How deep do you go musically?

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 14 Feb 02 - 05:57 PM

Deckman--

BTW, "Chicken Charlie" headed a minstrel group in California in the 1860's. He was a soldier and I suspect that he made a sideline of making up for quartermaster failures by peddling hot chickens--and I don't mean they burned your fingers. Don't blame me for the monicker; I don't have enough originality.

CC

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 14 Feb 02 - 06:02 PM

Hi Kendall, imagine how confused he'd have been if you'd said "Welllll, I always like to throw an Elton Britt song into the program".

Rick

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: Deckman
Date: 14 Feb 02 - 07:40 PM

Sounds to me like "chicken Charlie" was trying to feather his own nest! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From:
Date: 14 Feb 02 - 08:19 PM

Those singer songwriter types got into the Catholic church in the mid sixties and destroyed thousands of years of music (in my opinion..) There were beautiful hymns that we used to sing...that we all knew...and they started having these "folk" masses with music written by Jesuit seminarians as far as I can tell, with good intentions but absolutely no sense of music. I mean, it has been absolutely awful almost everywhere I have been. The music is nothing like folk music, or even music. It doesn't rhyme, it has odd times, like 3/2 going into 5/6 and back to 11/13 all in the same song....I doubt that any parishioner not in the "choir" has ever memorized any of these "songs." And some old hymns are creeping back in..but you are far more likely to see a Protestant hymn...IN THE HYMNBOOK..than a Catholic one. Riddle me this. mg

Subject: RE: How deep do you go musically?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 Feb 02 - 08:25 PM

I tell my friends if you want to go to a good Catholic Church, go to a Lutheran Church. And offend everyone. Not meaning to. I have been both, and lived through the guitar masses at Catholic churches. After a few years absence, I went to a Catholic service and was astonished at how terible the music was. Much of the liturgy had been simplified, too. I think that there really is more of the old liturgy in the Lutheran Church, and more of the old hymns. Too bad... a loss for the Catholic Church. This seems suspiciously like thread creep, so I'll stop.
Jerry