BS: Up Close and Personal

Subject: Up Close and Personal
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 02:35 PM

Well, I got to meet Mbo last week, in actual person. He looks like his photy, at least! We sang Castle of Dromore to my twins (the same song I sang with AllanC, BeauDangles, and Bill Sables at the start of TGMA - it's beginning to be a habit or something! Although I don't recall singing that one with Moonchild when we met--I think that's all the Mudcat members I've met in person--), but - and this was very strange to me, considering that we are both Star Trek fans, and seemed to have other interests and attitudes in common - there were NO other songs to which we both knew the words! But it was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed meeting him, talking in noncyberspace, and it allowed me some small Mucattery at the beginning of my vacation (11 days without a computer! It was TOUGH! I found myself just staring at other people's computers the few times I was in an actual house... wondering if I could sneak in and check the forum... but I didn't... hope I didn't miss anything much!

Anyway, I was wondering if other Mucatters had been surprised when they met each other, about what they did and didn't have in common, when the threads had led to certain expectations...

Other musical notes from the vacation: Sang The Bold Fisherman when Gulf fishing for, of course, the bold mackerel; sang Going down the Road Feeling Bad on the way home; sang East Virginia when en route to North Carolina; sang So Long It's Been Good to Know You when leaving my best-friend-from-college's house whose new wife really hates kids, to the point where she could not even be barely polite to mine; sang We've Come A Long Way when we hit the 1,000 mile mark on the odometer. Sang The Swimming Song (Roches) whenever the twins were in the pool. Basically sang loudly wherever I was... thanks, AllanC, for telling me to up the volume! It IS a lot better when you SING, rather than just kind of singing...

PS: And, thanks again, Mbo, for telling me about the Beirut memorial. Those of you who read my Bummed Out thread last April might recall him telling me about it. Daddy's name isn't on the wall, but we left flowers under the words They Came In Peace, and at one of the pear trees, picked kind of at random. We'll come through there annually, I think, as long as I vacation down there. Will tell more about any aspect of this thread if anyone is interested... I know there were a lot more songs I sang, but the reasons/places/times aren't coming to me right now...

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: MMario
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 02:45 PM

Mrzzy you did better the I did when i met Mbo - we sang the same song, but on different days!

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Marymac90
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 03:18 PM

Well, you've both done better than me-I offered Mbo a ride to Champlain Valley Folk Fest if he would meet me in or near Philly for the ride. No such luck. Maybe another time, Mbo, like next summer, or one of the breaks in the school year.

At least I wasn't waiting and planning a party for him, like I was for Kendall last Jan., when I got the word that his car had broken down and he couldn't come!!! We managed to have a nice party anyway. And I did get to meet Kendall (and many others) at Old Songs. I also met some M'catters at annap's (now annamill's, I understand). I hope to meet more of ya'll at the Getaway this fall.

Marymac

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Jed at Work
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 05:58 PM

Marymac - how about when you hear Mudcatters on the phone for the first time. Any surprises there?

Good thread Mrrzy. It's always a treat to meet Mudcatters in the real world. Glad you and MBO got together ... and next time remember; ya don't need to know all the words to jam ... make 'em up!

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:33 PM

because I am near the center where Mudcat and the database began, I have met 35-40 either briefly or on a regular basis,,,most were very near what I expected....(and I had seen a few pics)

the big exception was Bert!...Somehow, as he was explaining about the sings he helps with in PA, I developed the image of a middle-aged American guy with whiteish-gray hair....(*grin*..sorry Bert)...when I met him, here was this lean fellow with reddish-blond long hair and a Brit accent....it was fine, and I like the revised image better,,,but...wow...I don't usually miss it that far

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Mbo
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:35 PM

Yikes, I've only met 4 Catters!

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: MMario
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:38 PM

Mbo - you're young - you have plenty of time to meet more

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:46 PM

Funny you should mention Bert............

Before bbc started the Resource site, most of us had no real idea what the others looked like and I had Bert pegged as a mainly bald, shortish, English engineer. there is a character actor I had in mind but I can't think of his name. In any case, when I saw his picture, I was completely shocked.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:42 AM

I am meeting as many Catters as posible, and except for Barky, all have been Mudcat Men. Every one a gentleman, and yet nicely warped, and twisted, each in their own dear way as expected.

And Barky was so wonderful I can't even say. Suffice to say that she was the one I wished could come on the whole road trip with me. Well, actually, any of them would have been great-- blush!!!-- but I actually invited her!

Mudcatters are, however, invariably, Barky included, MUCH cuter than their Mudcat photos. We need to upgrade the pics. One in particular was SO MUCH CUTER than I expected that I had to fan myself!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Mbo
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:51 AM

SIGH!

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Benjamin
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 04:14 AM

I haven't met any! At least not to my knowledge!

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Bert
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:51 PM

Er, confession time. Actually Bill you didn't miss by that much, Tree was coloring my hair, when I first met you (one of the penalties one must pay for marrying a hairdresser). At that time the gray was coming in streaky and I looked like a skunk. It's evened out a bit now so I've let it go natural.

Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Kim C
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 05:13 PM

I haven't met nobody. :( But if you check the What's On chart, maybe you can come see me and Mister this fall. Some of you are in Kentucky and Illinois, yes?

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Susan from California
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 05:37 PM

Bummer. I haven't met anybody either...almost got to meet Praise when she was in CA but she left San Diego before I got home from my Road Trip. Next summer my husband and I are tentatively planning a trip across the southern US, ending up in the Carolinas. He really wants to visit the Gulla (?) islands that are, I'm pretty sure, off the coast of South Carolina... Maybe we can say hello to Mbo and other Southern 'Catters then.

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 06:40 PM

Well I consider myself fortunate to have met about 50 Mudcatters!

Biggest surprise? Catspaw. He's MUCH straighter than he appears on the forum. A quite wonderful guy. (sorry Paw)

Best musician? (with a lot of competition) The beautiful and funny PJ Swan.

Mudcatter I'd most like to be stranded on a desert island with? Duckboots!

I've met some fine people here.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Aug 00 - 10:18 AM

I'm not sure if I can count AllanC and BeauDangles as mudcatters I've met, since I met both of them before I was one... but Bill Sables (I still love the pin!), Moonchild (erstwhile 'catter? At least I met her when she was a member) and Mbo, definitely. There are a lot more I'd LIKE to meet...

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Aug 00 - 10:55 AM

Actually Rick, you've met one more than you know. Remember the year you played at the Mystic Sea Music Festival and lost your little music stand? I'm the guy that returned it to you. I just didn't know about the Mudcat then.

I've met a few other 'Catters. Kendall, of course. You can't be in folk music on the coast of Maine and not know Kendall. Then in June bbc and DuaneD visited my coffeehouse. Jeri, Bat Goddess, and Animaterra (who all live in NH) have each said they would come to visit for some concert, coffeehouse, or something. And I am looking forward to going forth to see others in the New England area. I just missed meeting DWDitty last month.

Once of these days, guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Up Close and Personal
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 24 Aug 00 - 11:04 AM

Whoops, 51 then, Naemanson! Thanks again for finding it. Boy, that's a good festival. I'm doing a concert in Mystic on October 13th (I think..Heather takes care of the booking) Hope to see you again.

Rick