Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Melani
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 12:05 AM

Edsel was wonderful! He was always very nice to me, in his own bizarre fashion. His best parlor trick was to pour tea from two pots into one tiny cup--spilling it all over the table in the process. Then he'd wash the table with the spilled tea. Then he'd give you a towel and a stack of dishes and tell you to dry them. It was something to do while waiting for your food.

The noodles at Sam Wo's are way greasy, but the thick rice soup (jook) is the best.

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 04:38 AM

Noodles, smack, smack!

Here we come! Out the door at 4 AM!

zzzzzzzz,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 01:30 AM

Charley -

How do you like Italian food? I'll get you (and any other 'catters wanting to go) to a very nice restaurant in North beach which happens to be near Spec's bar. Tommasso's. They haven't changed the decor since 1935 when it opened, and their brick oven pizza is to die for. I get the cheeseless pizza, which has the tastiest and freshest homeade pizza sauce you could hope for. An old family-run outfit with wait staff who have been there for years. Good chicken dishes, too. Francis Ford Coppola's favorite SF Italian restaurant..until he opened his own bistro..but maybe Tommasso is still his favorite!

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 01:50 PM

Chanteyranger--

Nice of you to offer to get s there. Count me in!! PM me for the address to send the ticket!!

:>)

Hope Charley has a bang up time with all you really good guys!


A

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 12:29 AM

Your on, Amos....I believe America West has a red-eye special :-).

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Charley Noble in Hollister,CA
Date: 09 Sep 02 - 11:58 PM

Happy to report that Judy and I safely arrive in San Francisco, and managed to connect with Richard , Chantyranger and the rest of the gang aboard the Thayer Saturday night. Must of been 60 or 70 folks stuffed into the hold, taking turns leading songs. I was pleased to learn that $7 or 8 million has been approved by the feds to renovate the Thayer, which at this point needs much more than band-aids and duct-tape. We also got a chance to search out relics of the Old Barbary Coast, locating the Hippodrone and the Old Ship Saloon. We certainly enjoyed some fine Italian food at Fior d'Italia and a beer at the Vesuvio's Cafe. We located Spec's but we really felt we needed a critical mass before proceeding within...Luckily we'll be back in San Francisco this week-end for another round, and a music swap at the San Francisco Folk Club saturday afternoon and a shanty party at Richard's on Sunday afternoon.

Cheerily for now,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 12:08 AM

I just KNEW I was gonna be jealous. Now I am!!! Dang!! I must be psychic or somp'n, huh? But boy, am I jealous!! :>)


A

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 04:56 PM

It was great to see you at the chantey sing. Charley sang his version of a C. Fox Smith poem about Shanghai Brown (the poem title escapes me) and it is a gem. Charley was modest about the originality of his melody, having been inspired by several other melodies in order to compose it. I liken that to a dish: the ingredients are already there but it's the cook who puts them together and makes them into a signature dish. So, I would give Charley his due for composing a fine melody to go with the poem.

There were actually almost 200 people counted at the chantey sing, Charley. It is amazing how many people fit down there. Amos - I hope you can get to the chantey sing if your next trip up this way coincides with the 1st Saturday of the month.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 05:02 PM

CR,

If there is anyway to get that to occur, I'll be there with eight bells on, skipper!

A

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Charley Noble on to Big Sur
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 07:04 PM

Thanks, Chantyranger, for the kind words about my musical arrangement for "Shanghai Passage." But folks should also listen to Danny Macleod's version as well, and at least credit Danny with inttroducing the rest of us to C. Fox Smith's wonderful poems.

Some day soon I'm going up to Victoria to nose around where she used to work (no one quite knows what she was working at for she wasn't financially independent) in the early 1900's and listen to the stories of the old shipkeepers.

Today we lunched at San Juan Bautista, which may not have changed that much from when Dana last visited before writing TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. Yum!!!

Off to lunch at Big Sur tomorrow. Haven't been there since 1965.

Cheerily,

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Sep 02 - 09:37 PM

Hey Chanteyranger, you noticed that quirk in Charley's personnality, a bit to modest. He also did wonders with the Yankzee River Shanty. What he's calling his "musical arrangements" others might call tune crafting, writting music or setting poems into songs. I like your comparision to the cook & his ingredients, the notes & melodies are floating about waiting for someone like Charlie who has the gift for arranging them into a masterpiece. Gezzz, Charlie's gonna be, rightfully & noblely red faced. So Charlie what ya gotta do now is go into Spec's by your lonesome (you don't want your wife to see this) & get one of the regulars to get up off their duff & slap that modest looking facial arrangement off your gob & thank him for doing such a good job of it, then tune up your banjo & sing a couple of your songs & you'll be drinking for free all night long. Really if you go into that leery looking bar looking to get slapped you may walk out disappointed & don't pay attention to that man behind the curtain or to any of your 1st impressions. I came upon this place 20? yrs ago with RiGGy (say hi for me if you meet him, great guy & a hell've a singer & a musician) we were prodded into (I think that's how it went, ask RiGGy) taking out our instruments & playing, I think we ended up drinking for nothing & all the cheese we could eat, on the house. That bartender's dead & gone now but I'm sure there's someone just as nice behind the bar now. Have a great time & see ya when you get back, minus the facial finger imprints. Oh, be carefull the Swans & all those other Catters, they'll treat you so well & then soon they'll be convincing & your wife that you need to live out. They're a slick crowd don't pay them any mind either. Barry

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 02:49 AM

Don't mind Barry's typo. He put an "L" that shouldn't be there into a word in that last sentence.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Naemanson
Date: 11 Sep 02 - 12:14 PM

Charley! I dug out the banjo and find I am ready for my banjo lessons. What are you doing on the wrong coast?

Sounds like you are having a great time.

Brett

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Charley Noble in Palo Alto
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 05:00 PM

Brett-first take a good strong boltcutter and open the jaws w-i-d-e and clamp onto them strings. That should do as a good start until I can get home and provide more useful follow-up.;~)

Wow, Barry, can I use that as a quote on our website?

We had a great re-acquitence gathering last night with our old music friends in Palo Alto singing a nice bluesy version of "Titanic", some Obray Ramsey songs, Carter Family, and my rearranged C. Fox Smith sea poems to old Appalacian tunes. Also had fun with my folk-processed "West Indies Blues" which would have made it to the top 10 chart in the 1960's if the Kingston Trio had ever gotten hold of it; my mother still complains that I changed the tune.

Say, Richard, has our shipment of ROLL & GO: Outward Bound CD's finally come in? If so, please bring or send a set for show and tell on Saturday for the 3 pm gathering of the SF Folk Club at Faith Petric's. Don't forget to remind folks about that secret Sunday afternoon gathering at your house. We'll try to place a set of the CD's at the Museum Store at the Hyde Street Pier; you too can hear "Yangtse River Shanty" led in robust fashion by Dick Dufresne. Others can access a sample on our website:www.rollandgoseasongs.com if curious.

Big Sur was still there by the way, and we tried vainly to photograph those humungous trees between Santa Cruz and Saratoga along Rt. 9, needed bigger lenes, big wide angle held sideways.

Back to San Francisco to Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf Saturday morning.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:51 PM

Radriano had a nice party for Charley Sunday night, with sushi and Maine songs and sea songs. Nice to meet you, Charley.
Don't pay attention to what I said about your banjo in the sushi thread. You certainly do a song justice, you do.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Charley Noble in Sheridan
From: Barbara
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 09:29 PM

Joe-

Not to worry about them banjo jokes. Besides, it was Jim Nelson's banjo I was using, not my own. Nice to finally meet you in person as well, and to assist your navigation through the streets of San Francisco at breakneck speeds to our digs at Fisherman's Wharf.

Nice party, and in spite of my misgivings lots of fine folks showed up. Carol did wonderful job singing while playing concertina. Bill was there with more fine shanties and other oddities. Melanie with a rousing version of "Roll Down" and Jim with a nice rendition of "Paddy West" barely escaping the ritual bucket of water from Judy. Sharyn was spirited enough to join Judy to steal "Dead Dog Cider" at the appropriate moment into "Rise Again" but maybe you had to be there to fully appreciate this.;~)

Gonna miss these folks, and many thanks to Richard for hosting this one.

Richard- not to worry about the Roll & Go CD's. They were delayed again in production and I'm having the full set of 1000 sent back to Maine. We'll start a new thread to test interest but folks can always contact me directly at www.rollandgoseasongs.com

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Sep 02 - 01:45 PM

Refresh-just in case anyone missed some of the glowing comments and inspired reflections.

The Roll & Go CD's did arrive safe and sound in Maine; check our website for how best to prochure them:www.rollandgoseasongs.com
Great to be home! And if you're coming this way for return hospitality, be sure to give me two hours notice.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: breezy
Date: 29 Sep 02 - 01:51 PM

Can I bring the wife and 3 boys? this afternoon!I want to hear your 'Bully'

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: mack/misophist
Date: 29 Sep 02 - 02:23 PM

Some self importand ass is bound to say "Don't call it Frisco". When they do, tell them that the men that wrote and sang that song was from Sacramento.

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:17 PM

I'm negoitiating with the museum store at Hyde St. Pier to carry our new Roll & Go CD. Richard very graciously says he's putting in a good word for us.



Did anyone attend the Johnson Girls' concert aboard the Balclutha? Should have been a blast.



Cheerily,

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:30 PM

"Frisco" was the sailors term for SF. A perfectly legit, historical nickname, so I agree with Misophist.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Charley Noble Off to Frisco:9/5
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 01 Oct 02 - 05:25 PM

Yeah, call it Frisco anytime you like--I'm from Chicago, doesn't bother me any.

And yes, the Johnson Girls concert was a blast. Their harmonies and arrangements are wonderful, and you could actually work to them besides--what it would have sounded like on board ship if sailors could sing. Everyone who doesn't already have it should get their CD immediately.