BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!

Subject: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 06:13 PM

Well not exactly Hell....but she DID spend the night at a motel in Cornwall Ontario, and if you've ever filled your lungs with the air of a pulp and paper mill town you'll know it doesn't smell like Heaven!

Yup, the good lady came all the way from New Hampshire with a snow storm on her ass, to join us for Christmas, as she did a couple of years ago.

Last night one of our gang sat practically open mouthed as Peter T, Jeri, myself, and a fairly prominent Mudcat lurker tried to explain the magic and mystery of the little site that's altered so many lives for the better. Naturally as most of us already know, it's almost impossible to explain the MC phenomenon to someone who hasn't been here. All I know is that Jeri and Peter are two damn good folks that Mudcat brought into my life, and I'm greatful.

So how have I tried to make Jeri's stay relaxing? How about working the tar out of her on guitar, banjo, dulcimer and everything else that's hangin on the wall! She may be the ex-military, but I'm the one that's actin' like a drill-sgt. The kid's gonna be a hell of a picker!

Hope everyone's Christmas has been great.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: MMario
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 06:22 PM

glad she made it okay - I was wondering how her drive was.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 06:30 PM

Good to know she made it okay. I hear Buffalo, NY got 2 feet over Christmas and is due for another foot by tomorrow!

I know what you mean, Rick, about describing the Mudcat. Here's one way I tried to explain to a radio host whom I'd sent a note to, thanking him for a wonderful show which featured Mudcatter, John Peekstock, and his wife, Anna, in their band, Telynor.

"Please visit us. We have a thread there on the Forum, today, http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=42083 which alerted us all to your show and the fact that one of our members, John, was going to be on, so several of us listened. It also prompted me to buy their Christmas CD.

"The Mudcat Cafe houses the Digital Tradition, a folksong database with over 8,000 song lyrics and we're working on adding midis to all of those. Folk musicians from all over the world gather there, not just to share music, but also their lives, their triumphs and tragedies and we also make merry with totally riotous of inanity such as http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=11455 "Hokey-Pokey and the Druids."

"We have quite a few well-known members, such as Sandy and Caroline Paton of Folk Legacy Records, Don Firth and Bob Nelson from your own area, Rick Fielding from Toronto, Art Thieme from Chicago, Roy Harris in the UK, Jean Ritchie, who posts as "kytrad," as well as others who prefer to stay incognito.

"Best of all, we share our love of music, and we have created a real community, with such things as a 30 day cross-country trip by an American member and one from the UK, to visit as many Mudcatters as possible, which sparked many more shorter journeys and regular gatherings in the UK, Canada, and here when we've met to make music together. We go above and beyond for one another and hash out tough world issues, as well.

"If it seems I am enthused, you are right. I, and many others, believe the Mudcat to be the best place ever created on the Internet and a model of all of the positive the "web" has to the potential to offer.

"I hope I haven't overwhelmed you with info! Please come take a peek and you'll see what I mean.

"Thanks!"

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 06:36 PM

"The Kid"??? Have a safe trip home, Jeri.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: 53
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 07:35 PM

keep her pickin and grinnin rick, hope yall had a very merry christmas, and a happy new year. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 07:41 PM

Sounds like an excellent Christmas; next year I'm coming!

I just wanted to say that although I'm relatively new here, I've already had loads of fun, & taken part in some interesting discussions with some very cool people. I've had a passion for folk & traditional music all my life (it's one of my husband & my strongest shared interests, which makes vacation plans for Sidmouth & Whitby sooooo much fun to make!), and the resources I've found here on the Mudcat are so valuable and great!

Thanks to all for putting it here, keeping it here, and providing such a fun place to hang out.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 07:48 PM

Hey, Jeri -- drive pretty on the way back home. Should we expect you at the Press Room Friday or before?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 09:27 PM

I'm jealous! I'd LOVE to meet everyone from Hull! Oh........... oops. Jeri, didja see any veggies along the way?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 12:22 AM

We took the Pres. of the Press Room to a Canajun' style music party tonight. She met a few of the Toronto stalwarts and sang a couple of songs her ownself including a beautiful effort called Shine like a Diamond, which had a couple of folks thinking it was old, old old! She got a chance to hear Howard Kaplan do an original "counting ballad" that had to be heard to be believed. A knowledge of groundhog dentistry would have helped!

We had a chance to wish Grit Laskin all the best as he was arriving as we were heading off into the night. Grit has just built a brand new mandolin that is to drool for. Takes a LOT of drool to afford one though!

Well what's in store for our guest tomorrow? Heather has suggested a visit to the zoo....but I want her at the 12th Fret so I can talk her into buying a 37 string Kafoozalum, which I hear is on sale for a measly 78 thousand dollars (12.50 Yankee bucks)

Don't worry Press Room folks...we'll send her back in one piece.

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 12:27 AM

Is the Kafoozalum Indain or Brazilian Rosewood? If it's Indian, try to negotiate a slightly better price, but if it's Brazilian and in reasonable shape, snatch it up.

Spaw (Glad y'all are having a good time)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 12:46 AM

I don't have time for this foolishness...I'm puttin Jeri on to clear things up Spaw. here she is:
HELP ME! Rick has got me playing everything in the basement. (I don't know what that thing is that has 11 strings and keeps crawling under the sofa whenever I set it down, but I don't feel comfortable with any instrument that eats red meat.) He beats me and feeds me bread and water whenever I mess up an F chord. NOW, he's trying to get me to buy this Kafoozalum thingie...

Seriously, I'm having a great time here. I should be back by Fri night, but I'm not sure I'll be concious. (Not that it matters.)

The REAL Jeri (accept no substitutes)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Peter T.
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 09:20 AM

Be strong, Jeri, resist. Many a fine lass has had to sell herself into white slavery to pay for her trips to the Twelfth Fret with Rick Fielding. In fact that is reason #3 why all those guy guitar nurds are there. (I leave reasons #1 and #2 to your imagination). yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Morticia
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 09:48 AM

Jeri, if you are going to sell yourself into slavery anyway, how about selling yourself to me? I could use a big sister/someone to ride shotgun on the kids/cat herder around here. I can offer lots of folk music/ an eccentric guitarist and, at the last count, five guitars, two mandolins and assorted noise makers....I had one of those 11 string fellas but it crawled out the cat flap and is now terrorising the neighbours....it's having so much fun, I can't bear to fetch it home.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 09:49 AM

Well, some are probably there to power up their Fenders and Marshalls with Hamster Power, assuming there is a pet shop nearby.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: JedMarum
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 09:51 AM

Sounds like a fun trip!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: JedMarum
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 10:00 AM

... now, if you could just stay on for another month or so, ... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 10:47 AM

Lucky Jeri! Lucky Rick! Enjoy each other guys. And come back safely, Jeri. I am counting on you to get the queen size bed upstairs.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 12:15 PM

(Jeri, not Rick)

Morty, as far as kid-herding, I think I have a root canal scheduled. (Who would be watching ME, anyway?!)

Jed, I could try hiding under the bed. Right now, the biggest challenge is trying to figure out if I can slip a Martin guitar into the car without Rick noticing.

Jeri

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 12:21 PM

I don't think that's likely -- I am sure he has Martin-radar built in.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 02:09 PM

Just took her to the 12th Fret. She's played all the high end stuff, and will now be officially welcomed into the Mudcat Guitar Sicko Nerd threads.

No she didn't buy one.......but she ain't dead yet!

Sicko Ricko

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: mousethief
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 06:46 PM

If you're on the turnpike to Hell, and refuse to pay your toll, do you get to go to Heaven instead?

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 07:17 PM

And which one has the melodeons??

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 12:18 PM

Well I can hardly believe how quickly things happen here in the frozen North. Jeri has just signed a contract with Columbia records!*

* Her first four CDs are free, and after that she pays only 19.95 per CD, with a bonus Michael Jackson recording thrown in.

OK, let's see...here's what's really happening. Apparently you good folks at the Press Room will not have her company tonight, because she was convinced (up until we showed her the date on a newspaper) that today was Thursday, rather than Friday. This happens to people on the far side of 40 occasionally. I'm going to take her to Encore Music today, another of those places that I waste my life in.

She's learnin' chords like a madwoman!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: MMario
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 12:36 PM

you mean you spent all that time convincing her it was thursday and then spoiled it by showing her the paper?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 12:52 PM

Okay, Rick -- THIS TIME! But you have to give her a note (absence excuse) to bring to class, I mean, session. (Tom'll ask; he always does.) And it better be good (and can't be signed "My Mom" or "My Dad".)

Linn (who's prolly not going to sing tonight, either)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 01:14 PM

So what's the weather doing there and are the roads looking to be okay? Not to be a bummer, but Ol' Spaw worries about his friends some now and again......and they got 6 foot of snow just a few miles down the road.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: MMario
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 01:28 PM

don't know about the Canadian side of the lake - but conditions along most of the thruway in NY are fine. the snow dump was mostly over Buffalo - we got a light dusting down my way -

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: SharonA
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 01:40 PM

What in the name of all things musical is a Kafoozalum?

Jeri, I'm glad to hear you've had such a great time. Have a safe journey back.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 02:14 PM

Weather colder than it's been lately here at home in New Hampshire, and no precipitation at all since rain last week.

Sounds like the roads get better as you near home, Jeri!

linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 02:43 PM

Rick............could you tuck her into a closet for a month or so? She doesn't eat much, and we could use that voice the first weekend in February. You be safe coming home, wee one. And stay away from the Kafoozalum. Fielding will try to convince you it is harmless, but studies have shown that it leads to hard drugs.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 03:02 PM

SHARON A.

The "kafoozalum" that Rick refers to is actually an Americanized word for the Nepalese actual word which is Kaffeloozu, a form of hammered dulcimer. It differs in significant ways, but is still a very similar instrument.

The Kaffeloozu has a single rail dividing the strings at the halfway point rather than at the three-fifths of the hammered dulcimer. This tuning design makes it more adaptable to eastern music where it comes from. The string courses are almost always of four strings rather than 2 or 3 with one tunes an octave below the other three (bottom string). The other major difference is that there are 10-30 "sympathetic" strings below the usual string courses running vertically across the soundboard and about three-eighths of an inch above it, making them about three-fourths of an inch or so below the main strings. These are tuned to Pentatonic scales and drastically increase the overtone harmonics. This is not an uncommon practice with eastern instruments, the Citar being another example.

Very few of the Kaffeloozu are ever found here as the difficulty in playing makes them more of interest to people liking Indian and other eastern music. Interestingly, it is the only instrument to come out of Nepal. Some of the them are quite beautiful with mosaic inlays on the soundboard and made of local woods including a dense and hard variety of juniper which grows only in the higher elevations in that part of the world.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: DougR
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 04:31 PM

I have an idea! Why don't we ALL go see Rick and Heather NEXT Christmas?!!!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: JedMarum
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 04:48 PM

LOL Doug

Not a good idea Mick, for a couple of old married guys!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:06 PM

Shit, Jed, I just want her to sing with us. Now I agree that her singing produces pleasure to the senses, but it ain't the same............LOL. Quite a voice on this Mudcatter.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:24 PM

I didn't use the NY State Thruway to get here - I headed north, then west. The roads are better and I don't have to worry about being stopped by police. (The horses just can't catch my car, and the little red light keeps falling off their heads. The "unmarked" ones are a little sneakier, but that's another story.)

I've thought about hiding in a closet, but my car in the driveway would be a big tip-off. Besides, with both Jed and Mick here, the square inchage will be severely limited.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:29 PM

Oops, that post was Jeri, not Rick.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:34 PM

And Jed, I ain't dangerous. I always ask before touching someone's instrument...
JnR, ducking.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:34 PM

heyaSpaw, we got tons o'them hardy junpiers out here; maybe you should take up makin' them, instead of the regular vah-rye-ah-tee?!

SharonA, make sure to check the length of both yer legs; they oughta match, unless you've let one get too stretched!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 05:44 PM

What are you implying kat? Are you accusing me of some form of falsification or prevarication? Is that it? I mean is what you're saying is that I made some mistake in the details of the Kaffeloozu description or what?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 07:07 PM

*wandering in late to the thread, but still fascinated by the meanderings and peregrinations...as well as by F chords...*grin*.(me, I just poosha da button when I want an F chord)....

(my interest is even more piqued by them Junipers...I know a woman who turns wood and makes regular pilgramages to Montana and such to get supplies of it!...very neat woos, and I suppose that Nepalese varieties are, too!)_

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: JedMarum
Date: 28 Dec 01 - 09:13 PM

I don't know Jeri - it sounds kinda cozy!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 04:13 PM

So . . . is Jeri still trapped in Toronto? Is she on the road home, yet? Will we see/hear her by New Year's?

Inquiring minds want to know.

(How much herring do I need to marinate by New Year's Eve?)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 04:38 PM

You guys aren't going to believe this but there are 10 pages of hits for Kafoozalum on a Google search. And, I found this..........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 05:10 PM

Sorch, I said it was an "Americanized" version of the actual word and I don't understand why you and kat are so surprised here. If you think I'm bullshitting you, just say so!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:10 PM

Yeah, well there wern't nuttin' on that there Nepalese vershun, lik I sed, bee shur ta check both a'yorn legs, Sharon, mayk shur they's ta sem as each othah!

As fer yah'll, Mistah Spaw, I sez show me da pruffe, esp. wid thet exahteek wood yous'all tahkin' about. Speekin' a wich, Mistah BillDee, thet thar wood'd bee a hole lot eezeer fer me ta git fer ya'll than thet asspin stuff we'uns tahked about 'fore.

katkuzzinwidlegsdasamelength!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:29 PM

I am completely amazed. To think that two of my closest friends would say that the information I so laboriously reported was complete and total bullshit and to know that they have each searched for verification.......Well, I just don't know what to say. The fact that they are correct and the whole post was complete and total bullshit is neither here nor there, but I did enjoy the knowing that they were piddling away time on assorted search engines. What bothers me more is that I was so stupid as to use Tibet ferchrissakes........I mean the only musicians or instruments that I could find pictures of were a drum and a wacky looking thing they refer to as a guitar. The word just sounded kinda' near east, but I should have gone with India or maybe a middle eastern place where I could have found a vaaguely dulcimer like instrument unlabeled like a santir or a cymbalom (both real). Yalk about piddlin' away time on a search engine.......

Luvya' both!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:35 PM

Oh sure now he 'fesses up! Admit it, you can't pull the wool over our eyes, anymore!**BG**

As for those others you happened to throw in, you mean something like THIS? (scroll, man, scroll!)

luvyadarlin'!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 06:57 PM

Yeah, what a deal........I can't get by with a damn thing! Sure was fun though. It's a problem being too well known at times. If someone else had posted that......Oh well..............

BTW....The cymbalom is probably the "most eveolved" form of the hammered dulcimer, having more courses and chromatics as well as things like damping pedals. It's about as close to a piano as the dulcimer gets.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:06 PM

I am totally surprised at the scoffing. In the 1950s there was a short vogue in the Nepalese Kafoozalum after one appeared on the Arthur Godfrey show. I realize that this might be after the time of some people, but it really isn't all that long ago that the pawn shops had used plastic Arthur Godfrey push button 'easy kafoozalum' boxes that snapped over the playing surface. This made it easy to play "Little Grass Shack" and "Buddha's Unchanging Hand."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:08 PM

I am totally surprised at the scoffing. In the 1950s there was a short vogue in the Nepalese Kafoozalum after one appeared on the Arthur Godfrey show. I realize that this might be after the time of some people, but it really isn't all that long ago that the pawn shops had used plastic Arthur Godfrey push button 'easy kafoozalum' boxes that snapped over the playing surface. This made it easy to play "Little Grass Shack" and "Buddha's Unchanging Hand."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:21 PM

Now Rolfy, I know you ain't gonna' believe this, but we even had a thread about those things awhile back. The original blue clicky went to an e-bay site that's now invalid, but wht it was is one of the auto-chording boxes you're talking about. Check it out and enjoy the read.......we're all gettin' too old.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:29 PM

Talk about thread creep . . . (no, there's NOT an actual person referred to as the thread creep. :-)

Uh, remember Jeri? Is she back on that old turnpike to hell, I mean, home? Is she still trapped in Toronto (oh woe, oh woe, chuckle, chuckle).

Will somebody please whisper the words, "Lobster for New Year's Eve supper" into her ear?

Hey, Rick! You can't keep her!!!

Linn (Tom, too -- he's the other inquiring mind)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:37 PM

Jeez, Linn, you sure miss her, eh? **BG** If she doesn't make it for lobster, holler and I'll come, okay?!

Oh, hell, Spaw, I 'spose we should've just played along, it would've been good for at least another 50 postings, I am sure! But, then, I'd hate to see Sharon walking around with a pulled leg, too.

I wondered about that cymbalom as it looked a lot more involved than a HD! Thanks for the info.

And, now back to...."On the road, again, I'll bet Jeri is on the road, again...."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 07:52 PM

So I'm booooorrreeeeddd. Go see my quilts. Got me a scanner, and I is goin' crazeeee!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 08:05 PM

Okay, I'm so bored that i went and saw your quilts. Karen will really appreciate them a lot Sorch...Very beautiful work. However, I was hoping for a nudie pic of your ass on the "Odds and Ends" Page and was disappointed that it wasn't up yet. I mean what could be odder than scanning your ass and posting it?........Well, quite a few things actually, but that would certainly qualify.

Yeah Linn, I know....We're back off topic again, but if they don't post, they don't post. I'd like to know what's going on too but til then...........Say, why don't you scan your ass and post it? Gotta' kill time somehow ya' know...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 08:12 PM

Apparently that site won't let me post anymore pictures. I been trying to add pics to Odds and Ends and it's not working..........

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 08:50 PM

Sorry for the thread creep, but here's a message for the Lord of all flying rodents: Dear Linn...

When last seen, Jeri was flying down the hiway towards home. Her little red sportscar started burnin' rubber at about 3pm. and her estimated time of arrival (barring abduction by Quebecois separatistes) should be about 11pm oe so.

She's well-fed, well rested, filled up to the brim with guitar chords and right hand patterns and fresh from a high powered jam last night...the woman's gonna be a DANGEROUS picker!

Plus....I talked her into buying a 1947 Faranablaster!

Cheers

Rick

Plus....I talked her into buying a 1947 Faranablaster!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Susan A-R
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 09:32 PM

So Rick, when next I come to Toronto, I think we need to have an octave mandolin hunt.

Sounds like a wonderful visit, and Jeri must drive like the rodent out of hell. Takes us 8 hours to get from the big T to VT. and NH is below us (or was when last I checked.)

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 09:38 PM

Well alrighty then!!! Now that we know that Jeri is on her way, there ain't nothin' to do but wait til she arrives home safely, so while we're waiting, who's gonna' scan their ass and post it? Linn? SusAR? Sorch? Not you Rick please.....

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 29 Dec 01 - 11:39 PM

Susan this is the HOME of octave mandolins! Many Celtoids here. Toronto's big on frailing banjos as well.

Yeah, my time was off vis a vis Jeri's return...more like two in the morning. As long as she misses those hideous storms. Amazingly Toronto hasn't had a flake while everything around us has been positively BURIED!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 01:07 AM

Forget scanning arses...let's hear it for Rick talking Jeri into that Faranablaster!! Whoo-Hoo!! Rick, how on earth did she fit it into a sports car?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 02:01 AM

I'm still waiting for an ass scan........ta' hell with Faranablasters...............Hmmmm...........They all have too tinny a sound anyway. Besides, Rick should know better than to let her get a 29 model. The factory had a problem with the materials that year as they had been having for the three years prior to 29. Then the changed hands following the stock market crash in October and were bought for a song by Oscar Schmidt. Schmidt later sold the company in 32 without making a single instrument and when the new ones came out in 35 they were built of plywoods and never the same. The recent upsurge in collecting has made all of them valuable, but only the ones made before 1925 have any real playability or sound.

Now let's see some ass!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 04:48 AM

ETA 11PM, MY ASS!!! (No, that didn't arrive before the rest of me.) I just got in. Heather said to call when I got home, but somehow I just can't bring myself to do it. 588 miles up and 740 home - this route sucked, although I drove through the Adirondack Mts, and they were pretty in the full (or nearly full) moon. I hit an itty bitty white-out, with road condition of "where the hell is it," but it only lasted about 10 miles. Other than that, clear sailing.

Linn, if you call me anytime before, say, 5 PM, don't expect full sentences or even whole words...unless they're 4 letter, 1 syllable ones. I've had enough coffee to drown an elephant in a life jacket, so I don't know when I'll get to sleep.

Rick and Heather, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!! I had an incredibly great time!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 12:09 PM

Home at last! Great Gawd Almighty, Home at last!

Yer welcom Jer, yer a great houseguest.

Rick and Heather

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 12:13 PM

Glad you're home safe, Jeri.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 12:34 PM

I still haven't quite recovered...not enough coffee in the world. I grabbed something to eat somewhere just outside of Montreal. Can someone explain why "Sandwich MacPoulet" sounds funny when one has been driving a while? I still couldn't bring mysef to practice my French. (THEY would have had the giggles then.) "Errr, je voudrais une (could be "un." Are cheeseburgers masculine or feminine?) cheeseburger, please, et une really huge coffay. 'Avez vous du real cream?"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 01:01 PM

Jeri -- I'll wait for YOU to call ME, okay? Who knows when you'll actually get some sleep -- and even then you'll still be "driving", I'm sure.

How 'bout a, uh, (I'm really reluctant to use this terminology) "pussy" scan, 'Spaw? My pretty female feline (cat, CAT!!!) Sabine has been monopolizing my scanner since she moved in. She sits on top of it even when I'm trying to scan other things. (Got a piece of clear acetate to protect the scanner bed and a piece of leather to protect the top of the scanner.)

Hey, Katlaughing! Gather up JenEllen and we'll see if we can entice Micca back and we'll have a real lobster feed! (And I'm talkin' Homeris americanus, of course.) When can we expect you?

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 01:06 PM

Glad you made it back safely Jeri!

And Linn....I'll pass on that :Pussy Scan" if you don't mind...but I will take an invite to a lobster free for all!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 06:30 PM

Dammit Linn and Tom. I am the King of Seafood Eaters, in addition to being the Keeper of the Sacred Fertility Rites. Not once did I get offered Lobster or marinated herring while in New Hampshire!!!!! I am just going to have to come back, dammit! See what you make me do!!!

Mick, who is greatly relieved that our gal is home safe.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:15 PM

King of Seafood Eaters! from MICHIGAN?!? (Well, uh, I was born up in the Upper Peninsula . . .)

You weren't AROUND long enough, dammit!!! You had to keep pingponging back to Brockton. (So, now you've got a good excuse to come back -- as if you need one!)

And the herring, of course, is traditional to New Year's Eve -- that's what us Wisconsin Germans eat instead of, say, black eyed peas and that other southern sssshhhh . . . tuff.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Micca
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:43 PM

Jeri, Glad you got back ok, from that place the locals seem to call Trrono, Linn, I am afraid the Bad News, is, I would LOVE to come and visit, but I am SERIOUSLY allergic to Fish and Sea Food( and Methylamine compounds) so I will have to pass on all the foods mentioned.. but I am looking forward to another visit and maybe spending time with you ,'Mudge and Jeri(and the Flamingo!!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:00 PM

So now what, Big M? Hafta go marinate yer own darn herring? Well, I sympathize, but don't be misguided by the codspiece!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:12 PM

Oh, NO, Micca! THATexplains the rash! Flamingos eat shrimp - that's why they turn pink!

Mick, there's a whole bunch of stuff we didn't offer you when you were up here. I could start making a list of every food item in the known universe excluding what you were offered. You'll have to find another excuse reason to come up here.

I do wish someone would invent a Star Trek-like transporter, although with my luck, I'd end up in Afghanistan...and Zimbabwe and Siberia too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:35 PM

Yea, well, Jeri at least The Mick has been there! He ain't been here yet and we got lots a good food in WyoLand too even if it don't include lobster! We ain't seen hide nor hair of The Micc, either.........we did get a Billsables a couple years ago, though. Good compensation, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:45 PM

Never fear, Sorch, the Mick is definitely going to head west one of these days soon. And I expect barbecue.....meat.......mountain oysters.......and tin cans to shoot my pistol at...........LOL.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:49 PM

You betcha, Mick! But, you gotta let us know in advance. The mountain oysters are only available (fresh) in the spring when the calves are about 3 months old. Say, April or May. Branding Time........they don't freeze real well either. BBQ/grilled Wild Game is never a problem here, but it will be at kat's house if she is still out here. You get tofu there. (grin, kat!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:54 PM

Yeah, bless her heart. I will say this about kat. She does better than most I have seen when it comes to living within her value system..............LOL. Doesn't she realize how many innocent tofu's had to give up there lives for her to enjoy that barbecue??

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 09:01 PM

Pity the poor mung beans...........and YES she does. I feel guilty eating meat in front of her.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Susan A-R
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 09:27 PM

Glad you are baCK Safe and sound Jerii. Soounds like a great trip. I expect all of the coffee will probably kick in at about 11 p.m. at least that's how it works with me if I pour in too much early in the day. I bet you came right by here at about, o 2 a.m. and you didn't call or nuthin.

Spaw, it would have to be scanned in sections and would not be pretty. Now Lobster . . . There's a thought. (I guess that's why it would have to be in sections.:)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: 53
Date: 31 Dec 01 - 09:32 PM

lets keep jeri on the turnpike, for a while. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 01:46 AM

Tofu, mungo beans, UGH!! None of that for this veggie-tarian! Most of what I eat comes wrenched from the ground, torn off of a tree, or ripped from a vine...well, I do do a bit of soy in fake cheese products and rice milk, so...and I have a new recipe book with all kinds of luscious things in it and I bet I could fake up some Rocky Mtn. Oysters for ya...ugh on the real things! Here, stand still little fellah while I rip yer balls off with my teeth and then fry 'em up real good, lip-smacking tasty! DOUBLE UGH!

'sides that, I got tastier things than any of that!**BG**

Mick, yer on, next July, in Gillette, they are supposed to be putting on THE FIRST Annual Celtic Festival in Wyoming. So how many of you real Irish are gonna come out and show 'em how it's done? Seamus, Mick?? Who else? **BG**

Jeri, sure am glad ya made it back and I know someone who is really going to be happy about it after tomorrow!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Willie-O
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 09:26 AM

Jeri, if you went through Montreal AND the Adirondacks en route from Toronto to southern NH, I'm surprised you got there at all!

Cornwall is the best place to cross the border hassle-free, but it's not a place I'd want to spend the night (having lived there once). We used to go via the Adirondacks, Saranac Lake and all that, on our way to southern Vermont, but too many winter storms changed our habit--we just take 11 along the north edge now, cross at Rouses Point, go down the Champlain Islands for a bit of scenery, and hit the 89. You don't get Adirondack whiteouts, and you don't get lost in Whitehall NY like we always used to.

Rick and Spaw, if you're gonna try to fool us with fake instrument descriptions, you should really locate the imaginary beasts somewhere other than the 12th Fret, which has the best and most regularly updated (DAILY!) website of any music store I've ever seen--and it seems like they have 15 or 20 grand worth of new instruments practically every day; you could almost make a living with that sort of turnover.

And Happy New Year everybody. Don't sit on scanners.

Willie-O

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 12:53 PM

kat, I can't think of anything that would be more fun than that festival. Why don't you get the contact info and forward it to us and we will see if we can work out a deal. Might be fun. I am sure Jed and Seamus would be interested, as well.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 02:30 PM

Well leave it to Sorcha to find the website for it, Mick. Here ya go with all the info I know, at the moment: Wyoming Celtic Festival. I think it'd be grand if you all could come, BUT I hope like hell I have moved by then! Nothing personal, just new job, new home, new place needed and we are actually, really and truly working on it for real, finally!**BG** Depending on where we wind up, MAYBE I'd be able to get back up here for this, though!

Hey, Jeri, want yer thread back? Teehee!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 03:43 PM

Nah, kat - it's about time for thread creep to take over. After all, I'm off the Turnpike to Hell and on the Road to Ruin. See that signpost up ahead? It says "Guitars for Sale." We take Visa, MasterCard, American Express, first-born children or souls." Welcome to the G.A.S. Zone."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 04:57 PM

LOL...oh you got it bad, womon!! Remember

"The trouble with temptation is that you may not get another chance."
Edwin Chapin (1857-1942)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: 53
Date: 01 Jan 02 - 09:10 PM

on the road again, seeing things i may never see again, oh its good to be on the road again. buy those guitars, like they said you only live once. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 02 - 07:41 PM

Good enough to REFRESH

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jim Krause
Date: 04 Jan 02 - 02:11 PM

The thread title sounds like a fiddle tune title. Anyone?
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Jan 02 - 02:27 PM

...and then there's the story about the seeds of lust planted in a guitar shop on Danforth that came home to New Hampshire to take root in the brain of a hapless individual, making every other sentence shouted when playing her Guild come out as "effing buzz, effing big monster guitar...should have bought the Martin, dammit!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Jeri on the turnpike to hell!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 12:55 AM

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