lets start em young

Subject: lets start em young
From: Chip2447
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 01:01 AM

A friend of mine sent me this. These three kids deserve an Honorary membership to Mudcat.

lets start em young.


Chip2447

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: MG John
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 02:39 AM

Absolutely!

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:21 AM

great stuff!

congratulations to them and their parents, or whoever nurtured that talent!

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:34 AM

Good grief.

Here are three 17-year-olds, Too Many Strings, who can actually play traditional music and are getting on with it.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 04:31 AM

I am amazed (chip)

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:00 AM

Incredible - watching those little boys' fingers move over the fretboard!

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:11 AM

The vid is so out of sync with he soundtrack it's really impossible to gauge but the one with the mando thingie doesn't appear to be playing anything like the line that's coming over. I thought they were arseing about and miming.

Too Many Strings, as in link above, is the real thing.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Cath
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 10:50 AM

That's nothing!!
Emma, sister of Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley, is teaching kids from as young as 18 months in Kirkwall. According to the Orcadian she is running The Magic Music Box and the youngest child was 9 months although most are between 4 - 8 years old.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 11:24 AM

These kids don't know they're born. When we were eight week old foetuses, we were taught how to yodel, it was beaten into us - sometimes 16 hours a day.

Tell that to young folks nowadays and they'll say you're talking rubbish.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 11:33 AM

They waited till you were eight weeks old? You jammy sod, you had it easy! They started training me a week before conception.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Cluin
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 11:36 AM

When the rhythm method went awry.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Tootler
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:33 PM

Or try the "Young 'uns" from Hartlepool. Unaccompanied harmony singing.

Mind these lads are positively ancient, all three being recent graduates from Durham University.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Tootler
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:35 PM

I forgot to post a link for the Young 'uns

hear them here

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: GUEST,Crazy Man Michael
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 04:44 PM

"Too Many Strings, as in link above, is the real thing"

riiiggghhhttt...and I suppose this Too Many Strings came out of the womb as full fledged "traditional" musicians.....(complete with instruments)
Everyone has to start at the beginning..and these three young'uns appear to be just getting underway...Good Luck To Them. :-)

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 05:05 PM

depends whose reality you want to be part of - as a Crazy Man you should understand that.

They all look pretty real to me.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: GUEST,Crazy Man Michael
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 05:22 PM

Look and sound are different concepts...think pop music where appearance is everything and real talent has nothing to do with anything...maybe you should go back and listen your Oasis records weelittlewhatsit...those you probably understand.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:26 PM

yeh right....takes someone steeped in the tradition like yourself to recognise what's what.

it wouldn't actually cause you physical pain however to be nice to these kids, or their proud parents, or whoever posted the original message.

sorry, i forgot you were crazy....

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: GUEST,Crazy Man Michael
Date: 04 Aug 07 - 04:26 PM

You totally missed the point, little weewhatsit, and having read other missives posted by you here and elsewhere, you seem to do it constantly...either that or you're severely yanking everyones chain...

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: Cats
Date: 05 Aug 07 - 10:54 AM

We should all just remember, whatever our views, that without kids like these coming through, there will be no tradition left cos noone will be there to take over from us. When the Lakeman's were very young they toddled around the house with fiddles, concertina's etc as toys and look at them now.

Subject: RE: lets start em young
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 05 Aug 07 - 11:15 AM

look at them now

Good grief, I'd rather not look at any Lakeperson, thenkingU.
Not any more, anyway.

What these young persons in the vid were arseing about and presumably miming to was not 'traditional'.
What Too Many Strings do most definitely IS. Look at who Matt Quinn's dad is . . .