Buddy Wassisname etc

Subject: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 10:27 AM

Here are a couple of clips of the lads.click

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 10:40 AM

Is you 'appy?

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 12:26 PM

'By the Glow of the Kerosene Light' is luscious.

Eb

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 12:33 PM

You're right, Ebbie, it is. These guys are great.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:32 PM

. . . and then there's Peein' In The Snow and other classics ~~ my favorite is Chainsaw Earle.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 02:33 PM

Ah you guys have got good taste.Y had some downloads somewhere that have the full records on them.If anyone is interested I will look for them and post them here.ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 01:11 AM

Yes please, LJC.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 04:57 AM

Peein' in the Snow, definitely, Dale. A classic. Heck, I've even got the songbook!

sian, west wales

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:54 AM

Go here and click on the box in the lower left corner that says "Click here for a view of... Life In "The Pits"".

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:15 AM

And if you go here, and click on some of the album covers, you can find some more sound clips.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 08:05 AM

Ah think ah postit this Newfoundland site afore,tho,no' aboot BWIF.However,here it is again.Go tae comedy ,the bwif,then click oan the album.Dinnae miss "The Yammie".click

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 08:48 AM

Oh, ljc, if I was up there on The Rock right now, I would most probably have to give you a great big fat slobbery kiss! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:16 AM

If ye get here ah'll take ye up oan that.Then we can jump oan the Harley an' nip oot tae Glovertown an' Job's Cove tae see the lads. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:00 PM

Sounds great ljc!

Maybe I can persuade Jack the Sailor, Little Hawk, and gnu to go with me on a road trip up there next summer ;-)

( ...and maybe stop off at Naemanson's wedding on the way)

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 09:17 PM

Aye,august when the folk festival is oan.ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:36 PM

Hoping to be on the Grand Codroy come July or August month. But workload will dictate that event. Might be able to get a side trip in, if I can get the main trip in visiting the Codroy Crowd. Might even be able to work it into the workload !? Must work on that. Been far too long.

Pray tell, what's the festival's name ? Is there a website ? Does the Provincial Government put out any info ? Will there be a drop or two ?

My apologies, ljc, I know I asked you this before... I got a memory like a steel trap, but it's rusted open. Where are you to ?

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 06:41 PM

click I am in Torbay awaaay on the other side of the island.This is the big on as we have guests and visitors from all over the world to it.There are lots of others all over though.I told Fielding to get in touch with Frank Maher about appearing here.He should not have any bother. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 06:50 AM

Right early August ! Regatta ! When the population of George Street, the pub district, swells to that of Orillia ! Wish I had a dog cart just that one night, with an endless supply of dogs and wurst.

Torbay. That would be quite a side trip. It would take about a week because I wouldn't be able to pass up visiting buddies along the way.

CC... if you are planning a road trip around then, you'd better make your ferry reservations soon.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:51 AM

Here's a quick tour.click

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:11 PM

Aaargh! You have to book the ferries that far in advance? How much do those buggers cost, anyway?

Here's a link for the words to "The Yammie", otherwise known as "The Copper", for those of us who need some help with the translatin'

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:23 PM

CarolC me duckie,that's no' the yammie.It's the chopper.Two different monologues.ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:24 PM

Or maybe "The Chopper" and "The Yammie" aren't the same thing. I'm confused now. But I thought I saw the words to "The Yammie" somewhere.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:25 PM

Oops. Cross posted, ljc.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 08:12 PM

He took the engine from the Vette Chopper an' put it in the Ski-doo. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 08:25 PM

That's right! And I couldn't understand as much of that story because I hadn't read it first like I did with "The Chopper". I'm going to have to go listen to it a few more times. Great stuff!

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: Justa Picker
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 08:41 PM

Their official web site is here.

Subject: ADD: Chainsaw Earl
From: little john cameron
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 10:33 PM

Chainsaw Earl

He was skinny as a rake like two by four
Ugly as sin born premature
Mother had trouble trying to take
To a kid that looked like a garden rake
All sons are sons and Dad wasn't proud
Didn't make him feel like one of the crowd
Wood-cuttin' boys from up in the sticks laughed at the sight of Earl.
(Wimp!)

He was treated like scum and he felt like dirt
Couldn't lift a chain saw...make it work
Father often said that he didn't have a clue
And Mother didn't feed him and he hardly grew
(Hungry!..I'm hungry!)
So Earl disappeared for fifteen years
Father didn't miss him and his Mother didn't care
After a while they forgot about Earle
and his girlfriend said "Who cares?"

Stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned Earle
Stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned Earle
Stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned Earle

In this little town life went on the same
'Til one hot July....and no rain came
Great big fires set the country ablaze
And everyone cuttin' fire breaks
Aw they sawed and they sawed but they couldn't outrun
The smoky fumes and the firey tongues
They were losin' fast, it was lookin' bad
Who would save their town?
(Save me! Save Me!)

And nobody knew neither foe nor friend
That Earle had grown to seven foot ten
Arms like culverts, legs like trees
Fists like hammers and hairy knees (Shave me! Shave me!)
Far off in the woods above the din and the roar
Came a sound nobody had heard before
Trees were fallin' like a tidal wave
To a monster Johnsonred chainsaw.

Chain, chain, chain saw Earle
Chain, chain, chain saw Earle
Chain, chain, chain saw Earle

His cutter bar was ten foot two
Turned the air all purple and blue
Tasmanian devil in twenty minutes flat
Made the landscape look just like Iraq
With the trees all limbed and the fire break made
The townsfolk saved from a charcoal grave
People gathered, shouted and cheered.... (Hooray!)
For this forest disposal unit

Lightin up a smoke he let the chain saw down
Said, "I'm the guy who saved your town!"
Then Earle knocked over a drum of gas
Just as he threw away his match
All the gas exploded and the town burned flat
And Earle ran off just like a scalded cat
Its been fifteen years his Father said,.
.. "And he's still as stunned as me arse!"

(Sing it) Stunned, stunned, stunned as me arse
Stunned, stunned, stunned as me arse
Stunned, stunned, stunned as me arse .... was Earle.

Whew!!!ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: 53
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 11:25 PM

How about the Derailers?

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 07:00 AM

CC...

http://www.marine-atlantic.ca/

If you get your dates narrowed down, I can give you some advice on when to cross and when not to cross. Some ships are better than others, especially on the Argentia crossing.

I have an inside track... I worked with the ferries for seven years.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 03:36 PM

That's good to know, gnu. Thanks. We might need your inside connection.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 03:41 PM

little john cameron

When did they move Torbay **G** If I remember correctly in the summer you can get from Torbay to Bannerman park in 1/2 hour easily. were you thinking about the Hangashore festival?

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 03:48 PM

Naw that's no' whit a meant.Ah meant fae the Codroy valley.ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 04:29 PM

Gotcha!!

How about the Conception Bay Festival, less crowded, quite traditional and close to my hometown... Bay Roberts

Carbonear (Conception Bay festival, second longest running festival in the province), held the last full weekend of July, so if the George Street festival is held then and loud rock music and hordes of boisterous partially drunken late teen and early twenty sorts and rock fans are not your cup of tea, or just to catch some celtic and other folk music in a semi-rural environment, check it out.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 04:41 PM

Aye ye're right,bit whit aboot the offal. LOL. LJC

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 06:03 PM

tsk !

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: GUEST,Buddy Wasisname
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 09:38 AM

I thought I'd get in here and alert you all to our site, it's www.buddywasisname.com Thanks to carol who alerted me to the existance of the Mudcat Cafe, I must've heard about it before but I'm here now, what a site! I just cant find any of our song lyrics on the Lyrics pages, any suggestions, or questions? Buddy

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 09:45 AM

I vouch for this guest. I know it's the real Buddy Wasisname because I just got an e-mail from him/them.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:03 AM

Welcome Kevin,excuse the madness that is going on here at the moment.Max will sort it out eventually!I suppose you guys are having a rest for a while.All that gallivantin is enough to addle you.
How are the old tendons?Funny thing is that on the same day i nearly chopped my hand of with a grinder.Still get tingles when anything touches it lightly.
Lots of stuff going on here on the Island these days.A far cry from when we started eh?
Anyway welcome again.ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:19 AM

Kevin... come on in and haul up a stump ! Like ljc said, ignore all the "GUEST" threads on at the moment. You'll enjoy all the time you care to spend with this crowd. There are lots of great music discussions and great "philosophical" debates. Laughter is a staple around here.

Welcome.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:30 AM

Mostly by that great Irish bard"Phil O'Sophical" ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 04:36 PM

Well, I have a question. How did you (ljc and gnu) know it was Kevin? (If in fact it was.)

Which leads me to my next question...

For the fellers: What's the story behind the name? Are you guys a collective like the Borg, and you all use the name "Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers", or is one of you "Buddy" (Kevin maybe?) and the other fellers are the Other Fellers?

And my last question (for now)...

Do you guys need someone to play piano accordion for you? (Just kidding. I really suck. But in a very sincere sort of way.)

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 04:46 PM

I just followed ljc's lead, assuming he knew it was Kevin at the controls.

Now, CC, you really left that wide open. Spaw would jump on you so quickie for that.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 04:51 PM

Buddy's name is Kevin Blackmore,sure ah thocht aw'body knew that!
Here in Newfoundland Buddy is a catch-all name when the persons name is not known.The other fellas his buddies.The story goes that whe the lads got together the were not too familiar,so they were called BWOF..
Too late Carol,Ray would get jealous. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 06:30 PM

Wide open is it gnu? Hmmm.... I can think of a few other people who might jump me ...ahem, jump on me for that besides Spaw.

Well, ljc, I hope you can forgive the ignorance of a poor hangashore living in West Virginia. But I only just discovered the wonders of BWOF after you posted this thread.

In fact, as much as I find that I love it, I'm very much a newcomer to Newfoundland culture in general, and I still have a lot to learn.

Now, I agree that Ray is a mighty fine accordionist. But he only has buttons, and not too many basses, if any. Surely everyone could use an accordionist with 120 basses total, including one whole row just for looking at (but never to play). However, I think the chances are very good that I am not that person.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 08:19 PM

Aw Carol,if ye've no' seen Buddy in person then ye've missed a vision o' Newfoundland manhood.The sheer occular magnificence portrayed is impossible to convey in mere words.Charisma is only a joke tae this man. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 08:32 PM

Here ye go then.click

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 08:58 PM

ljc, once again, I find that I am profoundly in your debt. You were right! If ever there was a man who could wear plaid and yellow (and stuff), Buddy is certainly that man! What's it going to take for me to repay your wonderful kindness this time?

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 09:25 PM

Ah'll hae ye know ah'm a sick man.Ah'm a sucker for weemin accordion players.Mah psychiartist has banned me fae listenin tae Sharon Shannon records,an she disnae play oney bass notes.For Gawds sake dinnae tell me ye play the fiddle tae.If ye ever get tae Newfoundland ye'll hae the time o' yer life.Mudcatter Frank Maher has umpteen accordion records in his collection.Ah'll see if ah can find some o' his oan the net. ljc

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: CarolC
Date: 13 Feb 02 - 08:35 PM

No fiddle ljc. But I really enjoy the basses. So what with the keyboard, the basses, and the bellows (where the spirit of the instrument lives), I think I've got about as much as I can handle at one time. Although I did see a man play the accordion and a trumpet at the same time on a movie once.

Looks like the trip probably won't be happening anyway. Nobody wants to go with me. Ah well. Probably make your psychiatrist's life a little easier anyway. I guess I'll have to figure out another way to return your generosity.

Subject: RE: Buddy Wassisname etc
From: little john cameron
Date: 13 Feb 02 - 09:01 PM

How about getting Fielding to get of his arse and get a booking at the folk festival.Then you could come with him.ljc