Subject: On a deserted island with? From: Clipper Date: 16 Apr 08 - 10:40 PM So you're lost at sea...you wash up on shore after bobbing in the Atlantic clinging to a 2 x 4 piece of driftwood for 4 days. You crawl onto an uncharted desert isle (sorry Gilligan). You know you're here for a long,long,time. The sun burns the seawater in your eyes. You look up as you collapse onto the burning sand and you see a blurred figure of a musician(s) standing before you. "My god" you cry out with your last bit of strength, "I can't believe my good fortune. If i'm to be stuck here for years, at least I can listen to you play 7 days a week"...So who would it be? Dylan? Charles? Stevie Ray? Chopin? Cohen? The key here is who would you not get completely bored with after a week or so and then have this artist or group turn your experience into a "groundhog day hell" for many years after. Can you think of someone who's songwriting repetoire and skills would have the depth and talent to stand the test of time...your time? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Janie Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:03 PM Joni Mitchell or Stevie Wonder. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Beer Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:07 PM John Prine. Dylan would be first for his writing but his singing after a month day in day out would drive me nuts. However, you forgot to mention the opposite sex!! I would gladly spend a few months listening to Emmylou Harris, Lacy J. Dalton and even Shaina. There are certainly others but maybe later. Beer (adrien) |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Barry Finn Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:11 PM The Dixi Chicks Barry |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Beer Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:20 PM Dolly Parton "Yes" |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Gulliver Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:31 PM Marilyn Monroe Don |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: theleveller Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:20 AM The Royal Airforce Air-Sea Rescue Squad band. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Rasener Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:31 AM Girls Aloud One for each working day and the other 2 days to recover and listen to their music. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: skarpi Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:40 AM Björk ofcourse , who else ? becouse she is her self to be ..................... ATB Skarpi |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: fat B****rd Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:48 AM Tom Waits, he could build things. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Bernard Quenby Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:57 AM Any quality guitar maker (so long as he had the materials!) |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Little Robyn Date: 17 Apr 08 - 04:29 AM Pete Seeger. But about 40 years ago maybe. Robyn |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Folkiedave Date: 17 Apr 08 - 04:41 AM Cherish the Ladies |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Marje Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:03 AM Thank you, leveller, you've given me my first laugh-out-loud of the day! Me, I'd have John Kirkpatrick. Marje |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: LindsayInWales Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:08 AM George Butterworth please... |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Clipper Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:38 AM I'm surprised no-one thought of The Shmenge Brothers.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DkqyMKfDbE Polka gets such a bad rap..... |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Jeanie Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:01 AM Without a doubt: Stephen Sondheim (plus piano, of course). I would never tire of singing along and dancing, and I'm sure he'd be very interesting and entertaining company to talk to, too. - jeanie |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:04 AM Kirsty Young. No competition. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: George Papavgeris Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:16 AM Dolly Parton. Just love that voice. Failing that, Jordan. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Georgiansilver Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:34 AM Kate Rusby...she could sing 'You Belong to Me' and we could...'See the sunrise from a tropic isle' (In Yorkshire accent of course). Don't think it would be music all the time though! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: greg stephens Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:46 AM The Bangles |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST, Sminky Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:48 AM Liberace. After eating him I would make a nifty sailing boat out of his piano. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: theleveller Date: 17 Apr 08 - 07:36 AM "Dolly Parton. Failing that, Jordan." Is that some kind of life jacket - like an updated Mae West? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: George Papavgeris Date: 17 Apr 08 - 07:47 AM Pre-xactly! If one fails, you blow up the other. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Silver Slug Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:02 AM Girls RLewd - a half day with each one and then 4.5 days to recover from having to list to their music! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Silver Slug Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:08 AM Not to mention listening to them whilst I'm listing, presumably to port! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Rasener Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:11 AM >>"Dolly Parton. Failing that, Jordan." Is that some kind of life jacket - like an updated Mae West? << It was in actual fact George making a big boob of things |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: George Papavgeris Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:31 AM Les, you misunderstand me. OK then, Madonna. You know, the one with whatchamacallit. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: bankley Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:33 AM Gilligan |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:42 AM June Tabor or Mozart...or both |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Rasener Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:59 AM Yes George, always getting to the point :-) |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: The Sandman Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:04 AM the Wilson Family. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: pdq Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM Mike Auldridge... eventually he would have to give me Dobro lessons. Lessons for fish? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Banjiman Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:08 AM The Mrs Should I pass out the vomit bags for you now....I know it is a bit of a nauseating response! ......but I do hear her sing most days now and I can certainly stand a few more years of it. Paul |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: topical tom Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:12 AM Eric Bogle and Dolly Parton. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:55 AM "Eric Bogle and Dolly Parton" I don't think I could handle the ensuing ménage á trois... (Oh, sod it, one of the accents the wrong bloody way round again...why can't these foreigners speak English...) |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Anne Lister Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:02 AM Alan Rickman. I don't care if he doesn't write songs, he can sing and I can always write songs for both of us.... That's if I'm not allowed my husband, of course. (added in haste) Anne |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Bill D Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:19 AM hmmm...the most recent encounter with someone whose music I could appreciate for years was with Danny Spooner....as long as we're out of earshot of you lot with Dolly Parton. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 17 Apr 08 - 01:37 PM Probably Sam Hinton, a local folk hero of some magnitude who has recently removed to a retirement home. Sam, who I had the pleasure of meeting and swapping songs with in the home of mutual friends years ago, was a treasure of song and story and a wonderfully broad based conversationalist on subjects from literature to oceanography. I first saw him perform at the old Ash Grove, in Los Angeles, in the very early 1960's, along with Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and a new singer making her debut, Jackie DeShannon. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Jean(eanjay) Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:46 PM K. D. Lang If I ever move from the UK I'm off to Canada. They have some talent there and they are so sensible too! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Leadfingers Date: 17 Apr 08 - 02:51 PM Mary Smith ! Then we really COULD rehearse ! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Bill D Date: 17 Apr 08 - 03:47 PM ...and play some music, too! ☺ |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Clipper Date: 17 Apr 08 - 09:44 PM Elvis....just think, he could sing Hound Dog to you daily, forcing you to spend countless sleepless nights trying to figure out what he means when he sings "you ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine". Can someone enlighten me here? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 17 Apr 08 - 10:54 PM Marta Sebestyen. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Beer Date: 17 Apr 08 - 11:18 PM Loved Elvis. Learned to Jive because of his music. But now that I'm older I would prefer to have someone that wrote their music. To my knowledge Elvis didn't write but interpreted songs that others did. Big Mamma Thorton wrote Hound Dog as an example. Give me someone that can write,sing and arrange music. Like the following. David Massengill John Prine Ray Materick Guy Clarke Tom Russell Iris Dement Ron Hynes Bruce Murdock Gordon Lightfoot Dolores Keane Tom Waits Jerry Jeff Walker Tom Paxton Arlo and his Father Just to name a few.Great thread by the way. Keep it up. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Barry Finn Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:43 AM Silly Sisters I'd need to keep more than my ears alive, if I were to be stuck on an island with another for any amount of time I'd have to keep my eyes delighted too. Any other needs I'd keep to myself about Barry |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Zhenya Date: 18 Apr 08 - 02:24 AM Bruce Molsky - He's a one-man music festival! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 18 Apr 08 - 06:07 AM Toss up between Vladimir Vysotsky and Eliza Carthy. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: kendall Date: 18 Apr 08 - 07:50 AM My oldest best friend, Gordon Bok. We have known each other for 49 years and I never tire of his writing and singing. Plus, the two of us could probably build a boat. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: jacqui.c Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:03 AM Kendall Morse - particularly if he brought Gordon with him! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: kendall Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:04 AM I don't get no respect... |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: SINSULL Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:11 AM Can I play too? I could plot the course. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: SINSULL Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:13 AM Actually my choice would be Kendall and AllanC. Between the two of them I would have a roof over my head, a clean and functioning kitchen, plumbing, food on the table and eventually a boat. All the while lots of entertainment. Jacqui and Gordon can come too. It is starting to look like Gilligan's Island. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Marc Bernier Date: 18 Apr 08 - 08:19 AM Don Sineti. we could yell for help as boats pass within a couple miles of the Island. Plus he's a great guy, I'd never tire of singing and talking with him. Unfortunately my wife doesn't sing. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Bat Goddess Date: 18 Apr 08 - 11:27 AM Lou Killen Roy Harris But I'd have nowhere near enough songs to trade... My husband Tom Hall (Curmudgeon)...he STILL (after 25 years of married life) sings songs I've never heard him sing before. Linn |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Bill D Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:20 PM Would YOU stop at an island if you heard Don Sineti's voice coming from it? *grin* |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Greengal Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:35 PM Harrison Ford. He actually used to play guitar in college, and was friends with one of the Everly Brothers. So I wouldn't lack for music. And he was a carpenter. He can build us a house. And even a boat. But who needs to get off a deserted island when you have Harrison Ford? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:52 PM Christy Moore... enough songs till the end of time and best voice in store... |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Janice in NJ Date: 18 Apr 08 - 01:59 PM Holly Near, as long as she lets her hair grow long again. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Marc Bernier Date: 18 Apr 08 - 02:27 PM I debated between Christy Moore or Don Sineti, and since Don is a friend of mine, I know we'd get along. And I would definately stop if I heard Don's voice coming from anywhere. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Jim Carroll Date: 19 Apr 08 - 12:46 PM George Bush - that'd keep the bastard out of harm's way for a few years Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Georgiansilver Date: 19 Apr 08 - 12:54 PM Any good looking woman who also likes Folk music would do for me....could sing to each other etc etc etc etc |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Claire M Date: 27 Jun 12 - 12:31 PM Hiya, Maddy Prior or Rob Halford – both could be heard 100 yards away. I love Halford but he seems as if he might be quite boring to chat to. Only thing is their coats would be ruined. If I heard both of them doing a duet I wouldn't need to worry about getting off the island because I'd be dead from sheer happiness. That's something to imagine when I'm anxious (them doing a duet, not me dying) |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Joe_F Date: 27 Jun 12 - 09:02 PM I won't embarrass him by mentioning his name here, but I think it would be a person I went to highschool with. Sometimes I would put my fingers on his guitar and feel the vibrations while he played & sang. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Dani Date: 27 Jun 12 - 09:08 PM Well, I like Mary's vision.... But if I HAD to pick ONE... probably Stevie Ray. I would never, ever get tired of hearing him play. If I wanted someone to sing though, probably James Taylor. We'd do some great duets : ) Dani |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Marianne S. Date: 28 Jun 12 - 04:31 AM Anyone who plays a double bass. We could use it as a boat to get off the island. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: stallion Date: 28 Jun 12 - 05:42 AM Well I would echo banjiman, not his misses but mine, not that his misses hasn't a good voice cos it is sublime but having put up with me for forty years I could sleep easy in my bed, and with no one else on the island she would chirrup away which absolutely she refuses to do in front of anyone else but me in spite of having a half decent singing voice. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: treewind Date: 28 Jun 12 - 05:56 AM I was with Marje on the choice of John Kirkpatrick, but then I thought the suggestions of Mozart and Marta Sebestyen were good calls too. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,kendall Date: 28 Jun 12 - 06:32 AM Can I sneak in Priscilla Herdman? |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: The Sandman Date: 28 Jun 12 - 12:00 PM lucy ward |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Hi Lo Date: 28 Jun 12 - 12:16 PM Joni Mitchell, hands down...great painter, great sense of humour, honest, and the best song writer of her generation. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: RTim Date: 28 Jun 12 - 01:07 PM My wife Jan - as long as she only brought her Concertina and NO Computer or Phone!! Tim Radford |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Elmore Date: 28 Jun 12 - 01:30 PM Norah Jones |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST Date: 28 Jun 12 - 01:39 PM Julie Fowlis....She can teach me Gaelic and play the whistle! |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Spidercake Date: 28 Jun 12 - 01:56 PM Ry Cooder. He can play any song in any style. And I'll bet he's just full of stories. |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: treewind Date: 28 Jun 12 - 04:34 PM Just noticed this thread is mostly 4 years old. Never mind, it's a topic that doesn't age fast.... |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: Elmore Date: 28 Jun 12 - 10:03 PM Elizabeth Laprelle |
Subject: RE: On a deserted island with? From: GUEST,Allen in OZ Date: 29 Jun 12 - 02:46 AM A historian. AD |
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