MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:05 PM

Ah, shucks, guys, you all sure made it fun! Glad you like the pics and Sorcha is right. She sent me her extra set, SO, if you'll PM me your snail mail addys, I will split them up and send you your very own keepsake photos.

I dunno about that name, LeeJ, the acronym is kinda long:

QCPFSSS W/CD? How'd you pronounce thet? The KewpieFuzzked? LOL Ah, go ahead, let Sandy know! **BG**

luvyakat

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Rex
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 11:52 AM

Wasn't that a time?! Thanks most kindly for the nice pics. It all passed so quick. I'll just have to look forward to the next time.

Rex

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: BlueJay
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:19 AM

Thanks for the photos, Kat and Sorcha. I forgot my camera. I didn't know you'd gotten any of Cheyenne Dave! And Kat- thanks for getting those other photos of bill/sables and AllanC up for me. BlueJay

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 01:00 AM

Well, hell, Leej, at least somebody looked at 'em. Send kat your snail mail addy and you can have your very own pics of the Deal.............LOVE the album title!!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:47 AM

Good pics, Kat and Sorch! I like the top pic section 4 for the album cover....

An Evenin' with the Quality Chicken Presto Folk Social Sudz Swillers featurin' Cheyenne Dave!

Somebody give Sandy P a call. We owe him the first shot at recording us.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:13 AM

Hey, CB! Yer on!!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:05 AM

Aww. Dang it anyway! I wish I could have been there. Been to Cheyenne. I love Wyoming, especially Lander County. Cheyenne is my least favorite Wyoming town but I'll bet I'd a left there loving that overgrown rail yard if I could have been banjoing with ya! Nice to be able to put faces on you folks. Odd thing. I sort of "knew" how Kat and Sorcha would look!?! I hope that there WILL be a next time, especially in Wyoming. I'll fire up the coyotemobile and come on up I-80 next gathering ya have.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 03:17 PM

Thanks, katdear. (Maybe Santa will bring me a scanner so I can learn to do this meself!) Ya'll come lookie here what ya missed!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 03:06 PM

Ah, Rex, thanks. I can't tell you how pleasurable it was to hear you and the others make music. Just one of those very Magical Mudcat Music Moments which fortunately lasted for a lot longer!

Just wanted all to know that Sorcha's pix and mine, which I'd put on my site, are now on the Members Resources pages. Pene Azul put them up in the wee hours of last night after Max, the WunderKind, rebooted us into cyberdom. THANKS JEFF AND MAX!! Great PIX, Sorcha!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Rex
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 08:24 PM

I always thought that Art's cowboy version of Barbary Allen was mighty keen. It was especially so to hear Kat sing it in the town where I'm told Art learned it. Mmmm,Mmmm.

I forgot to say that Bert, bless his heart had copies of his CD for all of us. Even signed them. Well it was a couple days later that I put it on and my boys were playing in the living room. Boom! their attention was right there and they listened to the entire disk. I was a little concerned when "Size Doesn't Matter" came on but Bert is a gentleman and was quite discreet. I don't think they got "Silicone Cindy". Or the "Pickle". When it was done (I loved the "Old Sow Song", nicely done Bert) I asked what they thought of it since they had paid such rapt attention to it. Ben (12 yrs. old) said, "Actually, he has a nice singing voice". And Daniel (all of 9) said, "Not bad". And that Bert, he reserves for only the highest praise. So you won my kids over as well as me. I forgot to say too how I appreciated you singing your "I'm Your Flag" up in Cheyenne. These days, songs like that really help things along.

Rex

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 01:08 AM

Bert, if you are still on, call me sometime. Rog has a line on a company that is hiring prgrammers. I'll PM you my number.

You bet we needed another three days and more!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Bert
Date: 15 Nov 01 - 01:02 AM

Just got to borrow a computer again. WOW! that was great time. I got so many hugs that I broke my glasses which were hanging 'round my neck. Fortunately they wer only of the dollar store variety.

It was very difficult to leave. We really needed another three days together to catch up on all the gossip and to sing all the songs that we didn't have time for.

Now listen Mick, Just 'cos you don't have the intestinal fortitude to wear a shiny shirt...

Bert

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Nov 01 - 12:55 PM

Way to go and congratulations. Sing one or two for me.

Art

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Nov 01 - 03:25 AM

Thanks, WyoWomaninKS:-)

I forgot to say thanks to ya'll for letting me sing Art Thieme's cowboy version of Barbara Allen. I know it wasn't the same bar in Cheyenne where he got it from Del Bray in the 1960's, but it sure felt good to at least sing it in the same town! Thanks for the collectin', Art!

Still walking on air.

luvya'll...kat

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: WyoWoman
Date: 14 Nov 01 - 12:30 AM

It was so cool to talk with you all on the phone. Not nearly as cool as if I'd actually been there, but what fun.

I like both the Presto band and the Sudswillers -- maybe swap off?

Ok, if you do it again in a few months, maybe I can get myself back there for a long weekend and someone can pick me up at the Denver airport on their way to Cheyenne.

Good pix, Kat.

ww

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: JenEllen
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 11:46 PM

Oh! Count me green too!

Sounds like a lovely time, and hell or high snowdrifts I'm in for the next one.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Rex
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 12:08 PM

I'm sort of amazed that we pulled that off so well. It's an amazing thing for several of us to come together. Most of us never meeting before, and yet we know each other. It was great to finally meet Sorcha, Kat, Rog and Bert. Now here's Kat talking about being Dorothy and we was all there. Aw gee whiz. Good to see Bluejay again. EJ? ah I see him all the time. But we need to play more music together. It was might nice of WyoWoman to call too. The barkeep came in with a phone all excited and I wondered what that was all about. What a fine surprise. Got plenty of songs and tunes done. I heard a little griping about the food, and maybe the kinda flat Bud brew. Well my second favorite thing to eat is an elk steak with maybe a Guinness. My favorite is free food and beer and there was plenty of it. Those folks treated us mighty nice. True, later they got into the football game and we found a fine place to move to. The beer kept coming. I'm not sure who was buying that. Sorcha, if it was you, I owe you a pitcher or two. Ol Cheyenne Dave was quite a surprise. He claimed he hadn't played the fiddle in 20 years. Once he got going he had it. I wish I had a bow arm like that. And what a character. He recognized the most sublime things in music, yet he was like 30 grit sandpaper. Coarser than Spaw! Heh. I sure am grateful that Sorcha put this together. On the long ride back home I think that EJ and I were floating on a cloud. We done did this gathering right.

Rex

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 11:47 AM

The Swampy Mountain Suds Swillers ?

Thanks to all who came! I had a blast!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Nov 01 - 12:11 AM

The Presto Folk Band....just add free beer and stir in some Mudcats :-)

THEY WANT US BACK?!!! FarfawkingOUT!!!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 10:52 PM

No, page back up a few posts, it's right there-- Shitspaw.

~S~

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 09:28 PM

I thought I would send Judy a thank you note, and sort of try to explain that it won't be every month. I am so glad we could all get there, and that it really happened.

How about the "Quality Chicken Ranch"????

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 09:14 PM

I am so jealous!! Sounds like a wonderful gathering.

Mick

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: BlueJay
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 09:12 PM

Kat- thanks for the pix, I'm anxious for more. What a great time. When I walked in, LEJ was playing his 12 string, and he said, "I sure am glad to see you- been playing for hours. I've got blisters on my fingers"!

Though we'd never met, Kat and I knew each other instantly. Talk about old home week. Rex, Leej and I have played together twice now,(in as many years). Does that qualify as regular rehearsals?

So much great music from everyone, and the warm reception from the local unsuspecting strangers- who'd have thunk it?

And a real highlight was WyoWoman's surprise phone call. We all passed the phone around and it was wonderful to catch up with her in real time.

Sorcha- I talked to the manager Judy this morning, and reiterated all of our thanks. She said, "Hey, I want you all to come back every month". Not bad. Thanks for getting this organized, Sorcha. BlueJay

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 08:09 PM

Did Bert know he was going to Wyoming when he put that shirt on????? How the hell did he get out alive and unmarried? One could get with child wearing a shirt like that in "EEEEEEEEHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHH" land.................LOL. Just kidding, Bert.

Mick

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 08:09 PM

awwwww, shit, spaw.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 08:00 PM

Have you thought of "The Cheyenne Social Club?"

Spaw....I wanna' join

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: reggie miles
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:57 PM

WYSIWYG, you play precussion on an old Matag too?

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:52 PM

LOL! Suze, that is what the bar patrons kept asking--"What is the name of your band?".......just wouldn't believe us. Oh well, let's come up with a name. Rog did do some recording on his lap top........

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:43 PM

BTW, Reggie, sorry you couldn't find anything reasonable. I've never found anything reasonably priced to get out of Wyoming, either! **BG** Maybe next time, eh?

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 07:34 PM

Geeze, that first photo looks like an album cover! What's the band's name? Are ya gonna let sex and drugs be yer downfall??? Do ya need a washboard player? I got therapeutic claves too... when's the next one, I'll start out now...?

~S~

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 06:30 PM

I TOLD ya we had to split them up evenly, Sorcha!!!**BG**

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 06:00 PM

Oh, yea, Cheyenne Dave--got a great pic of him playing my Maggie with Rex--amazing stuff coming out of that fiddle. Can't remember the "breakdown" they played. It wasn't Chinese or Foggy Mtn, but way cool. They went back into the bar from the dining room and did a duet.......20 yrs my ass. Maybe he will quit hanging out in the silly bar and go looking for a fiddle.

My pics are developed and will be in the mail to kat in the AM. Should be available in a few days. Mail is pretty fast between here and Casper.

For all of you Greenies, the food was NOT great--Football Sunday bar food. Chile, beans, sloppy joes, polish sausage, baby sausage in BBQ----kat was left totally out in the cold. If we use this venue again, we will make other arrangements for food. Deli trays, carry-in, anything. What a Magical Mudcat Moment......and people say Magic doesn't really exist........(kat, don't tell them I kept asking "How many can I take home with me?")......grin!!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 05:43 PM

Oh well now....Ain't tohose just completely disgisting pix? I mean helfire, ain't nobody that damn happy is there? Well......I guess there is...........dammit.

Spaw the Green

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 04:53 PM

Didn't recognise you with the big grin, kat! Thanks for the lovely pics. :0)

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 04:43 PM

Okay, we are home. I am going to go take a nap, BUT just to keep ya interested I have posted some photos HERE until we can get some better ones scanned in.

Please keep in mind the first one of the whole group was taken by Cheyenne Dave, who was at least 3, if not 6 or 7 sheets to the wind, who'd said he'd come take the piccies, if Sorcha let him play with her...um, her fiddle. I'll let her tell you about that Mudcat Magic Moment, it was sheer joy to see that man open up, going from "I ain't played in 20 years" to what we heard. You tell 'em Sorcha!

My digital has no flash, so the pix aren't that great, BUT Sorcha got lots and I have a few on my 35mm which I will get processed and scanned in asap.

There is so much to tell. I'll leave you with this for now, I finally got to meet some more of the family I have known I had ever since coming to the Mudcat. I feel like Dorothy after she wakes up and she points to each of the guys and Aunt Em and says "Bert, you were there, and Rex, you, too, and OH! LeeJ, you came, too! BlueJay, you, too! And, Sorcha, you were there, too! And, it was so wonderful, there's no place like home!"

luvyafromaverytiredbutChesiregrinningkat

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 02:49 PM

Ah well, Sorch, I got as far as London, then realised I had to be back at Uni first thing Monday morning...

Thought about you all, though! (And I need to have my elbow injected too, ow.)

Noreen

Row on, row on, another day
may shine with brighter light...

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 01:59 PM

It sounds like a wonderful time! Actually, it sounds like many of the Mudgatherings I've attended! I'm looking forward to hearing from the others as they return.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 01:51 PM

Oh, yea, WyoWoman called........harpgirl did not send pizza,and Noreen did not show up........

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:59 PM

OK, I'm gonna try. (I just got my elbow injected--!@#$%^&*!!--so it may be short. Rog, kat, Rex, LEJ,BlueJay, Bert and I had a wunnerful,wunnerful time. of course. BlueJay, kat and Rog stayed at the motel, the rest of us drove back home last nite.

Rex and LEJ arrived first, I was about 15 mins behind them. Rog and kat next, about 12:30. Bert arrived about 3, BlueJay about 4. He had a LONG drive.

Noon to 3 PM the tv's were on, but sound down. Very small bar crowd and they loved us. Thought we were a "real" band and wanted us back every month(?) About 3rd quarter of the ball game a few more people arrived to watch the game and asked for the tv to b turned up. Barmaid and other customers said NO! We tried to keep playing, but it was getting a little noisy, so we moved into the unoccupied dining room. Kat was happier there, anyway, because there was no smoke. (Restaurant is closed for remodeling.)The light was better there, too.

We hugged, we played, we sang, we BS'd, we drank beer (well, Bud Lite--the folks that were requesting songs were buying),we all looked like we "bin hit in the mouf wit a broad axe". Old friends. None of the people in the bar could believe this was the first time we had ever played together.

Took lots of pics, both digital and print. We'll get them up as soon as we can. Bert says he would like to come to the Springs every 3 mos, but doesn't know if that is possible. Plans were made to try to get to Aurora to hear Seamus on Friday. Bert and fam are going, I don't know yet.........

We are going to do it again, probably farther south next time so BlueJay doesn't have to drive so far. I'm exhausted but oh, frabjous day!! More later from the others, I am sure.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: reggie miles
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:14 PM

I could have purchased four round trip tickets to Amsterdam for what it cost to fly to Cheyenne for the event. If the airlines want passengers why are their fares so wacky? Nutz! Wish I could have been thar.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:06 PM

Apparently it was an orgy. At least we know one person had a good time.

~S~

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 09:39 AM

Well, that was cryptic...........It'll be nice when one of them wake/sobers up and we get a real report here fer chrissakes........

Spaw

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 02:44 AM

12:40 AM local time......Sorch is home.....wow. wow. More later........wow.

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: reggie miles
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 06:29 PM

I tried to research some of those cheap flights, trains or buses online when I caught the thread and found out that the event was taking place but even with airlines hurting for passengers it was going to cost more than I could afford by plane and take more time than was available by any other means. Have fun all! Saw ya later

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 09:57 AM

Hey, HG, I think Sorcha put the addy up there a few**BG** Would love to have you both there and everyone else!

We're about to loeave, to mosey our way down, grab some breakfast on the way. This is gonna be fun!!

kat

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Allan C.
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 08:55 AM

I hope you know how much I would like to be there, you guys! It sounds like it is going to be great. Sing a long, slow, dull ballad for me, okay? *G*

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 08:21 AM

...I'd send pizzas if I knew the address. Prepaid of course, but no doubt delivered by a banjo player!

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 12:14 AM

Ah, Wyo, go play with those purty lil goats; I'll bet they'd love a yodel or two.:-) Sorry, sweetie, wish you were there.,.er, I mean here.:-)

Sorcha, do bring your dulcimer, please? I am bringing the fiddle, only for someone else to play, maybe if they want. I haven't practised but twice in the past few years.

I hope ya'll will let me harmonise with some singing. I miss that the most, having someone to harmonise with.**BG**

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: WyoWoman
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 10:14 PM

Hey, Rex, can you do "All Quiet Along the Potomoc" for me? And yes, kat, I DID get to the gathering at LEJ's with Bill and Allan, which is probably why I know what I'm missing and am, ergo,upsot. Oh, well. It's ok. I'll just dust my whatnots and rearrange the doodads. A nice, quiet Sunday. Just fine with me. Really. No, really.

I'll be thinking of you all.

ww

Subject: RE: MudGather Cheyenne 11/11/01
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 10:01 PM

Well, doh! I think I'll bring the dulcimer, too, even tho I am out of practice.