Looking for Bruce Murdoch

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: akenaton
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 06:13 PM

Yeah and were all lucky to have a friend like Bruce.

The posts here confirm what I'v know for some time....Ake

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: dgallant
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 12:28 PM

Hello bruce. I doubt you will recall me but my name is dave gallant. I hung out and performed on occassion (as an open stager) at the New Penelope when it was on Stanley st around "65". I socialliezed quite a bit with Sean Ganier and even with you on occassion. I've been on a nostalgia kick of late and came across your name here. It's good to now your still around. We had Penny Lang fpr a house concert here last year. I'm living in Sooke BC just outside Victoria on Vancouver Island. Still singing weekends. I so "Rompi Rovin Days" every now and then. I start recording my on CD in Januzary. Anyway, good to find you and I hope we can establish some kind of dialogue.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,Rita T.
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:54 AM

Hi, Bruce! You are sounding great as I heard a bit on you tube & left a small message there. As I said-miss you & Nancy a lot!

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,Wendy Rosenbaum
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:41 PM

Wendy here (retired to vancouver island)from 1960's montreal (Stanley Street club) Bruce we used to play chess together at your place, we went to ottawa together with Ritchie Havens and my small son Neil,(Now a doctor)do you remember me? I drove us in my VW beetle. I loved you then and still love the memories today! All my other 'memory' poets and lovers from those days are dead *sob*(Artie Gold, Avi Boxer,et al) I am so happy that you at least are still alive (and still kicking ass with your guitar and fabulous delivery I hope)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:48 PM

join Mudcat, Wendy, and talk to him (and others) privately. We have many features...

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 01:10 AM

Wendy,

I'll be in Sooke on the 18 and Victoria on the 25 of April.

My e-mail address is

[e-mail]

Bruce

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Sookite
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 11:11 AM

Wendy, if you want more info on Bruce's Vancouver Island visit, go to sookefolkmusicsociety.com and contact me through the means provided.

Dave Gallant

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Amos
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 12:49 PM

Bruce:

It's really exciting to see all these channels of communication opening up. Wishing you wild success in your upcoming performances. You is da Dude.



A

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 01:04 PM

I want one of them "Bruce Murdoch World Tour/Sponsored By Tim Hortons" tee shirts.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 02:54 PM

Wendy, just in case you're still 'out there'...you can hear Bruce's music from his new 'Matters of the Heart' CD on his Myspace page and his Main Site, below:

Bruce - Myspace Page

Bruce - Main Site

And these are the direct links to his 3 Youtube videos:

'You Made My Heart Beat Fast' - Youtube

'As Soon As Possible' - Youtube

'I Can See You Now' - Youtube

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,corrina
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:45 AM

if you check this then i do have a way to contact him....please respond to this and i will let you know

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:31 AM

He's not been on Mudcat since the end of May. I sure do wish he'd come back.

I'm off to work shortly, and taking 'Matters of the Heart' with me to play in the shop, let the beautiful 'I Can See You Now' drift out onto the streets of Sidmouth.

A great way to start a working morning... :0)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:50 AM

Last heard from he was doing okay. Just standing off a bit because of some political odors.


A

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:37 PM

cool thread. A bit of history I missed by my part-timeness around here.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:46 PM

I remember a concert at McGill when I was a student, so it was sometime between 1968 and 1972, that was headlined by Tom Paxton but also had Bruce Murdoch, Jesse Winchester and a bunch of others in the first half. The emcee was Tex Koenig. Reading through this page reminded me of that.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,Don't ask
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:11 PM

See Jesse and Bruce again next month GUEST

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Beer
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:02 PM

Hope some of you folks can make it.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:38 PM

Corrina,

I just e-mailed you.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,Wolf Krakowski
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:23 AM

Wendy:
I crashed on your living room floor c. 1965. Artie Gold must have connected us.
I knew Avi, Tex and (swear it's true) "gave" Sean Gagnier (b. John Gonyea) his name
one day at his Hutchinson Street apartment.

I remember Bruce's room above the Blue Lantern, before it became the Penelope.
(BTW - Gary Eisencraft, O"H, passed away in California a few years ago.)

Big Joe Williams, of Blessed Memory, stayed in one of the upstairs rooms, too when he played in the coffee house below. I used to carry his guitar, read menus to him
and help him send money orders home; he signed his name with an X. Functionally illiterate, he drove himself all around the US for years. When he came to Montreal ("Montreal Blues"), he packed his own frying pan; he fried chicken for me one evening.   The man had incredible stamina. I spent ten glorious days with him; I was about 18 at the time and free as a bee.

I remember you rising early in the AM, lighting a cigarette and looking tenderly at the
hippies snoozing on the floor. There was a large hirsute guy from NY named Harley crashing there, who your landlord freaked out over and verbally assaulted in the stairwell.

I would see Tex regularly in Toronto, in the '70s - '90s and drive him to his doctor's appointments out in Scarborough. You shoulda seen my little Toyota truck just lean over when he stepped in.

Check out my CDs: The Yiddish ones are on Tzadik Records.
Kame'a Media       http://www.kamea.com

Glad to learn you have =nakhes= from your son.

Peace.

Wolf

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 04:34 PM

Hmmmmmm Nice to see you can still type peace.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Amos
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 04:37 PM

Ole PEace has been too long silent. I hope he's doin' all right? 'S new, brother?


A

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 04:38 PM

Yes, where IS Bruce Murdoch?

Bruce....come back, we miss you on Mudcat!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 04:49 PM

You beat me to it, Amos... :0)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 01:12 AM

Nice to see you posting here, Wolf. I have your "Transmigrations" CD, and really like it.

-Joe Offer, Colfax, California-

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 10:22 AM

Thanks, Joe. You may want to check out our Yiddish video, "Vilna,"
by Fraidy Katz, which I directed. (This ain't no klezmer.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAstY693Ik

Wolf Krakowski
Kame'a Media: www.kamea.com

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 12:41 PM

sigh... yes Peace and Richard Bridge seem to have gone AWOL or maybe its a sabbatical? Who's paying them to stay away?

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: maeve
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 12:49 PM

Not to worry VT. Many of us take a leave of absence from Mudcat from time to time to take care of...real life!

maeve

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: open mike
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 03:10 PM

real life? what is that?
oh, i should be out side working
instead of inside surfing...

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 06:36 PM

For me personally, one of the greatest song ever written by someone I call a brother ... just listening tonight and thought I would share this again for anyone tonight like myself is in a "fool like me mood"

FOOL LIKE ME

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: gnu
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 06:40 PM

Yupper Dan. Thanks for the reminder.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: maeve
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 06:58 PM

Thanks, Dan. I miss having Bruce's cd to listen to.

m

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 07:08 PM

Fab Dan!

Makes me want more......A lot more!

Don T.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Beer
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 09:11 PM

Bruce played for our coffee house Friday evening and I assure you there will be new songs in the not to distant future. Some reeeeeeeeeeel good ones to.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: maeve
Date: 08 Mar 10 - 09:41 PM

Whoopie! Thanks, Adrien. I know it was a wonderful evening.

m

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 05:35 PM

Maeve, I'll send you a copy when I get back home next month... I didn't think to include one with the other CDs that I forwarded to you..

how did you make out in that dept. anyway ?

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: maeve
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:45 PM

Regarding the cds, Ron: I've sent you a PM. Thank you!

m

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 07:37 AM

Great, I'll check the messages next month... thanks Maeve

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Mar 10 - 04:27 PM

Maeve, I'm back home and have a leetle sumthin' for you! (As in, THE CD.)

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 09:34 AM

Bruce also gave one of his stellar performances at the Yellow Door on Saturday night. The audience included a couple who drove down from Ottawa for the occasion.There were also others from "back then" and some student-aged young folks. The applause said it; he was very well appreciated. The new songs are marvellous and there are quite a few.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 11:25 AM

The Yellow Door concert, despite being poorly attended, was, Bruce-wise, brilliant. He's got another one tonight, with Crossing North and Kitchen Party at the Side Door Coffee House in Pierrefonds, QC.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Barlee
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 02:05 PM

Last night with Kitchen Party, Crossing North and Bruce Murdoch at the Side Door was fantabulous!! What an evening! Just great!

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 02:31 PM

Thanks for the update. When I left, he seemed to be a little bit snuffly. I would have liked to have made that concert too, but I wasn't sure immigration wouldn't come looking for me. Had to go home SOMETIME!

I'm glad he's back playing gigs, and I'm glad I got to a couple of them.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 02:51 PM

I dunno why, but when he sent me some raw tunes a while back, I had this feeling HE was "back again"... maybe, just maybe, on his way back. To read the posts above, it seems he on track to make it back. I, and, obviously others, hope it will come to fruition.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 03:25 PM

gonna be hard to keep him down on the farm after those belles Quebecoises... then again all women are beautiful...

started a new song with an old Bruce buddy Tom Ghent...
called 'Women-opause'

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Max
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 07:41 PM

I. Love. This. Thread.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: maeve
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 07:58 PM

So. Do. I.

One day I'll get to hear his music in person.

maeve

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: bobad
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 08:01 PM

"I. Love. This. Thread."

I do too Max, it's what brought me to Mudcat when I, wondering whatever happened to BM, plugged his name into the Google machine and ended up here, and I'm glad I did.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 08:07 PM

Love it too! How can I think otherwise when a no-name like me can become online friends with an icon like Bruce!

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: gnu
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 08:40 PM

Ahhhh... sorry... when I said "...hope it will come to fruition.", I meant sommat I should not even allude to. Given what we have seen so far, it seems inevitable.

Subject: RE: Looking for Bruce Murdoch
From: Beer
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 10:40 PM

Sandy,
hear you loud and clear. And Max, this is what Mudcat should be about, and I get a feeling that this was your intention from the beginning.
Bruce now lives about a Kl. (mile)away from me. I am privileged to have him so close. I would not have stated this except that it is already out that he has moved from Auberta. Please give him time to settle in and get acquainted with his surroundings. i am sure that when he is comfortable he will be back.
Beer (adrien)