How hooked are you?

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM

It's good to have passions. Remember to keep it in a positive light.

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 05:53 AM

Hi.

My name is Amos and I am addicted to playing and singing, doodling on my guitar or my other guitar or my banjo or my...wait, that's not a musical instrument! :>) Sorry.

I am also addicted to looking up and down the Mudcat threads, hoping to learn something new about a tune, or a new tune, or just listen to the laughter of folkies running through hyperspace.

I don't see any way out of it, either!

:>)

A

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:06 PM

Hi, I'm Emma and I'm a musicaholic.....this is starting to sound like an AA meeting!!

I first played an instrument at the age of 4....the penny whistle.....when my dad insisted I learnt Dubliner's songs on it.....so I soon ran away from that.

At the age of 7 i started recorder at primary school, which was ok.....it was easy and it got me reading music.

At age 9 I started to play the trumpet and this became the main focus of my life up until the age of 18. I used to be in orchestras and bands and I would go all over england with them playing concerts and I even went to Denmark and france with a couple of bands.

I drifted away from this when i went to uni though, but play again now.

At the age of 14 I started learning guitar...and at 15 I got an electric guitar and amp for christmas...I no longer play these instruments as I have forgotten my chords.

While at university I got dragged into a rapper team and thought about how much I liked the music...so I started on the Bodhran. I now play a seamus o'kane and it is my life....i feel lost if I do not play it at least once a day.....and it's so beautiful.....you can get scales out of it and play tunes on the thing!! I'll put CD's on just so I can drum along.....I have RSI in my wrist and arm and shoulder from playing and at the beginning of festival season my doctor told me not to play for 4 months......he nearly ended up neading a trip to hospital for treatment himself after saying that!! So, as you can see, I am hooked on the bodhran.

About 1 1/2 years ago I started playing the penny whistle.....and I love it. I have about 5/6 all in different keys....but I don't love playing them as much as I love playing my bodhran.....yes I know I'm sad!! Told ya I was a nutcase!! Guess that's how I found all these wierd people and ended up on the cat!!

I also own a djembi...which I love to play if I'm angry or down as it's so loud and I can relieve all my tension with it. It doesn't venture out into public too often though.

I also have an accorion which I tarted playing in august last year.....and i love playing that, and I've also got an amazing accordionist as a teacher (Sam Pirt), so what more could I want!

then, my housemate catsPHiddle invested in a flute and I love playing that.....I play it more than she does!!

I have also been known to dabble in such instruments as cornet, flugel horn, piano, pipe and tabor and I'm quite partial to playing my friends electric chanter!!

I also play the tambourine and the shaky egg!!

Do I qualify as hooked????

Jez xxxx ;) *bg*

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: C-flat
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:47 PM

I have played guitar for 30 years and have instruments all round the house. This has been an occasional source of friction with my long suffering partner who also puts up with my incessant "doodling" on guitar. I may be watching T.V. and hear something in the soundtrack or on an advertisment that makes my ears prick up and I'm off "doodling" again. I play every day unless I'm away from home and have been known to drag my family around while on holiday in search of a guitar shop so I can get a fix!

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:48 PM

It all started innocently enough. My Dad brought home a couple of Kingston Trio records.That kept me quite happy for several years. Everything probably would have been fine; I would have grown up a happy, normal human , but it was not to be. It all came crashing down when Mom went out and bought an album by *gasp* Peter, Paul and Mary!!

Suddenly, too much was never enough. I had to have MORE -- Dylan,Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds.It wasn't long before I had to start seeking out the harder stuff -- Pete Seeger, Frank Proffit, PHIL OCHS!!!

But the moment I knew that it was all over; that my soul was irretrievable was when I STARTED WRITING MY OWN SONGS!!!!!

STOP ME BEFORE I YODEL AGAIN!!!!! :>))

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:07 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: How hooked are you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 12:52 PM

Here is a fun thread- no matter what the political situation is 'out there', in here we have music...

(I miss Rick)