Blues Before Rick

Subject: Blues Before Rick
From: IanA
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 09:14 PM

Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Ian Angus, and I host "Let the Good Times Roll," the blues show which is on CIUT (Toronto 89.5-FM) immediately before Rick Fielding's Acoustic Workshop. So if you tune in on the Internet at 8pm eastern time (www.ciut.utoronto.ca) you get an hour of blues followed by an hour of folkish music.

I've been involved with roots music in one way or another since I saw Logan English perform Woody Guthrie songs at the long-gone l'Hibou coffee house in Ottawa in about 1961. Shortly after that I saw Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and then The Greenbriar Boys at the same venue, and have been a folk/bluegrass/blues person ever since.

I had ambitions to be a folksinger, and sang at a lot of Canadian antiwar rallies and socialist meetings in the sixties. I knew every song Bill Fredericks (I bet no one remembers him!) and Phil Ochs wrote by heart. But my careers was cut short by a distinct lack of talent.

So now I'm on the Board of the Toronto Blues Society, and I play CDs on the radio and nurse an enduring admiration for and jealousy of everyone who can carry a tune.

(And I know all kinds of things about Rick & Duckboots, so watch out!)

Looking forward to participating in the Mudcat Cafe.

Ian Angus
http://www.letthegoodtimesroll.com

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 10:10 PM

Hi Ian and Welcome to Mudcat!!! Any friend of Rick's is......uh,hmmm.....well,uh...suspect, actually. His three half brothers Reg, Reg, and Reg were directly responsible for the explosion at the condom factory here, not to mention their arrest for eating nine flats of marigolds and a Barcalounger.

But I won't hold any of that against you and again I say Welcome to the best site on the web......the fantastic village of Mudcat........Mud is thicker than water!!! You'll love it!

catspaw

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 10:26 PM

Ian, you were a folksinger? Well, well, well. Now the reason that I'm a bit incredulous is that you always dress so well and it's a bit difficult picturing you in jeans and peace sign tee shirt. On the other hand I dressed pretty well before I saw Phil Ochs too. Went and got myself an old second hand tweed sports jacket. Still have it, although it seems to have shrunk about six sizes in twenty five years.
rick

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:11 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Ian. I've tuned in early a couple of times and heard part of your show, too. Makes for a great two hours of listening!

Now, about Rick & Duckboots: first tell us, how did "Heather" turn into "Duckboots"; how many Barcoloungers have disappeared when Rick is around; and, is it humid in Toronto, hot in the summer, well-diggers arse cold in the winter? Inquiring minds want to know, ya' know?***BIG GRIN***

Thanks and expect more questions!

KatlaughingHAO

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: Peter T.
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:19 AM

Ian, Blues before Rick - cue for a song? Listen to the show thanks to the bleedforward from Rick's, and I enjoy it a bunch -- but you guys have got to get together and lobby or fundraise for some new equipment or something!
yours,Peter T.

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: IanA
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:30 AM

Rick wrote ...

>Ian, you were a folksinger?

Well, only if you don't include the ability to carry a tune or play an instrument as part of the definition. In high school I was a member of a group called The Wendigos, which played various places around Eastern Ontario. The group's name was suggested by our geography teacher, who said it was an Indian spirit. Only later did we learn that it was a cannibal which killed women and children.

We were a folk group by the classic early 1960s definition -- five people who wore the same clothes (red vests, white shirts, black pants) and new all the words to "I Gave My Love a Cherry" and "Puff the Magic Dragon."

Later on I learned about dressing sloppy.

IanA

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: IanA
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:35 AM

katlaughing wrote ... Now, about Rick & Duckboots: first tell us, how did "Heather" turn into "Duckboots"; how many Barcoloungers have disappeared when Rick is around; and, is it humid in Toronto, hot in the summer, well-diggers arse cold in the winter?

Actually, Duckboots is her real name. Heather is a nickname.

No Basrcolonger is safe in the same city as Rick. And we think he may have something to do with the legendary poor quality of the chairs in our studio. Between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, the upholstery deteriorates noticeable.

Toronto is paradise, with perfect temperature and humidity year round.

Any more questions? :)

IanA

Subject: RE: Blues Before Rick
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:59 PM

Yes. What the hell is a Barcalounger? I suspect Catspaw started that one when I was off my guard.
Many years ago I started a folk group at MacDonald High school in St. Anne de Bellvue Quebec. We called ourselves "The Harvesters". The personel was Gordon Callon (where is he now?) Myself, and two girls who kept changing, depending on who Gordon and I were deperately pursuing at the time. "Hi there, would you like to be in a folk group? No, no, it doesn't matter if you can't sing....but maybe you'll go to the movies with me if I let you into the group!" How pathetic!
It gets worse. The next band I was in was called "The Gangreen Boys".
rick(turning red with embarrassment)