The Mudcat FBI!

Subject: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:15 PM

Well hello, Agent, you must be one of the new recruits. Welcome to Mudcat Underground, the top-secret headquarters of The Mudcat FBI. No one would realize that under a busy West Chester street lies the nerve-center of a powerful organization bent on saving the world from music ignorance.

Hello, I'm Agent Richards, but you can call me Agent Mbo. Here's your official Mudcat dark sunglasses. Wear them with pride, rookie.

Here's the tour, there's a canteen/pub in the back there, if its refreshment you need. Board rooms over here...what's that you say? Oh, that long, dark hallway? That's the coridoor to the President's office. No one sees to much of the President. Some folks call him "Max". But he sends out orders fast enough. Right through here...

This is the squad room. Right now we're working on several cases. In fact, we just sent a sweeper team out to Phoenix...seems there was a kid who left out the C#m7 chord in the chorus of "Shangri-La". It's never a dull moment around here. We get an average of 200 incidents an hour.

Who's that, you say? Why, that's our junior member, Agent O'Possum, our expert on ocarinas and other mouth blown instruments. Yep, we finally got him a nice black Gucci ensemble in his size.

Feel free to wander around and get acquainted with the other agents...they're everywhere. Just don't go down that dark hallway, rookie...

--Agent Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:18 PM

Geeez! Mbo!! It never stops, does it? I can see Double Ohhh Spaw comin' down the holeway -- I mean hallway now!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:24 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

I'm going to play songs! LOTS and LOTS of songs!!!And I'm going to use NO Maj7th cords!! AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:29 PM

AGENTS, AFTER HIM!!!! That man is seriously deranged! How dare he insult my favorite kind of chord in the world, the kind I put at least one of in every song I write!?....stop feind! Quick! Agent Spaw, load up the Agent O'Possum bazooka, and aim right for his tookas! Ha, didn't think our wind blown instrument expert could fly, did ya, smart guy?

--Agent Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:38 PM

AHAHAHAHA!!!

You'll never catch me, copper. Anyone who can't remember "i before e except after c " hasn't got what it takes to catch...The Chordwaster!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:38 PM

TOOKAS????

Somebody get this goyboy a crash course in yiddish slang.

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:40 PM

Say, pal, I'm looking for a certain redhead...heard she was in dese parts. Yeah I know her name, and I could tell ya, but I'd haveta kill you first, see...excuse me whiles I opens up dis here violin case...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:43 PM

Sure, Agent Spaw, right after you define "stunod" "bondole" "sporcaccone" "chooch" "cavone" and "scuddigadele"!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:47 PM

Redhead? Yeah...could be...could be. But, uh,whats in it fer me, pal. Ya know, info like dat don't stand around on da corner waitin' fer a trolly pal.Ya know? Takes a certain kinda guy ta come up wid stuff like dat and he don't come cheap.Ya know what I mean? Pal!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:49 PM

Geez, give a guy a badge an' he jumps right on de take!! OK, agent Troll -- if that's your real name -- gimme a tip, here, an' lunch in the cafeteria's on me. Hear their serving a mean Spaw sandwich tomorrow...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:54 PM

Screams are heard issuing forth from an interview room, where the Kitten Cavalry is interrogating a suspect.

"What did you mean in your thought for the day posting? Don't you know there are speical guidleines for those???"

"But I was a newbie!!! They said it was OK to come in and look around! I only posted once!!"

"Ignorance is no excuse, stunod!!!"

[Slap, slap, SLAPP punctuated by screams]

"HELP, SOMEONE, PLEEEEZE... I don't think anyone can HEARME, why doesn't anyone come get me outta here???"

"Oh, so yer ready to confess, eh? Whaddaya think we got here, a freakin' confessional? There's no room on the drive here to *incarcerate* ye, either, till Max gets more equipment-- We don't punish, we terminate yer cookies! Shoot em Agent Praise, s/he violated the first folkie principle!!

"What's that?" says Agent Praise, panic setting in.

"Ah, another ignoramus!! Get her!"

"Help!! Agent Offer!!! Edit me to safety!!!"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:55 PM

Sorry, Agent Amos, you'll have to check that violin, along with smug face, at the door. Security reasons. We don't want any undercover Harry Fox Agency goon coming in here and spying on us with bugged fiddles!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 11:55 PM

S'funny. Da redhead is hangin' out wid a mook calls hisself Spaw. An if he got a sandwich named fer him you can count me out fer lunch! 'Cause if that sandwich tastes anyting like what I heard his taste is...Look, I done tole ya too much. I gotta go.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:02 AM

An Agent drags someone in through the front door. The front desk clerk (civilian) looks up from his coffee and donuts. "Oh, another GUEST, eh?"

"Yeah, I caught him lurkin' around out back."

"Go on back to the GUEST quarters then with him, they'll virus check him, de-goof him, do a background check, and anoint him King or issue him his soapbox over there. Or terminate his crabby ass if he's not fit to be among us."

"OK, then should I stop off in the Documents section to help him pick out a 'Cat name and get his ID issued?"

"No, those are issued in the cafeteria, dummy. We gotta see what kinda cookies he can swallow.....

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:03 AM

Allright, so you think you can scare me with the check the violin bit? Ha! That's my Dreadnought in there! HA! And my heat is under this garter over here...see?? Ha!! Fooled YOU!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:09 AM

Good job on another nab, Agent Praise! Now sit his/her scrawny bum on a stool in the canteen, give 'em some chocy biqs, and give him/her the 3rd degree--you know, with the guitar? Start off easy with say, "Wild Mountain Thyme". Then start gettin' heavy with "Steel Man." Then give them the final wallop with "Johhny Cope". That aught to initiate them enough! And BTW go HEAVY on the Major 7th Chords. This Agent Coordinator thinks they RULE!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:11 AM

Someone dressed as an Agent comes in, steps to the retina scanner to gain entrance, and ZAP falls to the floor. The error message on the scanner reads, "Infiltrator. Terminated. Light was on, but no one home."

Headline:

"Mudcat FBI Foils Robo Folkie Plot"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:11 AM

AHAHAHAHA!!!!

When the Chordwaster takes over there won't BE any Major 7th Chords. There'll only be DOMINANT 7ths!!!!!!

AHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:14 AM

Agent Hardiman burst in, hard on the heels of Chordwaster.

"Aha!!! HERE'S the klezmer king that's been trying to corrupt Agent Praise! Try to klezmer yer way outta this, ye mug!"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: rangeroger
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM

Then in walked a dark stranger,clad in thight bhodrans held up at the waist with duct tape.
He reeked of stale cat farts.
Special Agent in Charge Mbo acccosted him and asked him to state his business.
He said I intend to play suicidal,depressing songs in minor keys.FOR DAYS.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:26 AM

Agent Days comes in. "What the hell??? I didn't ask for anything like THAT!"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:33 AM

And another tales unfolds,
In the city that has a thousand songs...
And sings half of them off key...

(Minor theme music crescendos and fades out. Sound of heels walking on pavement in a dark, wet night. We see shadows under tall buildings, pale puddles of streetlights glimmering over damp city streets. In the distance, we hear the faint notes of a siren, playing an Aeolian harp...)

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: rangeroger
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:38 AM

Playing "Stairway to Heaven"

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:39 AM

... the Siren lays the harp down, its voice at rest. She throws back her mantle in the balmy rain-and-eucalyptus-washed night air, red hair aglint under the streetlamp. The tapping heels pause, feeling a thrill echo down the long, dark alley he's taken toward home, a thrill that reaches deep into... shall he turn back to find its source? ... no, best left a mystery....

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:40 AM

Wad's dis den, the Mudcat Folk Bureau of Insurgents???!!! Or, is dat Insanity, with a capital "I"?!!!

An, hey, shuge, I got tha redhair, but I've nevah seen yew befo'. Doncha be touchin' mah cookies, neither, ya heah? Not til I know youse bettah! Is that a fiddle in yawl's case or are ya just *hittin'* on lil ole me??batting long eyelashes rapidly

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:44 AM

Hittin is as hittin does, fair auburn...how is it all these folkie ladies claim to be redheads, now? Must be like Saint Patricks day. Everybody's a redheaded Irishman. I got an inside tip it's a push job from Big Money Warbucks, over at Hairs Are Us...trying to pull the rug out from under the boys down at Clairol. Never could figger it out ho' -- does she, or doesn't she? Don' ask me, but I bet I'll be hearing about this one...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 12:51 AM

SHE doesn't an' even tho' it's a might faded, she still claims it! Got a pichur ta prove it. Now, ya wanna make somethin' of it, Mister!?!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:05 AM

Hey--don't talk about hair dying! "The Boss" Max might get upset! And when I'm out, you know, incognito, people always seem to think I dye my hair this aurburn color. Like yeah right, I dye my arm and moustache and goatee and leg (!) hair auburn--I'm so VAIN la la la! Hmmph! A simple Agent Coordinator gets NO respect! IT'S ALL NATURAL BAYBEE!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:15 AM

Ya mean that F&D # 7 all over the inside of your athletic supporter?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:23 AM

Meanwhile, back at the Mudcat FBI, things were heatin' up. Someone had been using the xerox machine to take copies of their Brasilian rosewood one-piece back side. The Boss wasn't happy. Someone was gonna pull duty in Dubuque, an' he wanted to know who, and fast...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:38 AM

Man! Talk about a hardass!! I've heard a'wooden heads before, but a rosewood arse?!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 06:34 AM

Special Agent (disguised as a mariner) Dave reporting in with a file on all missing songwriters. I have managed to trace the organization responsible ch/Mbo; I have it on good authority that they are all being held in Cyberspace at a place called the Mudcat Cafe. Unfortunately I have not been able to locate the address; but I'm following links through our sister organization the Copyright Police. This will involve the services of Interpol. Yes, I'm afraid its bigger than we thought. God they've even got Australians involved.. The European connection has several shady characters headquartered in London. I've been checking their communications links and have found a connection with a Jon Freeman (aka Jon Banjo)in London. Hearme is the codeword, and this Sunday I am going undercover to listen in.. more later. Yours,Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,Agent0061/2
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 06:54 AM

I believe one of the code names may be Roger. There's a one on the range , there's a skiffler, a shambles and a big one in Baltimore, one lives with a laughing kat. Could be more...still investigating
RtS

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,guest............................from ......
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:31 AM

The year is 2000 and month is mars. There´s some strange man walking around some city in some state and he´s singin in a strange .......................... who is he ? He´s well dressed and plays a guitar. He´s whislting and singing and are most likly from another place in the world.He is tall , have dark hair, white and has been around the mudcat people for avile. This is a Case for Mudcatt FBI.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:36 AM

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

MORE MINOR 7ths!!! We are everywhere! Our influence reaches even into your very ranks!!!! OUR NAME IS LEGION!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,guest of ............land
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:44 AM

You have to find out he´s ......this is bad. Guest.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:53 AM

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I am never going to be caught! I will add chords where none are needed...Dimimisheds...Augmenteds...Minor 5+7ths Major 9ths...and you cannot stop me for I am...The Chordwaster!!!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Hyperabid
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:06 AM

Then into town rides a man on an ass.

He wears a stitched leather hat, a poncho and dusty riding clothes. He smokes a cheap cigar and slung by his hip is a mean looking Smith and Wesson six-stringer.

Suddenly from the shadows leap the hired thugs of - (oh I don't know... some bad dude necessary to the plot who dies in the last reel) - the stranger flips his six stringer from his side with lightning speed and plays...

The chord with no name...!

WA-OO-AH-OH-AH! WAH! WAH! WAH!

Hyp

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:09 AM

Agent Mbo? He of "Untouchables" fame?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:14 AM

In the lunchroom at HQ, Agents are eating catfish on rye, and caitrincookies.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:16 AM

My radio is Baroque, I am having trouble finding Folk. The Country and Western connections are very loud, but they say that Jazz got the Blues, I'm not sure who Jazz is and he is obviously upset about something. More later. Out!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: MMario
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:23 AM

*a message can be dimly seen on the mirror of the bar

!pleH m'I gnieb dleh renonsirp esuaceb I t'nod daer cisum!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:28 AM

Eight Agents to the bar, in boogie rhythm! At once!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,Agent 33 1/3
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 10:41 AM

[peering over the top of magenta granny glasses and adjusting headband] Alright, I'm Agent 33 1/3 from the secret organization "People in Tye-Dye." We're so secret, WE don't even know we exist. We're here to keep tabs on refugees from the 60s and 70s. You know, make sure they don't cause trouble infecting modern civilization with their ideas about peace and love and passive demonstration. We've been doing a damn fine job, if you ask me. I'm keeping my eye on this place - there's too much music and camraderie here for it to be anything but a plot...

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 10:48 AM

Like wow, man, Agent 33 1/2, here sweetie, like have a toke of this, man, it'll like, well, you'll be able to see the Truth, ya know? An', we can hold hands an' you'll feel so loose, naw, it doesn't compromise anything except maybe your position. What's that? Oh, man, no sweat! Hey, you're free ta go, but just try a little luuuvvv first, yeah, ya know, the *free* kind, then you can rap on to the Man about how harmless this all really is, like ya know? It's cool, baby, it's cool. Luv is where it is AT! luvchick

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 10:51 AM

Agent 33 1/3-- tabs? In the bootlegger's evidence room.

If you find any refugees, they're too dangerous to incarcerate as-is-- send 'em to the Tom Petty Getalife Workshop first for re-education. If they won't go, radio the Traveling Wilberries, they pick up.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 11:52 AM

YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!! I LOVE THE TRAVELING WILBURYS!!! WOOOOOOO! JEFF LYNNE RULES!!!

Sorry, even Agent Coordinators get wild! Now where's Tweeter and the Monkey Man? Oh Chordwaster....I love 9th and minor seventh chords! Nyah nyanny pooh pooh!

Oh yeah, Agent Mcmoo, I'm as untouchable as they come! In the immortal words of the great bard MC Hammer "You can't touch this."

Agent Praise, isn't catfish a little greasy for this early in the morning? And NO COOKIES! It's Lent, you know! Just hand me that apple!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,Guest from land of .........................
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:36 PM

I am secured you cant get me or find me , I am still playing srange type of folk music the words has strange letters, on my head is a hat with something on. Agents I will be on every pup I can find. HaHaHAHAHAHAHAAH.O there is one agent I must go .I just got catfish but I have to rush. Sorry, dammm gling crrash sorry about that .

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:46 PM

And today's special---Word Salad!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 01:56 PM

Awright you guys, let's have a wee glimmer of professionalism, here. The money we spend buying you identical shoes and ties, I should hope you guys would wear them with some pride and stop hacking around. Been hanging out with too many folkies. One under everybed! Gotta expose this stuff, man! They're everywhere. If they had their way, Congress would open by singing Annie Laurie! Every one would have dominant, subdominant and tonic chords written on their arms in disappearing ink. Our _kids_ would have to memorize _Yeats_, another furrin' socialist. Yankee Doodle would have seventy three verses! Unamerican, is what!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:01 PM

OH SH*T THE SKIMPY GLIMMERS ARE HERE!!!

I have to LEAVE, it's not FAIR!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:11 PM

I think the bbc are involved here.. must be on shortwave.. cannot find the frequency though. Dave (the ancient 007)

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:37 PM

Keep trying Agent Dave! C'mon people, we have to find that no-good Chordwaster! Word on the street is he's been including gratuitous Dm chords with descending bass notes in Silly Wizard songs! The gall! People, we must right this wrong! But let's keep our voices normal here folks? The Boss is working on tonight's schedule for the Mudcat FBI Radio Show. We don't want to disturb him while he's doing the soundchecks! What? Yes, that's Muddy Waters...just ignore it and find that Chordwaster!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 03:05 PM

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I'M BAAAACK!!!!! Of course you like 9ths and Minor7ths, Agent Mbo. Why don't you try this E13th.The more chords, the better!GRATUITOUS CHORDS!!!!YESSSSS!!!!YESSSS!!!! MORE!!!! MORE!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,Guest from land of .......................
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 03:59 PM

Hey chord man we should meet on some pup? I have been playing Gdim on 7th, and I had to leave the pup and I have no idea why. Do you know enything about these agents? Beware the......... have to go . Guest from land of.........

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 04:30 PM

HA, Chordwaster, it's much more for to play a B11 chord! Oh the dissonant dissonance! BTW What in tarnation is a pup?

--Agent Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:08 PM

Agent Mbo-- just got word on "The gall! People"-- they've been cleared, heard they just let Shambles out.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:20 PM

Well that's good news! I told Max when the HFA held him as a hostage that we shoulda sent a task force up there...but I'm glad they finally let him go. There's gonna be a lot less musical ignorance in this world tonight!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Caitrin
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:27 PM

Pardon me...I debated too long about when to come in, and then I couldn't find the key, so I had to climb in the window. I understand you're the people who can help me.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:33 PM

Well, little lady, only if we can trade on our stale donuts for your fresh cookies--- you DIND'T BRING COOKIES??? Hafta sing us a song then, that's the ticket here if you want REAL help... That's how we takes yer report!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:43 PM

I'm still getting what a pup is! Where's that guest from the land of Misfit Toys?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:22 PM

Miss Caitrin -- if that's your real name -- we can help anyone. What seems to be the problem?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 10:55 PM

The door opens and a tall figure stands, armed only with a pitchpipe, framed in the doorway.

"SO! I hear you agents have been looking for The Chordwaster? Well, you've found him! Don't move Agent Mbo," he raises the pitchpipe menacingly, "Or I'll hit you with an F# that'll knock you all the way back to a basic CMaj triad." He removes his hat and coat and is suddenly shorter; shorter portly and bespectacled.

"You see," he says," I'm actually ACAPELLAMAN. Chordwaster was just a disguise to try to get you to see that all these un-necessary chords don't add to a song. They only show off the virtuosity of some player often to the detriment of the melody. Excess chording is rife. It's invaded Irish sessions, it's everywhere.No one cares about the melody, only about how many tricky chords they can cram into a song."

He backs through the door.

"Remember less is best! Or The Chordwaster will be back!

AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 10:57 PM

Boy! THAT sounded preachy. didn't it? I'd better cut back on the Grumpy Flakes for breakfast.

troll

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 11:39 PM

Wow...glad I stick to my dominant-subdominat-tonic triad mosta the time....WOuldn't want to mess with someone that tall, dark and portly...from the look sof him, I'd say he knew how to use that pitchpipe!

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 11:47 PM

I LIKE acapella singing. It's what I was raised with and a lot of the old ballads just don't sound right with accompanyment.

troll another three-chord-wonder

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:34 AM

I liked you better as chord waster better! The more chords the better, especially bass notes! Other wise, if it's a two chord song you're wanting, get a bass player to help you out--Crockapella man! Now....what was I saying?

--Agent Mbo

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:38 AM

troll,

I like you anyway you is

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: BlueJay
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:59 AM

Now mbo, don't pick on bass players. I just got one, and they're a lot of fun, especially if you play 'em like a guitar! I think it adds a lot to even informal jamming. Of course, it is different playing on strings a quarter inch in diameter. I like Maj 7ths on the bass. Sometimes it keeps me from stretching so FAR. My main argument against playing bass is that it either eats alot of picks, or else it eats a lot of fingers.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: GUEST,Guest from land of .............ire
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:24 AM

Whistling,whistling damm it is hot here. Agent Mbo you have to find out what pup is by your self .hot, hot ,hot hey I need water , where am I Help I am lost. I think I have to find a way back home to my best pup . The sun is to hot . I need to get some Ice. Whistling , whistling , whistling G,D,C,Em. I need to go to the shadow. I am going to the east coast again. Guest from land............

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Troll
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:24 AM

BlueJay*** Try putting a little superglue on the spots on your fingers where the blisters appear before you play. It works.

Mbo*** don't knock un-accompanied singing. Instrumentation is all well and good, but when you hear a beautiful song butchered because some guitar played put in every chord voicing he could think of, you'll see what I mean.

And remember, The Chordwaster can return at any time!!!

AHAHAHAH...ahem

troll

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Caitrin
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:27 AM

Troll, I like a capella too! Music with accompaniment is beautiful, too, but I'm a big fan of tight harmonies and no instruments, too. Being a person who can only do major and minor guitar chords and a Dsus4, though, it's probably just jealousy talking. : )

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Mbo
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:14 AM

Methinks I was making myself seem unfair! Bluej--I absolutely LOVE bass guitars--music would be lost without them, and their players. If I actually had the money to spend, I'd buy one. I use an old classical guitar with slacked up strings to play fake bass guitar on. It's kinda grungy and funky at the same time, seeing as the strings are 3 years old and completely oxidized. And Troll--there ain't a bloody thing wrong with the acappella. Since I'm at school most of the day with NO access to a guitar, all my singing in the mall, hallways, classrooms, restrooms, and woodshops is all acappella. That's how I've learned to sing in tune without musical accompaniament! And I am by no means a gratuitous chord-adder...a just like to put in some stuff that gives me a fuller sound without having an accompaniast, like adding bass notes to the chords, and strumming drum rhythms. Check out my "The First Thing" at the Mudcat Songbook! Weeee those D and Em7 chord changes at the speed it supposed to be played is a riot!!! Everything in moderation, give it full consideration.

--Agent Mbo (who's gonna run for cover when the pup grows up!)

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 10:49 AM

Where's the Thread Creep Squad?

If they don't get here soon, the Maintenance Department'll hafta send somebody to turn up the laughing gas inputs in the HVAC mix.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:06 PM

Hello Agents who is this Guest from land of?? Hmmmmmmm,lets think for a minute. He´s hot that means that he might be in the south? He got no place to stay and he is on the road all the time. He whistle and plays guitar and sings ???? Who is he?.And he sings in some strange words ?? I think you Agents have to do something about this. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:12 PM

Skarpi, you on the road?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: MMario
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:18 PM

wait a minute...whistles, plays guitar and sings......Doesn't that describe that Red-headed kid with the fish-shaped git-tar?

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:39 PM

Me on the road ?????? Dont know about that, but who knows whats gonna happen in the near coming months.

Red headed ???? ######### Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Fhished shaped guitar????? no I dont think so . He use strange words, that may means that he is not singing in English?????. I think I know who he is.Comon this is a game right?. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:15 PM

Well, brother and sister Agents, looks like it's gearing up for another great one! Since it's already a G Man, and seems to really like head hunting, maybe we oughta make him Chairman of the Board here at Mudcat FBI.

Subject: RE: The Mudcat FBI!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:17 PM

Except, given his literacy it would be spelled differently.

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