Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 01:37 AM

Nose Flute Techniques For Pachyderms

Verdi Arias, Bluegrass Style

Hip-Hop For Septagenarians

Heavy Metal Songs For Hammered Dulcimer

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: artbrooks
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 07:20 AM

Sotto voce techniques for the bodhran

The bodhran as a musical augmentation for sad ballads

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 10:59 AM

Genie,

I'm sure you'd blow them away at a Skip To The Lou workshop, but this workshop will most likely end up inturd and buried with the other failures.


And you're right about its possibly of being a "victim of its own sucess". We dont need an excess of, say, "dishonorable discharges" at the Military Songs workshop, cries of "Thar she blows!" at the Sea Chanteys or any extra "Doo Doo, Run Run Run" over in Doo Wop. Not to mention joyful noises of bass harmony at the Gospel sing.....


And though I know a few Cannibalism songs myself, opening up "The Donner Party Cookbook" might give the caterers ideas. Salisbury Steak for Sunday lunch.No thanks!.......


For the Septagenarians, I'm afraid it would be more like "Hip-Pop", so like the snake handling, the medical insurance wouldn't cover it. Even I at 59 might end up needing either a hip replacement or a charisma transplant after that one, myself! The only Doctor I know will be in the house is jimmyt and he's a dentist.


The Verdi Aria Bluegrass idea makes me mourn the death of John Duffy of Country Gentlemen and Seldom Scene fame, who, being the son of an opera singer, probably actually knew the stuff and possesed of that marvellous piercing tenor and a wicked sense of humor, would be the one person on Earth who could pull it off. With appropriate mandolin accompaniment, of course....

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 11:02 AM

Severn,

You, a "charisma transplant"? Never

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 11:45 AM

"Labor songs collected from Bosses" ! Spit my coffee out over that one. Might be fun to write a few parodies there, though!

How about "Aerosmith to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Zeppelin, 80's Rock as a Gateway to Folk Music" Maybe Matt_R would co-lead it with me!

Dani

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 11:46 AM

PS: good to see you, Edmund.

Dani

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 12:32 PM

Ayeh. Then we could do: "Saddle My Chopper: Agribusiness Roundup Songs".

How about "Executive Suite Little-Known Blues"?

And "Playing the Plain Shovel: Tips and Tricks". "Mastering the Pick-Axe as a Rhythm Instrument".

And "Spoiled Brats Through History: Trust Funds in Song Across the Ages."


And "Literary Connotations and Denotations in Pan-Cultural Confluence: What Jambalaya Really Means".

These might be better as doctoral ftheses.


A

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Mark Ross
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 12:35 PM

Dani,

See if you can find "THE BOSSES SONGBOOK,Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent".

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 12:53 PM

Actually, Mark, I knew of its existance and was hoping the topic would get someone to bring a copy. Alterior motives are at work here.


I'd love to find one. Who publishes it or published it?


All I remember is a friend long, long ago singing something about:


"That dirty Porlatariate
Named Judas Iscariot
Has laid Jesus Christ in his grave...."


.....and me asking "Where did you find THAT?!?!?!"

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 01:12 PM

Amos,

As long as it tastes good and the name sounds good, do you REALLY want to know?


It may be like "Jazz" or "Ditty Wah Ditty" in that "If You have to ask, you'll never know!"


Or it may be a Panderer's Box, like "What Is Folk Music?" where we all may die, some quite happily, some not, in The Quest.


Actually, a complete list of mystery folk words would be interesting. We've already had individual threads on a few, like "Jackamo fee nah hey" (sp.?). Maybe we could pile 'em all in one place and if nothing else, get the spellings right.


Another day, and another thread......

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 02:18 PM

Bagpipe for beginners.

Dan

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 02:20 PM

Hey! I'll sign up for that.


Do I need my own dead goat?

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 02:23 PM

There's a copy of that songbook going for twenty bucks HERE!

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 02:25 PM

One more came up in a search, available HERE:-)

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 04:43 PM

[[[Severn:
Genie, I'm sure you'd blow them away at a Skip To The Lou workshop, but this workshop will most likely end up inturd and buried with the other failures. ]]]
Oy vays mir!!   This is what I'm gonna hafta put up for a whole day before the Getaway!?
LOL
Severn, are you sure you're not related to my dad? ;D

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Mark Ross
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 04:54 PM

Kat,

Those two listings are for the same book from the same seller. I wonder why. I have a copy already. See the other thread on BOSSES SONGBOOK for a list of the contents.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 04:58 PM

How about this one?
"Editing and Rewording Songs For Political Correctness"

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 07:10 PM

Genie,


Am I related to your dad? Only a Genie-ology study can answer that one.

It certainly sounds like I COULD very easily relate to him even if it's not akin to traceable kinship. He sounds like a good man already!

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 07:14 PM

He was, Severn.   Kept up the punning pretty near up to the age of 92. : )

Which brings up another workshop idea that'd probably fail:

"Song Puns That Don't Make You Groan"

G

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Amos
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 09:19 PM

Just don't strap Severn in your engine compartment on the way down to the getaway, Genie, or he'll start punning on the Cam, and we'll all be shafted.


A

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 08:12 PM

New workshop:   Sarah Palin's songs of Peace and Brotherhood

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:14 PM

Traditional Influences in the Music of Iggy Pop

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:47 PM

Finding Peace Through Meditation -- Songs of Enlightenment from the Unpublished Writings of John McCain, DOnald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Karl Rove

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 08:00 PM

I have a copy of The Bosses' Songbook that I bought in 1958 for 25c. I have photocopied it once, and I will do it again, free.

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 08:40 PM

How to Make Chord Sheets

Make Your Own Music Stand

~S~

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Genie
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 01:10 AM

The Use Of Wah-Wah Pedals In Trad Music