New to Mudcat/indroducing myself

Subject: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:35 PM

Hello all!

I'm glad I happened upon this site. Not only is a well-functioning place, there seems to be a lot of good folks here.

I'm very much into the idea of expressing oneself - art - through songs. My idea of folk music is adapting a song or writing a song that expresses one's current situation. What I like in recorded or performed music is "getting underneath" a song -- true expression or understanding of the music and lyrics.

One favorite quote of mine is that Leadbelly said he play blues to "get out of them", to feel better. This seems right to me, to...not to be confused with the "getting underneath" business, which is more about an ability to propel the message.

A current favorite of mine is Jesse Fuller, beyond San Franscico Bay Blues, which many have heard of. There's a recording of him playing his 12-string and homemade fotdella made at Good Time Jazz in LA, 1963. It's call SFB Blues. Anyone checked it out?

I play guitar, learn others songs, and write some. I rather fond of early rock, too, like C Berry and B Holly, and the covers that the Beatles did. I hope I don't offend any purists by saying I really think Dylan did/does the folk thing right.

Anyway, blah-blah-blah on me. Thanks for being around and making this a good site. I don't know many folks who "get" the folk thing the same way it comes to me.

Michael

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:39 PM

Welcome to the zoo, Michael, hope you enjoy yourself here!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:39 PM

Hi, Michael. Great to see you! == Johnny in Okla.City

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Mbo
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:41 PM

Hey Mike, great to have you here!

--Matt

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:42 PM

Seems like his fotdella was a bass thing with strings that he played with his foot. Always wanted one! == Johnny

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Pene Azul
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 10:44 PM

Hi Michael,

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mudcat Café!
If I can be of any assistance to you, send me a personal message.

PA

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:00 PM

Good things happen here more often than not. Enjoy.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:06 PM

everything happens here that happens in any large family/community...*grin*...you just have to sort it out...have fun...

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:13 PM

Welcome to the 'Cat Michael. Be sure to read the FAQ thread for newcomers. There is a Quick Links Box at the top with a pull down menu that will help you explore the place. Every thread is here that has been run in the past three and a half years. Feel free to run a forum search on names you see to get an idea of the joint and you can find pictures of many at "Mudcat Resources" in the quick Links. There is generally a nightly sing by using HearMe and you can find a thread with a blue clicky thing (hot link) that will take you there. There is Mudcat Radio on wednesday nights at 7 PM Eastern US and all the shows are archived if you want to go back and listen to any of them. There are over 8000 lyrics in the DT and many more on the threads and you can use the Search feature to find them.

This is a great place populated by fine , intelligent, caring, and knowledgable people........I'm not one of them, but there are plenty around. Lots of good music and lots of good friends. Post wherever and whenever you want and if you have questions, feel free to ask....Somebody will be able to help.

Spaw

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:24 PM

MichaelAnthony,

From a fellow "newbie", welcome to the Mudcat.

Best wishes,

Carol

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:29 PM

Well done, Spaw, you're showing that good twin side, again! Guess the Welcome Wagon is parked at your house this week, huh?

MichaelAnthony, welcome to the Mudcat Cafe. Everything Spaw aka Catspaw49, said is true, except about him not being one of the good folk. He is.

Glad you've found us and joined in!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From:
Date: 21 Aug 00 - 11:47 PM

Welcome to both of you, MichaelAnthony, and CarolC. Enjoy yourselves here.

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:15 AM

Oops! Sorry, CarolC! I am already thinking of you as "old hat" around here and plumb forgot to say Welcome to you, too! Thanks for the reminder, George.

kat

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: thosp
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:18 AM

hi and welcome!

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: tar_heel
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:22 AM

welcome,micheal

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: ol'troll
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:26 AM

NOW you've done it! You've attracted their attention. Boy, are YOU gonna be sorry!

Spaw's sarcastic 'n kat's sympathetic, 'n Mbo likes ELO 'n I'm

troll

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: JedMarum
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:47 AM

Welcome, welcome, MichaelAnthony. I hope you enjoy the site as much as most of us have. You'll find a wleath of inof here, great stuff in the DT database ... knowledgeable folks on the forum, and always plenty of opinions and help just ofr theasking (and osmetimes even when ya don't ask ;-)

Sound like your musical taste will fit you in, and bring you some ready made conversation!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:59 AM

Sympathetic am I? Well Ol'Troll, after reading that GRAND description of your son and all those mixed up emotions in the ethnic background thread, I guess you're gonna need some sympathy, so....aw, c'mere darlin'...there, there, they DO grow up and move out, believe me!**BG**

katlaughingsympathetically!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Clifton53
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 01:00 AM

Hmmm, blues and Buddy Holly, I like this guy! Welcome.

Clifton

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Mbo
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 01:01 AM

I wish I could move out!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 01:15 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat -

Catspaw say's he's not one of the caring, knowledgeable ones. He's right. He also has no sense of humor whatsoever, and I'm the Prince of Wales!

We'll have to talk rockabilly sometime. Timeless stuff, some of those Buddy Holly songs, eh? Good to have you with us.

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 02:21 AM

Welcome, Michael. Yup. Carol, too, though you've been here 'bout as long as me. Have I been here long enough to greet people?

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 02:24 AM

Hi there, welcome. You'll be amazed!

Rick

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Lena
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 03:18 AM

Hallo hallo hallo.

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 03:31 AM

Welcome both to Carol and Michael. Spaw is a good guy and very knowledgable, even if he's full of shit....

Amergin

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 03:44 AM

Welcome M-A, we need more bluesers on this site to keep you folkies in order (you'll have to speak up, they've got their fingers in their ears!)
RtS (resident village idiot & white boy lost in the blues)

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Bugsy
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 04:06 AM

G'Day from Australia.

Welcome aboard.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Quincy
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 05:07 AM

Well now I'm feeling guilty!!!!!
I've just been waffling on the different threads for a few weeks now and never really told you I was new!!
Maybe I should have told someone???
Hope you don't mind, but then I must have felt quite at home for me not to think about it as being a problem!

Thanks a million for a great site!
best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 05:09 AM

Don't worry about it Quincy. There are very many 'Catters who pop in and out of the forum from time to time anyways so no one knows who's new or not....

BTW I never announced I was new either, when I first popped on the scene....

Amergin

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 05:18 AM

(I'm whispering because this is not my welcome thread, but I do want to thank those who have welcomed me on it. Thanks...Carol)

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: dwditty
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 06:42 AM

You ain't seen nothin' yet, Michael. This place will amaze you in ways you never thought possible. By all means check out hearme. We could use another bluesman there.

dw

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 07:01 AM

Welcome Michael! (and CarolC, and Quincy, and you too, Amergin!!) Where y'all from?

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: ol'troll
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 07:45 AM

Thread creep!

Meebo: don't let Top hear you say that or he may move you out and into the Corps! (evil chuckle)

Back to the thread.

troll

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Morticia
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:53 AM

welcome, Michael.....everyone here is a bit odd.....with the exception of myself of course.......but they mean well and they don't bite ( well, mostly).....

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Catrin
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 09:24 AM

Welcome Michael,

Its a great site, great folks, lots of information, help when you need it and lots of belly laughs too.

Catrin

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Áine
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 10:06 AM

Welcome, welcome, welcome, Michael, Carol and Quincy!

I hope all you newbies will check out The Mudcat Songbook, where you'll find great original songs written by your fellow 'Cats. New songs are always welcome from new (and old) Mudcatters. And please join the rest of us crazies in the (usually) weekly SONG CHALLENGE!s, too. Just keep an eye out for SONG CHALLENGE! in the thread titles. We have a lot of fun writing ditties based on strange, but wonderful(!), topics from the news and other places. For a sample of what's gone before, check out the Song Challenge Winners page.

Again, welcome to the monkeyhouse, and I hope you all will enjoy the view from the trees . . . but, you have to bring your own bananas!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: LR Mole
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 10:11 AM

Welcome MichaelAnthony et al.--this is the single most rewarding thing I've made this device do, except for get other mail from other friends.We're all less alone, and more enriched.

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 10:56 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome!

This is quite a followed discussion! We must be all spread out and away from each other (I'm in Atlanta). A nice use of the internet. I'm yet to check out the suggested areas of Mudcat, but will soon.

I'm kind of from North Carolina, too. I still go up fairly often, to Asheville, Charlotte, Kernersville.

The fotdellas that Jesse Fuller used were fashioned from sawed-off acoustic basses and piano strings. I read that he had trouble keeping them working. That one recording I mentioned is really amazing, though. I like the idea of using the feet for accompanying oneself. (Recently tried miking something attached to the lower part of a highhat stand. May be able to get some good percussion with practice and experimenting, but so far the sound isn't quite nice enough. Suggestions welcome.)

CarolC and Quincy, looks like we found a great place! Keep the hello's coming...

MichaelAnthony

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Irish Rover
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:54 AM

Well Michael-me-lad, I am the mudcop! where you from? where you goin'? why? speak up boy I CAN"T HEAR YOU! grins just kidding, Welcome but stay sharp they're everywhere!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Irish Rover
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:56 AM

Dern kid answered me for I axed da quessions.

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:21 PM

Welcome, Michael Anthony and CarolC and Quincy and Amergin!

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:30 PM

Welcome from Chicago. Also a big fan of Buddy (contrary to what Don McLean said, the music didin't really die, just the conduit. Still, it was a great loss). Have you heard the Elvis Sun session recordings? That hillbilly cat cooked up a mess o' blues in those days.

Enjoy the dance.
Bart

Subject: RE: New to Mudcat/indroducing myself
From: Fortunato
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 12:52 PM

Greetings, Michael.

Welcome and best wishes.

Fortunato