Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?

Subject: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 01:06 PM

Well all bets are off as far as where Heather and I were going to stay huddled waiting for the dire New Year's predictions to come true. (I AM joking, for any newcomers)
I'll be singing (for the 9th straight year) at the Scarboro Town Centre on December 31 from 8 til midnight. Ontario residents will know that Toronto amalgamated with it's burbs a few months ago making Scarboro disappear.(and with it, I thought, my regular New Year's gig. So I'm quite pleased)

The centre always provides me with a nice big dressing room complete with pop and sandwiches (for a folkie, this is the height of luxury) and I hereby invite any Mudcatters in the area to pop backstage for a bubbly (club soda) Ohh, and it's FREE!

How bout any other catters? Where's your Gig?

Rick

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: MMario
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 02:30 PM

*sigh* we've been informed our entire team is on call that night (in fact the entire weekend) though what they think we will be able to do about 11,000 computers and 250 servers in 47 different school districts (who will all be shut down anyway) glitches and gremlins only know....

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: sophocleese
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 02:36 PM

Just a quick warning which I heard on the radio, CBC. Don't wear pants with zippers on New Years Eve. You will notice that most zippers have the letters YKK, can be read as 'Y, 2K', on them. They may fail you during that crucial New Years Eve kiss! And then where would you be?

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 03:12 PM

I am booked to do a troubador sort of thing in Charlottesville, VA on the city's beautiful brick-paved "Walking Mall" in the scenic old downtown area. This will be practically in the shadow of the mountain upon which Thomas Jefferson made his home. It is a stone's throw from the historic University of Virginia campus - the brainchild of the same, marvelously intelligent and inventive man. I will be appearing from about 11:59 PM until just after midnight EST. They have promised to pay me on the next totally uneven-numbered date. I'll try to tape it for ya.

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 03:31 PM

Well.. If the Powers-that-be decide that Ontario can follow suit with Newfoundland and that the bars can stay open from 11 am Dec 30th until 3 am January 2nd, I may end up with more gigs than I want... I never had a gig start at 2 am before.. could be a lot of fun!

When In Windsor, visit the Kildare House.. for all your pubish needs!

Long red hair and beard at the bar by the Guiness tap is me...

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: jeffp
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 03:42 PM

I'll be at a gathering of my wife's family, where we'll be simultaneously celebrating her parents' 50th anniversary, her father's 80th birthday, and the "millenium" countdown. It should be a lot of fun; they're all a good bunch of people. I've only been married into this family for 2 months, but I've known most of them for 15 years or so. I'm bringing instruments for a singaround and we're hoping to have several types of homebrew ready for drinking. Think we might have to spend the night; don't like driving on amateur night even if I'm sober myself. In fact it's even scarier sober.

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: lloyd61
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 04:09 PM

New Years Eve?

Old time Gospel Sing near Ashville NC. Hope to on the program early and be back home in bed before the world ends.

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Llanfair
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 06:27 PM

We'll be at the Llanfair Caereinion Institute doing our bit to see the new millennium in with everyone else in the town. Jim's on call, but there won't be any trains running, so he should be OK. Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: ddw
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 10:24 PM

Hey Clinton,

Glad to see your "lurking" days are over and you've started to post. Welcome to Mudcat.

Enjoyed your Press Club gig. Hope to catch you again sometime soon.

david

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 10:39 PM

Caroline and I will be performing in the "State Troubadours" special concert (gathering all of Connecticut's former official State Troubadours, an honorary position to which we were named in 1993) in Hartford. That's in the afternoon. Then we split and do a "First Night" sort of thing in New Milford, CT, in the evening. We might even be finished in time to get home before all the drunks are out on the road. I hope so!

Sandy (grumpy old folk fogey)

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: annamill
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 10:56 PM

Is it ok to talk about Glenn's (Honey's) gig? We're to be at (Hey, be at is beat) a church which has been hired for five family's NY eve party. He will be playing jazz drums. He has never played with brushes, swears brushes are for weak drummers. (John Bonham never used brushes) I love life transitions. Aren't they cool? I'll never..... It's a hard life lesson. Hey, good thought for tomorrow, Allen.

I met a striking woman Saturday. There was a garage sale and as I walked in, I was amazed at the mess. How could anyone live like this? The walls had mildew, and there was a large amount of trash everywhere. But..there was a lot of very, very old antiques in there. A life. I found some great books I wanted to buy. One was King Soloman's Ring by Konrad Lorenez that I read years ago and recently tried to buy and was told was out of print. As I went out to pay for the books I over heard the women selling talking about the owner of the house with tears in her eyes. After the conversation was over I asked her if this was her mother's house. She said no, but the woman who owned the house was like her mother. I was very touched by the woman selling and wanted to know more about the poor woman who owned the house. I gave her my card and told her it wasn't just morbid curiosity, but I'd like to know more about the owner. I asked her to call when she felt like talking. Then was not the time.

When I got out to the car, I opened one of the books. Edna St Vincent Millay. 1927. There was a small flyer at one of the poems that said the book had been reprinted by special arrangement with the author. The poem is one I would have chosen as one of my favorites.

When the Year Grows Old

I cannot but remember when the year grows old--

October--November-- How she disliked the cold !

She used to watch the swallows go down across the sky,

And turn from the window with a little sharp sigh.

And often when the brown leaves were brittle on the ground,

And the wind in the chimney made a melancholy sound,

She had a look about her that I wish I could forget--

The look of a scared thing sitting in a net!

Oh, beautiful at nightfall the soft spitting snow!

And beautiful the bare boughs, rubbing to and fro!

But the roaring of the fire, and the warmth of fur,

And the the boiling of the kettle were beautiful to her!

I cannot but remember when the year grows old--

October--November-- How she disliked the cold!

**********************************************************I wish I had met the lady that marked that poem. I think I would have loved her and we would have been good friends. I hope her (daughter) calls, because she never saw this marked place in this book and I would love to share it with her.

Just a thought.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 11:01 PM

Could one of the real musicians among us set that to a tune, please? Thanks, AnnaP.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:25 AM

Got a busy New Year's Eve...a nursing home gig at 10 am, another at 2:30, yet another at 6:30...and this year I'll finally get to ring in the New Year w/ my soul-mate and rug-rats!

******************************************

Last year, my former performing partner Steve (fret-less bass/harmony vocals) and I played the nastiest gig I've experienced...The plumbing broke a few days before, and rather than close down (or get a plumber in to fix it!), the bar owners just "ignored" that delightful raw sewage smell that wafted through the joint.

When we got paid, the management complained that we didn't draw enough of a crowd!

On the way home, Steve stated "Now, I finally know why these places are sometimes called toilets!"

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: alison
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:34 AM

Been offered a few jobs (the money is great too), the rest of the band will be playing...... but I'll be watching the fireworks on Sydney Harbour with the kids.....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Vixen
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:35 AM

Well, since nobody's claimed the Millay poem to compose for, I'll do it!

Sandy--tell me more about the Troubadours' gig--where, when, etc. thanks!

V

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: JedMarum
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:54 AM

I will be playing at the Celtic Quill in Dallas. I will be performing two friends; Rene Lawrence and a fine young singer songwriter named Jeff Williamson. I hope we will be joined on stage by another friend or two, as often happens at these gatherings. The Quill has been re-vamped for the new millenium, with stage lighting and a fine new sound system.

annap - that is a lovely poem. Your story and its poem reminded me of a Bill Staines song - where he talks about stopping at a roadside antiques place and sees old things; portraits, silver pieces, 'heirlooms of hearts that were gay' - all gathering dust on the shelves and waiting for someone to take them away. It is a beautiful song with a haunting melody, and I am not doing it justice here.

Sandy - I will attempt to put these lyrics to music, and would hope others do too. One of us should get it right!

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: annamill
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 07:47 PM

I will love to hear that poem put to music. Maybe I'll have time to learn to play THAT song on the guitar. Liam, I would like to hear the song about the antique store. It probably will express what I felt when I looked at all the beautiful things this poor woman had gathered in her lifetime. I'm getting up there and mortality is a reality. I know some of you know what I'm talking about. I remember, when I was a child, calculating how old I would be when the year 2000 rolled around. Damn! Here it is! That was fast. I will have a good time though. Paaarrrtttyyyy!

Love, annapwhocantwaittohearthattune

Subject: RE: Got My Y2K2 Gig. Where's Yours?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:19 PM

AnnaP: You ain't old till you park that Harley of yours for good. I suspect you're never gonna reach that point!

Vixen: The Troubadour thingy goes on most of the afternoon. We're scheduled for 5:00, to give us time to hustle over to New Milford. I'll have to dig out the contract from Caroline's file to let you know the location, but it'll surely be listed in the Hartford Courant when the time draws near. By that time, however, I'll have answered your personal note, which I apologize for not doing yet! (Lord, imagine writing a sentence like that to an English teacher!)

Sandy