Useless folk info

Subject: Useless folk info
From: swirlygirl
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:55 PM

any would be good

am a fan of trivia...

the odder the better!

:)

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:02 PM

Banjos also make great cheese slicers.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: swirlygirl
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:03 PM

very good....

...will have to try that one being a big fan of novelty kitchen implements!!

xxx

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:30 PM

Bob Dylan recorded as Blind Boy Grunt.
Someone called me years ago at three in the morning and asked me who Blind Boy Grunt was. I told him and went back to bed. First time I've ever had a chance to use this piece of useless information.
Jerry

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: swirlygirl
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:31 PM

i do come in handy at times...

...ask english jon...he'll verify the above!

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 07:47 PM

But Jerry...who was Blind GIRL Grunt?

Useless Folk

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 07:56 PM

Joan Baez

Spaw

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 08:34 PM

The Band, Bob Dylan & Tiny Tim - Blind Boy Grunt and the Hawks: The Basement Tapes Vol I & II - 1967 - Surprise Bootleg 1967A & 1967B

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:17 PM

Jimmy Buffett recorded a Steve Goodman tune under the "nome de stringe" of "Freddy and the Fishsticks". This would be oh-so-much more trivia-worthy if I could remember the name of the damn song...

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:27 PM

Rick,

Janis Ian was Blind Girl Grunt.

Jerry (the other)

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:29 PM

Up until a few years ago, Buffet would book into a small club under that name on an off night when he was in town for a festival. I caught him in Cincy at the Ivory Pier when he was in for Riverfest.....and of course he was billed under the name "Freddie and the Fishsticks."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:33 PM

Well if it is kitchen implements you are a fan of, the mandolin is a genuine one. It's a type of vegetable slicer.

Jon

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:00 PM

Right you are Jer.

Feelin' crappy tonight or I'd jump in with new questions....anyone else?

Barf boy

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Gypsy
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:39 PM

And Banjo Signal is whatcha use for your train set!

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: JamesJim
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 11:37 PM

If you drop a bag-pipes and an accordian from a 12 story window at the same time, which one hits the pavement first? Answer: Who Cares?

Jim

ps: my apologies to anyone who plays either of these things...., er., I mean instruments.

How can you tell if the stage is level? Look at the banjo players mouth. If tobacco juice is coming out of both sides, it's level.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Haruo
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 12:36 AM

Vegetables and cheese aren't the only things you can slice with stringèd strummin' instruments. Coffee cake, too. I attended my Uncle By (aka Scotty)'s 90th birthday shindig Sunday, and the band had a banjo and a mandolin (which took care of the cheese and veggies) but also two guitars and a double bass fiddle, which was good because there was an offal lot of cake to slice.

Liland

The band was Queens Bluegrass, out of eastern Skagit County. Purty good. Wish I had more relatives who hired bands.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 08:52 AM

A flageolet is a variety of bean, as well as a penny whistle. BTW did whistles EVER cost as little as a penny?

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: GUEST,Adrienne
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 10:38 AM

I think the Steve Goodman song that Freddie and the Fishsticks recorded was "Elvis Imitators".

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:06 PM

No, Jerry, Joan Baez was Blind Girl Grunt...at least that's what she's listed as on the sleeve of this Dylan bootleg album I've got from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

Some more trivia...

Ian Tyson had a horse farm near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. I stopped by there one day, knocked on the door, and asked if Ian was in. This woman told me "No, he's in Toronto recording. Do you want his number?" I said, "Okay, thanks." and gave him a call later that day. Strange but true. Gotta watch out for them crazed folk fans.

Ramblin' Jack Elliot once asked if I was someone's "wife". He must have been in a nasty mood that day. I've never liked him much since then.

Bob Dylan once played in a band called "The Golden Chords" and he once formed another called "Elston Gunn and the Rock Boppers", I think it was...

At the Mariposa Folk Festival on Toronto Island in the early 70's Bob Dylan had to flee the island on a police boat to escape a mob of frenzied fans. Shortly before things got out of hand, one of his kids, Jesse, asked Sara Dylan..."Mommy, why does Daddy have so many friends?" "Because he shares." was her reply. Fact. My friend Csaba was there, a few feet away, and heard it.

Csaba was an even more fanatical Dylan fan than I. Not easy, but possible.

Last useless piece of info: I have an ugly little red hat that Bob Dylan left behind at a folk club in Toronto, circa 1963. It came to me from the former owner of said club a couple of years ago. I can see why Bob left it behind...I don't think it would have looked good on him at all.

- LH

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:53 PM

No, Little Hawk,

Rolling Thunder was circa 1975-76. Janis Ian recorded a version of "Society's Child" (under the title "Baby I've Been Thinking") for as Blind Girl Grunt in 1966. That recording is available on Smithsononian Folkways's boxed set, "The Best of Broadside 1962-1988."

It seems to me that the bootlegger probably thought he was being clever. At the three Rolling Thunder shows I attended, Joan Baez was known as Joan Baez.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:56 PM

"Useless folk info"??

Ain't it all???

.-)

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 03:59 PM

Ah, I see...yes, I guess the bootlegger was recycling an old joke, so to speak. Does it help any that Joan Baez and Janis Ian both showed up on a recent Baez album?

Joan was known as Joan on the Rolling Thunder Revue, but she did dress up exactly as Bob on several occasions...quite convincing too, until she started singing.

:-)

- LH

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: swirlygirl
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 04:01 PM

I once found Maddy Prior listed as 'Muddy' Prior in HMV...

No end of hilarity...

:)

xxx

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 04:04 PM

Now, now, swirlygirl...we DON'T allow porn on Mudcat! :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: swirlygirl
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 04:23 PM

You think li'l' ol' me would be looking in that section???!!

And Maddy Prior???!! I mean...c'mon!!!

:)

xxx

P.S. It was funny though...

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 05:41 PM

I saw on telly tonight a Mrs Tubbs being interviewed - she was a toilet cleaner
Oh thats not folk it's people trivia
sorry - me & my lavatorial humour.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Gegenhuber
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM

My first post at Mudcat -- if'n I screw it up, you'll be the first to know.

There's an interview in the current No Depression wherein John Cohen talks about those VERY early photos of Dylan on Cohen's Greenwich Village rooftop trying to look like Woody, Chaplin, and James Dean -- and to which Dylan refers in his liner notes for Highway 61 ("John, your rooftop has been demolished"). [deep breath] Well, turns out that rooftop was indeed demolished, and more than just metaphorically -- it was torn down to make room for the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

. . . HUH! Isn't that interesting? And useless? I think the photo on the cover of that Roscoe Holcomb collection was taken in the same apartment.

Kurt "was it good for YOU?" Gegenhuber

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 10:45 PM

Wow. That was certainly good for me. Great piece of folk trivia. Dylan also released "Love and Theft" on Sep 11th, as I think we are all well aware...the worst day in the last 50 years on which to do a press release about almost anything imaginable.

- LH

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Ringer
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:49 AM

... or the best, if you want to bury it...

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: GUEST,swirlygirl
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:48 AM

Is there folk trivia on anyone OTHER than BD, cos I'm beginning to wonder...

:)

xxx

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 07:33 AM

Benny and Bjorn from Abba started out their musical careers in a Swedish folk group. Dunno how you can tell it's folk in Swedish but someone must...

Must be lots more of thet ilk.

Bob Dylan is an anagram of Bland Yob but that doesn't really mean he is!

If you lay all the folk singers in the world end to end lots of them would drown.

The banjo was once a piece of sporting equipment. It was used to hit a ball against a wall but it was so ineffective that when someone said 'That banjo really makes a terrible raquet.' They decided to use it for something else!

(Spot the true one(s) from the above. ;-) )

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:29 AM

Stephen Foster was 16 years old when he met Charles Dickens.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: John Hardly
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:02 AM

here's a bit of trivia, the answer to which I find kinda distasteful;

without "googling" tell me who won the Grammy for "Best Folk album in 1996?

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Haruo
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:29 PM

Speaking of Bland Yob, Britney Spears is an anagram of Presbyterians, even though she was brung up Baptist (I said "brung" so it would sound like "folk" info).

Liland
Baptist

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 10 Mar 03 - 11:32 AM

Jimmy Buffett did an entire album as "Freddy and the Fishsticks". "Elvis Imitators" is the Goodman song, and the best known song on it. It's very hard to find.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:22 AM

The BBC disc jockey John Peel played mandolin on Rod Stewarts hit Sailing.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:34 AM

john from hull, bet you a pint he didnt.Are you on??

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:45 AM

maybe it was a different song then! I saw an old top of the pops, and the narrator said it was him.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:55 AM

Oh, youre too cautious John, I was hoping for an easy pint there. I'm 99% sure it was Maggie May, not Sailing.

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:58 AM

Yes, it was Maggie May, i just rememberd, but I will buy you a bear next time you come to hull anyway!

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: greg stephens
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 11:04 AM

You're on!

Subject: RE: Useless folk info
From: Steve-o
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 07:52 PM

I've always loved the fact that Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel". That used to be "trivia"; maybe now everyone knows it.