BS: Your first post on Mudcat

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Brakn
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 07:52 AM

I neglected to say that my first post was a lyric request for "The Mountains of Cooley".

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:00 AM

My first post under the current name was a request for lyrics and chords to "The Friday Song". That was in March of 1998. I had been posting occasionally prior to that and lurking. My actual first request was for the lyrics to "Seven Old Ladies" in late 1997. I don't recall the name I used, I just remember making the request. Someone from a University library suggested that I check here. Life hasn't been the same since.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Wolfgang
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 08:35 AM

perhaps Mick's first post (as 'Kevin')?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:49 AM

Mine was HERE .
The ironic thing is, I later found I had the words all the time in a song book and posted them as the reply to my own thread.
BUT, I was hooked by other threads I saw, started posting as Roger the Zimmer (reason for which I explained somewhere later) and changed to the more politically correct and musically apt Roger the Skiffler later.
Didn't become "member" till I got my own PC online as I didn't want cookies on work machine.
I can't remember how 'Spaw signed me up to empty bedpans at the NYCFTTS, must have had too much virtual brandy at the Mudcat Tavern!

RtS
(boring but true)

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 12:51 PM

well! *grin*...I just went back thru the first 135 threads, and find that I actually posted on thread 105 on Nov. 7! The only 'identifiable' folks still posting from that era seem to be Max, Dick G., Susan of DT, Bert, Bob Schwarer, lamarca (who beat me by 2 days)....and......gargoyle!

I have not examined past thread 135 yet.....

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 01:29 PM

My first post under this name was in November 1997, but I did post before then. I can't find these earlier posts - of course it doesn't help that I can no longer remember what they were about! So I've been around for more than five years and have yet to post 400 times. I'd like to suggest that's because I go for quality rather than quantity, but a quick check through my contributions demonstrates the weakness in that argument.

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Banjer
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 06:44 AM

Oh the irony of it all....my first post was on 13 January 1999, and it involved the very thing that has me in hot water on the latest Stephen Foster thread!

One of the better known Foster tunes is our State song here in Florida. A few years ago there was a big POLITICALY CORRECT move on to change the song since in its original version it is considered "racist" by some since it speaks of the "darkies". Several groups had discussion as to what melody should replace the traditional State song. I suggested, (only half in jest) that given the average age of the citizens of the Retirement State, aka: God's Waiting Room, that Stairway to Heaven would be very appropriate. Many other similar suggestions must have been made because as of this date, and as long as I draw a breath our State song always be "Old Folks at Home"!! Also known as Suwannee River.


It got me started then and still does today! **BG**

This is my 2203rd post on the 'Cat

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: HuwG
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:38 AM

Not far short of my first anniversary. First posted to Ducks flying through Hull with an ancient Frank Carson joke, on St. Valentine's Day (no significance), just thought I'd leaven out an interminable intra-Hull discussion.

About a month later, I started my first thread, a request for the lyrics to The Grangetown Whale, still no answers, but a pointer to the Hennesseys who (probably) wrote it.

This is #214; I am so restrained because it is my (alleged) work PC, I'm not properly set up at home yet. (GAS and Christmas pressies keep eroding my finances). Watch out in a couple of months !

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:23 AM

Hi Banjer!

Stephen Foster your first post, eh? Spooky!

Cheers, Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:48 AM

funny thing is, my first post was in response to someone who asked for a George Harrison song. I was fretting even then about loose interpretations of 'folk' and 'traditional'....(I was answered by Bert, who argued that traditional simply meant songs that were good enough that people kept singing them)....

not much has changed, hmmmm?...;>)

still, we have continued to muddle thru despite not all agreeing on the details. Max has kept this forum 'open' for over 6 years now, and it has become a very special place....not what I imagined, but amazing & wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: GUEST,hanna
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 04:17 PM

I first requested lyrics to "Willie the Spider". I am still looking for the words. Can anybody out there help?

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 04:31 PM

Hanna - I'll have another look around tomorrow (I'm about to log off) but the last time I looked I still couldn't find anything.

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 05:34 PM

I missed this the first time it came out - my computer was in hospital, I think.

The Recording Mudcat Angel indicates that this post is number 14794. Blimey!

With the first one, it seems, being on 16th Octiber 1999, in a thread about the hassles Mudcat was having at that time about copyright of songs on the DT.

"Good luck with all this, and I hope the site doesn't have to go into exile to somewhere outside the American Empire.(Which includes England, where I'm writing this)" was how it started - and here is a link to the rest. Wordy bugger that I am.

Seems a lot longer than four years. Mudcat time is different from time in the outside world.

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 06:13 PM

I found a couple of leads on the Willie the Spider -- see the resurrected thread by that name.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 11:22 PM

Interesting question! I may have tested the waters once or twice, but I do remember that my first SERIOUS post was when I started the "Walt Robertson" thread, probably close to two years ago. It had an amazing impact on the community, and also made me a firm believer in MUDCAT! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Your first post on Mudcat
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:53 AM

Most people probably know this, but maybe some don't - click on the name - any name, including GUESTs - at the top of the thread, and after a bit of a wait, up comes a clickable list of all the posts ever made by that person. And if they've changed their Mudcat name since it makes no difference - the change is retrospective.

So we are stuck with all the asinine and inane and libellous remarks we have ever thrown out, and anyone else can see them any time they want to. It's a bit frightening. That's what I meant by "the Mudcat Recording Angel". We can run, but we can't hide...

And alongside that facility for blasts from the past, here is another - Internet Wayback Machine. This lets us see what the Mudcat was like at various times going back to 1996. Flame wars, gossip, scholarship, people sharing problems - the lot. Not that different, really.