All right: who of us are dead? Delayed obits.

Subject: All right: who of us are dead?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 25 - 02:45 AM

I sang from about 1970.

I've only just learned that Royston Wood died in 1990. That's thirty-five years ago. I know Carthy's still going (but it's about time he gave up—like me).

Is Nic still around? All those old-timers?

Mudcat ought to have a link so we can celebrate the going of all these magic people. Swarb and the like. Maddy's still going?

Stefan

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 16 Apr 25 - 04:13 AM

There's the 'In Memoriam' page
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=142251
& see links there to 'Related threads':
Obit: Mudcat Honor Roll: Musicians of Note
Folk Singers who Have Died

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Do we need a 'What! They're still alive?' page?

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: rich-joy
Date: 16 Apr 25 - 04:30 PM

For the Aussies amongst us, watch this magnificent video by Bruce Watson :

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=173987&messages=11

"Australia - IMMORTAL - a Video Tribute"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzqAOPOqTk

R-J

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Apr 25 - 06:45 PM

I am still alive, I started gigging in mid 70s. 50 years ago.Dick Miles

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: Bugsy
Date: 17 Apr 25 - 12:52 AM

I'm still alive, though I've died a few times. On And off Stage.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: Fred
Date: 17 Apr 25 - 04:47 AM

Some say I'M still alive, some say I shouldn't be, and some say if they ever get hold of me, I won't be ;)
Started in 1960, 78 next birthday.

Peace and goodwill
Fred

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Apr 25 - 08:04 AM

Someone must have thought I was, as I'd been logged out: my still alive brain realised this and so here I am again!
At least 65 years a folkie! Big birthday next year.

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead? Delayed obits.
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Apr 25 - 05:09 PM

Robert Burns said it better than I could:

Here's tae us!
Wha's like us?
Gey few,
and they're a' deid!

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead? Delayed obits.
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Apr 25 - 10:54 PM

It is good to see that Miles of Dick are still being laid in the sand.

However, I am quite sure "Good Soldier Shwank" and "Captain Bird's Eye" met an untimely end in the internet battles of 2000.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Mr. Miles it is truly GOOD to hear you alive and kicking up and still kicking up the sand.

Subject: RE: All right: who of us are dead? Delayed obits.
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 25 - 03:01 AM

GARGOYLE Try being positive the majority of your posts are negative. a quote from bertrand russell
The world is vast and our own powers are limited. If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. And to demand too much is the surest way of getting even less than is possible. The man* who can forget his worries by means of a genuine interest in, say, the Council of Trent, or the life history of stars, will find that, when he returns from his excursion into the impersonal world, he has acquired a poise and calm which enable him to deal with his worries in the best way, and he will in the meantime have experienced a genuine even if temporary happiness.