BS: mudcatters excluded

Subject: mudcatters excluded
From: kendall
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 09:48 PM

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are as dull as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Merchant of Venice

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 11:30 PM

Sure, Kendall, good quote, but the love of music is no guarantee against "treasons, strategems and spoils". I wish it were so. The world would be a lot better off!

And, whaddya mean, no Mudcatters in this BS thread?!!!**BG**

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 12:14 AM

Well, Kat, I agree that love of music is no guarantee that you aren't a scoundrel. But I do think that there's something essential absent in a heart that doesn't care the slightest about music. Even if you can't make music, at least to feel something for it or as a result of it at indicates a living, beating heart, instead of a lump of coal. I know a couple of the latter. Sad folks, the lot.

ww

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: paddymac
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 07:36 AM

Kendall - great quote. We can only hope it's true that mudcatters are truly excluded from such an un-fun group.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 08:53 AM

What I meant was, the love of music is what excludes us from that group, and, I believe that among our group, you will find fewer scoundrels than in the general population.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 09:17 AM

I would like to believe that one who is a maker of music or one who is an active listener cannot possibly be a Grinch. But the reality is that there are, indeed, Grinches among us. The trick is not in the wand; but in the magician. We all will, for as long as we walk this Earth, have the option of good or evil no matter what our musical bent may be.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Ringer
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 09:19 AM

And Vaughan Williams set it sublimely to music in "Serenade to Music". Go and listen.

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 11:03 PM

Kendall, I couldn't agree with you more. One of the reasons that I become almost evangelical (in an agnostic way) with my students who show an interest in tradish music, is that the many new doors that will open for them lead to the most interesting and caring "group" I know.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 Oct 99 - 02:54 AM

So Rick, how many of our members did you baptize, anyway? I know about Neo, of course (but the beer you poured on 'Spaw's head doesn't count)(the beer that FADAC spilled in my lap, however, is another story--but that's another story).

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Corwyn
Date: 26 Oct 99 - 01:12 PM

Then, of course, are those of us who are scoundrels BECAUSE of our love of music. For who cannot say in the silence of their soul that they have not wished to sway others with enchanting melody? Then there are those who are "insane" because of our love of music. Who has not heard: "What? No fame or fortune? Why do it then?" Ah, but isn't it wonderful to be an insane scoundrel?

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: WyoWoman
Date: 27 Oct 99 - 12:03 AM

"The trick is not in the wand; but in the magician..."

Oooh, Allan C., that's a wonderful quote. I'm printing that one out and putting it on my refrigerator/collage.

So twoo, so twoooo...

WW

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: paddymac
Date: 27 Oct 99 - 06:29 AM

WW - have you been into the wild mountain thyme again? :>)

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Oct 99 - 11:18 AM

About 6 seed. But I ain't dead yet!

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Oct 99 - 11:07 AM

Thyme and thyme again!

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Oct 99 - 11:19 AM

WW, "The trick is not in the wand; but in the magician..." was, as I understand it, coined by a man who was defending his shortcomings...

Subject: RE: BS: mudcatters excluded
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Oct 99 - 11:22 AM

Sort of like, "It's not how long you make it, it's how you make it long...?"