Mudcat came up at a gig.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 05:37 PM

Hello,

I was introduced to Mudcat by the wonderful but late lamented Dave Bryant. Sadly, When I admit to my liking for Mudcat, the reply is often, "Mudcat, I can't be doing with that!" or "I wouldn't post to that" or "!"£$%^&*(()_+)"

Sad really, but we have to take the blame for many threads that waste everybody's time!

(Like 1954...what is folk music etc etc etc !)

Best wishes,


Peter

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 06:23 AM

'Big Bertha' - there was another one:

http://www.lickeyincline.com/page_1193424515171.html

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 12:04 AM

Well, Are you?
Oh, I know! You are another Dick Miles in heavy disguise!

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: MartinRyan
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 09:13 AM

I'm beginning to get mildly paranoid at the way people come up to me at singing sessions and say - "Are you the Martin Ryan that posts on Mudcat?"!
;>)

Regards

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 08:48 AM

That's awesome, LeJ : )

Sometimes I have to remind myself to think things out before posting, 'cause it will come back to bite you eventually. You just never know how far away and via whom.

Dani

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 08:02 AM

I often mention it. Spread the good news!

so do I on cresby.com

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 07:57 AM

Art, that was not a visual for pre-coffee a.m. reading! Nor is garg's description of the handshake. arf!arf!

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Fidjit
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 06:05 AM

There's already the log, which you can download. I have it on my MYSPACE

I spread the word when it comes up (sic)

We have badges.

Well I had one, but lost it at Cheltenham last year.


A5 flyers would work.

Chas

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Gurney
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 02:31 AM

EJ, sometimes it is a very small eworld. We had a discussion here last week about Big Bertha, which I said was a Traction Engine, and others thought was a big gun. I Googled 'Traction Engine Big Bertha' and it came up with my post in the middle of the Mudcat thread from the day before!
There, I'm an authority!

Everyone was right in that discussion, by the way.

Whenever I've posted lyrics, I've felt that I was sharing them, and helping to make sure that they never get lost.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 02:13 AM

I sat in on a session where someone suggested John Hartford's Steam Powered Aereoplane, and it was played, with me struggling along on guitar. I later posted a request for chords on Mudcat, had some suggestions, then posted what I came up with, though wrong.
I printed a copy of this wrong chord pattern and took it to another jam, where someone else suggested the song. The woman next to me starts leafing through a notebook, and I show her my copy of the song saying "I have this and it's close, but not exactly right." She finds her page, and says "well, this guy seems to have worked it out", and there in front of my eyes is a printout of my post from Mudcat. A Twilight Zone moment, and a realization that what we do here, for better or worse, is often an act of archiving, preserving, and instructing, which is taken seriously by people we may never meet. Or who may end up sitting right next to us.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Gurney
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 12:28 AM

There you go. Nigel and Rapaire came up with the same idea, but the salutes were different across the herring pond.

Is it only the English who use the two-fingered gesture?

Yes, I know about the 'Ghastly old Archers' theory, but I incline to the theory that two fingers means 'Up Yours, Twice!"

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 06:56 PM

I tell people about it when they ask me for lyrics or info on songs. I'm not sure we need a flyer or some such. People who are interested in what the Mudcat and the DT have to offer will find us eventually.
On the other hand - I've been planning to write about the Mudcat for our German folk mag for ages. Maybe I should try and get round to doing it.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: bankley
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 09:52 AM

Jayto, for me, a gig came up at Mudcat..

it was Murdoch's latest 'album', then The Apple Hollow Music Fest,
and now a project with some wildman from west Kentucky... who woulda thunk ?

'Scarbo and the Thunder Thieves rode hard through Hell's Half Acre' SHB

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 09:23 AM

Exactly, Nigel. That's why the hands are only involved in the merest, most theoretical way : )

Dani

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,Willa
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:13 AM

I often hear it mentioned and often tell people about it myself. like Nigel's idea of a flyer.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: DG&D Dave
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 05:27 AM

I found mudcat whilst searching for lyrics and found that half the people I knew from festivals were already here.

Some of the names took some deciphering though.

Dave.
"And we're all jigging squid in the squid jigging time..."

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 03:56 AM

The "Mudcat secret handshake" was established over a decade ago....in a thread probably distroyed in the Great Crash.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Hack a big green luggy into your LEFT hand (similulate the sound and action but make it as realistic as possible) extend your hand - and if the other does the same and extends their's you know you have discovered one of the "inner-circle" of Mudcat friends.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 03:48 AM

Dani:
handshakes are a little awkward with an instrument/songbook in one hand, and a drink in the other!

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 10:42 PM

Does that mean you don't KNOW the handshake?!

Dani

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 08:28 PM

Art, that's not a catfish, that's...


Oh,... never mind...

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 07:07 PM

How about a gang tattoo on the middle finger?

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 06:47 PM

I heard about Mudcat at Whitby festival 8 or 9 years ago, and joined, and a) discovered that lots of people I already knew from the British folk scene were involved and b) got to know about non-British folkies from all over the place....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:11 PM

Everyone knows I'm a Mudcatter then.

People tell me all the time, "I SEE that you have a presence on the web!!!!!!"

And then thay just clam up tighter than, well, a clam!

What could that infer or mean?????????

Art

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:09 PM

Art,
Have they changed your meds again? LOLFirst condoms and now this!
M

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:07 PM

No need for a tattoo. I just keep an old catfish inside my fly. I unzip and toss it into the trough before I urinate on it.

(art)

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Jayto
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:54 PM

We need to find some mortal enemy other folk site so we can unite and fight against it. ooops sorry I sound like W.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:41 PM

No never has been raised

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:29 PM

My Kent and SE London folkie friends are regular (well some of them not very regular) Catters. They are the ones who told me to join Mudcat.
Most of my Essex folk acquaintences aren't into PCs, I guess. When I mention Mudcat, I get blank stares. I stopped talking about it in Essex some time ago.

I like the idea of a Mudcat Crew Tatoo.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:22 PM

"Mudcat came up at a gig"
I thought "Strange, I don't remember eating that!"

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Ernest
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:15 PM

A mudcat gang tatoo?

You mean playing a banjo and smelling like a fish ain`t enough?????

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:25 PM

How about a mudcat gang tatoo, in between thumb and first finger? or a secret handshake?
No, between first & second fingers, you can wave it at other mudcatters from the stage!

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:15 PM

For me it was the other way round - instead of finding that people I knew or met had heard of mudcat, I found mudcat and gradually discovered that a number of mudcatters were people I knew or had met.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: matt milton
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:08 PM

How about a mudcat gang tatoo, in between thumb and first finger? or a secret handshake?

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:06 PM

I don't "gig" myself, but I've heard performers (so far, none who happen to be mudcat regulars) and fellow audience members mention looking in on the site on several occasions.

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Maryrrf
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 12:47 PM

I often run into people who know about Mudcat - most of them have come across it in their search for lyrics. Some never open the threads and others just lurk. I think there are a lot of regular lurkers out there!

Subject: RE: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 12:38 PM

I often mention it. Spread the good news!
Most folk clubs I visit have tables with 'flyers' for other clubs. What we need is a generic Mudcat Flyer, neatly planned so that it is readable on A5. Joe Offer did something similar for a group Stateside recently. What would we need here?
I'm quite happy to print something out and distribute it wherever I am!

Thoughts?

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Jayto
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 11:51 AM

LOL I told them my screen name was Repaire and they decked me. I won't use that one again lol jk ouch :)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 11:35 AM

No, I have my guard up all the time.

Subject: BS: Mudcat came up at a gig.
From: Jayto
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 11:14 AM

I was at a gig last night and someone brought up Mudcat. I asked him if he got on here often and he replied no. He said he got on here to get lyrics. He said if Mudcat didn't have it then noone would. I have never had anyone bring it up before. I was glad to hear it so I thought I would post it on here. Has anyone else been caught off guard by someone mentioning mudcat?