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Subject: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:36 PM Continuing mudcat marvels/lunacy:
In anticipation of the impending event, Toronto tests out every known weather pattern, gets its aim. Rain pours, temperature goes up to 32, and then it is noon, and shazam, God stops fiddling with the dials for a few hours and the weather decides to be beautiful. Rick is out with a weed wacker, removing what is left of his front lawn. Bonnie and Duckboots are wisely sitting on the panoramic garden bench, taking in the afternoon.
I go out and sit in a very beautiful patio chair, compete with cushions, surrounded by multi-coloured flowers. In instants, my backside is soaking wet. The cushions are wet whoopies from the morning deluge. Must do something about that.
Bonnie has brought her resonator dish which focusses universal harmonic rays on the potato salad, so that we can start the party.
While we wait for the guests of honour, we test out harmony ("You Ain't Goin Nowhere"), bottomed out by Tony's bass, Bonnie hovering, me faking whatever sounds good, Crowhugger weaving, Wille-O filling in, and Rick concertmeistering. The Tokens can sleep easy in the sweet arms of Jesus, but hey.
In an explosion of ecstasy, Bick Mick (disguised behind a very inadequate Dave Swan button courtesy of Bill Sables) and Dave Swan (disguised behind a somewhat more adequate but still not exactly semiotically challenged button designating him as Big Mick), and PJ and MarlyLou and Ciara, and god knows what all, arrive. We are all immediately in total humsville, as my mother used to call it.
It all begins to blur:
The last defining moment is probably the first, which involves a cunning trap set up by Duckboots. With majestic aplomb, Big Mick sits in a patio chair (no cushion by now!), whose back legs slowly sink into the garden, catapulting with the slow grace that only big men can achieve, Himself into the rhododendrons. Vast numbers of flowers willingly go to the grave, crushed under this loving weight. Ladies, till you have seen Big Mick garlanded with posies, you have not seen him in full, well, flowering.
Somewhere in here, Ciara, the daughter, obviously being groomed for superstardom, stepdances. This is only the beginning of myriad wonders. Within minutes, she is into card tricks, baffling everyone -- including, it must be admitted, herself on occasion. Clearly there is a Victorian upbringing going on here. I expect her at one moment to break into "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" or "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Within a year or two she will be watercolouring, and learning the latest minuets from France. Some young man out there is in big trouble, and is blithely going about his business unsuspecting. At the end of the afternoon, she and I are engaged in tagteam washboarding. In between, she is keyboarding, weaving, crafting. A few more hours, and she would be differentiating partial equations. At her age, I was attempting to graduate from buttons to zippers.
Dave Swan reveals that he is in Michigan to learn to drive oxen. It is pointed out to him that this is a really slow way to get to a fire, but he explains carefully that they are for farming. We discuss the virtues of mules over oxen. Rick as usual tries to get everyone into that famous ox-driving song that none of us have ever heard of.
More marvels. Pj pulls out a bodhran, and we all run for cover. And then we all run back again. We have never heard such a thing: so that's what a good one sounds like!!! I am sitting kittycorner (there are cats too, here on occasion) watching this piece of fabulosity --- the music is pretty good too. Dave is seriously, seriously lucky, and seriously, seriously knows it.
We are all crowded around the phone talking and singing to a woman in Wyoming named katlaughing, and a little later, another woman in Colorado named Wyowoman. A Martian would be completely puzzled. What possesses these Earthlings? I mean apart from getting in a car and driving 6 and a half hours (or 3 in the case of Willie-O) to sing with a bunch of Canadians in Toronto to women in Wyoming and Colorado. Makes sense to me.
Fine thing: we get whole doses of really well done unaccompanied singing from most everyone. Dave and I sit on the steps listening to Tony Burns doing the Tay Boat song. Dave does a beautiful version of the song from Cymbeline -- "fear no more the heat of the sun." Gaelic songs flow out of Mick like, well, like Gaelic songs.
Sounds: Crowhugger's sonorous cello; Willie-O's sweet guitar work; Rick and PJ's dueling percussionisms, Bonnie's hypnotic "white shoes".
The sun fills the late afternoon. Rick goes for broke and brings out the fiddle. The bodhran lady rises. Hoedown. Problem: we have about 30 square feet filled with musicians and chairs, and beyond that are the precious flowers that Mick fell in (have I mentioned that yet? I promised I wouldn't say anything about that). "Skip To My Lou". Bonnie and I do a soon to be patented "buck-and-wing" mingled with the Texas Star. We are a mild sensation, and only a few flowers are martyred.
Mick envelops us in "The Dutchman".
It is getting late -- it is all like a haiku, seventeen syllables with a world in it -- and there are some requests for that "well-known folksinger". Rick has already given us "Margins of My Neighbourhood" and "Bachelors Hall". He sobers us all with "Voices of Struggle." We fool the gods of time for a few more moments, but it does not work for long, damn them.
Everyone kind of has to leave, and it happens, but we are not happy about it. We pile out to the front lawn, still reeling from Rick' s attack so many hours earlier, and kidnap an innocent passerby into taking a group photo. And then they are gone. An hour later I am on a bus, and a memory comes into my mind, as the summer darkness finally comes down. I have been in Rick's house to get some refreshment, and I come out and at the bottom of the garden where the patio is, I see everyone in mid-song, playing away like a dream of some strange fullscale (well, overscale) elves or faeries amidst the patterns of multi-coloured flowers everywhere. It is like a mirage. But it is really the Mudcat made flesh, and as ever, it is a miraculous sight to behold.
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:38 PM Thanks, Peter T, I'll have whatever you're having. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:42 PM Marlylou? (no dreadlocks, actually).Sorry about that. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: katlaughing Date: 26 Jun 00 - 12:59 PM With your writing abilities, Peter, the Mudcat Tour is the gift that keeps on giving! You are a Master and I bow to your eloquence! The phone call: WOW, I was bummed out, missing the Mudcat, feeling kind of crappy, sitting at the computer reading email, forgot all about the Toronto get together, when my phone rings and a thinly disguised voice says soemthing to the effect of they are looking for a "katlaughing"...well, I knew it was none other than himself, the Well-known Folksinger! What a wonderful and loving gift, really picked me up, left an afterglow like a benign Chernobyl...Rick had each person introduce themselves on speakerphone, they all got to hear me laugh, and then they sang "This Land Is Your Land" with a Canadian verse! Thank you one and all! I wandered around the house for the rest of the afternoon, grinning and feeling such a warmth in my heart, marveling anew (will I ever not?) at the Miracle of the Mudcat and the very special people who are its denizens. I was lost but now am found and I am in heaven! luvya'll...katlaughing! |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Lonesome EJ Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:04 PM Thanks Peter, especially for the vision of Big Mick Adorned with Posies. I'm getting a Ferdinand the Bull impression. Sorry I missed You Ain't Goin' Nowhere. Is it "pack up your shoes, pick up your tent" or the other way round? |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 26 Jun 00 - 01:21 PM Thanks for capturing the magic of our Mudcat celebration in the Garden of Heather. One thing I would like to add was PJ (Pam) & Rick's duet. Bodhram & washboard was a fine musical moment. I think I am going to ask Rick to give me some washboard lessons. I would also like to thank Rick and Heather for having us all over to their home. And for the work Heather put into preparing for us party animals. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 26 Jun 00 - 04:17 PM Ferdinand the Bull!! Perfect!! yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 26 Jun 00 - 05:44 PM Peter, the poetry with which you use to describe a big guy falling into the mud is exquisite! Hell of a day! Thank you so much our Mudcat friends new and old. We love you all. No more mushiness for me....must find a thread I can be caustic in! Rick and Heather |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 26 Jun 00 - 07:11 PM And so, once again, we lifted our glasses in a toast to old friends just met. In the days leading up to the arrival of two people (Dave and Pam Swan) who are destined to become old, dear friends to us, I was wondering what kind of lunacy would cause otherwise sane folks to drive 14 hours roundtrip for a 3-4 hour gathering/session. That question was answered in grand fashion by the wonderful Toronto and environs Mudcatters. To those of you who think this is just a music site and not a community of wonderful people, think again. I have yet to be disappointed by a Mudcatter. I am going to write more later, although I will have a hardtime matching Sensei Peter T's description. But I just had to pop in and tell Rick, Heather, Banjo Bonnie, Crowhugger, Willie-O, Peter T and Tony Burns how much I appreciate and value their friendship and carmaraderie. I don't think this is the last time we will be together. Rick and Heather are special people and were wonderful hosts. I cannot thank them enough for their hospitality. And Ciara is mad about Heather, so am I for that matter. It is clear that she pretty well figures that Heather is one of the most wonderful people around, ranking right up there with Pam Swan. I second that. I must confess to being very nervous going to this wonderful enclave of 'Catters/Folkies. Some times the hype of our wonderful community creates an image that is not possible to meet. I am, after all is said and done, a middle aged man with a gut whose passion is singing songs and playing guitar rather badly. My fears were unfounded. These wonderful people, each and every one, made us comfortable and immediately opened their hearts to us. Once the music started, it was just old friends sharing the music. You know the feeling, eh? Peter, Bonnie, Willie O, Val (Crowhugger) and Tony Burns, and others like them, are exactly why The Mudcat is what it is. I was honored to be in your presence, my friends. And I am forever greatful for the time you gave to us. Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: p.j. Date: 26 Jun 00 - 09:27 PM Dear Friends, PJ here, just dropping in for a brief fix of your good company, and to say how very, very much I enjoyed seeing you all yesterday. I was so taken with the pleasure of hearing wonderful music from Bonnie, Val, Peter, Willy-O, and of course the wonderful Layabout Boys (Rick, Mick and the really cute one with the moustache.) 'Spaw, you were there in our hearts, as surely as Kat and Wyo were there in our ears. It was great to be with you all. I am sitting at Mick's computer, in a room filled with books, golfballs, maps of Ireland, and lots of love, and I am once again taken by the fact that I have spent the last few wonderful days with family I've only just met. It amuses me to think that this is the computer where another 'Catter sits to ponder the universe and share his thoughts with us. I imagine us all playing "musical computers" and periodically moving to someone else's desk in order to look out through his monitor window on the familiar mudcat landscape. Dave's just getting out of the shower after a day of annoying oxen. I can hear Mary Lou rustling plates downstairs and Mick singing in the kitchen. Ciara just wandered into the room with me, chatting excitedly about Rick Fielding (on whom she has a tremendous crush, who wouldn't?) and to say it's time for me to go join the gang. Thank you Peter, for such a wonderful description of the day, and thank you all for being there to make it so great. Especially thank you Rick and Heather for opening your home and lovely, lovely garden to us, and for treating us all like family. Making music with you guys is a memory I'll happily enjoy over and over again. Dave reminded me tonight of Rick's line "this is the town I always wanted to live in..." Me too, Rick. Love to you all, PJ |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Mbo Date: 26 Jun 00 - 09:33 PM Cool! And thanks to you too, PJ! You responded to my very first post on Mudcat, just over a year ago. Thank you so much for setting an example of the kindness shown by the amazing people here at Mudcat, and for making me want to stay! --Mbo (Who, with a tremendous stroke of luck, may be having a small Mudcat Adventure of his own...)
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 27 Jun 00 - 10:09 AM Mick you are a more than somewhat overly modest. Hearing you sing The Dutchman in such a laid back but passionate, uniquely phrased way that a yardful of seasoned folkies could hardly sing along on the chorus, mostly just got all teary-eyed, that was a stand-out moment for me. And Pam you are a wonderful player and singer. (Pam plays the bodhran so melodically and intricately that crude insensitive guitar pounders such as yr humble scribe just stop and listen instead of doing anything to get in the way of that magic...) And so are you all... I got a personal from Bonnie who perceptively noted that I was bonding with a guitar of Rick's--well I bonded so much that I took it home with me! (after a suitably honorable transaction.) Boy, am I glad I went, and not half! W-O
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 27 Jun 00 - 10:23 AM I forgot to mention the Board meeting -- what was that all about? Everyone is packing up reluctantly, and there is some kind of weird meeting happening out of Alice in Wonderland (no minutes, quorum, procedures, or rules). It seems to have something to do with making Catspaw do a lot of work, with which we were all in agreement. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 27 Jun 00 - 10:43 AM By the way Peter thanks for your account, a vividly rendered blow-by-blow. The meeting had me a bit stumped too but I was too preoccupied to ask. As for engaging in Martineana, I resemble that remark. It took us at least 1/2 a second to get into it. First we introduced ourselves. Rick and I both own Martin O-18 guitars which are not rare but not particularly common either. So of course we had to explore the differences. and similarities, in vast obscure detail. Its only natural. (We think so). Willie-O though is a rakish and highly dubious character who appears in many folk songs, along with his brother Johnny-O. His major activities are lying, stabbing, impregnating, rambling, drinking, and going off to foreign wars to get his damn fool head removed by a cannonball. His unfortunate co-dependent SO is usually Molly. I have a brother John (not Little John although he is quite large) and am in fact married to a Molly. Aside from these eerie coincidences, I am not much like that, (except when I am). And there are just too many Bills around. Aren't you glad you didn't really ask... |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: alison Date: 27 Jun 00 - 10:47 AM I don't suppose any of you got a photo of Mick in the rhododendrons? slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 27 Jun 00 - 11:34 AM Sorry, alison, it is like those wildlife shoots where you spend 7 hours waiting for the right shot, and then when the wildebeest herd arrives you are so awestruck you forget to snap the camera. We all sat and watched him go over in slow majestic grace, without anyone moving or saying anything, as if it were the most natural thing in the world to start off a festive afternoon. It was a beautiful thing, however, in memory -- perhaps you could get him to recreate it for you sometime.... yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 27 Jun 00 - 11:35 AM Sorry, alison, it is like those wildlife shoots where you spend 7 hours waiting for the right shot, and then when the wildebeest herd arrives you are so awestruck you forget to snap the camera. We all sat and watched him go over in slow majestic grace, without anyone moving or saying anything, as if it were the most natural thing in the world to start off a festive afternoon. It was a beautiful thing, however, in memory -- perhaps you could get him to recreate it for you sometime.... yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 27 Jun 00 - 11:46 AM Mick, I think they're being very cruel to you. The first time I met my prospective in-laws I went through the seat of a canvas deck chair and my father did the same the first time he met them! Shame there's no photo though...(you wait all day for one wildebeeste to come by then next thing you now there's a whole herd of them... bit like London buses!) RtS (full of envy, great thread!) |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 27 Jun 00 - 01:08 PM Watching the wonderful Mick sinking slowly into terra-less than-firma brought back the vivid picture of yours truly pitching ever so slowly back into a glowing fireplace at the Tudor House (live folk music nitely!) The leg on my stool had broken, and I quickly realised that your life DOESN"T pass before your eyes as you plunge to uncertainty or worse. All I could think of (and this isn't a joke) was: A. What an embarrasing way to end my career (let alone my life) B. If I hold my Custom Larrivee (with the ivory bridge and "Tree of Life" inlay) over my head, will someone grab it before I immolate? C. What would Joan of Arc do at a time like this? (well, that part's not true) D. At least now I don't ever have to sing "Heart of Gold" again! ...Well, using super-human strength, I managed to save the guitar, roll sideways, and WILL the fire-place to be 8 feet behind me, instead of 2. Oh, and I still had 27 renditions of "Heart of Gold" to go before I got out of bars and opted for poverty. Funny thing, Tony Burns also plunged into the plants (and he's bigger than Mick) but he hardly got a laugh. It's the "originators" that get the ink! Rick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 27 Jun 00 - 01:55 PM Yes, and actually Mick was a gracious gentleman. The real total dork of the day was me (see above re: wet whoopie cushions). I underplayed the fact that after I sat down on the cushion in my jeans I had a totally sopping behind for about an hour. I had to walk against the walls, and remember not to turn my back on anyone, and hold my hands behind my back like Prince Philip. I felt like a damp mandrill (not to be confused with a damp Barbara Mandrell). yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 27 Jun 00 - 03:56 PM Dammit, I went all the way to Toronto and I missed this scene. Crow n me chose that hour to go for coffee with a dear friend unseen since early 80's who happens to live round the corner from Rick. When we came back all there was to show was the twisted metal of a former lawn chair lying in the plants... I have a music stand that does that slow-sinking thing. Don't use it much. I know I've fallen on my ass while performing at least once, but for some reason can't recall any specifics. Chalk it up to alcohol, I guess. Something to be said for it. W-O |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 27 Jun 00 - 04:48 PM For those Mudcatters who think of Peter T. as a dignified aesthetic wordsmith, capable of waxing poetic in 20 languages, prone to pontificate endlessly on one blade of grass, and in general, a pretty hi-falutin' egg-head......just get that picture in your mind of him shufflin' around with a soggy ass! Ahhhhh, that feels good! Now if it were Catspaw, we'd think he'd done it specifically FOR that effect. For what it's worth Peter, when I was cleaning off the cushions I THOUGHT they seemed a bit heavy. Rick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 27 Jun 00 - 04:57 PM Hey, I almost forgot a very important attempt on the glorious day. Our own dear Moonchild called in as well. Now I need you folks to understand something. I love this woman. I met her at FSGW last year. She has a lovely guitar technique and voice. And when Allan and Bill told me how she fed them while they were there, and spoiled them with that marvellous Southern US hospitality, well I just wanted to hop in the car and go visit my good friend.......but back to the subject at hand. She called twice but for some reason she kept getting cut off. I think she must have been in a cellular black hole. I sure wish we could have chatted a bit and had every one sing a song to her as well. Hooray for Moonchild. And as to the twisted chair, I cannot take credit for that. That happened when Tony went over. When he went, I immediately thanked him for his spill. I, fool that I am (LOL), thought it would get the heat off me. HEY JERI!!!!!!Your fiddle is in great hands. I heard the man play, and I am here to tell you that he is doing very well indeed. All the best, Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Jun 00 - 01:41 PM Ya know, all jokes aside. Heather and I had a wonderful time. We've now met about 40 Mudcaters and not a lemon in the bunch! Some have become (and are becoming) really good friends. Thanks for the "fiddle words" Mick. I'm gettin' there, and with any luck I'll get a chance to do a duet with "my inspiration" Jeri, before too long. Rick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Crowhugger Date: 28 Jun 00 - 02:17 PM It was a great pleasure to meet Mary-Lou, Big Mick, Ciara, Dave, and especially to hear p.j.'s bodhran playing. There is but an airfare and a passport (been meaning to get to that!) between me 'n' peej and a how-to swap. And thanks to all who saved me from eating FAR too many strawberries, which turned out to be a little like taking ice to Ellesmere...but picking them gave me the feeling of being with this bunch of 'catters for an extra bit of time.
And BTW, who needs computer graphics when we have Peter T.? --- PA ---
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Crowhugger Date: 28 Jun 00 - 02:18 PM There's an echo in here, in here...Sorry. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Jun 00 - 08:19 PM Well, Peter T., I am utterly and absolutely head over heels in love with you now. A man who can string that many words together so vividly and lovingly and ... oh, hell. You write good. I just want to know ... WHOSE buttons and whose zipper? As soon as I hung up the phone with youse guys I realized the song I had wanted to sing. From my Girl Sprout days:
Make new friends, The thing that I've realized, in reading this, is that none of this is going away. It's only going to get better and better. And I have a sense that my vacations and getaways for the rest of my life are probably going to be planned with an eye to hooking up for at least a brief visit with whatever fellow Mudcateers might be in an area. What a way to see the world! I rarely say it 'cause I'm not keen on that mushy stuff...but, well, I love you guys.WyoWoman |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Jun 00 - 10:16 PM Those strawberries were unbelievable! Thank you Crow. Rick and Heather And the Greek salad from Bonnie, and the maple syrup from Willie O, and the sweater from Swanno...and on and on! |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 28 Jun 00 - 10:26 PM Heather's potato salad was 'to die for' Didn't get a chance to drink any of Willie O's maple syrup. That would have done me in. But I had my fair share of the peanuts and cookies Tony brought. Wyo Woman, the only intertwining that went on was Mick and Tony in Heather's plants. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Jun 00 - 11:30 PM Well THAT's a big disappointment ... What are we coming to? Three or more are gathered and there's NO intertwining. Hmmmmmpfff. ww |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 28 Jun 00 - 11:39 PM Oooop, I forgot, there was intertwining Wyo Woman. Peter T. and I were dancing intertwined. Remember Peter T. telling about he and I 'doing a soon to be patented "buck-and-wing" mingled with the Texas Star'. Peter and I took over the dance floor. Being there was only room enough for us to be swinging on the patio. BB |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 29 Jun 00 - 12:17 AM See there. My faith, restored. Here's to your bucking wing... ww |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: GUEST,Peter T. Date: 29 Jun 00 - 08:43 AM Well, WW, you have been known to wield a pretty good pen that has caused a flutter on occasion ....It helps if you have good material (who could invent this pack?) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 29 Jun 00 - 08:51 AM Nobody, Peter, NO-BODY! W-O |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 29 Jun 00 - 08:26 PM As Saul Bellow said, "I have no need to invent fiction. Life invents itself..." Twoo. Twoo. And thanks, Peter T. A tip o' the quill to ya ...
Ma. Ma. He tipped his quill at me ....ww |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 30 Jun 00 - 04:32 PM Hey, Peter, ....... Mary Lou sez she got a great shot of yer cute buns with water all over them....we will post it with the others when we do the pictures............................Jus' kiddin'...........Gothcha........ Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Peter T. Date: 30 Jun 00 - 05:09 PM Is that a Gothic version of Gotcha, you Celtic swine you!?!(moves away from camera, hiding rent in cardboard trousers)..... yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:19 PM Peter T. is the backside of your jeans dry yet? Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 01 Jul 00 - 06:38 PM I think so Bonnie, but since he met you the rest of his genes are kicking upquite a storm. Just bringing this back up so that McKnees can find it. Anon. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 01 Jul 00 - 09:48 PM AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH...........the plot thickens. So far our little sojourn has cost Rick the git he courted the wonderful Heather with, ....it has cost Heather about an acre and a half of her garden when two of the biggest men you have ever seen landed in it...............and now that cur, Peter T., in addition to having wet jeans is having genes aroused by the lovely Banjo Bonnie.........stay tuned folks.............LOL. Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 02 Jul 00 - 08:58 AM Oh, our estimable hosts will do alright when they sell the scrap aluminum from the cans we left behind.... W-O |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Dave Swan Date: 02 Jul 00 - 02:30 PM I can't believe it's been a week. Peter, of course, has captured the event better than film could. Rick & Heather are the warmest, most welcoming hosts one could imagine. Everyone we met on this trip treated us like old friends, and courtesy of Max, I guess we really are. Gotta go, opening for the Coppers tonight, and trying to stay calm about it. Thanks again to everyone. All best, Dave |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Guy Wolff Date: 02 Jul 00 - 05:36 PM How far is Toronto from Ct you guys????? This sounded like to much fun to miss, Darn !!!All the best , Guy |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 02 Jul 00 - 07:50 PM Guy, I make that drive Many times and it's a piece of cake. From 1235 Kingston road to Sharon Ct. takes me 8 hours. That's with 6 Folk-Legacy CDs playin in the car. You'd be welcome friend. Rick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 02 Jul 00 - 10:39 PM Guy if you would make the trip to Toronto that would be absolutely amazing. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Jul 00 - 12:51 AM This was the first thing I looked for when we got back this evening, and now as then, I can see it was one helluva' party to say the very least. I DID try to sall at about a quarter til three, but no one answered and I can see why.........Maybe this was the point where Mick ravaged the rhododendrons........Anyway, it was obviously a fine time and I'd like to give you all the same message I did before I left........... KISS MY ASS Spaw |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Willie-O Date: 03 Jul 00 - 09:09 AM Well if you'd only give us the chance Spaw... Willie-O Who Avoids Ohio |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Rick Fielding Date: 03 Jul 00 - 12:37 PM Spaw, obviously your problem was that you "salled" us instead of "phoning, giving us a buzz", ringing, or even.....calling" us. Even though at this very moment your saying "you furking smart-ass, Fielding", I'll let you know that we hoisted one for you, and wished you were with us. Love you always. now how can you insult me after that? Rick |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Irish Rover Date: 03 Jul 00 - 02:53 PM I wondered why I had not heard from my Bonnie I guess she laid over............for the evening. I would avoid Ohio, but that I reside here |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 04 Jul 00 - 01:03 AM Bon-NIE ... he's saying scurrilous things about you... You'll need to get Rick 'n' Big Mick to defend yer hhhhonor... ww |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 04 Jul 00 - 01:33 AM AAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRRRIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHTTTTTT Hot shot, and exactly where in Ahiya did you say you lived???? Cuz ya see, we canna have ye sullying the honor of our beloved Bonnie. 'Spaw, you're closest, handle this willya????? |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 04 Jul 00 - 10:52 PM Spaw done left tha' building. Color Bonnie besmirched. ww |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jul 00 - 01:34 AM What Hoa Varlot.......You'll feel the sting of my rapier athwart thine ass should you be besmirchin' the White Socked Princess of Vega..........and BTW Rover, where are you at anyway???? Do you live in Ohio? I need to know where to come clean your clock......I hate driving to far. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 05 Jul 00 - 08:07 AM Thanks for warning me Lady Wyo Woman and I appreciate you brave knights Sir Catspaw and Sir Big Mick for coming to defend my honour. Actually Irish Rover is usually a real gentleman, maybe he had a bit too much of the drink or something. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Irish Rover Date: 05 Jul 00 - 12:02 PM I'll have you know that I would never besmerch or defile or allow to be defiled my beloved b Bonnie!!!!!!!! You misunderstand. She is the only flower in my garden. Spaw, I live near Washington Courthouse, so bring your rapier(and several friends) and we'll have at it. Miss b Bonnie, how could you even THINK I would do anything but raise you to the pedistal. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jul 00 - 03:25 PM Are you huffin' me? I drove through Wash CH six times in the past three weeks!!! I somehow missed that you lived here. But in any case, we're seriously hoping to get the Fair Lady Vega down here this fall somehow or another so we can cross sabers then...and before too. I'll send you a PM. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Little Neophyte Date: 05 Jul 00 - 03:33 PM That's right Irish Rover, I'm coming to visit you guys. Is there such a thing as a Fair Lady Goodtime? I'd much rather bring her from the well respected Deering family. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Irish Rover Date: 05 Jul 00 - 04:46 PM By all means there is a Fair Lady Goodtime!!!!! I know her personally. anyway that would be great!! you know I don't get around much any more(hey that's a great song title nnaaaaaaaa it's to long ) so visitors are always welcome looking forward to it. |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: WyoWoman Date: 06 Jul 00 - 09:24 PM Wait, wait! I wanted to see Catspaw brandishing his rapier ... (oooh. that's so cute. just like a real sword, only smaller...)xo, Pansy Rue WyoWoman Twidgett, Lady Ever-Watchful |
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Subject: RE: TFTD, June 26: Toronto Mudcat Event II From: Big Mick Date: 06 Jul 00 - 09:47 PM Rapier, eh?? OK, I will leave the Claymore at home...........don't want to emasculate our boy....LOL br>BIG Mick |
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