Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Tiger
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 11:50 AM

Thanks, Garg & Joe.

I seldom post now, but am watching all the time.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 06:48 AM

First post Dec 01

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Ritchie
Date: 08 Jul 23 - 10:27 AM

I think my first post was 14-Oct-98 - 03:17 AM .... Great to see so many familiar names which conjure up some lovely memories ... nice to be 'back'
love & regards to you all.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jul 23 - 02:14 AM

Tiger!! Nice to see you!!!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 07 Jul 23 - 07:59 PM

TIGER


I was ready to cry ... BULLSHIT

However,

   I find we were on similar "use.net" alt forums at the same time.

No doubt it brought kindred souls together.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Some sow
Some thrash
    Some reap

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Tiger
Date: 07 Jul 23 - 12:56 PM

Since 1996 for me.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,RJM
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 04:17 PM

And i am glad too, in fact "iam glad all over" that we both mentioned him

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 04:02 PM

I'm still glad that Joe mentioned him.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,R J M
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 03:10 PM

SteveShaw,I [NOT Joe] was the person who first posted about Jim

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 11:06 AM

Made my first post on December 14, 1999 under a different handle and lurked awhile before that.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 10:42 AM

22 years ago last Sunday (2nd July) I made my first post apparently.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 10:02 AM

I'm still here. Have been since 1998 0r '99. Haven't posted much lately but I'm reading. When I have something to say, I'll post it.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 09:38 AM

Me too.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Deni-C
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 03:43 AM

I was...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jul 23 - 07:46 PM

It's both useful and maddening..like many things.

I have reconnected with many friends there and learned a lot... and dodged a few things.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jul 23 - 04:30 PM

No Facebook for me. Oh well.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jul 23 - 04:24 PM

Jim Carroll is posting regularly in one forum on Traditional Ballads on Facebook. He still has strong opinions about 'traditional', *grin*, but has a wealth of knowledge of the genre. Fortunately, I pretty much agree with his definition of the category. I guess I'm doing all right, because I posted a link to a song by a singer that he was not familiar with, and called it "a breath of fresh air".

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 05:34 PM

GUEST,drWord, regarding your comment that music is oxygen, I often see a large delivery truck in my area which has a statement painted on the front, in big letters: Without music, there is no soul.

It makes me smile whenever I see it.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 05:30 PM

Jim was always very expansive in sharing his knowledge here. He often named the names of the illustrious and the legendary who he knew upclose and personal, but not once did I ever regard any of it as name-dropping. He is absolutely entitled to his musical opinions because they are exceptionally informed opinions. He and I always got on like a house on fire both in the forum and in private messages. He did have the unfortunate habit of relating the same jokes in the joke threads again and again, a trait which, sadly, I appear to have inherited. Next time you see him, Peter, give him my warmest regards.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,drWord
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 05:06 PM

Wow! I love “pure interest” !
After a couple of “server errors” in the DT
found my first “contribution” in May ‘97
Makes one feel blessed that the forum has
Lasted, that the DT exists.
Along with Frank Ford’s frets(dot)com
I’ve been spreading mudcat ORG ever since.
Long thread: will read the entire but always
neat when a thread with deep(ish) roots is
refreshed. The early-birds’ handles!
Kindest regards to “you all” who know so
very well that music is oxygen and that
LIVE music is best.
Dennis    Manitoba Canada

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 06:11 AM

'About Jim Carroll..'

I spoke to Jim yesterday, he is on good enough form and tipping away.


During the winter John Tunney gave a presentation locally, about an interview he conducted with Jim about the collecting and research. That night too, Jim was chatty and happy to share his knowledge and experiences.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 05:56 AM

Started posting in April 2004.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 12:41 AM

I gave Bob Nelson (Deckman on Mudcat) a call yesterday to see how he and Judy are doing. Though he's virtually blind at this point he still gets out and plays music in his apartment complex and seems to be enjoying life. It was Bob and Don Firth who sent me emails in the early days telling me I should check out Mudcat, that there was a discussion about my late father (John Dwyer). That was probably 1999. I've had a couple of names here, and posted as a guest at first.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 06:16 PM

About Jim Carroll, Steve Shaw says I found him to be a really good-hearted chap with far more to offer than just about everyone else here and I miss his contributions.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 06:01 PM

Well I first posted just 16 years ago. I've always been just me under my real name. There hasn't really been the Golden Age that a few folks here are lamenting. There's just been Mudcat with good music input and a touch of the Wild West with occasional true horrors, the conflicts mostly avoidable for those who find them unpalatable, but even the BS section has often had some really good stuff. Max was appealing for calm over 20 years ago, lest we forget. Anyway.

I'm glad that Joe mentioned Jim. Jim was head and shoulders above almost everyone else here in terms of his depth of knowledge of traditional song. He was goaded like mad by several people who are still here and who are far lesser lights than he is, and he paid the price by being unable to hold himself back from responding negatively. Even my chief buddies here (no names...) disagree with me about Jim, but I found him to be a really good-hearted chap with far more to offer than just about everyone else here and I miss his contributions. As I said, anyway...

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 05:11 PM

My first post as a member is dated 14 May 1999, but I posted as a guest for a couple of years before that. Can't remember my handle, but we got internet access in the office in autumn 1996. I soon found Mudcat but couldn't join because I was officially forbidden to use the Internet for purposes other than the job. In May '99 I got found out and had to get access from home ...

My interests shifted away from folk music after c. 2010 and I didn't look in very often, but this is changing again.

Nice to be reminded of all those Mudcatters who contributed in the early years - and really surprising how many are still here!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 04:55 PM

Folk music consists of nurturing the flame, not worshipping the ashes.
The same is true of Mudcat, no it is not the same as it was, nothing is and I know I'm not.
Yes there was some nastiness shit stirring and cruel messages, but there were good things too. We still have the same flour eggs milk and sugar we're just making different pancakes.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 04:02 PM

Doug Chadwick, rose coloured glasses do not work when the evidence is there in black and white. Mudcat discussions from 27 years ago and onwards are still available to read.

The negative posts are a very minor percentage compared with the overwhelming majority of positive posts over the decades here which has been the cornerstone of that sense of community.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 02:03 PM

Note: I first posted in Nov. 1996, about thread 30-40. Mudcat will be 27 this Fall.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 Jul 23 - 07:01 AM

... Mudcat as it is now is only a shadow of what it once was. .....

.......".......

Maryrrf, I agree.

There used to be a sense of community, and although there were sometimes differences of opinion, there was usually respect and often quirky humour, and different viewpoints of other people often created opportunities to possibly change our own viewpoints or broaden our knowledge.


You mean back in the happy days of Gargoyle, Martin Gibson and team Musket? I think you are looking back through rose coloured glasses.

If you want to know if things will be worse in the future than they are today, ask your grandmother.

DC

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: NightWing
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 09:41 PM

Looks like the first post listed for me is from 2000 Sep 25.

I remember looking at my post list sometime early in that decade and thinking that I had been posting (under my current handle) before the turn of the century. Obviously, *now* I don't know for certain; I just remember thinking it. Could've been posting as a Guest *shrug*

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 07:37 PM

No, Nigel, it's 10142. LOL

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 07:19 PM

One Hundred!

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: RTim
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 05:24 PM

It seems my first post was 6th April 2006....so that is 17 years ago....

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 04:41 PM

Looking back, 1999 seems to be one of my first posts.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 03:36 PM

Thanks Nigel! I did think it was 2007 when I became ‘Backwoodsman’ (a response to Diane Easby’s vain attempts to insult me, a group of my friends, and Lincolnshire generally). I was someone else for some time before that.

I learn something new every day - thanks for today’s bit of education. ;-)

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 02:34 PM

Backwoodsman:

First posting as BW 13 May 2007. You can find it from 'personal pages => 'Click for your list of posted messages' => scroll to the bottom and click 'posts starting with oldest'

Cheers

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 12:56 PM

Pretty sure I came here around 2003 or 2004, but the first few years under a different pseudonym. I’ve been posting as Backwoodsman since (I think) 2007.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,Wally Macnow
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 11:39 AM

I signed on as Guest about the same time that Dick Greenhaus got involved. He eventually bought Camsco Music from me.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 10:29 AM

I predate 2004.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 03:29 AM

I wish Jim were back, too, but he couldn't live with our terms.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST,RJM
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 02:54 AM

Jim Carroll, and what a loss he is to this site
Gargoyle.
Captain Birdseye

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 04:16 PM

Well, I started in January 1997, but Bill D and a few others were before me.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 03:57 PM

'Sixteen years ago' from March 2018?
Yes, that would include me.

First post (other than as 'Guest') 27 Feb '02

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Helen
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 03:28 PM

Maryrrf, I agree.

There used to be a sense of community, and although there were sometimes differences of opinion, there was usually respect and often quirky humour, and different viewpoints of other people often created opportunities to possibly change our own viewpoints or broaden our knowledge.

I remember a lot of the people who have either sadly passed away, or moved away from Mudcat for various reasons.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 02:48 PM

My first post was in January 2001, but I'd been lurking for at least a year. Mudcat had a "Golden Age" where it was a real community. Just being a 'Catter was like belonging to an exclusive club - only it wasn't exclusive. It was open to everyone. I miss those days, and I especially miss the many 'Catters who've passed on. At some point, things started deteriorating, and a lot of people, including me, dropped out and moved on to places like Facebook. Facebook will never replace the old Mudcat - but Mudcat as it is now is only a shadow of what it once was. I do stop by and lurk occasionally, just for old time's sake.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 02:19 PM

By gum, I made my first post on 15 June 1999!

And I lurked a fair while before I dared break cover.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 01:09 PM

I’m still here after well north of twenty years.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 23 - 11:23 AM

Pretty sure I did a lot (the bulk) of my posting in like 2000 and thereabouts.

Subject: RE: Purely out of interest-who was posting 16 yr ago?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 12:41 AM

Ah! Abby Sale - the source of lots of interesting tidbits.