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Musicolism- take the test!
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,Mudweasel Date: 26 Jul 01 - 07:12 PM My cheapest guitar is worth more than my car... All three together cost more than every car I've owned in my life... And I'm proud of that fact... -Mudweasel (longtime lurk, firsttime post) |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Jul 01 - 04:45 PM I'm going cold turkey [ in the straw !!] Jock |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:47 PM No, no-- 99 instruments hang on the wall, 99 up on the wall.... Went to just look, bought a new hook, 100 instruments now on the wall. Trying to cut bnack on line breaks. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Lin in Kansas Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:41 PM LOL! LOL! MMario, it's too late for you! Line breaks in your handwritten lyrics--YES! I refuse to contribute to your addiction. From now on, I only send Rhapsody files, no midis! And yes, I wait til after Winfield to plan the next one, mostly because when you're in the middle of one Winfield, there just ain't no plannin' to be done! Lin |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: MMario Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:22 PM Friends - I am a musicalholic. it has been 1 year 5 months and 16 days since I stood here and first confessed this. AND IT'S WORSE THEN EVER! I have progressed (regressed? devolved?) into a MudCatMusicalholic. I put line breaks into my lyrics even when writing them by hand! I refuse to learn new tunes until someone sends them to me in miditext or abc format. I am beginning to think of 18th century parlour songs as "That new pop music" HELP ME! |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Jim Krause Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:03 PM Hi, my name is Jim, and I'm a Musicoholic. I guess I'm really under the influence. I forgot to put line breaks in when I filled out the questionaire. Lately I've been obsessed with Bob Wills' San Antonio Rose. I play it every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at Farmer's Market. I even taught the guitar chords to a friend of mine last Saturday afternoon. And I actually sang it for him, until he had it down. Worse, I'm not even ashamed I did it. Jim |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Grab Date: 26 Jul 01 - 01:59 PM Wow - I can't be a fully-fledged musicoholic, I can answer no to 26, 27 and 28. And half of 25, since we bought our first house (no contest as to whether the instruments are worth more than the car, though). I thought I could answer no to 23 as well, but then I remembered the weekly practise for the company band. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,Garydon Date: 26 Jul 01 - 01:15 PM Howdy My name is Gary And I too am a Musicoholic. I'm trying to get better 1 tune at a time. It feels so good to know that I'm understood without having to explain. WhatI'd really like to understand about myself is why OH why is it that I learn 1 tune better when I start working on 3 Gary |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Jim Krause Date: 26 Jul 01 - 01:12 PM 99 guitars on the wall 99 guitars on the wall take one down and pass it around 98 guitars on the wall Jim |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Jim Krause Date: 26 Jul 01 - 12:58 PM ...Yes...No 1.__X__ ____ Do you ever indulge heavily when you are disappointed, under pressure or have had a quarrel with someone? 2._X___ ____ Can you handle more music now than when you first started to play? 3.____ _X___ Does your spouse or significant other resent your music? No, she thinks old-time music is just about chickens and mules. 4.__X__ ____ When playing with other people, do you try to get in few extra licks? Of course, I'm the fiddler. 5.__X__ ____ Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable when music is not available? You mean it could be unavailable? 6.__X__ ____ Are you in more of a hurry to get your first tune of the day than you used to be? 7.____ __X__ Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your music? 8.____ __X__ Has a family member or close friend ever expressed concern or complained about your playing? 9._X___ ____ Do you avoid parties or gatherings where you can't play music? They;re always & without exception BORING. 10.__X__ ____ Do you sometimes have memory blackouts about tune names? Huh? You talkin' to me? 11._X___ ____ Do you often want to continue playing after your friends say they've had enough? 12.__X__ ____ Do you ever find yourself spending money on music that was budgeted for something else? Yeah, I recently spent money on instrument repair that was budgeted for something stupid like our vacation. 13._X___ ____ Do you usually have a reason for occasions when you play heavily? 14.____ __X__ Have you tried switching instruments or changing styles to control your music habit? No, I have successfully switched instruments & styles to make myself more marketable. 15.____ __X__ Have you sometimes failed to keep promises you made to yourself about controlling or cutting down on your playing? Why bother? Just keep on picking and singing. 16.____ __X__ Do you try to avoid family or close friends while you're playing? "I'll tune up my fiddle, I'll rosin my bow, And make myself welcome, Wherever I go." 17.__X__ ____ Do you think about music while you're at work? Of course! Music is synonymous with work. 18.____ __X__ Does your involvement in music create financial, work, school and/or family problems? No, just the opposite. 19.__X__ ____ Do you eat very little or irregularly while you are playing music? That's the hazards of life on the road. 20.__X__ ____ Do wake up in the morning with a tune in your head or thinking about the next opportunity to play music? 21._X___ ____ Do you sometimes attend events where you play music continuously for several days at a time? 22.__X__ ____ After periods of playing music do you sometimes hear tunes although no one is playing? Yeah, and what's especially scary is that no one else has heard 'em before. Everybody says I'm making 'em up. 23.__X__ ____ Do you keep hidden instruments at home or work? 23.__X__ ____ Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your music? Yeah, I play in an old-time stringband. They help out a lot! 24.____ __X__ Do you ever feel depressed or anxious, before, during or after periods of heavy music indulgence? 25.__X__ ____ Is your instrument (or instruments) worth more than your car? More than your house? Hmmm, maybe. 26.____ __X__ Do you have to purchase a new CD storage rack more than four times a year? 27.____ ____ Do you have a child or a pet named after a musician? Yes, as a matter of fact, my wife shares the name of a once well known opera singer. 28.____ __X__ Does more than 30% of your wardrobe have a music-related logo on it?
Thanks Anim. This was great. What a hoot. And I answered truthfully, too. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Jack the Sailor Date: 26 Jul 01 - 12:32 PM Sure Cure Take two Kenny G albums and call me in the morning
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: MMario Date: 26 Jul 01 - 10:50 AM Lin - you can actually wait until *AFTER* the festival to start planning for the next one? You are obviously not as in deep as you think. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,Walking Eagle Date: 26 Jul 01 - 10:33 AM I'll admit, I'm sunk. I just have to play - - Music before Breakfast! I didn't know how bad I was until I finally hit bottom and sunk a whole bunch of non-existant plastic money into a new Martin guitar! Do you think I'll ever get to Step 9 where I have to write or talk to and apologise to everyone that I've hurt by my musicolism? Lordy, I hope so. Help! |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Lin in Kansas Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:54 AM So I DON'T bother to tear down the pickin' circle from one week to the next-- So the stand-up bass IS permanently set up in the living room just in case one of us wants to pluck a quick run-- So I DO have three lap dulcimers, all tuned to a different key-- So the only time ANY of our instruments is in its case is when we load them in the van to go jam somewhere-- So we DO have more sets of new strings than we have silverware-- So we DO start planning for the Winfield Festival right after we get home from the last one-- SO WHAT????? Ya got a problem with that?
Lin (surly because it's still two days to our weekly jam and withdrawals are threatening... |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Jul 01 - 01:35 PM I used to be a hardcore musicolic, but lately I'm not, and everyone who knows me is worried about it. Go figure. You just can't win. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Kim C Date: 25 Jul 01 - 12:46 PM Oh Lordee, am I ever in trouble!!!!!! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,L. Date: 25 Jul 01 - 10:22 AM At least my stomach and head doesn't hurt in the morning. L. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Jul 01 - 08:54 AM Found this funny one in the archive, let's have another go! ~Susan (AKA Praise in older messages) |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Fortunato Date: 14 Feb 00 - 02:17 PM I am not a musicolic. It's none of your damn business how much I spend on it. I only play music socially. Children don't need shoes anyway they just get them dirty. If they want to eat every day they should get jobs. Besides I can quit anytime I want. I've done it lots of times.
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Eric the Viking Date: 14 Feb 00 - 01:17 PM NO Wildone if your'e pissing on something you can be piddling not widdling, you can also twidle but that is "to fiddle with" but not fiddling as in playing the violin. Eric |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 00 - 09:45 PM Wildlone, I'll make sure to use and demonstrate the term when I next play in church. And it should be very popular in the nursing homes, where I see that more of the residents are musicians under it all than I could have imagined. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wildlone Date: 12 Feb 00 - 07:59 PM I just like guitar's that's all 6 is not a lot is it. BTW yere in the UK widdling is a slang term for urination I have now got vision's of people peeing on there instrument's to improve their tone.***BG***. dave |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 00 - 05:26 PM Ely, If you must dress up as Hazel please don't tell us about it. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Ely Date: 12 Feb 00 - 05:22 PM Never mind how anxious and jittery I get when my mother won't let me play music in the car (she "can't see where she's going"). And I'm probably about to get thrown out of the dorm for playing Hazel Dickens late at night. We're all in this together. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 12 Feb 00 - 05:05 PM Widdling away is exactly what I do too. And Lucius, gotcha!! If only I could think about and do my favorite music at work- right now I feel like pulling teeth with the li'l darlings at work. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Feb 00 - 06:51 AM Love the word "widdling." Now I know whjat to tell people I play, and how I spend my time! |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Eric the Viking Date: 12 Feb 00 - 06:11 AM YES YES YES YES YES YES etc etc. But it's not better than sex, though I get a lot more music practice in. I can't even sit at my computer without having folk music playing, it's in the car, and if I'm sitting having a coffee I usually pick up some instrument. I take any chance I can at school to have a go. When i get home the first thing I do is have 5 minutes widdling on something. (you'd think I would be good with all the tiny bits of practice, but I'm still crap) I can't think of many things I'd rather do than listen to or play music. I take folk music on tapes when we go on holiday, I take then fishing. So I guess yes is the answer. Cheers Eric |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 00 - 08:15 PM Don't forget to list the replacement costs of ALL of your gear on your insurance!!!!! Know what we say a lot at our house? When we walk into the house and see the living room (sneeringly, in a drunken abusive tone): "Startin' to look like a damn myooozic shop around here!" |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Mbo Date: 11 Feb 00 - 08:11 PM You're not alone! I don't have a photocopier, but I do tear the house apart for scrap paper to write out lead sheets on. My stack is HUGE! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Helen Date: 11 Feb 00 - 08:06 PM Praise, I don't have a photocopier - yet - but, believe me, you are not alone. And my computer is loaded up with midi files of music I would love to learn but rarely print out the music to actually play. I've been thinking about Question 25: Is your instrument (or instruments) worth more than your car? More than your house? That one stopped me in my tracks - had to do some mental sums, but it's all right. The instruments only add up to a third of the cost of the car (2nd hand, 10 years old - God help me if I had a flash new car & the instruments still cost a third of that.) Helen |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 00 - 07:58 PM Question # 29: Do you have a photocopier at your home, and do you search all over the house for paper to feed it, and re-use the backs of scratch paper to run off one more song you don't even know just so you can put it in your binder (or in the pile on the hearth, or in your case, or...)? Please say yes, I feel so alone. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Mbo Date: 11 Feb 00 - 06:48 PM I can't not have music! I'm addicted in the worst (or is it best?)way. I once had to live 4 days without my guitar. I almost went mad with nothing to play on. I don't handle withdrawal very well. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,--seed(from work) Date: 11 Feb 00 - 06:33 PM I'm not addicted. I actually skipped going to a regular session last night (of course I was scheduled for a root canal at 8:00 this morning and figured a good night's sleep might help me survive that). Oh, one other thing: I did go to a different session in its place. I've had a bit of a time feeding my Mudcat addiction lately, since my computer is back in the shop (it still is, which is why a. I'm posting from school and b. I'm getting messages from fellow addicts wondering if I'm still alive. I am still alive, but next time a dentist offers to do a root canal on me I can refuse, saying "Been there, done that. Didn't inhale. Didn't like it." --seed |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Lucius Date: 11 Feb 00 - 04:40 PM I saw the thread, and knew immediately who posted it. OK Allison, fess up. How did you answer # 17 ? Do you think about music while you're at work? Peace & Love, Lucius |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 00 - 04:02 PM LOL |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: BlueJay Date: 11 Feb 00 - 03:22 PM Sure I like to play, but I can take it or leave it. The pick I hide in my wallet is nothing but a convenience. Also, I don't play EVERY day. Sure, my father played, but he played WOODWINDS, and I stick mainly to the lighter stringed instruments. My wife doesn't usually get mad about picking up the discarded instruments when I can't pick them up myself. There's no point in hiding them from the neighbors: they've already been seen, (but you don't necessarily want to line them up in the front window, either). And it doesn't bother me that my kids are picking up some of my habits, er, tendencies. I'm sure they will be able to keep it under C#ontrol as I do- re- mi. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Willie-O Date: 11 Feb 00 - 10:57 AM I play fiddle first thing Saturday morning and I don't care who knows it! I am without shame--by 10 a.m. Saturday I am in a chilly old hall with a dozen youngsters , encouraging them to play the fiddle with me! I am an adult corrupter of innocent youth. ("You need a little more rosin on your bow there; here, want me to tune that for you?") There must be a special corner in the deepest basement of the Neil Young Centre for people like me, see you all there! I am at home among the damned, for I am... |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 00 - 08:14 AM Have you noticed the conspicuous lack of responses to this thread?????? Are they... watching us discuss it? Or so in denial they don't open the thread? Or so healthy they see no humor in this? Or could it be that SOME of them have already attended Spaw's ceremony and are already in residence, incommunicado? Let's go break' em out! Bring trumpets to knock the walls down... no I am sorry in our case it must be the kazoo. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 11 Feb 00 - 06:32 AM The new Brian Wilson Ward of the Neil Young Center will soon be open to receive you, as soon as 'Spaw cuts the ribbon. RtS (mainly a listener but seriously addicted!) |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 11 Feb 00 - 12:31 AM I don't think there's any future in treating this addiction because none of us have any money to pay for treatment, so few professionals will focus on this for long. So I don't think we need to fear being sent to some non-musical treatment center. Before long though the organized crime people may want to cut in on this as we have matched their tactic for hooking people on heroin-- the first one being free. Think of all the people we expose to this dangerous reality-threatening addiction when we go play those nursing homes, benefits, etc., or curl up around a good instrument in the park so innocently on a summer day. Me, I am going to lurk in the bushes and addict them from there the sneaky way, to ensure there will be more of Us than Them. I'm sure glad they didn't call it Folkaholic, I might have gotten confused and actually thought I was havng sex!
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: WyoWoman Date: 11 Feb 00 - 12:22 AM Yeah, but pretty soon you start sharing picks and then ... it's all over but the crying... If we answered more than 20 yesses, do we get automatic admission to the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed? I hear they have some great sessions in the day room.... WyoWoman |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: ddw Date: 11 Feb 00 - 12:04 AM MMario, Not to worry — at least it doesn't make you kidneys go ropey. But around here we don't talk about what it does to your fingers and vocal cords.... ;-) david |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 00 - 11:35 PM So what would be the higher power and what would be the 12 steps, 12-tone music? (Aversion therapy.) |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 10 Feb 00 - 07:47 PM Oh God help me I've been looking at Celtic Harps and Bodhrans again.. I'm doomed addicted beyond help.. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Helen Date: 10 Feb 00 - 06:22 PM I can really relate to No. 9: Do you avoid parties or gatherings where you can't play music? I get fidgety and irritable when I just have to hang about making small talk, eating and drinking. That's not what parties are about. I don't want to get addicted to talking about nothing, eating & drinking. I like being addicted to music. Helen |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 00 - 06:16 PM Yeah, you have to want to be helped first. And I don't think an intervention would work, our families, friends, and co-workers would simply grab a songbook and join in, or compete for center stage. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: fulurum Date: 10 Feb 00 - 06:14 PM i'm really here for the uh, recipes, yeah thats it the recipes. besides I can quit whenever I want to. |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Feb 00 - 06:00 PM OK, OK, now calm down, not to vorry! None of you can have this... Because if you did you'd be in denial over it not proud of it! Ummm... am I in denial over your addiction? Uhhh... do you think maybe I am codependent with the musicolholics in my life? Because umm I seem to know a lot of people who fit that test (I think I attract them somehow) and I really can't wait till they start playing again and I just want to help them have a better life but you know the more they play music the better I seem to like it, I don't mean to be an enabler but... then I have so much to share and they seem to NEED me so much... do you think? and... |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: Troll Date: 10 Feb 00 - 05:14 PM My name is troll and I'm a musicoholic. There! I feel better already! troll |
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Subject: RE: Musicolism- take the test! From: fulurum Date: 10 Feb 00 - 04:59 PM makes you the leader of the support group. and there already s a support group, its called mudcat. heres to our friends our steady old friends the friends who are tried and true you are the best the hell with the rest from time gentlemen time. |
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