Auction Update

Subject: Auction Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 May 05 - 11:01 PM

Kendall has placed a copy of Beginner's Luck (cassette) up for auction. I wore my first one out and bought a second and can recommend it without reservation. Of course, I am a Kendall groupie and am slightly prejudiced.
Bid high and bid often!
SINS

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: kendall
Date: 23 May 05 - 11:46 AM

It's for a good cause, the Mudcat!

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:28 PM

Must be made with cheap materials if the first one didn't last long. Maxell makes quality producats.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 May 05 - 12:35 PM

Five years of continuous playing with frequent rewindings. And by the way, Guest, go fuck yourself.
Mary Sunshine

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 May 05 - 07:05 PM

Ditto from me Guest.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 May 05 - 07:14 PM

If as dumb as he shows - probably can't read the stick figure drawings how to do that....

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 05 - 09:19 PM

Now now girls, Guest didn't knock the material, just the quality of the tape itself.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: Peace
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:17 AM

Mary Sunshine. Nice ring to it, that.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 05 - 01:50 AM

GUEST - has a valid point-

Many tapes - constructed on quality materials - will last two, four, even six-fold as long as the half-decade attributed to this tape's offered life.

IF - You want to make a successful sale in a MudCat forum (where grifters and wankers, and buskers - lay fame) then perhaps a little more DETAIL would enhance the sale.

Players - All
Singers - All (including other nomelclures/alias)
Recording Mechanism - ALL (machine, logistics, auditorium, microphones)
Sound Editing Software - ALL
Mixers - Names
PUBLISHING MEDIUM - What MANUFACTOR produced the hard-product you recorded to?

MOST of us have a heady stash of PIGS-IN-THE-Poke - what makes your recording different? What will allow it to last beyond six years that a previousl poster verified its limited quality?

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: kendall
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:21 AM

This tape/CD has been reviewed extensivly over the past 5 years by many different Mudcatters. None have been returned for a refund. However, for those who haven't heard, here is some info:

BEGINNER'S LUCK RECORDED IN 1995

Kendall Morse, lead singer and guitar.
Tom Rowe of Schooner Fare harmony and bass.
Evans Fitch Dobro
Don Campbell banjo
Greg Boardman viola
Chuck Romanoff of Schooner Fare, harmony

I can't quote technical details except to say it was recorded by Tom Rowe and reproduced by Klarity Kassettes of Auburn Maine. I find no

fault with the product except the mistakes I made.

Since this recording was made, Tom Rowe and Evans Fitch have passed on.
If anyone who has this recording would care to comment on it, be my guest.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:42 AM

OK - I'm biased but I would say that this is the best work that Kendall has produced and, having listened to other singer's versions of the songs, he can stand up to comparison without any problem.

Added to that the second half of the tape is a collection of his Maine stories, which are well worth listening to both for the content and his delivery. That makes this tape quite unique.

The tracks are:-

SONGS
The Three Legged Man
The Haying Song
Gently Down The Stream Of Time
Mrs Ravoon
Phoebe Snow (one of my favourites)
Palace Grand
Ashes On The Sea (Utah Phillips chose Kendall's recording of this song to put on his latest cd - Songbook)
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle told Kendall that he had done this song in exactly the way he had meant it to be sung, unlike some other recordings)
Rolling Home

The spoken tracks are:-
The Big Family
Uriah Boardman - The Seagull
Uriah Boardman - The Pullman Car
Uriah Boardman - The Flower Show
The Dunbar Sisters - Two Old Maids
The Dunbar Sisters - Effie's Privy
Clyde and Maude Go Flying
Orrin Seavey's Accident
Beginner's Luck

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:23 AM

Up to $15 for a cassette that won't last five years if you play it every day and rewind it constantly to re-hear your favorites. Some people never learn. By the way, as if this needs repeating, "Phoebe Snow" is my favorite track.

As to the humorous stories - my Dad kept a copy of this in his hospital room and at home to help him laugh thru the rough spots. I will always be grateful to Kendall for making Dad's last year easier, in fact for making him laugh out loud. I keep my copy in the car and Dad's in my house - I do re-play this one a lot. Kendall at his best.

SINS, back to her old, nasty self.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:48 AM

I don't think I've ever heard Kendall off his form - heck, even when he could barely croak out a couple words!

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:03 AM

Oh, I don't know, Leo. I remember a night when Kendall began singing "Palace Grand" to a dewy eyed Max who sat in worship at his feet wearing his hero's hat. Seems to me the Captain lost it and never quite got it back 'til the next day. Couldn't even keep control of "Irene, Goodnight".

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:08 AM

hee-hee! I stand corrected.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: kendall
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:55 AM

We had both been "over served" you know!

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 May 05 - 05:36 PM

$21 and climbing. Maybe he'll make enough to buy some Maxells after all. Oh, I forgot...100% to Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 08:01 PM

This is it folks, if you want it, better bid before midnight or it goes to OZ.

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 08:36 PM

Ha ha!

It's MINE!

Money? eh, what do you mean I have to send you money?

Subject: RE: Auction Update
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 09:08 PM

At midnight it's yours. That's midnight here, Mudcat time.