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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Shimbo Darktree Date: 30 Oct 99 - 12:09 PM Nope, it didn't come up as a "blue clicky thing" ... b*gg*r. Never mind, the address is correct. Shimbo |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Ferret Date: 30 Oct 99 - 12:21 PM Hi I've been on the cat for a little while now and have had a lot of help from you all. [That takes a lot of patience]. I think this is a great place to cum and chill out or have a chat and a lark or a drink in the tavern. My name is Graham but ferret to all my friends. I am 42 and I have been a dark age/medieval re-enactor for 27 years all those on dark cold winter mornings it often feels like 127. I am a single parent and I got in to folk song 1972 throw re-enactment with many a night sat round the campfire sing [well that's what we call it. We can murder any song.] I like song with something to say and with gut's not twee songs, song from the people. I live in the Kent U.K. and I am dyslexic so if my spellchecker gets it wrong I probable wont notice so pleas be patience I do try to get it right. I collect folk songs good and bad new and old, and in this the Cat has been very help full. As for big Mike all that black stuff you can keep it the worst thing to cum out of Ireland sins Terry Wogan [those in the US may not now who that is if you lucky] and as far as I am concern I will resave all of the black stuff for you. Give me a good mead any day. Some of the best chats I have been with people that I have not all ways agreed with as it make you rethink your views. As for being addictive I had not noticed [I don't look at my phone bill] tfic. I would send in I pic for the rouges gallery if I can just figure out how. And lastly a big thanks to you all at the Mudcat. All the best ferret
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Oct 99 - 12:36 PM Another note of Welcome to all of you.....C# this time. Very important as you get older. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Quirk Malarkey Date: 30 Oct 99 - 01:12 PM tom curley here. mountain dulcimer player with a minor in bodhran. it all started in a music store in norfolk, virginia back in '73 owned by one bob zentz. he showed me how to play a limber jack to bluegrass banjo and i've loved the music ever since. there is nothing like a parlor pickin' on a hot saturday night to stir me into wild folky abandon. i currently live on o'ahu, hawai'i in the middle of slack key paradise. i down loaded the data base and am determined to sing every last bloody song in it at least once. many happy returns to all of us. --doodlezak |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: DonMeixner Date: 30 Oct 99 - 06:28 PM Wow! Shimbo of Darktree Tower, Shrugger of Thunders. A real Pei'an Diety who is also a musician. I'm impressed. I meet Jack of Shadows once but that was years ago at dinner with Larmon Pels and Heidel Von Hymack. Welcome to the Cat we are a well read and literate group. Don |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Oct 99 - 06:47 PM Yezzir we shur iz az yuh kin tell frum Don's offul gud punkchalizzashun an captalizzashun thair. sumtimes Catspaw lez me use his puter an I wont ta take this heer chanz ta say WELLCUM frum allus whut lives heer withen Catspaw. Weel we all doan rightly liv hith him and Miz Karen so mich az we kinda hang aroun thair house a goodly bit uv the time. catspaw sez we shud say hello now senz its huntin time an me an Paw an Buford iz gonna take the Reg boys deer huntin an in return fer which they gonna take usns Ice fission. Weer gonna be a trine ta git our guide bizness goin this year so we will jez say hi now. CLETUS... fur PAW, BUFORD, an REG, REG, and REG |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 30 Oct 99 - 08:17 PM Mead good. Black bogge beer better.
Daniel/Riverwind. You sound low in spirit. Pick up your axe and walk...
"Ah but when your day's done and your spirits are low |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Frankie Date: 31 Oct 99 - 01:06 PM Hi, I've been stopping in the last couple of weeks and always find something interesting going on here. I currently live in South Florida, am 4 score and 7 and am a musical omnivore who sings and plays the guitar. I never know what kind of tune I"ll fall in love with next, wether it's by O'Carolan or Ray Charles. Gotta' a feeling I'm in the right place. Best Wishes to All, Frankie |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Frankie Date: 31 Oct 99 - 01:38 PM Uuuuhhh...... make that 2 score and 7 *blush*. A veritable toddler by SF standards. F |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 99 - 02:10 PM Bugger - I got to Frankie's "four score and seven", and it started me feeling young. "Two score and seven?" Naah, been there, done that. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Oct 99 - 02:19 PM Yeah, I was about to go into all sorts of hip-hoorays myself......But we're glad to have you at 47, and you're welcome to stay til 87.........But then you have to leave. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Rick Fielding Date: 01 Nov 99 - 01:08 AM Nice to see that there's quite a few new young'uns around here. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Metchosin Date: 01 Nov 99 - 01:53 AM Hi from the west coast of Canada. I'm new too. I have been spending a lot of time looking up folksongs here to see if you have all the ones that we know included. Pretty impresive site! Also I have been trying to see where one of my grandfathers learned his banjo and fiddle tunes, to see what part of the USA he spent 15 years of his life in. Could be a dead end, as songs travelled pretty fast even in the early 1900's. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: ericsymonds Date: 01 Nov 99 - 09:25 AM Introducing,real name ,Eric.Great site to be on. Rhythm guitar player for two years with Bill Sables band Shananikins,have had an interest in folk/Irish music for some 37 years,yes I am older than Bill. Bill just looks older.Favourites:- Musician - Sam Pirt Band - Old Rope String Food - Anything Italian. Hope to hear from you all,eventually! Cheers, Gareth. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: jaguar Date: 01 Nov 99 - 11:48 AM All right, I'm new here, I'll bite... my name's Jaguar, Jag for short, and yes that is what most people call me, barring my immediate family and my SO for some odd reason =) I'm a anthropology/history major, second-year in college, and one of the many things I want to end up studying is folk music migration... stemming from a long time ago, when my aunt and uncle and cousin and I used to sit around in their house in NC and sing all night. I play lots of instruments mediocrely =) but both my dad and my uncle play music professionally. Found this site doing a web-search for the lyrics to Mattie Groves and adored it at first site. From DC and WI (lived in the one, go to college in the other), and aspiring to go on a tour of Europe someday and collect songs and stories =)
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Shimbo Darktree Date: 05 Nov 99 - 10:41 AM Don, it's great to hear from a SF fan. Zelazny is good... but Vance is better! And Catspaw49 (I assume that's your age, and that you don't come from the 49ers ... you old critter you!) You owe me for a new keyboard ... Aussie dollars, please! I laughed so much that the tears ran into my keyboard, and saturated all the electronic doohickeys inside. You are quite a comic! |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: dollmaker Date: 05 Nov 99 - 12:46 PM Yeah, we're new,too. Been doing folk music since the 60's(isn't that when it all started?)Come to Berea sometime and visit. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: poet Date: 05 Nov 99 - 07:02 PM Hi I may have said some of this on another thread, but here goes. My real name is Graham and I am a Yorkshireman from Rotherham living in Guernsey (UK Channel Islands).I am 59yrs old. I started singing (unnacompanied) in the mid sixties I write poetry and have had four poems published in private collections, I play the Bodhran and sing with three groups The worst show on Earth, Me N im, and Esteves Capper and Drum, I ran the Guernsey Folk Club for 12yrs and a freind and I started the Guernsey International Folk Festival 15yrs ago and i retired from that this year. I love any LIVE music I wouldn't cross the road for a disco or Kareoke. Im easy going and Laid back most of the time but i do have the odd sore spot and speak before engaging Brain. I have found that whatever folk club you may walk into the people are different but the welcome is the same, as it is with the cat. For those of you who are more recent catters than I welcome. for those ancient ones (regardless of bodily age) thank you for being what you are and letting me in. Graham (Guernsey) P.S. I was also a bouncer for 15yrs so if there are any vacancies at the Tavern?? |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Nov 99 - 04:22 PM Well I supose I'd better do this bit, seeing as how I've poked my fourpence worth in everywhere else.... I'm known as Liz the Squeak, I'm about halfway, and live in East London, not too far from Micca. 'Twas he introduced me to this site, along with a lot of other things that are bad for me, so blame him... I'm loud, Christian (not that you'd notice!), interested in chocolate, reading, singing, beer, chocolate, getting a job and screwing my former employers for everything I can. I'm asthmatic, have a 3 year old daughter who eats cat biscuits and hardly wears clothes (although today she has managed to wear 2 pairs of tights (pantyhose) and get holes in them both, both brand new.....), like chocolate, have done my time on the boards, worked in a military museum, do family history (genealogy, and yes I do know about the Mormon websites) and originally lived in Dorset, not that far from Stella. I have been a morris dancer (til the lungs packed up), still have a lot of connections with morris dancers (shut up Micca) and eat chocolate a lot. Oh, I build and dance with giants. And I'm known as the squeak because I upset passing bats and Les Barker. Anything else??? LTS |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bbc Date: 06 Nov 99 - 04:36 PM Graham, All jobs in the Tavern are on a volunteer basis. I was a barmaid there for quite awhile. Used to be coffee, cookies, & good conversation. I have to say, the direction seems to have changed a bit since I left. Whatever. You are welcome to become the bouncer, but we don't tend to exclude many. Use discretion or you'll find you've bounced our most upstanding citizens & then, what will become of us?! The pay stinks (I did get a shipment of gold from Donald Trump once!), but, oh, the tips! :) bbc
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Mark Roffe Date: 07 Nov 99 - 01:35 AM Hey Mississippi John Cleaner, you are quite a writer. Looking for more of that stuff. Thanks, Mark |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Llanfair Date: 07 Nov 99 - 09:14 AM Hi, Liz. I'm curious, how did you manage to upset Les Barker? Welcome to all the new people, I'm an addict now, 'specially as it doesn't cost so much to be on the net. Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Caitrin Date: 07 Nov 99 - 12:36 PM I guess I'm the youngun here, as I'm a senior in high school in eastern North Carolina. I've only been here about a month, and got almost immediately sucked in by the entertaining conversation. THanks to all for making me feel welcome! |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Margaret\W Date: 07 Nov 99 - 01:33 PM Hello to all What can I say without being boring? I've grown up amidst the music of Northumberland from being a small child, and learned songs that my father's father taught him (and so on) without realising that not everyone has the sort of musical heritage that we have around here. Alongside the songs and dances, I learned to play the Northumbrian smallpipes from the late Joe Hutton - a lovely man and a great musicain with a wealth of tunes in his head - then stumbled into playing the flute and now spend more time than anything playing the fiddle. I was lucky enough to be able to study music at York University where the staff were far-sighted enough to let me spend most of my final year concentrating on traditional music in my home area - if only I had the time to do that again now! Having decided that I didn't want to follow the classical route seriously, and being desperate to get back to my home patch again, I took up primary school teaching and am now headteacher of a small school in the Cheviot foothills - only 40 pupils aged 4 to 9, and I teach 20 of them full time. I'm married to Andy who is a champion smallpipes player himself, and as well as doing lots of fiddle/pipes duets, we play in a group called Dishalagie with my dad (still playing the banjo and mandolin at the age of 74, and writing tunes too), a friend who's an expert moothie player with a six-sided mouth organ, and a singer who's just retired from being the last coble fisherman at Beadnell. Well, I hope that wasn't too boring! |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Mbo Date: 07 Nov 99 - 02:05 PM Caitrin! Welcome to Mudcat. You say you're a senior at a high school in Eastern North Carolina? What high school, and what city are you from? I'm up in Greenville at ECU, and am excited to have another Eastern North Carolinian on the Mudcat! How did you fare all the flooding? Did you make it through ok? I'm sure you'll enjoy all the musical adventures & highjinks we have here! --Mbo (from Down East in Pitt County) |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Jon Freeman Date: 07 Nov 99 - 02:08 PM Yawn - Seriously Maragret/W why should you think that what you had written might be boring. I (and I would guess most others) really are interested in knowing a bit more about other Mudcatters. I wish I had your musical background. Jon |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:11 PM Llanfair - how did I upset Les Barker? Let me count the ways.... The clue is in the nickname, and if you want to hear it, beg, borrow or buy a copy of 'A Cardi and Bloke'. I'm the one that sounds like a passing bat having hysterics. The first time I saw him, I laughed so hard I fell off the serving hatch I was sitting on, into the kitchen on the other side. It has got to the point where I will be offered bribes to stay away from his gigs, and if he sees any of my friends, he will ask them if I'm with them, and runs screaming if they say yes..... Shame, because I'm really rather fond of him in a way that probably isn't good for either of us....... LTS |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Brendy Date: 07 Nov 99 - 10:55 PM How 're ye doin' lads and lassies! I've just registered myself a few minutes ago and thought I would say a general hello to you all. I was born in north County Armagh, lived in basically every other part of Ireland, until, 5 years ago, I moved over to Oslo, Norway. I'm quite fond of putting commas and semi-colons into text things, probably because I don't know what to do with my fingers while trying to find the next key on my keyboard. Punctuation notwithstanding, I manage to to keep a reasonably chaotic life as a full time musician, touring mostly Scandinavia (Norway in particular)on the go. I'm a trad head. Have been all my life. Those who know me will testify that single-handedly I am responsible for the dramatic increase in Norwegian imports of D'Addario guitar strings (they should be sponsoring me really). I play also with an East Clare fiddler, gifted blues guitar player, songwriter, and long time pal of Martin Hayes, Mark Gregory who lives in Trondheim (Mid Norway). We go under the name of "Gobbler's Knob"; rather tounge in cheek, I know, but sure It puts a smile on my face every time I see the poster. Been across to visit our American bretheren once or 2wice: St. Louis and Chicago; my kind of towns!!!! Catch you on the 'Cat Brendan |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Metchosin Date: 08 Nov 99 - 12:29 AM Could you enlighten me Brendy, we have a hill just down the road from us, that is also known locally as Gobbler"s Knob and I've always wondered what it meant or do I really want to know? |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bbc Date: 08 Nov 99 - 11:36 AM Caitrin, My son, davidmc24, is also a high school senior. We live in New York, about 1 hr North of NY City. He is not too active in the discussion forum & has had a large part in making the resources site available. He's a serious computer guy, but is also dabbling in theatre this year, w/ a role in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Mbo Date: 08 Nov 99 - 02:00 PM Bbc, could that possibly be "A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Mudcat Forum?" --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: bbc Date: 08 Nov 99 - 05:28 PM Good one, Mbo! You & I are hopping from thread to thread together. We've got to stop meeting like this! BTW, one of our link gurus should start us on part 2; this is getting toooooo long! bbc |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Quirk Malarkey Date: 08 Nov 99 - 06:28 PM brendy, i can almost do you post with one breath. almost. --doodlezak |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Jacob Bloom Date: 08 Nov 99 - 06:50 PM I connected to Mudcat this morning to look up the words to "The Good Old Way", because I heard it at NOMAD yesterday, and it's been running through my head ever since. I took a look at a few threads while I was here, and couldn't resist adding to the "modern traditional" thread - so I guess I should introduce myself. I call contra & square dances, tell stories, and lead Klezmer dancing (although no one is quite sure yet what that is.) I also play pennywhistle and bones, and write the occasional song. I have the kind of memory which tends to retain song lyrics for decades after I've learned them - this must have been a very useful skill a few hundred years ago, but it's of limited value in these days of songbooks and sound recordings. I have a website, which includes various dances and songs I've written. If anyone is interested, it's at www.gis.net/~bloom Jacob |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: Brendy Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:11 PM "Gobbler's Knob" was, or is, the name of the place where poor Bill Murray kept wakening up each morning with a chance to make right the mistakes of the day before, in the film "Groundhog Day". I think it is, according to the film, somewhere in NE USA. The other connotation is too frightening to contemplate!! Breandán |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: katlaughing Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:22 PM Wow! Hadn't read through this one in a few days! Welcome to you all! Fascinating to hear about you all and where youa re coming from and been. If you have any questions or anything just give one of us a holler and we'll do our best to answer. It is wonderful to see so many "newbies" on here. bbc - I'll start a new one thread and come back to put the link in. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: New Catters in the last 2 months? From: katlaughing Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:27 PM Here's a link to the new continuation thread. |
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