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Subject: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 11 Mar 03 - 03:53 AM Do you really look like this , Jody? (..and if so when are you coming to tour UK!) RtS |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: mooman Date: 11 Mar 03 - 04:04 AM Dear Roger, There is a Cranky Yankee in the members photos that looks slightly different! However, thank you for brightening up my morning! moo |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: gnu Date: 11 Mar 03 - 05:34 AM SLIGHTLY ! |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 06:32 AM No, it doesn't seem to resemble him but when you read HIS website, well, it might be because the guy is obviously legendary and as kat posted the other day (in a thread now deleted,) Cranky Yankee is in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame! That's right, Mudcat's own CRANKY YANKEE was recently inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. You can read his colourful music and sailing history at his own page on the RHF website by clicking here. Of course a few people said Congrats, but a few others noticed that the "Rockabilly Hall of Fame" is a kind of pay-to-play sorta' thing. Crank says he knows nothing about this and that he certainly didn't send any money. Okay, fair enough!!! I'll take that on faith......'Course I do have a few questions about some of the stats on his website, like record sales, but if the Crank says it's true, again, I'll take that on faith too!!!! More power to you Cranky Yankee!!! Then someone noticed that Catspaw is in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and as the picture is obviously not me, it took some explaining!!! So I began the whole terrible journey toward the legendary truth.................and now, I tell it here again as the I want the whole legendary truth out there! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 06:34 AM Alright dammit.......It's happened finally and it's time for me to come clean I guess........... Back in the late 60's when I was at my most radical and drug induced state, I was known to screw anything, anytime, anywhere. I was legendary and I had all of these legendary partners as well although I could never remember their names in the morning. In some cases they were around for months and I still had no idea who they were until they got into bed. It was a wild and woolly time.......I came, they went.........Years later I found out that I had fathered not only what turned out to be the entire deck crew of the legendary Nimitz in '94, but three girls as well........ Unfortunately, these girls came to see me. What made this odd was that they all showed up within a few days of each other....and of course they met. They wanted something from me and were carrying the legendary Bowie Knives to get them. But when I asked advice of my good friend Bill Clinton who I had befriended at a legendary pot party in '70, Willie said to baffle them with some legendary bullshit!!! So I did. I got to talking about the legendary people I had known but who had no idea who I was and it was in this way that the conversation turned to construction equipment. I used to be an overhaul technician on a lot of landfill equipment including the legendary "Big Trash Smash." They all had a flair for it and lo and behold I called my old friend Angelo "Fruitnose" Scaffidi in NYC and got them all jobs. Things didn't go so well but while there they found they could sing well together and they formed a band, just the three of them. As it was all my doing basically, they honored me with their name and they too are in the Rockabilly Hall of Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 06:38 AM Sinsull had read the Catspaw Guestbook and noticed an "Uncle Shane" and even more painful legendary memories were dredged up..... Oh gawd...........The tale becomes more sordid by the minute............. "Uncle Shane" is an alias, full name Shane Mulroney, for the legendary hit man Luigi "Tendernuts" Costantini. He had his hayday in those legendary times when The Family had great Cuban ties. Louie was actually the man on the grassy knoll on that legendary day in Dallas. We used to play together as kids and many thought we were brothers. But when his Dad took him to Cuba at age 14 and he got involved in that mess, we were never as close again. Sure, I got the occasional note or call that said, "Hey...Fock you Scapeeze" but it was never the same. He knows he owes me though because I had attended the kids camp of Arlen Spector who took me under his wing and when the time came, I used my influence on Spector as well as a few thinly veiled threats, to swing his position on the legendary Warren Commission so that an entire country bought off on that incredibly fucked up single bullet theory. Luigi/Louie/Shane met the girls when they went to NYC to work for Angelo "Fruitnose" Scaffidi, the legenday operator of "Big Trash Smash." The garbage business had been good and the contract for the Jimmy Hoffa thing came his way with Louie doing the pickup and Angie planting his ass in the Meadowlands. There's more to this story, but I have to plead the 5th. In any case, that's why the girls think of him as "Uncle Shane." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 06:40 AM Late in the thread, Mark Cohen brought up the "Hawai Connection" and painful as it has been for me, I have dredged up the facts from so long ago and today I am ready to tell it all........I'll return later with this legendary information on Catspaw, the 50th state, and Hangin' One! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Amos Date: 11 Mar 03 - 09:14 AM Note that Catspaw just about saved local rock with their non-conforming nature and style ! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 11 Mar 03 - 09:28 AM HMMM. I though Jody had had plastic surgery and a sex change and now its clear Catspaw had both AND got cloned three times! Fortunately, no-one in the music biz has borrowed my name! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Rick Fielding Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:33 AM For what it's worth, the TORONTO Jody Gibson can be in any darn Hall of Fame she wants! Send me more! I always wondered why certain Catters are always posting that they've: A. Thrown up on their computers. B. Peed on their computers. C. Cried all over their computers. D. ....and I DON'T wanna know what else on their computers, whenever: A. Catspaw writes funny. B.Big Mick writes sentimental. Grow up, you easily over-stimulated people! But do it AFTER Pat has done his "Hawiian connection" (and spell it rite Spore, so I can at least memorize ONE correct spelling!) Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 11:32 AM Well Doc Mark asked about Jasmine and as it was, her mother was living when I He had a bar on the beach called "The Big Waves" and in honor of his bar they named the surf out front of it "Big Waves." One day Lil Ethyl said I was no surfer but to try to ride that 50 footer anyway. Well I did and he then showed me how to Hang Ten and the first thing you know, I was put in charge of guiding new surfers and running Big Waves....the surf, not the bar. Yeah, like I was becoming legendary there too and one day I showed them a trick that only I could do. Standing at the back of my surfboard I whipped out my tool and threw it over the front! I called this "Hangin' One" and they were all mighty impressed. Lil Ethyl spent days and days out there trying to duplicate that trick and left me to tend to the bar and other things. The other thing I attended to was Jasmine's mother. Lil Ethyl was a bit suspicious though and he asked me, "Brudder, did you sleep with her?" I truthfully answered that I had not. I have never had any success in having intercourse while I'm asleep although I know it's popular in Rhode Island. "The Big Waves" was a legendary place and it was the place to be seen no matter who you were. On any given day (given that Tuesday was a day) you could find Elvis and Jack Lord talking politics at a table while at another there was Don Ho and Lawrence Welk discussing the finer points of Bubbles.......that was Bubbles Tsunami, a legendary madam who ran a local brothel, known as "Bruddels" in Hawaii. But speaking of Don Ho........... One day I was talking with Don about a song he was doing called "Tiny Bubbles." He was having no success with it at all and so I started singing it myself. I did my own version which was a big improvement and then recorded it. That one record sold over 2 million copies in Terra Haute, Indiana and from that point on everybody recorded my version including Don Ho who used it as his signature song. I made the one change that I thought would do the most good and changed the tune to the one we all know now. Previously it had been sung to the tune of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and it just seemed wrong. So thanks to me, Don Ho hit it big. I returned to the mainland shortly thereafter and was the Grand Marshall at the "Hulman Classic" Parade in Terra Haute that next year. In the parade a little kid came up and tried to sing my version of the song but he kept throwing in "vrroom-vrroom-vrroom" sounds and I said, "Kid go watch the race today instead and maybe you'll be a race driver 'cause you sure ain't no singer." Being as legendary as I was the kid took my advice and went on to become a pretty fair racer named Jeff Gordon. I tried to call back to Hawaii after the parade, but found that Don Ho was already booked to sing the same song in the same place for the next 25 years and that Lil Ethyl was in an asylum as a result of a shark attacking his whang as he was trying to Hang One and he was traumatized for life. I should have asked about Jasmine's mother, but I couldn't remember her name............... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Kim C Date: 11 Mar 03 - 11:41 AM Spaw, did Karen take the kids out of town or something? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Amos Date: 11 Mar 03 - 12:13 PM LOL, man. I always knew you had some real stories in ya!! :>) I like the vision of you trying to Hang One -- of course I know you're exagerrating wildly and that you'd have trouble hanging one from the back end of a Depens, but we'll suspend disbelief. And actually the image of riding the Big Wave with your schlong draped over the bow is kinda...well...profound, ya know? Like a metaphysical metaphor for life, in a way...ya dig what I'm sayin' here, man? It's like...well, not deep, exackly but kinda, I dunno, like meaningful, ya know? I mean it really says a LOT about life, and about you...an' everything...well...whatever. Just don't bogie that thing, man.... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 11 Mar 03 - 12:26 PM Why were the original Cranky Yankee threads deleted? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST, herc Date: 11 Mar 03 - 03:42 PM Because people were being unnecessarily mean to him, implying that Yankee Crankee would be a more apt moniker for him. Personally, I like to believe that his buddy got it for him as a gift, without mentioning the cost of admission. (The sales stats are a little harder to figure.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 11 Mar 03 - 05:13 PM Oh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST, herc Date: 11 Mar 03 - 05:23 PM yeah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Peter T. Date: 11 Mar 03 - 05:50 PM An interesting thread would be about those occasions when any of us have been caught out exaggerating. I can well remember being late home from school -- playing with a kid friend -- and when my mother was about to come down on me like a whirlwind, I told her that the school bus had broken down, tires burst,and that was why I was two hours late getting home. Great, got away with it, until later that week, when she just happened to be in the school and was standing there talking to me, and the bus driver came by. "I am so sorry to hear about the accident with the bus," she remarked. Where is the trapdoor when you need it? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: katlaughing Date: 11 Mar 03 - 06:00 PM LOL, Peter. So Spaw you saying you were hung like an elephant's trunk with the same dexterity? How many clams could'ja bring up with that sucker? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 07:09 PM It wasn't how many clams I could bring up, but how many clams I could bring in!!! And I tell ya' there was a living to be made there! Did I ever tell you about my times with the Carnival and how I'm in the "Carnival Hall of Fame?" Spaw HEY PT...Great idea!....start one!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Ebbie Date: 11 Mar 03 - 08:31 PM I don't know how old I was when I first knew there was a difference between a 'trick' and a 'joke'; I just didn't know what. So I leaped sideways and told my brother, That's a trick. Then I jumped up and down and said, And that's a joke. Sadly enough, I wanted to be taken seriously. My daughter remembers when she told some friends that she could snap her fingers on both hands, when in reality she could do it on only one. So she held one hand behind her and snapped those fingers while she pretended to do it with her other hand... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: John Hardly Date: 11 Mar 03 - 08:49 PM man. All it took was a divided forum to get catspaw to write hilarious shit again. Who knew? Shoulda done it sooner. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST,H.S. Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:03 PM Martin Gibson, Had this been Crankees' first time at exaggeration I doubt anyone would have cared but he's done it ever since he first came here. Some people enjoy stirring it up but he involved Katlaughing who was just trying to be helpful. Helene S. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: michaelr Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:32 PM Threads deleted? That Joe Offer must've gone power-mad right along with Bush&Co! Say it isn't so... BTW, would somebody please give me a clue to who Jody Gibson is, and what makes him legendary? I've never heard of the guy. Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:34 PM ........bingo....... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:40 PM Michael, Jody Gibson aka Joe D. Gibson aka Jody Katzberg aka Cranky Yankee is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He claims to have sold half a million copies of "Muleskinner Blues" under the title of "Good Morning Captain" and that he was the first person to ever record a rockabilly song. I guess that means that Jody Gibson aka Joe D. Gibson aka Jody Katzberg aka Cranky Yankee is to rockabilly what Bill Monroe is to bluegrass. In the entire history of the recording industry, there are countless references to every record that has had sales approaching what Jody Gibson aka Joe D. Gibson aka Jody Katzberg aka Cranky Yankee claims for his single. However, if you search the books, the only references you'll find to this incredible feat come from Jody Gibson aka Joe D. Gibson aka Jody Katzberg aka Cranky Yankee himself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: michaelr Date: 11 Mar 03 - 11:04 PM Ah, I see! Is "Good Morning Captain" in the DT? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: katlaughing Date: 11 Mar 03 - 11:25 PM FWIW, I was not happy that those threads had been deleted. I understand we had some late night bullshit from garg and another asshole which got very nasty and that was the main reason the whole threads were deleted. I personally think only those postings should have been deleted as it is my understanding they were personal attacks. I didn't see them nor did i have anythign to do with them being deleted. There are others who have communicated with me who think the whole thing became a personal attack on Jody/Cranky Yankee, still others say it is just what happens when someone makes such claims as he did. Either way, I think it's kind of sad and I kind of wish this thread was named a bit more generically. Having said that, it is good to see Spaw come up with new stuff instead of those tiresome re-runs which we all should be able to recite verbatim ad nasueum by now. I mean, it's not even summer and he's been re-running all the Reg boys' stuff. It was gitting real pathetique, ya know?**BG** kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 12 Mar 03 - 03:22 AM BUT...searches under his record company handle "Joe D Gibson" reveal his Good Mornin' Captain 78rpm or 45rpm original sells second hand at about 30 US dollars or 50 euros and his version of Rattlesnake Daddy is on volume 8 of a series of "forgotten rockabilly" CDs. Mind you, if he put the Canadian Jody's picture on the sleeve, the price would rocket! RtS (Old folks rattle, young ones too, but nobody rattles like the way I do) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Mar 03 - 07:52 AM THIRTY BUCKS?!?!?!?!? WOW!!!!!!!!!! I AM IMPRESSED!!!!!!! Damn thing MUST be pretty rare so I guess most of those other 400,000 copies got used for skeet practice or something.................. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:34 AM I'll be danged, I always thought rockabilly was invented by Al Gore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:05 PM No, it was Al Gore who invented the Gregorian chant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST, herc Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:49 PM well shut my mouth. The cranky yankee slander sled has been reincarnated today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:49 PM Sled? Thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:00 PM Do note that in my original post on this thread that I made note that I wasn't slandeering the Crank in any way! Taking the piss out of him, yes........slander, no. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST, herc Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:10 PM Yes, slander been the Crank's name for the thread |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST, herc Date: 12 Mar 03 - 06:12 PM Been? Being. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: SINSULL Date: 12 Mar 03 - 08:04 PM Fact: Jody's 78RPM of "Good Morning Captain" sold on ebay for over $25 which is when I stopped. I was trying to get it for him. I did get the 45RPM and honestly don't remember the price - sorry. I have his CD and much prefer his sea shanties to the rockabilly stuff but that is my personal preference. NOW...how many other Mudcatters have their CDs or LPs selling for anywhere near that? Spaw - I haven't heard from Cletus lately. Is the boy alright? Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: catspaw49 Date: 12 Mar 03 - 09:25 PM I think he may be forming a Rockabilly band.................. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST Date: 12 Mar 03 - 09:51 PM will cletus be inducted in the rhof? or is he too cheap to pay? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: mg Date: 13 Mar 03 - 12:43 AM yikes this is mean and nasty. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cranky Yankee- WOW! From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Date: 13 Mar 03 - 03:47 PM So are big, black bugs. Right? |
