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Subject: How hooked are you? From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:36 PM In Banjo Bonnie's thread on beyond basic chords & picking technique Rick Fielding says "You gotta get hooked" in reference to learning an instrument. So how hooked are you on your instrument(s)? I shall begin as you do in all 12 Step societies by telling my own story. Hi, my name is Roger and I'm hooked on guitar. If I was allowed (and my finger tips could stand it), I think I would play guitar all the time. To give you all an idea how "sick" I am: I keep a travel guitar in my bathroom and during "sit down moments" I play it. I used to read, but not any more. I have my Mudcat Kay guitar right by my computer, so I can strum as I wait for down loads or read long articles on the net. I often "watch" TV and play guitar at the same time. Things I haven't done, yet (as they say in 12 step groups) are play my guitar while driving and keep a guitar at work (I need my job). Thanks for listening. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Max Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:43 PM I have 3 guitars, a banjo, a flute, a mandolin and a kazoo at home, next to my bed, my tv, my computer and my kitchen. I have another guitar and kazoo and harmonicas in every key at work (I own the damn place), oh and two mouth harps (who needs two mouth harps? See, I am sick). Never did it on the pot, but I sure sing in the shower. I made sure that there was a guitar at my cabin-in-the-woods in Northern Pennsylvania, as well as one at my parents house in Florida.
Oh, and because of my condition, I started this Web site called The Mudcat Cafe. That pretty much cinches it. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Little Neophyte Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:52 PM Roger, I am not hooked, but at the same time I do find you an inspiration. You remind me of the autobiography I read on Pete Seeger 'How Can I Keep From Singing'. I really admired Pete. The book talked a great deal about how he could not keep from practicing. I do understand the more I play, the better I will get. I feel I am committed to learning the banjo and to play my instrument gives me great pleasure. The music is an aspect of my life. If I were hooked, I guess music would be my life. I think eventually I will get where I want to go with the music but not as fast as someone who is hooked. I am coming to terms with this fact, and feeling more at peace with that reality. BB
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: JenEllen Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:53 PM Hi, my name is Elle, and I'm hooked on the song. Laughing still, Rog. (she says while drumming fingers on the desk and humming Mairzy Doats) When I was young, my grandpa used to hold me, dip my pacifier in his whiskey, and then in the sugar bowl, and sing me songs from his youth. Tossed in with a lot of "rings on 'er fingers an bells on 'er toes she will 'ave music wherever she goes"...how right he was. I was singing and playing before I could walk. First was the old piano in the hall, then the violin in school. On to mandolin and guitar. Dinking around with banjo, harmonica, kazoo, whatever will make a joyful noise. I hear a song, and have to figure out how it works, the instrument is just that, and instrument to bring the music to me. Drives the co-workers nuts because rarely is there a moment of silence. Something wriggles a song in my head, and she's off to the races. I think if you really want to help anyone here you're gonna need more than 12 steps....here's the final question for you Rog, the one that will determine if you need the fifty step program...Sure, there is no guitar in the car, but how often are you listening to the radio and your left hand makes compulsive chords? Sending lots of love, and plans for an escalator....Elle |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Date: 05 Jan 00 - 10:24 PM Does the voice count as an instrument? |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: pelrad Date: 05 Jan 00 - 10:44 PM I think the voice definitely counts as an instrument. And there's no hope for me; I would use my last breath in life to sing. Back in high school the choir director used to make me STOP singing during bus rides because he was sure I would wear out my voice before the actual concerts; I was still singing on the way home (the director's wife sat in front of me on an 8-hour bus ride and could not believe I didn't shut up the whole time!). When I went to All-Eastern chorus, I met 400 other people who wandered around singing to themselves 24 hours a day, who barely stopped singing long enough to chew their food, and I was glad to learn I was not the only one. It's a real drag when my allergies are bad or I have laryngitis; I still can't keep from singing. The only other instrument about which I've experienced a similar obsession was the bombarde; but eventually you run out of hiding places to practice in, or you have a baby and have to protect their little ears...sigh. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Rick Fielding Date: 05 Jan 00 - 10:58 PM I have been a hopeless addict since the age of 15. Because of this: I gave up all hope of earning a good living. The first time I got a personal letter from Pete Seeger complimenting on something, I cried! Honestly. I have NEVER ventured outside the house without my flatpicks and fingerpicks. If I have forgotten them, I don't worry because I have a spare set in a small pouch on my car Keys ring. When I am angry...I play. It makes me lose the anger almost instantly. (something that I wish would work for others) When I am sad...I play, and immediately feel SO lucky to have made SO many friends through music over the years. When I'm a little too happy, I practice the fiddle. It brings me back just enough. I am an addict...and it saved my life! I'd be a constantly neurotic, second guessing, attention seeking dork, without my banjo, guitars and mandolin. Rick |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: DonMeixner Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:04 PM Hi, My name is Don, and, uh , I'm a folksinger....... |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: _gargoyle Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:10 PM You are baiting me .... arn't you Max????
One of the few dyslexic words in the entire existing universe I do know how to spell....(from burro-wrangling-days)so you blow it, in a thread I will read.... on purpose, RIGHT???
cinch 1. a strong girth for a pack saddle 2. A tight grip also a sure easy thing...3. a variety of auction pitch inwhich a draw to improve the hand is added Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Fourth Dediton of the Mirriam Series, 1935.
I truly DO thank you, for all of the work you have done to make this place a reality!!! THANX
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Frank ofToledo Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:11 PM I have 2 six strings, 1 twelve string, 1 banjo, 1 mandolin, 1 Mountain Dulcimer, 1 Melodeon, and the biggest problem if ever encounter is which on to play at any given time. Like Rick when the goin's on the tough side anger or depression, give me thumbpick and a finger pick, leave me alone with the guitar and everything is centered instantly. We are fortunate people.... |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: MK Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:13 PM For me, it's akin to breathing. I keep 4 guitars in my house, (one always in whatever room I happen to be in, as well as an assortment of keyboards and synths and recording gear. Generally I practise 3-5 hours each day-- an hour as soon as I get up; another hour instead of taking lunch; an hour after work; and then when all in the household have to bed another hour or two. When my finger tips get worn from guitar, I switch over to keys.....and then later back to the guitar. The more I do it, the more I want to do it. It's like a hunger that gets hungrier the more I feed it. If I didn't have to earn a living, I'd play 8-10 hours a day. I don't consider any of it practising or work. It is truly the passion and life's blood that flows within me. It's as important to me as my eyesight, my hearing or any other ''sense''. I've always considered myself a musician first and foremost beyond anything else I do in my life. If I could not play and make music (something that I've been doing since a child) I wouldn't want to be here on this earth. It's really that simple for me. I'd say I qualify as ''an addict.'' 8^) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Bill D Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:16 PM curious...I am NOT hooked...I am a serious afficianado, and regular attendee at festivals, sings...etc..but I don't 'live' it like some of you..am I better off? no,,,I sort of wish I COULD, as my wife Ferrara says.."feel the fire in the belly"...maybe it's my Philosophy coming out..(Philosophy is an excuse to meddle in EVERYTHING)...and that is the story of my life, jack of all trades, Master of none...well, at least now I know where to find you all when I have the need..*smile* |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Rick Fielding Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:28 PM 'Course if I may add a tiny bit of thread creep. It's not my ONLY addiction. If I'm by myself I CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES eat a meal without reading. It just won't happen. I remember walking almost 5 miles trying to find an English newspaper in Paris before I could go into some little restaurant for lunch. I am a Total printaholic, but haven't read 2 novels in 10 years. It's all non fiction: history, politics, current news, music and sports. I am a sick puppy. Rick |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Bert Date: 06 Jan 00 - 11:39 AM I have a horrible vision here of Max playing his TWO mouth harps - on the pot - using 'one each end'. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Max Date: 06 Jan 00 - 11:43 AM Anyone want to borrow a mouth harp? |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Bill D Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:02 PM catspaw will play it,he has experience with that 'end' of things.... (oh, ONLY marsupial orfices? sorry 'spaw) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Mbo Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:33 PM Hello, my name is Mbo, and I'm an addict. I own a steel string acoustic guitar, three classical guitars, a violin, a recorder, a tinwhistle, a Highland Pipe practice chanter and a jawharp I can't play. I too, would be happy to play my guitar ALL THE TIME. While on the computer, I have my guitar leaning against the bed behind me, and my chanter against the printer. I also play while I watch TV, all TV, often to the chagrin of others... I don't keep a guitar in the bathroom, but I do sing in there, and in the shower--often very loud. The bathroom in my apartment has great acoustics... I have been known to say that I could listen to music 24 hours straight if there were no repeats, while other family members get tired after 45 minutes of music. I once had to live three days without my guitar. I don't really like to talk about the experience--I don't handle withdrawl very well. I am constantly rapping my fingers, stomping my feet, and slapping my knees is rhythm, also to the annoyance of others. I like being an addict. :{> --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Bert Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:40 PM Mbo, ...and a jawharp I can't play... Perhaps you're using the wrong end! |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Steve Latimer Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:53 PM I am a recovering Banjo player. I too played in the bathroom, practised rolls in the car, stayed up all night working on "Little Darlin', Pal of Mine", played at work, when I wasn't playing I was listening to Earl and Dr. Ralph, carried my picks everywhere. I soon realized that I was no longer welcome at social gatherings, friends stopped coming by the house, my family was always 'busy'. Through the grace of God I have been able to beat this, one day at a time. My life is much better now.
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Jon Freeman Date: 06 Jan 00 - 01:31 PM I am not hooked any more although I still enjoy music. Up until about 1987, I could had to be playing all the while but a lot of things happened and music lost it's sort of magical status with me. There have been times since then when I have felt as if I have started to get more of a hold of my life again but I don't allow it to happen, I consciously break from it instead. Jon |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Jeri Date: 06 Jan 00 - 01:34 PM I have a fiddle (primary instrument), banjos, a mountain (lap) dulcimer, a hammered dulcimer, mandolin, pennywhistles, recorders, an ocarina, a jaw harp I haven't seen for a while, kalimbas, harmonicas, bamboo flute, digerido, bones, what am I forgetting, and a voice. I've been known to play the whistle while driving. I don't get too upset if I can't get to an instrument for a while, since I usually have tunes running through my head. This used to drive me crazy, but I've learned to work with it. However, I can drive others up a wall when I persist in humming or whistling them. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: kendall Date: 06 Jan 00 - 01:44 PM I go for long periods without touching the guitar, but, then I hear a song, such as, THE HONOR OF YOUR COMPANY, and the fever hits me again. Rick, I also read while eating, and, in the bathroom.When there is nothing worth reading at hand, I grab store flyers.(to read, that is) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Ebbie Date: 06 Jan 00 - 03:21 PM Lovely subject! I have said that I will know I was rich when I can afford to have live music in my house at all times. Just imagine wandering down the hall to find someone playing- day and night. The kinds of music would vary. Ah, fantasy... |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: MMario Date: 06 Jan 00 - 03:43 PM How hooked? I had my tonsils out at the semi-adult age of 42. 2 days later, despite still being unable to swallow comfortably, OR talk normaly, I was singing. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Wesley S Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:01 PM Hi - My name is Wesley S and I'm a guitarholic - I came to believe that I was powerless over my guitars. And I admit - I have GAS { guitar acquisition syndrome }. My travel guitar is next to my bed, and our guest bedroom has 3 6-strings, 2 12-strings , 2 mandolins , 1 5-string banjo, a 4-string mountain dulcimer, a kalimba, a penny whistle that I don't have ANY clue how to play { but I just HAD to have it}, and { I'm so ashamed } an ARP Odessey synth from by dark distent past as a member of a { gasp } rock and roll band. I keep Mandolin Bros and Elderly cataloges in the bathroom at home and here at work I have another mandolin { my first - an Italian $50.00 cheapy } [ no offence intended to anyone of Italian descent ] I know I should get a sponsor but then I'd have to give up buying CD's ect. Should we talk about records?? I was forced a few years ago to sell about a third of my LP's. I had around 3,000 at the time. But they were just to cumbersome to move every year or so. I have to keep reminding my wife that I don't drink or take drugs { anymore }, or watch sports on TV, or play golf, or gamble, or want a fancy car { my 92 Toyota is just fine } , or go to topless bars and that the only woman I chase is her. I do dishes, cook and clean up after myself and leave the toilet seat down so whats the big deal if I get a Mandola??? Huh ???? Tell me !!!!!! I'm not obsessed - I'm not . I'm not. I'm not. I'm not I'm......... My names Wesley S and I'm a guitarholic. Thankyou for letting me share today. Keep coming back - it works.
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Mbo Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:17 PM Oooh Wesley don't be ashamed, the Oddesey is the synth they use in Styx's "Come Sail Away." Great song...great instrument... --Mbo (who forgot to mention his electric keyboard and kalimba) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Wesley S Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:28 PM Mbo - I'd rather do a forth AND fifth step than hear" Come Sail Away" by Styx ever again. No offence intended. Just one man's opinion. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Wesley S Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:47 PM I forgot to mention a story I just remembered. During my college days I did some running around with George Winston the piano player. Legend has it that one holiday - I think it was New Years Day - he played a "12 bar - 12 hour blues". All while watching football on TV. I don't know if the story is true or not, but if it isn't - it should be. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: JenEllen Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:54 PM MMario: Against better judgement, but professional curiosity abounds....Was is the Rockin' Pneumonia or the Boogie-Woogie Flu? Neither is treatable, mind you, you're more than likely a carrier that will have a chronic case for life...;) Elle |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: lamarca Date: 06 Jan 00 - 06:01 PM My name is Mary and I am a Vocal Addict and Literature Abuser. I was sent this sad description of Rick's and my affliction a couple months ago... LITERATURE ABUSE: AMERICA'S HIDDEN AFFLICTION Once a relatively rare disorder, Literature Abuse (or "readaholism") has risen to crisis levels due to the accessibility of higher education and increased college enrollment since the end of the Second World War. The number of literature abusers is currently at record levels.
CAUSES of PROBLEM READING: Most abusers have at least one parent who abused literature, often beginning at an early age and progressing into adulthood. Siblings of abusers are also likely to become literature abusers. Spouses of an abuser may themselves become problem readers. Other predisposing factors: parents who are English teachers, professors, or heavy fiction readers; parents who do not encourage children to play games, participate in healthy sports, or watch television.
SOCIAL COSTS of LITERARY ABUSE:
SELF-TEST FOR LITERATURE ABUSE
1. I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up. If you answered 'yes' to five or more of these questions, you may be a literature abuser. Affirmative responses to ten or more indicate a serious reading problem --seek help now!. Fifteen or more 'yes' responses indicate a severe or chronic "readaholic" personality; intervention is seldom effective at this stage. WARNING: "Reading Addiction" has been classified as "behavior with a significant voluntary component," as defined in the Beatty-Eisner Amendment. If you are declared a "known literature abuser," you will become INELIGIBLE for SSA disability payments and/or ADA protections. Your fate is likely to be a life of poverty and despair, drifting from one dead-end job to another, as you wallow shamelessly in the causes of your addiction. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Mbo Date: 06 Jan 00 - 06:12 PM Wesley, YOU KNEW GEORGE WINSTON?!! Wow...I LOVE George Winston, his music has influenced my guitar playing soooo much, and of course "Longing/Love" is one of my favorite pieces of music ever... --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: reeebop Date: 06 Jan 00 - 06:34 PM i guess you could call me hooked... for my last birthday, my partner gave me a guitar case backpac that has a little pouch in the front for the rest of my stuff....i keep it read to traval anywhere at anytime with only that and my jacket.... and whnen i'm not carrying my guitar backpac, i have a little tiny bag that has my favorite finger pics, a pitch pipe, a harmonica or two and anything else i might just happen to need should a stumble upon a guitar during the day.... now if i could only find a way to do the same with my piano..... |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Wesley S Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:30 PM Mbo - Have you ever seen George in concert? He's playing a lot of guitar nowadays. Mostly Hawaiian slack key style. Produces a lot of slack key CDs too. He's also been known to play irish and jewish songs on the harmonica in concert. He's come a long way from his Farfisa combo organ with a Leslie speaker playing the theme from 2001 in a Deland Florida coffee house. He's a music addict of the nicest kind. A kind and generous person unaffected and mystified by success. But again thats just my opinion. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Mbo Date: 07 Jan 00 - 03:06 PM Wes, your description of him makes me want to see him even more! His music is so...so...well mannered, and I imagined him very much like his music. It seems I was right. I see he's got some slack key stuff on his new CD which I'm going to get real soon...MAN! Jewish & Irish music on the harmonica? What could be better? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Wesley S Date: 07 Jan 00 - 04:04 PM Mbo - Are we hoging this thread?? Check out www.dancingcat.com for the exact info but George will be in the Carolinas { North Charleston , Greenville and Durham } from the 21st through the 27th of January. And FYI - he usually has a table in the lobby for a local food bank or similar group so bring some canned food. It will go to a good cause. And if George asks for requests, shout out something by Professor Longhair or "Last Date" by Floyd Cramer. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Kristi H Date: 08 Jan 00 - 01:43 AM Going back to Literary Abuse, I am an abuser. I thought I hit about 20 of 26, but I let my family read the post and they confirmed it. I have a little abuser in the making in my 5 year old and and am converting my partner. I never saw a description that hit me so on the head. Musically, I am a late bloomer, having only played only about 5 years, and getting hooked more every day. We get home from work, and the honey wants dinner, while I just want to play some tunes with him on the bass, while he punches out the melodies. It's a bit hard to be a devoted addict on a bass guitar, since I can't play the melody and no one knows what melody I am playing when I play the bass line. I am forever going, you know the song that goes like this, and their response is, well there only hundreds of tunes with those chord progressions. What's an addicted bass player to do? Kristi |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: pelrad Date: 08 Jan 00 - 02:12 AM Well, I'm doomed. 25/26 on that LA quiz. Add to that the fact that I cannot go ANYWHERE, not even from one room to another, without a "security book" in hand. I once read parts of Hamlet by the flashing lights while waiting for a cop to finish writing a ticket. I read an average of three books a day while pregnant (what the hell else is there to do on bed rest?), and my toddler son prefers reading to any other activity (17 months old and already pointing out letters; a future abuser!). A friend and I once got jobs at AT&T together, because we could be paid to read whole books on the late shift. How sad is that? How about the fact that if there is nothing new left to read in the house, I will read my entire collection over again and again? And I secretly love the times when I am home alone, because I can read while I eat! AAAAAHHHH! Where do I check into therapy? Pelrad - legally blind book addict with no apologies! |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: emily rain Date: 08 Jan 00 - 12:49 PM damn. i sing compulsively, but i wish i could get myself hooked on my instruments. my learning curve is fairly steep when i find a new toy, but once i'm able to make a pretty sound it seems like i lose interest... i usually plateau at a point just below mediocre. practicing feels like work to me; inspiration is rare. i haven't touched my harp since the last time i performed (early december), and now whenever i walk by it peers at me in silent resentment. for shame, i can't look it in the eye. the water is wide, i cannot cross... |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Dani Date: 09 Jan 00 - 12:47 PM Wesley, thanks for the tip! You're right - kind and generous hit the mark. The first time I heard George Winston live was when I was invited to man (woman?) the table for the local 'good cause' he contributed so generously to. Can't say enough good things about him, and glad to hear he'll be here again in a few weeks! Dani PS- he looks cute playing piano in his socks, too.
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: irishajo Date: 19 Apr 02 - 12:44 PM I've had my new guitar for almost a month, and I play about a half hour to an hour a day. I'd probably play more if my fingers didn't hurt. I broke the literary addiction years ago, about the time I got on the 'net. ('93?) Still working on the 'net addiction. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Jim Krause Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:33 PM Hi, My name is Jim and I'm a Music-holic. I played my first instrument when I was about 10 years old, a ukulele. Six years later I got a guitar. I still play guitar every chance I get. I finally hit bottom about 1990 and quit my job. I just couldn't be a janitor anymore and keep on playing music. I (blushing here) even wrote songs on compnay time. I never got caught, though. Oh, and I used to play piano on company time, too. Never got caught at that, though I'm sure my supervisor knew. Sometime about 1980 I started playing banjo. Then a year later fiddle. No one had the courage to tell me how sick I was. My wife, as it turns out was an enabler. She said she liked my music. I have two guitars now, an 18th century wire strung guittar, which is a sort of cittern, actually, two banjos, one of which is a fretless gourd banjo, two fiddles, a mandolin (oh, that's a sick, very sick story) a bass guitar that I haven't given back to its owner, two penny whistles, three recorders, a fife, and several harmonicas, and a kazoo. Here's how sick I've really become. Some years back, a group called The 97th Regimental String Band called up and said that their third member was quitting at the end of the year. "We know you sing, play fiddle, and banjo, but can you play mandolin, too?" Without batting an eyelash, I said "Sure." "Fine." they said. So we finished up the business end of the conversation, and I hung up the phone. I called a buddy of mine and I said "Quick, loan me your mandolin. I got six months to learn to play the thing." And you know what? It worked. I got the gig. I toured with the 97th for two years. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: pict Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:50 PM I alternate between about a dozen instruments every day interspersed with necessary bodily activities like eating,etc,and tending the animals with a few breaks on the internet. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: GUEST Date: 19 Apr 02 - 03:57 PM ahhhh... irish garlic - that explains why I can't entice you to answer your e-mails from me ;-) - what kind of guitar did you get? |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: irishajo Date: 19 Apr 02 - 04:11 PM GUEST: I got a Seagull. Will email soon, I promise! (As soon as I lose the numbness in my fingertips....) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Banjer Date: 20 Apr 02 - 03:23 AM Hi, my name is Banjer, and I am a wannabe musician... I have three guitars, none of which I play well, two banjos, a lap dulcimer and harmonicas in four keys. I will sometimes be found sitting in front of the computer trying to pluck out a tune on the banjo while the scren saver dances merrily. I used to be self concious of my voice and would not let others hear it. For the last several years at work I have evidently developed a subconcious 'I don't care attitude' because folks at work are constantly asking me what is the tune I'm humming to myself. I find that the humming or whistling does draw folks out. I had a customer several years ago tell me that he recognized the tune I was humming. He said his daddy, an old time fiddler, used to play it a lot when people would gather on their front porch. He remembered 'Rosin The Bow', which was my tune at the time and we had a great discussion about old time music. The customer, by the way is in his 60's and was able to recall not only his dad's playing but also his grand-dad as well. it made for an interesting chat! |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: GUEST Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:44 AM ....eagerly awaiting your letters Ms ajo .... like I said, I miss our conversations. We used to cover so much ground. In the meantime, you might want to check out the "Ever played a Seagull" thread, in case you haven't done so already .... try clicking here for the link ....but if that doesn't work, just peruse the list of current threads. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:53 AM Gargoyle: I don't think Max is baiting you. By "Cinched" he may be intending to create a suitable verb meaning "Done up tight"; (as in Cinch for a girth strap). But it was probably a typo for "clinched" |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 20 Apr 02 - 12:22 PM to the annon. post -- Yes! According to the Jazz and Blues musician that I know, the human voice counts as an instrument. They sight the examples of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme'. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: GUEST,Hilary, not logged in Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:20 PM Am I hooked ? I've kept the instruments confined to 3 rooms : lounge/kitchen/spare bedroom. BUT, I have to be be to listen to music in every room, so I have Hi-fis strategically placed all over the place. 4 cd players,one running speakers into the bathroom & 2 smaller radios in the attic/cellar. (plus player in the car & the walkman & the radio I take camping of course) A long long time ago, I was doing the usual teenage thing of staying out way past the official 'be home by ...' time, One night it was so late that my mother was wondering if I'd run away from home, but my sister pointed out that I'd NEVER have left without my records. Hilary |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Crane Driver Date: 20 Apr 02 - 07:06 PM Yeah - the grass is so long that the cat's using a periscope, but I'm learning a new song, so I'll cut it tomorrow - maybe. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: GUEST Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM It's good to have passions. Remember to keep it in a positive light. |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Amos Date: 21 Apr 02 - 05:53 AM Hi. My name is Amos and I am addicted to playing and singing, doodling on my guitar or my other guitar or my banjo or my...wait, that's not a musical instrument! :>) Sorry. I am also addicted to looking up and down the Mudcat threads, hoping to learn something new about a tune, or a new tune, or just listen to the laughter of folkies running through hyperspace. I don't see any way out of it, either! :>) A |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: JeZeBeL Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:06 PM Hi, I'm Emma and I'm a musicaholic.....this is starting to sound like an AA meeting!! I first played an instrument at the age of 4....the penny whistle.....when my dad insisted I learnt Dubliner's songs on it.....so I soon ran away from that. At the age of 7 i started recorder at primary school, which was ok.....it was easy and it got me reading music. At age 9 I started to play the trumpet and this became the main focus of my life up until the age of 18. I used to be in orchestras and bands and I would go all over england with them playing concerts and I even went to Denmark and france with a couple of bands. I drifted away from this when i went to uni though, but play again now. At the age of 14 I started learning guitar...and at 15 I got an electric guitar and amp for christmas...I no longer play these instruments as I have forgotten my chords. While at university I got dragged into a rapper team and thought about how much I liked the music...so I started on the Bodhran. I now play a seamus o'kane and it is my life....i feel lost if I do not play it at least once a day.....and it's so beautiful.....you can get scales out of it and play tunes on the thing!! I'll put CD's on just so I can drum along.....I have RSI in my wrist and arm and shoulder from playing and at the beginning of festival season my doctor told me not to play for 4 months......he nearly ended up neading a trip to hospital for treatment himself after saying that!! So, as you can see, I am hooked on the bodhran. About 1 1/2 years ago I started playing the penny whistle.....and I love it. I have about 5/6 all in different keys....but I don't love playing them as much as I love playing my bodhran.....yes I know I'm sad!! Told ya I was a nutcase!! Guess that's how I found all these wierd people and ended up on the cat!! I also own a djembi...which I love to play if I'm angry or down as it's so loud and I can relieve all my tension with it. It doesn't venture out into public too often though. I also have an accorion which I tarted playing in august last year.....and i love playing that, and I've also got an amazing accordionist as a teacher (Sam Pirt), so what more could I want! then, my housemate catsPHiddle invested in a flute and I love playing that.....I play it more than she does!! I have also been known to dabble in such instruments as cornet, flugel horn, piano, pipe and tabor and I'm quite partial to playing my friends electric chanter!! I also play the tambourine and the shaky egg!! Do I qualify as hooked???? Jez xxxx ;) *bg* |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: C-flat Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:47 PM I have played guitar for 30 years and have instruments all round the house. This has been an occasional source of friction with my long suffering partner who also puts up with my incessant "doodling" on guitar. I may be watching T.V. and hear something in the soundtrack or on an advertisment that makes my ears prick up and I'm off "doodling" again. I play every day unless I'm away from home and have been known to drag my family around while on holiday in search of a guitar shop so I can get a fix! |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:48 PM It all started innocently enough. My Dad brought home a couple of Kingston Trio records.That kept me quite happy for several years. Everything probably would have been fine; I would have grown up a happy, normal human , but it was not to be. It all came crashing down when Mom went out and bought an album by *gasp* Peter, Paul and Mary!! Suddenly, too much was never enough. I had to have MORE -- Dylan,Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds.It wasn't long before I had to start seeking out the harder stuff -- Pete Seeger, Frank Proffit, PHIL OCHS!!! But the moment I knew that it was all over; that my soul was irretrievable was when I STARTED WRITING MY OWN SONGS!!!!! STOP ME BEFORE I YODEL AGAIN!!!!! :>)) |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:07 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: How hooked are you? From: Ebbie Date: 20 Sep 08 - 12:52 PM Here is a fun thread- no matter what the political situation is 'out there', in here we have music... (I miss Rick) |
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