Lyr Req: The Spoons Murders (Con O'Driscoll)

Subject: Spoons murder
From: GUEST,Alan McGregor
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 03:22 PM

Does anyone out there have any info on a song called "The Spoon Murders" by Con O'Driscoll?I have tried for a very long time to get the lyrics/recording of this song to no avail.

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 03:30 PM

You can listen to it being performed by the author and his mates by CLICKING HERE.

Cheers,

kat

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 05:50 PM

A lyric was also posted in THIS THREAD

John

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 06:35 PM

Thanks, John. I did a forum and dt search and nothing came up.

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 10:02 AM

G'day Kat,

Is "CLICKING HERE" a safe approach to this particular lyric?

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 10:07 AM

Well it seemed safe enough for lil' ole' me, Bob!*bg* Here is the URL, unvarnished, raw, pure, bare-nekkid:

http://www.worldzone.net/music/rudall/oss89.html

G'day to you, too!:-)

kat

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: reggie miles
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:53 AM

Well, as Fiolar said at the start of the other thread "some" may find this amusing. It was exceedingly well crafted, and I appreciate good craftsmanship.

I have an acquaintance, a real spoon tornado, (I mention that as a good thing) so I sent this off to him.

I've suffered the slings and arrows (hairy eyeballs) of similar sentiments at jams by simply displaying instruments that were questionable in the minds of some participants. Those kinds of snap judgments should be tethered. I certainly support those who wish to be exclusive in their musical endeavors. For that's what gives each form its individuality. Creativity, however, can never be contained. It mutates those things, which we'd like to think of, as stable and this unstoppable force of change will eventually alter all that we think of as pure or true. There are three choices of response to this force of nature, one can adapt, migrate, or die. Most are willing to accept adaptation or migration as viable alternatives to this third choice. This song imagines the possibility of the third choice, death, or should I say murder, in a marvelously dark and humorous tone. This is just the kind of wacky stuff that I enjoy singing. I just hope there won't be any songs written about washboard and saw players with similar sentiments. Or have I just inadvertently overlooked those threads?

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:57 PM

G'day reggie miles,

" ... have I just inadvertently overlooked those threads? "

Probably! The odds are pretty high that someone has flung the odd lump of ill-considered excrement at every one of the instruments you mentioned.

Because I have a deep interest in the peculiarities of the Australian tradition, I spend a lot of time looking at ... and usually playing ... all sorts of portable, improvised and home-made instruments. In a young country, making its own way (as long as you don't count the original owners ... and they didn't) you didn't find many classical instruments lying around unused, so the colonists made do with anything that could be bent to their ends.

Folk music is impoverished when players get too wrapped in the importance of their best quality factory or hand-crafted instruments. real folk music is accessible and enjoyable for the folk - not a closed virtuoso concert. Some great times have come out of family or group gathering where it is mandatory for everyone to join in ... even if they just shake a coffee tin with some rice grains.

Dare I mention it ... I just acquired, for restoration and occasional playing a real old-fashioned, tin-plated nose flute! My interest had been rekindled by coming across an early photograph of the first "Bush Band" ... that started our Australian "Folk Revival" in the Early 1950s ... The Bushwhackers Band (the 1954 - 1957 Sydney original, not the unrelated 1970s to present Melbourne one). At last i had located a picture of Alan Scott - who later played tin whistle and English concertina - playing, in performance, "the Tin handkerchief" ... the nose flute!

All good fun!

Regards, Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Spoons murder
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 09:49 AM

I saw a greeting card last Valentine's Day with a cartoon of a guy and his lady in their bedroom; he was in his underwear, playing the spoons while she looked on in murderous horror. The caption said something like: "George misunderstands the concept of spooning in bed."