Minor old folkies

Subject: Minor old folkies
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 03:11 PM

me

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Mr Sooz
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 03:17 PM

lots of us

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Midchuck
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 04:24 PM

I can name three.

P.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 04:56 PM

minor feeling me age nowdays

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Severn
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 05:02 PM

An oxymoron. Once you're over twenty one, you're no longer a minor, no matter what key you sing in or what kind of car you drive. And you CAN be taken across state lines for immoral purposes, if needs be....


However, I'm 57 and still practicing to become an amateur.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: GUEST,paddymac - forgot to reset cookie
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 06:41 PM

Me too. Now we're a sextet. Does that, er, help?

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:32 PM

Sometimes I leave my third out so nobody can tell if I'm major or minor.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: gnomad
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:41 PM

Are they? Mine too.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Little Robyn
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:46 PM

Me too!
Robyn

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: GUEST,Pamela in Ithaca
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:50 PM

This is a really cute thread.
Can I be a minor old folkie wannabe...
or maybe a minor old folkie in training (since
I'm not quite 50 yet...)
I love singing in minor keys... with or without a third.
Does that count??

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:13 PM

john Richards, Dave Brooks Morris and the Minors

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:29 PM

Pamela, you are a prized member of our completely undistinguished company. I hereby welcome you with open arms....

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:53 PM

My father was a minor...
      But I am an adult.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Jim I
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:15 PM

My grandfather had a book "A History of the Scottish Minors" presented to him after 50 years as a minor and his father had a certificate celebrating lifetime membership of the Scottish Union of Minors. I don't know about my great grandfather but my grandfather was an old fogie.

Does this mean I'm a minor fogie too?

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:46 PM

My older sister pestered me into learning to read before I was really old enough to know anything. I remember wondering why cigarette machines had signs prohibiting people who worked in mines from buying from them.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Severn
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:59 PM

Frogprince,

Why to save their lungs, of course!

And those "No Miners Aloud" signs were to keep them from coughing so loud that you couldn't hear all the folkies and bluegrassers sing about them in barrooms. I mean, have you ever been halfway through "Dark As A Dungeon" and have someone start hacking uncontrollably? It's the pits, man!

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 10:09 PM

"It's the pits, man!"

Here we go again. Somebody's always putting down Pittsburgh.

I'll have you know that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's air quality is greatly improved from the time way back when that it was called the Smokey city.

Now our skies are almost clear-the few days out of the year when it's not overcast with rain clouds.

So, come on, already. Cut Pittsburgh some slack, okay?

Or let's put it this way-you mind your own business and we'll
min-ors.

;o)

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 10:23 PM

Pamela from Ithaca's not only too young to qualify, she ain't gonna be "minor" for long. Her new CD is getting a lot of good airplay and it's a GEM! Check it out!
    As for the rest of us, I suspect damned near all of us can play on the "minor old folkie" team without fear of disqualification.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Franz S.
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:01 PM

The only paid gig I ever had I was paid a hot dog and a coke for four hours of playing. And I just got my Medicare card. Do I qualify?

Subject: RE: Mine are old folkies!
From: Severn
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:05 PM

Azizi,

If I'd have meant your fine city, I'd have used two "t's" and dwelt on the places with stripping going on near there where no tippling miners are allowed.

Instead, I meant the holes where they dig out those "Masses In De Coaled, Coaled Ground" of voluminous bituminous they used to sing about in their themes from the shaft where they dug sixteen tunnels in a blue tattoo parlor (and for what?).

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:27 PM

ha i just realized this is a reactionary thread
inspired by the major new folkies thread

but one old folkie i just learned about is
Bonnie Owens, who like her former hubby, Buck,
passed away recently.

she wrote several songs and was married to
Merle Hagard as well.

she was a big part of the bakersfield sound.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Ernest
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 05:26 AM

B Minor

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Splott Man
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 11:20 AM

"It's the pits, man!"

That'll be Brad and family, I hear he does a fair shanty..


'Twas on the good ship Anthracite,
Ablaze on Plymouth Sound...

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 08:48 PM

Is no one else here a major old folkie? Or is it properly spelt 'fogie'?

Subject: RE: Mynah old folkies
From: Severn
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 09:25 PM

Most folkies I know were enlisted men, if they served at all. There are a few I've met who fancied themselves as Captains, and I sailed the UK canals with an Admirable Admiral, but no Majors and very few who've ever even gotten to record for any of the Majors. And Catter Col K is not a real Colonel....

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 01:22 AM

Someone give Severn a pun-it of raspberries.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: jojofolkagogo
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 01:32 PM

Well, wee little Drummer, I wanna be a MAJOR Minor - OK ??

have a long way to go yet, though , ha ha !

Jo-Jo

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 01:58 PM

If you still cherish ambitions, you automatically disqualify yourself. Sorry.

Only real scufflers allowed on this thread.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 05:26 PM

Sandy Paton is a major Old Folk Fogey, and he has a hat to prove it.

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 05:33 PM

But, do they come in Locrian????? Inquiring minds want to know!

Subject: RE: Minor old folkies
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Jun 06 - 08:07 PM

Only behind closed doors, Sorch!