Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: LadyJean
Date: 31 May 05 - 11:47 PM

When I was younger I occasionally voted for Republican Candidates. I voted for John Anderson in the 1980 elecetion. I bought my sister a bodhran for her 40th birthday, thereby causing her to take bodhran classes at the Chicago New School of Folk Music. I have just purchased a drum that seems to be a cross between a bodhran and a rain stick, which I plan on giving her on her next birthday.
And I like Jacobite songs.
Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:56 PM

Down by the river that flows by the coal yards.
Stands wooden houses with shutters torn down
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches my darling of Old Shanty town

We plan to marry when June brought the summer
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride
Now I don't see how that ever can happen
My folks say No, and my heart breaks inside

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won't let me love you

Each night I cry as I think of that shanty
And pretty Patches there watching the door
She doesn't know that I can't come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more

I hear a neighbor tellin my father
He said a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
It may not be right But I'll join you tonight
Patches I'm coming to you

by Lee Dickie

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:36 PM

Yep - I like a lot of that stuff too. Are we all suitable cases for treatment by the 'Folk Police'????

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:45 PM

I also like "Wind Beneath My Wings". And Del Shannon's "Runaway", and "Patches". Hey, it's lots like art for me: I may NOT know what's good, but I do know what I like.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:39 PM

I put "The Rose" on a CD, and even tho' I tried to think like Johnny Cash while singing it, is still wussy.

But I like it anyway!! So there!!


A

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:34 PM

"I have sinned!"

In 1842-1843 British forces under General Charles Napier conquered Sindh. It is said that he sent back to the Governor General a one-word message, "Peccavi" – Latin for "I have sinned". In actual fact, this pun first appeared as a cartoon in Punch magazine.


Nigel (Trivia watcher!)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 05 - 12:29 PM

You, for sure, are doomed. (I like 'em both, too.)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 May 05 - 12:25 PM

I LIKE Streets of London AND The Wild Rover !

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 05 - 12:13 PM

I still do Tommy Roe's "Sheila" when I feel like it. Surely it's folk music by now.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Big Mick
Date: 31 May 05 - 11:09 AM

I still sometimes lapse into playing Bob Seger songs, at times I do this in the middle of a set. It is usually either Fire Lake or Turn The Page.

Forgive me Max, for I have sinned.

Mick

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 May 05 - 11:06 AM

Brucie - I reckon that the folk world is big hearted enough to forgive even your transgression. I certainly wouldn't hold it against you!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 31 May 05 - 10:13 AM

"Oh Brucie! That's so sweet!"

Thank you, jacqui. It's a rough world for those of us who wear our hearts on our sleeves. I doomed myself to folk perdition with the Manilow statement. I don't know what came over me.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 31 May 05 - 10:11 AM

I had a few hoots one night at a club gig and decided that it would be a good time to impress an audience with my abilities on the 12-string guitar, an instrument I had just acquired and had no idea how to play. I was told later that I spent a half hour tuning the instrument while telling jokes. The audience was in stitches, but eventually someone brought me my 6-string and took the 12-string away from me. My gawd, the things we do at times.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Metchosin
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:11 AM

mea culpa May 31 05 - 03:09 AM

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:09 AM

I once got very drunk, staggered on stage and gave an impromptu rendition of Johnny Standley's Its In The Book, complete with the song Grandma's Lyesoap, to a gathering, incredulous small audience. To make matters worse, I tried it again about 25 or 30 years later with a group of friends out in the wilderness, with more or less the same response.

I still am uncertain why I did it in the first place, let alone twice.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 May 05 - 11:20 PM

Oh Brucie! That's so sweet!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Peace
Date: 30 May 05 - 08:36 PM

I like Barry Manilow's "Mandy".

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 May 05 - 08:02 PM

I was an NRA member. I have Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant album....I still have PPM album.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 May 05 - 07:59 PM

I bought Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends album and when that got damaged I bought a replacement. I now have the cd and I'm NOT repentant!!!!

I also voted for Maggie Thatcher.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 05 - 07:38 PM

Jacqui,

Two out of three ain't too bad, but you shouldna replaced that album.

Don t.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 May 05 - 07:34 PM

I bought Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends album and when that got damaged I bought a replacement. I now have the cd and I'm NOT repentant!!!!

I also voted for Maggie Thatcher.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: kendall
Date: 30 May 05 - 07:17 PM

I was a registered republican! I was a member of the National Rifle Assassination!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 05 - 05:26 PM

Ah, Joe, I knew you had a perverted streak in you somewhere. Blowing Bubbles in public is bad enough for a tramp like Bubbles, but YOU?????


A

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 05 - 01:23 PM

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs on all the Peter, Paul and Mary albums - and didn't know the original lyrics to any of the traditional songs they altered.
I once sang "Tiny Bubbles" for a paying audience - and blew bubbles during the instrumental part.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 11:05 AM

Lemme through, I need to 'fess up! I have looked at a copy of Hello magazine someone left in the staff room. I won't do it again I promis (sob).
RtS

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: John P
Date: 16 Mar 01 - 10:36 AM

Here's a sin and a continutation of the Jethro Tull thread creep. I'm a Tull fan and I don't like about half of their albums, including Heavy Horses and Benefit. I only like about half of Songs from the Wood, their great "folky" album.

Matt, I don't blame you for not being able to get into those. Try Aqualung and Thick as a Brick.

John

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 07:14 PM

The New Thread is Fantasy Cover. Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 07:01 PM

Matt R has kindly started the thread, Noreen, it's called Fantasy Covers. Noreen, you're a star. I'm gonna have to get wise to these blue clicky things!!!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 06:56 PM

tigger, start yerself a new thread, put the name here and I'll link to it. OK?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:54 PM

This is a thread in itself: Fantasy cover versions. Just pick an unlikely tune and tell us what you'd like to do to it...acoustic...uillean pipe...?

Can't do a blue clicky, could someone help me out????

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:41 PM

Exactly! That's how I think of it! If I can show at least one person that what they think they hate is not so bad, I'm happy. Massive Attack is GOOD stuff. Was just thinking of how cool it would be to do "Teardrop" with an uilleann pipe and fiddle...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:37 PM

Which brings us back to sins...And it's not a sin to bring different kinds of music to peole who would never otherwise have listened to it.
'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack, 'Forgot About Dre' and 'Into the Groove' all translate well to acoustic. Ask my bandmate, she worked 'em all out, and I sang along. I see it as providing a service, broadening people's horizons....
Just kidding!!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:25 PM

Cool! I used to do "I Will Come To You", and some people thought it was a religious song!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:20 PM

Hanson rock!!! That's a bit freeaky, 'cos we used to do 'Man From Milwaukee', 'Mmmbop' and 'Madeline' with our faithful acoustic. It's nice doing harmony vocals on a Hanson song (if your voice hasn't broken!), and NO, I'm NOT joking...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:14 PM

Cool! I do some acoustic versions of Hanson songs, and most people don't even realize what they're listening too!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:12 PM

I saw "Up With People" and had a crush on the mailman...UP UP WITH PEOPLE, YOU SEE 'EM WHEREVER YOU GO...(GAG) They were at a premier showing of the uncut "Mary Poppins". thought I had died and gone to hell.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:06 PM

I don't fancy my chances, but I might just have a go at that peanut soup stuff at the weekend...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 05:00 PM

Food_TV had a great peanut soup recipe on just a short while ago - chicken and veggies and peanut butter.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Tracie
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:55 PM

Matt R,

Dweezil Zappa covered "...Baby one more time" on the "Ready to Rumble" soundtrack that came out last summer. It's so funny and wierd and wonderful, but it actually works.

Tracie

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM

Yeah, and as I've said on an earlier thread (ask Callie about this one!) we do an acoustic version of 'Mickey' by Toni Basil, AND we were doing it before Travis did Britney (but they DO do it so well, don't they).
They call them 'interpretations', NOT ripping off a tacky song and slowing it down so that your cool mates will accept it!!! It had to be done, though...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:45 PM

Tigger, that last post of yours up there could have been written by me! Except for the pint part! I mean, have you heard Travis sing Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time"? It's AWESOME!!! Goes to show that with the right treatment, any song is redeemable!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:41 PM

Peanut soup. After trying three different recipes, here's what I do now. Take about a cup of peanut butter and put it in your Crock Pot with a couple cans of chicken broth and a little milk (or cream if you want it really thick), mix it all up, let it cook on low all day while you're at work. Marvelous. It's also good with chunky veggies in it like celery, carrots, and onions. You could even put chicken in it if you like. Some folks like to serve it with chopped peanuts on top.

A lot of people think peanuts and chicken don't go together... but... how many of you have eaten peanut chicken at an Asian restaurant? Also Mister had a friend years ago that used to make a West African dish with chicken and peanut butter. Nowadays we tend to think of peanuts and peanut products in terms of sweets and candy, but really, a peanut is a legume, like beans and peas, and is really versatile. Some say it goes well with mayonnaise. ;-)

I have made pea soup before, too. Mmmmmmmmmm. Me and my Crock Pot, well, we're damn nigh inseparable for the winter months.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:41 PM

gnu - and other gnu members --

THREADS DON'T DIE

not never. we've proved it.

hopefully the undead-thread won't come back to haunt us at the mention of it

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Tracie
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:38 PM

I will always love Barry Manilow.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Justa Picker
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:35 PM

I once thought that "UP WITH PEOPLE" were the greatest ensemble and role models for young adolescents, I'd ever seen.


Then, the drugs kicked in.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:34 PM

I went to a Shaun Cassidy concert when I was thirty.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:33 PM

I campaigned for Richard Nixon. (I was 12. I didn't know any better.)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Tracie
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:26 PM

I went to an Air Supply concert at Six Flags when I was in junior high.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 04:04 PM

Here's a genuine confession (worse than going to see Eminem in concert!): I LIKE ALL MUSIC! It'd be easier for me to list what I don't like than what I do like. And when I've had a pint, I even like the stuff I hate!
You can fit a lot of music into a year, Matt R. 365x24hrs.....

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 10:03 PM

Yo Tig, I just found out that you're a year older than me. No wonder we like the same sort of stuff!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 09:37 PM

Tigger, I took a look at another site that claims that Modern Life is the first album Blur did of REAL music content. Maybe I was reading the wrong reviews! And you know what, one of the songs DID make it on the greatest hits, "For Tomorrow" --the extended remix, with the funny little poem-like intinerary at the end.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 09:17 PM

My sin...wait, isn't that some kind of perfume little old ladies wear?...I once took a baby to a Pete Seegar concert...and she cried...and he noticed...and commented!

I also remember when Utah Phillips was Bruce Phillips, and after that he became "U Utah Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Golden West".

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:47 PM

Thread creep about music...shock horror!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:38 PM

Callie....They're not going to hear you. Dead thread.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:33 PM

Well Tigger, I'll have to look into it! And I was just going to say the same about you! Actually, I'm a lover of all kinds of music, folk came along only 4 years ago. 90's Britrock & Britpop is my current trend! And you I want to publicly thank QUINCY (AKA YVONNE) for hooking me!!!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Callie at work
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 07:23 PM

Elvis also died on the toilet - that's not so musical.

Hey you guys - Matt_R, tiger - this is meant to be a CONFESSIONAL. You're not meant to make friends and ENJOY yourselves.

Penance: Get on your knees and listen to some Barry Manilow (who didn't write "I Write the Songs")

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:58 PM

Matt, that is no sin, even St Paul couldn't face the light first time round. Have faith, you will grasp the truth in the fullness of time.

Murray

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:43 PM

Ah, that was meant for me, I suppose. I am an avid listener of "The Thistle & Shamrock". I haven't missed an episode in 4 years. But when they had that guitar episode, with the big interview with Tony McManus...well, I ahut the radio off and went back to blasting eviscerators on Quake.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Bert
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:42 PM

tigger, don't get me started on what we ate during the war. You've got me wanting to make an Egg and Bacon Pie.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:42 PM

Matt, from Modern Life is Rubbish, they released 'For Tomorrow' (strings!)and 'Sunday Sunday'. Blur are on a different vibe at the mo', so they're not likely to put stuff like that on the Best Of CD, it doesn't fit well with the William Orbit crowd. Don't listen to 'general knowledge', it only reflects the current trend of whatever media whore is writing reviews at that time. Modern Life is Rubbish has the most feeling, the most music, and if we're talking as people who like folk, then surely that's what matters. Have another listen and tell me what YOU think.

On a lighter note, it's nice to find a folk fan who likes a bit of 90's indie, too.

Tigger

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:40 PM

Once, in Edinburgh I borrowed a David Allison tape, listened to it, and returned it intact to the library instead of consigning it to the depths of the Union Canal.

Murray

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:27 PM

Fade away? That term never enters into my philosophy. I'm probably like him just the same as the others.

On the Blur subject, no. I only have Parklife, Blur, and Blur: The Best Of. Strange, it's general knowledge that Modern Life Is Rubbish. Is the most uninteresting Blur album. The only single released from it, was "Chemical World" I believe, and didn't make it to the 18-track best of, so I don't think the band thinks much of the album. My next snag? Either The Great Escape or 13.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:18 PM

Matt, once you've heard Jeff, those who immitate (like Muse and Coldplay) just fade away.

By the way, on a Blur note - do you have Modern Life is Rubbish? I think it's THE Blur album.

Nick Drake is cool too. What don the other 'Catters think of Drake?

Aaaah to hell with it, I'm off to listen to some Woody Guthrie!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:08 PM

I'm ready looking forward to getting into him, tigger. I lot of these bands I love, i.e. Radiohead, Travis, Coldplay, Grandaddy, Belle & Sebastain, etc. cite Jeff Buckley & Nick Drake as their biggest influences. The sorts twist up a Dodgy song, if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me!!

--Matt (now mellowing out to Belle & Sebastian)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:04 PM

Matt R... said by someone else above, I forget who, try Tull's "Songs From the Wood". Tremendous mixture of minstrel, folk, orchestral.

Anyway, if you don't like Tull, you don't. I personnaly don't get overly turned on by Baptist hymns, but, other than that, I enjoy just about everything I've heard so far, with some give and take. Of course, Rap doesn't count because most of it is just poorly written poetry.

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:02 PM

Matt R, have you heard Jeff Buckley yet? Once you have, there's no going back...

He tells it like it should be told: dreamy, bluesy, whispering, wailing, angelic, devilish. What a voice, what a loss.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:44 PM

Fib, I have the Tull albums Heavy Horses and Benefit. Still can't get into them. Which is usually saying something to be, since I usually love everything the 1st time I hear it. In the last 2 weeks, I've bought 5 albums by groups that I either know one song, or nothing, that they sing. And I've loved them all.

Oasis holds a special place in my heart, since I pretty much "hated" any kind of rock & roll, until my younger sister played "Champagne Supernova" for me. And that's when I started to delve into rock. I knew if one song could convert a strictly country/classical/musicals guy into a rock lover, that they MUST be special. And they've only gotten better with time. Noel's new beautiful unreleased outtakes from Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants are excellent...they show a real maturity. And you can't appreciate what a nice voice Noel has until you hear him sing "This Guy's In Love With You". Absolutely heartbreaking.

And yes, I'm a Gomez junkie, and I've only had Bring It On since last Wednesday!!! I'm gonna pick up Abandoned Trolley Shopping Line coupled with the Machismo EP. I love 'Shitbag 9'.

Today I got Parklife by Blur and picked up the "Turn" single by Travis, the one that has the acoustic cover of Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" from VH1 Storytellers.

Check out my Gomez plug on "non-folk CDs" thread!

Gonna leave this planet, gonna head out the galaxy! GET MILES!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 03:27 PM

For winter, what about PEA soup, like grandma made. Ham, lentils, veg and I don't know what. It STINKS while it's cooking, but it tastes amazing, and it keeps you warm. That's where the phrase 'It's a real pea-souper' (to describe thick fog) comes from. For years, when we were kids, my friend thought it was called PEACE soup, 'cos her nan told her that they ate it during the war!!!!

Kim, how d'ya make peanut soup. Does such a thing exist? I'm intrigued....

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 03:12 PM

Tig, here in the US Nutella comes in a regular ol' jar. Now I think I'm getting the short end of the stick...

In the winter I like to make peanut soup. It has to be in the cold months because this stuff really will stick to your ribs. and let me tell you, it is WONDERFUL...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 05:43 AM

To all you freaks who put mayo on their peanut butter sandwiches - URRRGHH! That is truly sinful.

Dearest Matt - make sure the two Tull albums you own are Heavy Horses and Songs From the Wood - they're fantastic. On the subject of sin I won't slate your liking for Oasis, as I think I saw you slip a Gomez quote in on another thread and I love Gomez.

Mickey/chordstrangler's right about Patrick Kavanagh being a grumpy auld shite (what was the esteemed poet's reaction?), and there's nothing to be ashamed of with the bagpipe band - I have family members who play the bagpipes. He's not absolved from the BeeGee album though.

I like Neil Diamond, although I've never seen him in concert like Allan C. I especially like Cracklin' Rose.

My worst sin? I own a guitar and can't play it, though I strumm it ineffectually every couple of days, and I will go to lessons, but these days I'm out of the country more often than in.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 04:53 AM

If you like mayo on fries/chips, try it with black pudding - it's delicious. Almost as nice, in fact, as bitter orange marmalade with sausages.
Or maybe I should accept that I'm odd.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: En
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 12:27 AM

You are all absolved of your sins. For your penance sing three Peter, Paul and Mary's.

Go forth and sin some more.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Troll
Date: 14 Mar 01 - 12:17 AM

I could have drowned Skeptic when he was a baby.
I'm playing drums in ANOTHER band.
I have four St. Patrick's Day gigs this wek. I will sing Danny Boy and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling at all of them.
I have no shame.

troll

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 05:12 PM

Firstly, Kim C: You haven't LIVED until you've had Garlic mayo on you french fries. I wasn't too keen on the mayo/fries thing 'til I tried this. Just once in a while, or you'll get sick of it.

Burke: Nutella is this jar of hazlenut chocolate spread. You han either have it runny on bread/dip stuff into it OR you can leave it in the 'fridge and eat chunks of it. It's a clinically recognized (yeahrright!) cure for PMT/PMS. What's even cooler is that the jar is like a decorative glass, so when you've finished, you can wash it and use it as a glass. You'll never be short of something to drink from in our house!!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Burke
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 05:04 PM

Grease dipped in raw egg yolks & fat? You bet. I first had them that way in Belgium years ago. Much better than red tomato stuff.

What's Nuetlla?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:56 PM

Nutella RULES! Although since I went low carb I don't eat it so much anymore.

Is it true there are some who like mayo on their french fries?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Chester
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:54 PM

Eye oncet lerned how ter play Orange Blossum Speshul. An eye kin still dew that funky double shuffle.

Then their wuz the thyme eye went ter see Shogi Tabuchi an had the brass to say his fiddlin' sounded like a beedin' goosefart on a sultry day in Arkinsaw (it was akshully in Mizery. Oh, scuze me, eye guess that'd be Mizzuruh. Eye get kornfuzed.)

Eye wrecktum they's more, butt eye disremember sum uv 'em.
Chester

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:49 PM

Aaagh! What's 'appened to me nose????

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:47 PM

Nutella on toast. Or EVEN BETTER, ice cold Nutella - straight!
Enjoy, tigger ;.)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Burke
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:45 PM

I like mayonaise, I like peanut butter. It sounds like a strange concept, but I think I'll try it. No jam or jelly? Kinda high in fat, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:31 PM

Rod McKuen AND Tiny Tim???? And I was worried about the Kingston Trio. Yikes!
Wesley, I eat potato chip sandwiches with mayonaisse. Disgusting but satisfying.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:28 PM

Yeah but maybe he liked mayo with his nanners...

(you know, fried peanut butter and bananas kinda sounds good... maybe I need to be forgiven for that too...)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: rangeroger
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 04:20 PM

Wes,I'm with you. Just finished a peanut butter and mayonaise sandwich for lunch.

Great stuff!

rr

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:24 PM

Elvis also loved squirrel burgers, and firing his pistol at his wall of TV's... but I digress...That's alright now, momma....

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:17 PM

No - Elvis loved fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:10 PM

Wes, I think Elvis did that. Doesn't that make it musical? ;-)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:06 PM

I confess that I put mayonnaise on my peanut butter sandwiches. It isn't very musical but I had to tell someone.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 03:05 PM

About three weeks ago, I posted a lyrics request on a CERTAIN discussion forum, got a rapid (and accurate) answer, became embroiled in a number of freaky threads, and I still haven't gone home!!!! Am I forgiven?
Oh yeah, and I went to see Eminem in concert on my birthday last month.

I'M SORRY!!!!
IT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T BE A MUDCATTER (does it???)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 02:57 PM

I watched Glen Campbell on PBS last night and loved it.

I like Johnny Mathis and Slim Whitman.

I almost always vote conservative.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Skeptic
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 02:32 PM

Gnu proclaimed

Admitting you have made mistakes in your life is the first step. Admitting you will make mistakes again in your life is the second step.

To which is added

Finding someone to blame for your mistakes in the third step.

Had I ever made a mistake, I'd blame troll. It's what older brothers are for.

Regards

John

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 13 Mar 01 - 12:08 PM

I don't like Joan Baez.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 10:26 PM

Although, his stories are wonderful and really informative of our labour history.....I can't stand the singing of Utah Phillips.....his voice just irritates the shit out of me.....

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 10:04 PM

OMIGOD! I used to love Rod McKuen too! And I forgot to add the worst thing..............I used to own Tiny Tim's LP, Tiptoe Through the Tulips. I didn't buy it, honest, my brother found it in a dumpster (along with a lot of other stuff) and brought it home. The Other Stuff included Arlo's Alice album, Brewer and Shipley's Tarkio Road album and a new copy of Sgt. Peppers.........does that redeem me? (I don't even know what happened to the Tiny Tim, I probably put it back in a dumpster somewhere, a nonny mouse-ly....)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: rangeroger
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 09:59 PM

Thank you,Amos, thank thank you.

The other problem with coming back to the States with Nixon as president,was coming back to California with Ronald Reagan as governor. But I DIDN'T vote for him.

rr

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amos
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 08:30 PM

rangeroger --

ALL IS FORGIVEN STOP PLEASE COME BACK TO THE PRESENT! STOP WE LOVE YOU STOP THE MUDCAT STOP

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Bugsy
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 08:05 PM

OK you guys!

Time to visit > online confessional

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Burke
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 05:36 PM

I used to love Rod McKuen. Owned a bunch of his books & even went to one of his concerts. I may still have the LP.

I voted for Nixon in 1972.

I supposedly gave Mudcat up for Lent.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 05:27 PM

simon-pierre... you wrote : Thaks gnu. Now I know what is a bodhran. Is it worse?...

Quoi ? Qu'est que tu dit ? En anglais, s'il te plait. I apologize for my poor Francaise.

puzzledgnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 05:21 PM

Matt R - perhaps you could avail yourself of a friend who might have about twenty or more and have a listen. I don't mean to sound trite, but I have always found that I can usually gain at least some appreciation for most tunes if I listen to them five times without attempting to judge them. Of course, some tunes are just plain crap - I have my predjudices too.

In any case, perhaps you have listened to Tull at length and decided they are not for you. As for me, I can't get enough, although some of their tunes suck big time.

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: simon-pierre
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 05:18 PM

Thaks gnu. Now I know what is a bodhran. Is it worse?...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 04:59 PM

Yeah, 2 of them.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 04:56 PM

Matt R....do you own many Tull recordings ?

gnu

Subject: sinning and sinning and sinning
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 04:56 PM

My confession...

I frequent the Mudcat Message Board...

There IS nothing worse...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 04:32 PM

Richard Thompson is pretty cool, but then again I only have the Hand Of Kindness album. Now who I REALLY can't understand is Jethro Tull. I've probably listened to a more varied array of rock groups, and I still can't see why folks seem to think they're so wonderful. They sound pretty much like a regular 70's rock band. I think most of their fans like them because they're pagan and there aren't many pagan rock bands out there. Or something.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 03:03 PM

Me too Wesley - I just don't get it.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 02:50 PM

simon-pierre....for an explanation of bodhran go to

http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 01:14 PM

I must confess that after listening to several Richard Thompson records that I still haven't figured out what all the fuss is about. I know that lots of Mudcatters think he walks on water but I still don't get it. Forgive me. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Gervase
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 01:02 PM

So, we're talking awful music? I once learned Don't Cry For Me Argentina. OK, I was young, in love and in France, but it's not the sort of song a 6ft 2in bloke should sing - and particularly not in public and unaccompanied.
The real pisser is, I can still remember it perfectly while other, far better songs have fallen through the holes in my brain and are now lost forever.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 12:53 PM

I saw Billy Jack on a double bill with Night of the Living Dead in about 1972 with a group of friends. I recall that I was the only one who thought Living Dead was the better film. Twenty nine years later, I'm still standing by that view.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM

Oops. I have sinned again. I double posted that last one. Sigh.

- LH

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 11:46 AM

I once thought "Billy Jack" was a profoundly moving, deeply significant film...a great statement concerning injustice in our times.

I was very young. Forgive me.

I made no such mistake with its sequels.

Oddly enough, I got to know some of the people who played bit parts in it a few years later, when I stayed at Rolling Thunder's camp in Nevada. They even had a truck there that Tom Laughlin gave them, with the Billy Jack hat logo on its doors.

But it was still a wretched movie. It's message: there's only one way that peaceful, gentle people can fight mindless violence and prejudice. By getting a martial arts expert to kick the shit out of their persecutors, and shoot a few of the worst ones, and feel totally self-righteous while doing it, too. Hmmmm...come to think of it, this is the premise of a great many Clint Eastwood films over the years, isn't it?

So go ahead. Make my day. Please? Somebody? I have this need to kill something and feel good about it...

- LH

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM

I once thought "Billy Jack" was a profoundly moving, deeply significant film...a great statement concerning injustice in our times.

I was very young. Forgive me.

I made no such mistake with its sequels.

Oddly enough, I got to know some of the people who played bit parts in it a few years later, when I stayed at Rolling Thunder's camp in Nevada. They even had a truck there that Tom Laughlin gave them, with the Billy Jack hat logo on its doors.

But it was still a wretched movie. It's message: there's only one way that peaceful, gentle people can fight mindless violence and prejudice. By getting a martial arts expert to kick the shit out of their persecutors, and shoot a few of the worst ones, and feel totally self-righteous while doing it, too. Hmmmm...come to think of it, this is the premise of a great many Clint Eastwood films over the years, isn't it?

So go ahead. Make my day. Please? Somebody? I have this need to kill something and feel good about it...

- LH

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: simon-pierre
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 11:27 AM

I don't know what is a bodhran, but if somebody explains, I may listen to him...

I once called here The Carter Family "criminals" for their song "Single girl, Married girl". I confused them with the Stonemen. I didn't apologize. Still I don't.

Right now, I'm downloading Sonic Youth's songs on Napster. I'm not ashame.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 10:22 AM

rangeroger - in the same predicament, I wrote in Eldridge Cleaver and hoped he wouldn't win. I am a registered Democrat and the only Democratic president I ever voted for was Clinton. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: John P
Date: 12 Mar 01 - 09:20 AM

I've been learning bad pop hits from the 60s and 70s on the cittern. Not only that, but I sit in the middle of the music store I work at and play them at the staff, especially Ron who is a cittern fanatic.

"Your Song", "Spooky", "I'm A Believer", "Pipeline", "Different Drum", "The Sloop John B."

John

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 09:32 PM

Stevie! I admit it! I LOVE Sydney Devine! He RULES!!!

Callie, I can understand about ELO Part 2, they were nothing next to the real thing. But they did have like 2 good songs. BTW Jeff Lynne has got back with Richard Tandy, as well as George Harrison, and cellist Suzi Katayami (who's also played with the Cheiftains) and are releasing the 1st ELO album in 15 years. It's coming out next month, and it's called Zoom.

--Matt

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 09:27 PM

Hey, Rick, we could name the kids Bbninth and Barr F.....and Carol, don't tell, but no, not everybody listens to Vivaldi.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 09:20 PM

Sorcha, doesn't everybody listen to Vivaldi?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: rangeroger
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 08:04 PM

OK, I've been holding off on this, but I figure the Mudcat is the best place to get this off my chest.

What I'm about to confess, I have never told anyone before in my life.
In 1968, I sob...sob... sob,actually voted for Richard Milhous Nixon.

There, I've said it, but I don't feel any better about it.

I feel there were mitigating factors. I was in Viet Nam, Booby had just been shot, and I was pretty disallussioned with everything.I was filling out my absentee ballot, and there was nobody left to vote for, but I was going to vote ,by God.

When I got back, I got Orson Welles record "The Begatting of the President" (I still have it) and smoked a lot of dope while I listened to it.

Please forgive me.

rr

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 05:58 PM

Hi Callie. My post was (sort of) a joke. Someone mentioned a Bb9th chord, which is kinda jazzy. The song I was referring to (Nitelife) has a pattern that goes C, C9, F, Bb9..... I drop the high F (the fifth in a Bb) to an E (open string). To some that's more than "jazzy" it's downright disonent!

Sorcha. I want to marry you and have your children! You have so many wonderful bad habits.

Rick

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 05:48 PM

This is not the first thread that I have posted to today that ends when I post. Am I a post poster ? an imposter ? what did I do ?

sorrygnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 01:28 PM

JeZeBeL...play louder. It's like the old storey of all the body parts saying they're the most important and all of them looking down on the anal sphincter, who then fouls up the whole works by shutting up tight....ooops, not a good analogy...now I'm starting to feel the same way, oh the shame !!!!! NOT !!!!!

Hranner first, and proud of it,

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 12:56 PM

This is tough... I would still go to a Kingston Trio concert if they appeared in NYC. I love those guys.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: TamthebamfraeScotland
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 12:54 PM

I play the Brodhan, and I'm learing the accordion and I'm saving up for a banjo.

I must be off my head, to all the people who I've insulted all I can say is sorry.

And I'll try and not do it again, which for me is sometimes hard, because I write things before I think about them if you see what I mean.

I write before I think.

Tom Hamilton

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 12:48 PM

PLEASE HELP ME SOMEBODY!! I have commited the greatest sin known to man.................

..........................

..........................I..........

AM..................A..............(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS??)................. ...............BODHRAN PLAYER........OH THE SHAME, SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE TORTURE..... ......WHATEVER CAN I DO?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Justa Picker
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 11:08 AM

I once went to a Todd Rundgren concert and fell asleep for most of it. (It was one of the most relaxing and restful events I've ever attended!)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 10:57 AM

Back in the Sixties I went to a Kingston Trio concert, even though I knew better. And I went with a guy who wore a TIE! I mean, buuuummmmer, duuude!

A

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Callie
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 09:01 AM

Hey, hang on Rick: A flat9 in the key of "B" is "B". What have I missed?

I confess: I went to see "ELO Mark II" several years ago. But it's ok - I've done my penance - I had to sit through the concert.

Callie

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: TamthebamfraeScotland
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 08:59 AM

I've made lots of mistakes in my life I won't tell what they were too many to mention, I'm a big fan of Sydney Devine, if you can from Scotland and you admit that, it's really a big sin.

The fans of Sydney Devine are just normal people, however it's whipered in social circles.

Some people think that Sydney Devine fans should be locked up and then thrown away the key.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Tinker
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 08:51 AM

At sixteen I thought Dreamer from the movie Tammy ( Debby Reynolds) was a folk song and not only sang it,but also taught it to others... Sorry

Tinker

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 06:48 AM

Careful Sorcha, my X wife not only encouraged my Hranning, she even bought me one with my family crest on it. Operative word is X. Funny how some things work out. Operative word is funny. Then again, as they say, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth". Operative word is nag.

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 02:57 AM

I married a cop. My Dad threw Reba McIntyre and Roger Miller off their own stages. I listen to Vivaldi. My husband plays the bodhran. I encourage him. My daughter listens to Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. I eat meat, smoke and drink. My piano has several "layers" of messages written in the dust. My girl dog likes to eat carpet so I have several holes in it. I'm a Research Addict who likes proving I can find it, so I spend way to much time on Mudcat.

Mea Culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. I forgot to mention that I didn't go to Woodstock 1, and I didn't even want to go.......

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Pmharty
Date: 11 Mar 01 - 01:17 AM

Hi, I once drove Jerry Jeff Walker out of a music store in Austin by playing too loud (acoustically).

You are right, Chordstrangler, Raglan Road is the quintessential love song. The tune to it, "Dawning of the Day" is an old pipe march, also used for the Irish music hall song, "William Bloat", talk about ridiculous to sublime!

PMH

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Bert
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 11:58 PM

Well I actually learned a FOURTH chord.
So being the worst sinner of all - I personally on behals of everyone at Mudcat _ I forgive you all.

Crazy Bert (Whose postings are not to be taken as official Mudcat policy)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Amergin
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 10:49 PM

Sins, Dawning of The Day is more popularly known as Raglan Road

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: chordstrangler
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 10:40 PM

SINSULL, I have to confess that I wasn't. Not only was I not sober but I was totally confused and young and foolish and a cub reporter on a job I wasn't up to.....need I say more.

But if you don't know who Patrick Kavanagh is and was, then, please listen to me when I say that he is worth looking up.

A contrary old bastard he was, but he wrote a love song to thrash all love songs. The Dawning of the Day is so special that it would almost make you believe in God. It is that good - in my humble opinion. M

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Susan from California
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 10:37 PM

I once dragged Keith to a Billy Vera & the Beaters concert. It was when we were dating, so he still did stuff that he _really_ didn't want to do just to be with me. Disgusting isn't it? Can't remember who they are/were? They did a song on the TV show "Family Ties" in the U.S. way back in the day...

I have paid the price...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 10:21 PM

I was the one who put Max up to singing "Bird In A Gilded Cage". But was sufficiently punished when he inflicted the Martin and Lewis version et al on me and ALL of Mudcatville.

I didn't know who Patrick Sky was until Kendall and Spaw introduced me to him.

I still don't know who Patrick Kavanagh is, but if chordstrangler says he is a grumpy ol' bastard who knows "f**k all, it must be true. Were you sober when you said that, CS?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 08:16 PM

I must confess that I have been known to succumb to St. Patrick's Day requests and actually sing "Danny Boy" for the little old ladies.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 05:38 PM

I once sang Brandy, You're a Fine Girl in a Karaoke bar.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Justa Picker
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 05:11 PM

Mr. Fielding, I would have noticed.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 05:06 PM

Ah, it's because it's Matt_R (note the underscore!) I think you're thinking of Doug R, another 'Catter with the same last name as me...but no relation. Doug is the resident Republican. Me, well, I find all politics a bore and ignore it as much as possible.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 04:56 PM

Matt R, how come I can't find you for a PM? Sorry, I thought you were the one defending Dubbya vociferously a few months back ...

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: GUEST,Bigchuck
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 04:55 PM

My Lord, you _are_ all a bunch of totally unworthy people and I am ashamed, I say ashamed to be on the same forum with you. I may never live this down.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 04:54 PM

I once played a Bb9b5 in Willie nelson's "Nightlife", and nobody noticed. I'm still not sorry.

Rick

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 04:47 PM

It is, IMO, perfectly all right to like Rise Up Singing, provided only that you don't do any of the following:

1) Put any credence in the chord sequences they supply.

2) Modify lyrics for greater political correctness in accordance with their modifications.

3) Attend a song circle with your face in it, and bitch and moan if anyone starts a song that isn't in it.

Unfortunately, all of the above errors are widespread.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: jaze
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 04:36 PM

Now for the greatest(apparently) Mudcat sin of all.... I LIKE Rise Up Singing! James(waiting for banishment)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: dwditty
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 03:54 PM

I bought a copy of Rise up Singing (used) and actually use it on occasion!!

dw

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 03:24 PM

They wont even let me into church to confess... Something about the holy water starting to boil when I enter. LOL

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM

Um, MAG...I've only voted once...and I only did it by picking names that looked interesting. BTW I'm not BRitish!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Boredatwork
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 02:22 PM

Since the Celtic band I was playing guitar and hammered dulcimer in broke up, I have learned to play banjo.

Not tenor - bluegrass!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 02:03 PM

Matt R, how can you be a Dylan fan and still vote conservative???

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Justa Picker
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 01:35 PM

I once substituted a Bb9 chord in place of a straight F chord in a trad tune, and was promptly reprimanded by the listener.

For a long time I refused to mute the bass strings on my guitar (for that Doc sound) feeling that for what I spent on my rosewood guitar, the guitar should be allowed to sustain and ring out. I was told by a famous and notable player that my attitude was the most assinine thing he'd ever heard of. I decided that HIS attitude was more assinine than mine (but I did learn the technique.)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Cobble
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 01:30 PM

I play the melodean their I've said it :SORRY"

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Matt_R
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 01:28 PM

I once though Bob Dylan was "boring". What the HELL was I thinking?

--Matt (still saving up for Don't Look Back)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 01:25 PM

I once played "Silver Bell" in a group which included several bluegrass musicians, and being an autoharp player, I DIDN'T MODULATE!

I was punished on the spot, and need no further absolution......but I'll do it again, and again, and again!! Bwah-hah-hah-hah!!!

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 01:19 PM

Well....ok... I once stood in front of my living room window on crutches and waved at my neighbours while they were shovelling their driveway, even though I could actually get around the house ( and maybe even shovel snow ) sloooowly, without too much pain if I didn't use the crutches, in hopes that they would shovel my.... wait, I hear scraping.... excellent, it worked !

slygnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:44 PM

Sweet Jazus, Carol, have ye no shame, woman!!!! You admitted that to the world............your life as you now know it is over.

All the best,

Big Mick

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Gervase
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM

I once voted Conservative.
Once.
I was very young.
I have not excuse.
I'm sorry.
It will never happen again.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: CarolC
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM

I play the accordion. (And I like it.)

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:41 PM

No, outta town, seat of our government, is on tario, about a thousand miles from me. I'm in New Brunswick, where them there New Englanders sent the snow after they were done with it. She's some white today ! an' gettin' whiter !

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:35 PM

I just figgerd you were from outta town, gnu.

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:33 PM

I once spelt cleanse wrong, er, incorrectly.

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:33 PM

Ickle, I did the same at a Neil Diamond concert. Worse than that, in another thread I recently made diparaging remarks about Pete Seeger's lyric writing abilities.

Oh, where shall I turn for forgiveness if not unto you?

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:29 PM

That's all ? Just shame ? What penance did you impose upon yourself to clease and renew ? Spaw - come quick. Ickle needs your advice.

gnu

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:26 PM

I once held a candle at a Barry Manilow concert -the shame..........

Subject: RE: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:18 PM

Admitting you have made mistakes in your life is the first step.

Admitting you will make mistakes again in your life is the second step.

Admitting your mistakes to others who would otherwise not have known or cared is another mistake.

gnu

Subject: Bless yourselves 'Catters for I have sin
From: chordstrangler
Date: 10 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM

Bless Yourselves 'Catters, for I have sinned.

(1)I once bought a round of drink for a bagpipe band. (2)I once bought a Bee Gee's LP. (3) I once told Patrick Kavanagh - the wondrous poet who wrote the qunintessential love song "The Dawning Of The Day" - that in my considered opinion he was a grumpy old bastard who knew f..k all and that he should take himself back to the obscurity of Co. Monaghan where he belonged.

Oh dear, oh, dear, oh dear....

Any advance on that? M