Big Mick's CD - 2002

Subject: Big Mick's CD
From: bill\sables
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 04:52 AM

There are still a few CD's by Big Mick's band available to any UK members. Send me a PM for information.
Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 05:25 AM

'Catters will know I'm more a blues person than a "folkie" but I enjoyed Mick's CD very much -so it must be good! (And a proportion of the profits go to Mudcat).
RtS

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Willie-O
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 05:40 AM

I have Mick's CD. It's his Irish-American ceilidh band. Straight-ahead sets of some standards, Rebel songs, and some less travelled.
I like it! Go get it! It's like having a visit with Mick.

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Brakn
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 05:50 AM

I have it also! It's a goodun!

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 10:52 AM

I've got it, too and love it!

Here's the original thread about it with more info on the songs, etc.: Clickety

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 11:01 AM

You're right Willie...It IS like having a visit with Mick...except he doesn't break your chair!!!!

Rick

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Dani
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 01:12 PM

Had a wierd moment this weekend:

Mick's CD is in rotation on my restaurant's CD player. Judy and Dennis Cook came in for lunch last Saturday on their way through town. Whoa! I heard Mick's voice, and saw them, and here I am in my little town in North Carolina, but I feel like I'm at the Getaway!

The CD is great stuff. The Sligo Musketeers always gets me moving a little faster.

Dani

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: kendall
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 04:50 PM

I want one

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 05:01 PM

Well, Kendall, you're just gonna have to do what I did to get one.
You're gonna have to go to Michigan to wherever Mick is performing with the Conklin Ceili Band, and genuflect in front of him while he's singing.
He loves the adulation, and he'll give you a CD for bending the knee!
And, if you kiss his feet, he'll let you sing a song or two on stage with the band.
I have to say that the CD was worth the trip, and the adoration of the Big Fella.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: p.j.
Date: 19 Nov 02 - 01:57 AM

And don't miss the wonderful picture of our hero on page two, complete with the strategically placed music stand....

Wha's up with tha, Mick ol' buddy? And why do I keep thinking of the words of Jack Nicholson... "You want the TRUTH? You can't HANDLE the TRUTH!!!"

xoxo
=pj=

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: bill\sables
Date: 20 Nov 02 - 12:23 PM

Thanks Bradfordian, Your CD will be in the post soon, Any more before I run out.
Cheers Bill

Subject: Review: Big Mick's CD
From: kendall
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:15 AM

I just got a copy of Mick's CD, and, I like it. Nice harmonies, instrumentation, many songs that I have never heard, and the energy! If I had that energy, I'd get a job. Grab one folks, if you don't like it, send it to me for a backup in case this one wears out.

Subject: RE: Review: Big Mick's CD
From: Brakn
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 08:22 AM

I think there was a previous thread....

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: JedMarum
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 04:37 PM

Big Mick

Where the heck are ya???

I sent ya PM and cant' find your email ... I must have yer phome somewhere ,,,, been rethinking the ramble, at least the recording ramble and may be on my way to Toronoto this Fall instead of next winter.

I haven't heard from Bill, have called but notgotten a response ... I need some inside info before I go a making a pain-in-the-arse of meself ... write, call me, PM me

but get a hold of me, please ....

All the best,
your little Beef Brother

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 10:15 PM

I love to hear Irish folk bands go at it live. One of these years, I hope to make it to Tipperary or Kilorgan, Michigan or wherever it is that Mick and the Conklins hold forth and catch their act live. Until then, I'm delighted to have the CD.

All the best,
Dan

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 10:19 PM

It is a wonderful cd...and I still like listening to it alot...right along with yours, Dan...

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 12:13 AM

Shit, Jed, I'm sorry. I am now organizing three, count 'em, three, shops all at once. All this in addition to doing battle with Walmart. When folks are putting their livelihood on the line and standing up for their rights, it kind of dictates 24/7 attention. I love these folks, and feel very obligated. I will check with Bill Quinn and get back to you.

Dan, I am still working on getting you and The Johnson Girls here. I will let you know.

Hang in there with me, folks. I miss you all like the dickens, but I am buried.

Jed, the email is [e-mail]. Drop me a line and I will send you my cell phone and home phone numbers.

Anyone in the precincts of Wayland, Michigan this weekend can come to Summerfest and hear us live. Our newish fiddler is HOT. You have got to hear our treatment of Tim O'Brien's "John Riley". We tied it up with Loch Laven Castle and it will kick yer teeth in. The fiddle and the mando just do battle and the poor rhythm guy (yours truly) just laughs and tries to keep up.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 12:21 AM

You are a very admirable man, Mick...

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: JedMarum
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 09:34 AM

got it Mick ... email on the way ... I also got help from several Mudcatters after posting this thread. Thanks all.

I love this place!

And it looks like it's all set. I go up to the Millstream in Oct. I'm on a very tight schedule this time around (dates in Texas and Louisiana at both ends) ... but I'm ready!

If Quinn's still game, looks like the January/Feb ramble will work fine.

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: JedMarum
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 09:35 AM

.. and Walmart?? Now why don;t you just leave those poor folks alone??

;-)

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: PeteBoom
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 09:47 AM

Ahem. As one who fights a similar fight against the same foe - "Go get 'em, Mick!"

Listening to Mick's band is always a hoot. I'd be there if I wasn't scheduled to be in Maxville (where?) Ontario this Saturday - and Montral on Sunday.

On a side note, I've pretty much sworn off smokey bars of late - but if Jed wanders by the Office, I might break my pledge... ;-)

Cheers -

Pete

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:04 AM

I thought Maxville was in Pennsylvania?

A

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: PeteBoom
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:18 AM

Other Maxville - Maxville, Ontario, in Glengarry County. Glengarry Highland Games and North American Pipe Band Championships. Largest pipe band contest in North America, reputed to be the 2nd largest in the world...

And an absolutely MASSIVE beer tent - 3 stages, music going on each stage, beer sold at approximately 141 beers per second (1999 figures - take the number of barrels used, multiply by number of gallons per barrel, divide by the ounces per glass, divide by the number of hours beer was sold, divide by minutes per hour, divide by seconds per minute) 10 stations selling beer, people carrying racks of beer through the tent selling beer.... The stages kind of get drowned out when some of the larger pipe bands decide to start playing. Did I mention that they also sell beer?

But, I digress..... did I mention that they have a beer tent with music and beer?

Pete

Subject: RE: Big Mick's CD
From: Peter T.
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 10:38 AM

So what about this Toronto thing, Jed? yours, Peter T.