The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102121   Message #2068006
Posted By: HipflaskAndy
04-Jun-07 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: Reputation earned - how?
Subject: RE: Reputation earned - how?
Jim - I 'popped' in with an answer to a humourous comment re 'sheep'.
I didn't realise you needed feedback on your re-write of my website - sorry.
I really didn't know how to answer your posts.
I wasn't after comment on me, as such - used myself as an example of how I believe folks get the 'wrong idea' about someone.
Was actually asking (in original post) for 'others' to speak up if they'd had the same experience themselves!

You may not agree, fine - but the point is - a club that has had me as guest THREE times before
over a five year period has advertised me on the net and other publicity as 'mostly his own songs'
This is just plain WRONG.
The 'bulk' of my set (merely a term meaning 'the greater part'
I don't know why you find the term so objectionable
- but your call - no worries) - is always Trad songs.
I believe a different set of folks attends, or not,
depending on accurate representation of the music 'on' on any advertised night.
That's where I was coming from....

As for my site...
The description at the head of my site is a 'list'
Guitarist first.
That's my forte (I hope!)
Singer comes second.
Songwriter limps in third as it's the least important in my view.
At no point do I call myself a singer'songwriter - though others do - that's my point!
The 'list' on the site goes on...
Trad FIRST!
Then 'other writers...
tacked on as a last thought - 'his own songs'.

The thread was about being misunderstood, misrepresented - I wanted others in the same boat to speak up - but you turned it into a dissection of me - that's why I stayed out of it.

I will now bow out and leave Mudcat well alone - at least while I have a re-think - it's too hot in this water - thanks - Duncan