skiffle and home made music

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:08 PM

i'd tend to describe the band i'm in as 'punk skiffle'

my mate [the band's boss & songwriter]

was at first agreeably amused by my description of our collective efforts and shared musical influences..


but i'm not realy sure how positively he regards it a genuine compliment !!???


lets just say.. our musical artistry & performance skills
are more enthusiastic and unpredictable
than polished..

.. still, old drunk blokes.. and young punk/goth/metalheads

seem to enjoy our old fashoned midle-aged rockin' approach
to having a pissed-up good-time laugh at our live gigs

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:49 PM

...and some bloody bad ones like me!

RtS

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:35 PM

There are enough bloody good musos and other entertainers who started in Skiffle groups at school !

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 11:55 AM

At the time, my experience of making music in school was that it was a discipline.
Lonnie Donegan and others of his ilk showed us that it could be a recreation.

For that I am eternally grateful.

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Ernest
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 07:34 AM

Good points. When I have to explain the term "skiffle" to younger people I always say it was the folk-punk of the fifties/early sixties
Would you agree?
Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Effsee
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:57 PM

It was reckoned that Lonnie Donegan put more guitars into young folks hands than anyone else in that era. I tend to agree with that.

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:24 PM

trad folk + skiffle + cheap electric guitars = Punkrock


trad folk + skiffle + cheap electric guitars + rough cider = even better Punkrock

Subject: RE: skiffle and home made music
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:02 PM

there were a lot of pluses with skiffle. I loved that music and I still do.

If you knew Lonnie's songbook - you knew songs by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Irish rebel songs like Kevin Barry, songs of real wit in our own music hall tradition, spirituals, Carter Family music, Irish Drinking Songs, Rhythm and Blues - in short you were into folk music.

AND it was folk music that didn't alienate 95% of the population, like some keepers of tradition seem to.

Subject: skiffle and home made music
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:57 PM

In my opinion the plus side of skiffle,was the realisation for many young people that they could enjoy and learn music on relatively cheap[often home made instuments,tea chest bass etc]and have alot of fun. manypeople were introduced to trad, blues, folk, music through Skiffle,. some went on to greater things, but groups like the Vipers had rawness and excitement that was not to be found elsewhere in the hit parade or pop music of the time         .Skiffle must have been one of the major contributors to the later success of the folk scene, and Its influence has been undervalued and underestimated.any thoughts .