|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Art Thieme Date: 15 Jun 00 - 09:27 PM Bill and Allan were here in Peru today and we had a grand but too short visit. They are now wending their way to Mick's place in Michigan-----actually, they may be there already. What a treat to meet 'em and to sing a few. Mick, They were not aware that Elderly Instruments is so close to where they'll be. I think they might like to know the correct way to get there if they decide they've got enough time for a visit. Alice, We sat here and traded tales of "Devil's Slide" ! All the best, Art (and Carol too) |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Alice Date: 15 Jun 00 - 01:12 AM I just finished making the page and started a thread specifically for it.... click here |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jun 00 - 01:06 AM And just where is the "blicky" for this website? |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: katlaughing Date: 14 Jun 00 - 08:35 PM Spaw, Rog just read your posting about "da birds"...he says we should have a Cockatiel HearMe Session for C-More and Maddie! Okay, Maddie, hit yer F9 key sweetie....!!!**BG** Alice, that will be wonderful! My digital pix were kind of blurry (Rog didn't focus very well:-), but hope my 35mm ones will be good enough to scan in and send to Max, too. Thanks for your pix! |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Alice Date: 14 Jun 00 - 08:23 PM I just realized I have a photo of Bill and Allan on my digital camera. I'll put it up and add a thread. Allan, I'm going to finish the roll in my 35mm on the mutating columbine flowers, then scan the prints and put them on my website. I'll let you know later when they are up. In the mean time (I don't know why I didn't take more with the digital) I will add the one digital shot of you two taken when you arrived. It will go on the website tonight. Alice |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Alice Date: 14 Jun 00 - 07:52 PM Bill, after you guys left, there was one more thing I remembered. I was going to try to download your pictures from the digital camera to my computer. Well, I had a digital that sat for 2 years with pictures in it and nothing was lost when the battery went dead. I put in the photos, downloaded the pictures, and it worked just fine. I think you can feel safe to change that old battery anytime. Maybe someone farther down the road from me can print the photos from their computer for you.
Waiting for more updates with BATED breath. Alice |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Sorcha Date: 14 Jun 00 - 07:00 PM I suppose I should finally take time to tell you all what we did at my house. I have been so wiped physically from the weekend, I have just lazed around! The guys arrived On Time about 3:30 local time, and came over to the house at 6PM. We had a lovely yard party-BBQ with all the "normal" USA picnic food--burgers & hot dogs, potato salad, deviled eggs,spinach salad, peach cobbler, and, since we are after all in Wyoming, deer and antelope marinated in raspberry vinegar/olive oil and grilled. The day started out VERY hot, almost 100F, but cooled off nicely in the eve. Threatened rain, but it never happened. Had about 15 people here, including most of my band. Made music by firelight until almost 11, when everybody had to leave. Bill, Allan and I went to Old Fort Laramie, a restored frontier/Indian Wars fort, and to the Oregon Trail wagon ruts on Friday. These ruts are so impressive--a trail cut wagon box deep (4+ feet!) through solid granite. Allan was so excited, he was running up and down them, jumping up and down, imagining the people, their desire for land and their perserverance. Sent them north to kat's house Friday afternoon, and joined them there Sat. afternoon for the EA Hearme session. I keep thinking of a song by Elkin Thomas, called "The Journey"......can't find the words on line,so I guess I will have to go listen to it, and transcribe, but "the Journey is all the time........."
Somehow, this trip has tied all of us together in a very personal way. Those of us that have been fortunate enough to meet Allan and Bill, have somehow, now met each other. |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: katlaughing Date: 14 Jun 00 - 06:36 PM Yeah, next thing ya know he'll be wanting an agent and making me sign a contract for more fresh fruit, a dozen *Maddies*, and a spot on letterman! |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Jun 00 - 06:14 PM Yeah guys......We have found that Maddie is incredibly niuts over music too. Then again, she loves the TV too, and the computer....pecks away at the keyboard, chases the cursor........Anyway tell C-more he "was heard." Spaw |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Sorcha Date: 14 Jun 00 - 05:39 PM So here is Mimosa, playing this heartbreakingly lovely tune on the harp, with this baritone/molasses voice just sort of rolling efforlessly out, and C-More starts in. None of us could decide whether to be sniffly/sobby at Mimosa's song, or just bust a gut laughing at the bird. Then Bet appointed herself Keeper of the Quiet BirdCage. Every time C squawked, Bet thwacked the bottom of the cage. This accomplished little except to add to the rhythm section, and put a few more bird feathers in the air. The 'Tiels at "my" Nursing Home really get into Florida Blues, so I played it for C-More, and boy, did that get him rockin'! Poor abused birdie. |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: katlaughing Date: 14 Jun 00 - 05:29 PM Well, Spaw, let me tell you, C-more is one frustrated bird...he heard the music very well and loved it, but he was looking for a lady love...too bad your Maddie wasn't mic-ed!**BG** He did get so loud, esp. when Mimosa played the harp, that I finally had Rog put his cage in the shower with the lights out and bathroom door closed. BTW, he was given to me by a piano teacher who couldn't have him because no matter what she did, when her students played, esp. Mozart, he went loud nuts! Thanks for mentioning the HearMe...I thought it was pretty neat that Rog was able to do that..we had a long microphone cord snaking down the hallway out into the living room, mixed up with my oxygen cable and it did get intertesting...everyone did a really good job of not tripping over any of it and it was a blast. |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 14 Jun 00 - 04:27 PM Peter T, you remind me of The Simpson's crack at Star Trek, being the scene from Star Trek XLVII: So Very Tired, where Scotty is crying Captain, I canna reach the controls! (Maybe you had to be there. Imagine Scotty now so fat that his arms can't reach beyond his belly...) Anyway, this is still a great trip, and I still feel honored to have had a small part in it. I hope those guys manage to come back someday! I want to hear all the stuff that didn't make it into these threads, and hear about some of the food too delicious to write about (drool gets on the keyboard, and all)... |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: wysiwyg Date: 14 Jun 00 - 04:12 PM Dear Adventurers-- Hope you are having a wonderful time. Wish I was there. Hardiman and Praise probably will not be able to hook up with you after all.... sorry!!!!! ~Susan |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: MMario Date: 14 Jun 00 - 04:09 PM Why do I feel a SONG CHALLENGE coming on? Internet Romance is for the Birds? Love on the Wires? |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Jun 00 - 03:24 PM Guys, you are having effects in ways you never dreamed of! Kat's story in Part III was really wonderful as they have all been. But let me put in this side story which you might enjoy. Kat had a song session in HearMe and I was one of the ones listening in and enjoying it along with Jeri, Meebo, and others. I am sure you noticed him, but you may not be aware that her cockatiel, Seymour/C-More, was perched close to the mic and came through very clearly at times. After about his third song/squawk/squeel, MY cockatiel began trying to answer him back. There was one period where Seymour was VERY vocal and mine was going completely batshit. Her name is Maddie and the poor girl is now suffering from unrequited love! Actually I have no idea what EITHER was saying, but Maddy really was excited!!! You may now add "Cockatiel Matchmaker" to your list of accomplishments on this trip. Spaw |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Alice Date: 14 Jun 00 - 03:11 PM Mea Culpa, Peter. ( Part IV ) |
|
Subject: RE: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 14 Jun 00 - 02:55 PM Gee, I sort of miss the Roman numerals. It was getting to be like Rocky XII. (joke, joke, joke).THE JOURNEY CONTINUES. Oh by the way, a recent survey at Canadian customs offices at the roadsides showed that something like 7000 kilos of fish are being smuggled across the Canadian border into the U.S. by ordinary citizens every day. If you could smuggle some the other way, we would be grateful (PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. WE ARE HAVING ENOUGH TROUBLE BRIBING THE CHICKENS TO LET YOU IN ALREADY. WE HAD TO PROMISE THEM THAT NO SONGS DENIGRATING CHICKENS WOULD BE SUNG DURING YOUR STAY. THAT MEANS NO SONGS ABOUT OUR POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, BASICALLY.). yours, Peter T. |
|
Subject: Bill and Allan's Mudcat Adventure Part 4 From: Alice Date: 14 Jun 00 - 01:05 PM Going forward from the previous threadclick here, I have to tell you how inspiring it was to have Bill, Allan, Les, and Wayne get together here with me and share music. Like many of you, I am still feeling "high" on the experience, and realized how much more I could be doing with music that I have forgotten about (old time songs, playing the guitar more, etc.). Wayne came up from Jardine after the night at his house and stayed overnight here along with the rest, and yesterday, the last morning together, he sat down at my piano and played. Today I realized that it has been many years since I've played the Scott Joplin rags that I used to play every day, and I could not even remember how to start. I also could not find my book of Scott Joplin music. So, in addition to the enrichment of the time they were here, these guys have inspired me to reclaim the lost songs and tunes and to learn many more. I'm going through a bad patch of finances this year, but I'm committed to finding more time to play. It's always easy to sing while doing almost anything else (dishes, driving, the shower!) but the instruments I have allowed to gather dust. It is really easy for me to remember lyrics, but tunes fly out of my mind if I don't play them regularly.
So, here's to you, Bill and Allan and Les and Wayne (future Mudcatter) who woke up a slumbering side of my life. I'll dust off the piano, get those two sticking keys fixed, and play those ragtime songs again. Thank you.
You met Oshi, the lady with fiddle who came late and played a couple of old time tunes. We are meeting with a coffee house owner today, since the old hotel will no longer let the old time session go on there. I plan to use my house as an alternate meeting place for them in order to keep that session alive.
The journey goes onward to Big Mick. (Hi, Mick.) Alice |
| Share Thread: |
