BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me

Subject: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:22 PM

I discovered Mudcat about 4 months ago and have become an addict. I just browsed through the recent thread on what's wrong with Mudcat
Click here

Most of what I had to say has already been said, but here's what I think is "just all right" with Mudcat:
• great site for finding--and providing-- lyrics, chords, etc. QUICKLY -- web searches can be time consuming and very demanding, and often another catter has the song at her/his fingertips
• great site for historical discussions of songs, songwriters, musical styles (e.g., polka, bluegrass, blues)
•forum chats that, from my limited web chat experience, are more intelligent and informative than most
•and forum format that makes it easy to ignore BS threads--as I usually do-- if I want to focus on music
•exposure to a lot of wit and creativity from other 'catters and guests by way of parodies, song challenges, new songs, and stories, etc.
•sometimes the opportunity to share my own parodies, songs, etc. with folks whose minds often seem on similar wavelengths
•the chance to discover talented folk artists whose work I would not easily have found by more conventional means

The point is, I don't find it hard to ignore the distractions and focus on traditional music if I choose--
but all traditional music was once new.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: mousethief
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:26 PM

all traditional music was once new

Uh-oh! Now you've done it! You've called down the wrath of the folk purists on your head! Didn't you know that all folk music oozed up out of the ground? No wait, it dropped down from the sky with the rain. Yeah, that's the ticket. At any rate it isn't written. It just happens. We're kind of vague on the details of how, that's all. But we know it's communal, that's for sure. No one person could write a song and have it pass into the folk stream. That just doesn't happen. Nope. Never. Unh-uh.

But all silliness aside, welcome aboard, and I heartily agree with you on all your points!

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:35 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:39 PM

"All traditional music was once new"

I remember having a distinguished English songwriter on my radio show a couple of years ago, who was talking about being treated with contempt by a Folk Club booker because he wasn't TRADITIONAL enough.

"My gawd, SOMEBODY wrote the damn songs 400 years ago, they didn't emerge from under a rock. If I have to wait another few hundred years to be able to sing my own songs in a folk club I'll starve to death"!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:49 PM

GOT to post to this Thread, as I've tried to avoid doing so to the 'negative'one....Like Guest, Genie, I also "discovered Mudcat about 4 months ago and have become an addict"....& agree with just about everything he/she (sorry Genie, that I don't know) said.

Its hard to imagine that the Terrorist Attacks WOULDNT spark a lot of Threads.... some of which have been MUSIC ones anyhow... I'm guessing though that thats not the 'be-all-&-end-all' of what is being complained about, but I dont feel that the 'BS' threads 'overwhelm' the musical stuff, & dont honestly feel it would if the Forum was in anything other than this kind of Thread format anyway.

Well, not sure what point I'm trying to make here, so I'll stop rambling & say...

Long Live MUDCAT!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:50 PM

All this hubbub reminds me of the little old lady who called the police complaining of a naked man behind her house.

When the policeman arrived, he looked out the window. "I don't see anything, ma'am," he said.

"Why, you can if you stand up on this chair and look through the binoculars!"

Some people aren't satisfied unless they have something to complain about. So everybody take a chill, huh?

I have got a lot of good information off this site, plus the oppportunity to get a few laffs once in awhile. Anybody who has an issue with that can bite me.

And Alex, folk music is made of green cheese. The man in the moon told me so. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:51 PM

Yes, GUEST, isn't it wonderful?!

:0)

Genie, I agree with every point that you make.

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: mousethief
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:52 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:59 PM

Actually, the other thread isn't really all that negative. Give it a look. Clicky above.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: nutty
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:06 PM

A "good" Mudcat is like a "good" film ..... a "good" wine ..... a "good" book or good anything else

It's all a matter of personal preference .... and I'm happy with it as it is

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:07 PM

Oops - should have stuck my twopenn'th here instead. Hope you found it in 'other' thread. Won't repeat myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:15 PM

Not to worry Don...This thread is simply the predictable "Rah-Rah" thread that follows every "Hiss-Boo" thread, even if the Hissboo is sorta' okay. The prdictability of both types bothers some, but I find it reassuring............the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Ya' know, I'm not as active now as I have been at times. I may get that way again or I may fade away entirely.......Who cares? The 'Cat will be what it is and what we make it........Not individually, but collectively. How we take that "collective" is what affects our attitudes and those that wish to mold the 'Cat the way they want it will always be carping and moaning.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:25 PM

Just Be

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Justa Picker
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:30 PM

Posted my feelings here.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Cappuccino
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 02:44 PM

Hi, Spaw, I was wondering where you'd got to.

I posted my positive thoughts to the other thread, too. I should have waited for this one.

- ian B

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 03:11 PM

Well said Genie.

Me too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Amos
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 05:22 PM

Wave Ninety-Nine of the Recurring Beauty of the Mudcat Rides Again!! Max keeps on grinning. Elders Salute!!

Go boys, go!

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: John J at home
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 07:29 PM

The Mudcat's right enough for me; I wouldn't want to change it other than allowing it's natural evolution.

That's progress.

Mudcat has taught me loads, made me some very good and dear friends, made me laugh, made me cry, made me scream in anger and frustration.

It's just perfect.

John (well and truly addicted)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: DougR
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 07:41 PM

I had my say on the other thread.

dougR

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 08:33 PM

I like Mudcat.john

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 08:56 PM

I discovered Mudcat about 4 years ago, from which it's been almost nightly visits - so I second everything that's been said above! (Well, excluding the claim that all traditional music was once new. I was taught it arrived from outer space some two million years ago in Nevada and was dug up by persons unknown just under two million years later ...)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 09:05 PM

Good to hear from other catters on this.

The only thing I've found "not all right" is that sometimes -- like this morning -- I log on (reset my cookie) and am not recognized as a member. (Note the unexplained "Guest" by my name at the top of this thread.)

I'm not mentioning this here to change the direction of people's comments -- only to answer the question that may have occurred to some folks, namely, that if I like Mudcat so much, why am I still a "guest."
I'm not.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 09:38 PM

Genie, you asked me how to trace threads. Look between the last post in a thread, and the empty text box where you compose your post-- see "Add Thread to Tracer"? Click that, and it puts a bookmark of the thread on your personal page.

Works when you are signed in.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Bert
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 10:27 PM

I have this vision of Spaw fading away entirely. A sort of "Cheshire Catspaw", nothing left but a smiling fart.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Just All Right With Me
From: Genie
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 02:05 AM

Now, there's an image!

Susan, thanks for the info.

Genie