench and a paint brush (for dusting under the strings)
banjo - wrench for tightening head and a pair of socks (red) to stuff under the dowel stick or rods to mute the sound (I decided to avoid banjo jokes here)
bodhran - spray bottle for dry days, hair dryer for humid days. (I decided to avoid the bodhran jokes here)

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 09:36 PM

I'm sticking with my original idea. I might also bring ear plugs, though. Loud music hurts me eardrums. I'll make sure my musician plays at an acceptable volume but others who are louder might perform, too. Sometimes I think I'm the only person I know who hasn't blown out her eardrums listening to loud music.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: Crowhugger
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 11:18 PM

Oh you're not alone, ChanteyLass. I wear foam ear plugs at all amplified events. Sitting with my fingers in my ears is rude and makes it hard to eat and drink. If the volume is enough that I crave the big ugly yellow "headphone" protection on top of that, it's time to leave.

Subject: RE: BS: Just for Fun - Mudcat Musician's Kit
From: GUEST,mark-s(on the road)
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 09:48 PM

Shotgun (12 guage at least)
2 or 3 handguns
Gallon of gasoline
Road flares
6-12 sticks of dynamite

In case a banjo group shows up at the gig.

Give the above to Morris Dancers, salt the kit with fake Shatner identification, and,


Get out of Dodge!!!