Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Hollowfox Date: 16 Nov 10 - 10:38 PM Mymymy, how'd I miss this thread all these years? It all started (mumble) years ago when I was just starting to play around on the 'net. I stumbled on Mike Harding's Green Man site, so naturally I searched for the Folk Legacy website to let them know about it. (The Folk Legacy folks are old friends.) Sandy emailed back and said "You should get on the Mudcat. We need you." That silver-tongued devil. He knew exactly the right thing to say to a librarian. I was a bit leery of forums and suchlike, knowing that when a group of people gather to talk about just one thing, pomposity, power plays, and group politics raise their ugly heads. I thought I'd just lurk for a while, and on my first visit I found myself answering a question and becoming a regular. the fact that I already knew some of the members in the flesh helped. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Crowhugger Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:09 PM Now I can't remember whether it was Willie-O or people from Greenbank (ON) folk/blues jams or from The Woods that first pointed me to Mudcat. All were an active part of my life around the same couple of years when I was getting back into playing after a hiatus due to an exhausting day job. Though I don't post consistently, it's been my home page for at least a decade. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:29 AM I had heard someone mention about Mudcats a while back but didn't venture because I didn't think I knew enough about folk apart from the things I had always liked to take a look. Then a few months ago I came across it (at work) when looking for something more to do with Folk Rock really I was looking to see what Lindisfarne was doing now. Anyway I saw Mudcats and clicked on and was surprised to see that it wasn't 'firewalled' hey hey. The funny thing is although I don't know anyone physically I imagine what everyone looks like and I am getting to know the personalities of different people which is also interesting. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: C-flat Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:15 AM I was looking for information on a steel-strung Manuel Rodriguez guitar and ended up asking the question here. Got a prompt and informed reply and 10 years later I find I'm still lurking around. Never been a prolific poster but a keen spectator nevertheless. C-flat |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 14 Nov 10 - 07:08 PM I came on the bus.... :0) |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 14 Nov 10 - 06:34 PM I think it was a tranporter malfunction together with a temporal anomaly - ask Harvey - he wasn't there either. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: ChanteyLass Date: 14 Nov 10 - 06:18 PM A local performer who became a Facebook Friend would post information about others. One time I asked her how she knew who had passed away before I'd heard it from other sources. She said, "Mudcat." I had to find out what that was. For a while I just dropped in occasionally to read posts. Then I felt compelled to comment on a few threads, so I became GUEST, Janet. Finally I realized I was totally hooked, but when I tried to become a member there was a technical problem. A few weeks later I saw that Joe had created an alternate way to register, so I did. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email) Date: 14 Nov 10 - 08:06 AM I was searching for information on mandolins and came across it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: VirginiaTam Date: 14 Nov 10 - 05:03 AM Well my last post is not strictly true... I joined properly in May 2008 because of EssexGirl. But I have wandered in before under guest poetspider looking for lyrics and earliest visit was in 1998 or 99 when AllanC who worked at the same community college invited me to check out a recording of him on Mudcat radio. That is going way way back. So does that make me Mudcat old timer? |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: MGM·Lion Date: 14 Nov 10 - 01:58 AM Like so many above ~~ googled a lyric; found the DT; found the 'Cat ~~ & had one of those "Wow, where has this been all my life!?!" moments... ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Nov 10 - 01:05 AM Ultimately, I guess it was the result of a night of passion between my mother and my father. Contrary to the opinion of some, they were indeed married at that time. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 14 Nov 10 - 01:02 AM OK I understand you with stones but please send my love to night owl. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:53 AM I talk to her almost every day. She's caring for her very live-wired 100 year old mother and pitching in for her 98 yr old aunt, too! I love them, but I think carnelian is still my fav. though amethyst and malachite AND lapis are also right up there. I love the combo of amber, turquoise, and amethyst. Sorry for the drift, folks. It's old home week at the Mudcat.:-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:15 AM Oh and kat, my fave remains malachite. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:05 AM Drifting but are you still in touch with Night 'Owl? Have not played with a stone in years but I still enjoy the look of a piece of carnelian or a lapis lazuli or a rose quartz or a bit of agate... |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:51 PM That's what I remember and hope, too, Jon. I've certainly thought of you as a friend for many years now. You always come to mind when I wear the carnelian necklace you made and put in the auction which my sister won AND when I look at and handle the tumbled stones you sent from the beach. I love them. I think I mentioned, Night Owl asks after you every now and then. She and I still have such good memories of late night HearMe sessions with you dazzling us with your talent and ability. The HearMe sessions got her through some awfully dark nights after the house fire and all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:43 PM Thanks kat. As you know we once fell out and did not understand one another but I think and hope that with the twists and turns of life we did wind up as friends. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:18 PM We're glad of it, too, Jon. Nice to *see* you amongst the silver and golden threads.:-) My dad asked me to find some lyrics in Dec. 1998. Been here ever since, my lord, it's almost twelve years. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Bobert Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:52 PM I'm stickin' with my '04 story... No whorin' involved... Maybe a little drenkin'... B~ |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:14 PM It was my penance for a life of drinkin and whorin |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: gnu Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:11 PM There it is. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Amos Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:02 PM Where IS here, anyway? A |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:13 PM Not to mention a misspent youth. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Jon Date: 13 Nov 10 - 04:50 PM Got into some email conversation with Jeri. I think from a subject in rec.music.celtic in 1999 I may have drifted here before but that was the event that got me trying to read and take an interest here. It did not turn out at times (and not that I am without blame on some things) the happiest place for me which is part the reason I post as Guest these days - I've no desire to be involved in PMs but events like folkinfo blowing up, feeling a need to announce here then finding a thread that interests me and wanting to join in have funny ways of drawing me back. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: John MacKenzie Date: 13 Nov 10 - 04:42 PM 'second star to the right, and straight on till morning.' |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 10 - 04:34 PM Bad companions. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Joe_F Date: 13 Nov 10 - 01:41 PM I can't remember! Seems like forever. The earliest mention in my journal is 20 March 2001 ("Browsed the Mudcat threads"), and I signed up on 28 April 2001. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: The Sandman Date: 13 Nov 10 - 01:37 PM I cant remember, I think I lost my way, but thanks for the memory. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: s&r Date: 13 Nov 10 - 12:42 PM I bought a T shirt and Googled the name |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:59 AM An old friend called JETS now deceased told me about it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: VirginiaTam Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:34 AM I was at the Rochester Sweeps singing at session in the Good Intent. Essex Girl introduced herself to me, invited me to her June BBQ and said that I should join Mudcat, so I did. I told her that I would join under the name of VirginiaTam (combination of the state I am from and my first name). |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: olddude Date: 13 Nov 10 - 11:05 AM I had a dream I was in Hell opened my eyes and there it was LOL |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 12 Sep 07 - 11:40 PM Hahaha! Goodonya, Stephen! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 12 Sep 07 - 08:47 PM Kat, It was the Jay Leno Home for Wayward Turnips. Stephen Lee |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: JennyO Date: 12 Sep 07 - 10:11 AM I dunno. One day I woke up, opened my eyes, and here I was! Actually, I blame Sandra in Sydney. It's all her fault. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: billybob Date: 12 Sep 07 - 06:33 AM Dave Bryant told me, bless him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 12 Sep 07 - 06:27 AM I think if you are interested in folk music, Mudcat will keep coming up in the searches - it would take a very determined soul to keep his snout out totally. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 12 Sep 07 - 12:54 AM Was that at the Neal Young Center for the Terminally Screwed? Who was on duty? Spaw? Amos? LeeJ?*bg* |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 11 Sep 07 - 11:29 PM I turned left at the psych ward and found myself here. That's sort of true. I found Mudcat entirely by accident while I was looking for something else. Stephen Lee |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Riginslinger Date: 10 Sep 07 - 11:45 PM Was trying to find the origins of the Irish song, "The Orange and the Green." I can remember it fromt he 1950's but everybody insists it originated in 1972. I'm still looking. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: katlaughing Date: 10 Sep 07 - 12:40 AM I was looking for lyrics....before google existed...I think I yahooed! |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Cluin Date: 09 Sep 07 - 11:59 PM he he he you said "rags" |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: ragdall Date: 08 Sep 07 - 02:17 AM I was looking for lyrics to a song. Google brought me here. One reason I joined this site was that the discussions by interesting and mature people here are a welcome change from discussions on sites I oversee. rags |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: bobad Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:49 PM I don't even know where I am. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:40 PM How did I get here? I came in through the bathroom window. - Chongo |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Cluin Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:26 PM And my hairstyle's name is Arthur. |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Peace Date: 07 Sep 07 - 07:35 PM "Took a left at Greenland." |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Becca72 Date: 07 Sep 07 - 06:42 PM Took a wrong turn at Albuquerque |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: Amos Date: 07 Sep 07 - 06:11 PM As with so many quests, Mister Happy, the search ends where it began... A |
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat - how did you get here? From: lady penelope Date: 07 Sep 07 - 06:02 PM As with many things over the years, I can say unequivacally, that it's all Micca's fault..... Cheers mate! |