Review: Of member's info & location

Subject: Review: Of member's info & location
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:43 AM

Just browsing through members info, and see names there from way back, whom we haven't heard from in ages. Firstly I wondered where they are now, and secondly I wondered why some of the more prolific posters of today's Mudcat aren't on either list. Even if you're a spy, or a draft dodger and don't want to put your full details down, it would be nice for other Catters to know where you reside. I love to look at the Mudchat list and see how many different countries are represented. So how about it you guys?
Giok

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 11:55 AM

I'm probably missing something here, John but in my membership details for mudcat when I registered I entered City "London" and country "England", yet I have never appeared in the locator listing as living there.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:05 PM

I believe it requires a positive communication to Pene Azul to create a profile, or any part thereof such as a birthday or location. Membership alone does not trigger inclusion in those lists, as a consideration for the privacy of members who prefer nott o be on them.

But go ahead and write Pene Azul or email him. The more the merrier.

A

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM

Ah that explains it. I understand the privacy thing and although I'm not bothered about people knowing about much of my background I'm far to modest and retiring a person to write my own profile......

I always thought it would be more interesting if members got other members to write their profile ;-)

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:27 PM

I've had pictures posted for a while, but not a profile. I'm not the only one; if interested, check the Member Photo section for a glimpse of various members not found among the Profiles. (I recently learned that snooping through "Events" also provides a look at pictures of some members not represented elewhere.)

I intend to get a profile ready soon -- just wrote to Jeff to learn the procedure.

I believe I somehow got included on the geographical listing based on my initial membership info (i.e., without having posted a profile), but I just noticed/learned that my birthday has NOT been included in the database. (Last Monday was my b-day, and no notice popped up.) I assume that after submitting a profile containing birthday info, I can expect to get an automatic greeting / public notice next Nov 8.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: rumanci
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:27 PM

Yikes !!!!
I'd hate to think what other people would come up with for me *bg*

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Dead Horse
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:41 PM

Mudcat Name............Giok
First Name.................John
Surname....................MacKenzie
Nationality.................Scots Git
Location....................In front of computer
Sex...........................Yes please
Interests....................Baiting the English, Welsh & Irish
.................................Baiting the Yanks
................................Aussie baiting
................................Whisky sampler extroadinaire
Musical Accomplishments.....Once wrote to Jim'll Fix It



Is this what you mean, Giok?

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 12:42 PM

Oh I think it's a grand idea. Anyone want to go for it? New thread?

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 01:03 PM

I would go for it too.Why not?.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 01:17 PM

Yes DH that's it exactly, apart from the 'git' bit.

Mudcat Name............Dead Horse
First Name.................Bus
Surname....................Driver
Nationality.................Kentish Man
Location....................See above
Sex...........................Pardon?
Interests....................Routemaster spotting
............................... Learning Apple Asian Dance
.............................. Sweaty Sock baiting
.............................. Gin sampler
Musical Accomplishments.....Discovered what the hole in his triangle is for

;~)
Sorted!

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:25 PM

Kevin, were you the singer at the Folk Song Cellar back in 1972?
Do you sing Tom Kanakanaka? I think I met you.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:30 PM

I've thought it would be good if, next to our names at the top of the thread, next to where it says PM (as a shortcut for sending Personal Messages), there was a clicker for getting to a Profile or a picture or whatever. Purely voluntary of course - you'd have to opt in to it.

Not if it involves major roadworks, of course.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:30 PM

Those of us who have been 'going on' about people posting profiles since THEN ,or slightly before !!!!!

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:32 PM

"there was a clicker for getting to a Profile or a picture or whatever"

You mean like on any decent message board on the internet these days????

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Oaklet
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:25 PM

Look - stop complaining about it you. It aint perfect but it does manage to occupy you for hours on end. For which we are all grateful.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: MBSLynne
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:39 PM

I finally posted my profile the other day!!! Next I'll get someone to put my photo up...maybe next year!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:54 PM

Who's complaining...

I'm stating a fact....

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Peace
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:24 PM

I cannot imagine why anyone would be interested in my life or what I do.

I live in Hinton, Alberta, Canada.

I teach school for a living and I fight fires and respond to accident scenes when I am not in school.

About twelve people on Earth like me and the rest could care less if I am dead or alive. Not complaining, just stating a fact.

I wear size eleven or twelve shoes depending on the type. I have done nothing noteworthy in my life. I am average.

My picture would explain nothing about me. I am 'white' of Scottish, Irish, English and a bit of German ancestry. Now you know all there is to know--although I'm aware it is not particularly enlightening.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Oaklet
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:27 PM

13, Brucie.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Peace
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:29 PM

You were one of the 12.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Oaklet
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 04:33 PM

Thanks, Brucie.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: open mike
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 06:27 PM

how could a died-in-the-wool folkie leave out that
he lived in Greenwich village in the 60's and played
at coffeehouses there, and recorded an album, too!
Brucie, you are too humble. (or were you just saying
all that stuff to impress me? well, you did!)

what does died in the wool mean anyway?
I have done spinning and
weaving and still am not sure...

i think it means that the fleece gets colored
before it is spun....baaaaaaaah!

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:36 PM

What it boils down to is SOME of us like to know a little about people
especially if we are chatting to 'em on a regular basis , or even on a
not so regular basis . Even if its only to confirm gender , age , and location . The addition of info like what instruments (if any ) are played ,and what sort of stuff you like to perform (assuming you DO perform) are what add a bit of flesh to the bare bones of a name !

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Peace
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:40 PM

Was three albums--two mine alone and one with three other people. But, that was long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: GUEST,Netsurfer
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:05 PM

Bruce Murdoch from Canada, was a regular on the sixties Greenwich Village folk scene before returning to Montreal in the late sixties. He was active there for several years but stopped performing sometime in the late-'70s and eventually became a high school principal in Alberta. Bruce's first full length album was released on Stormy Forest, Richie Haven's record company and in his autobiography "They Can't Hide Us Anymore" Richie Havens has some info on Bruce.

Discography:

SINGER-SONGWRITER PROJECT Elektra EKS-7299 (1965)

33 AND 1/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE (Stormy Forest) SFS-6006 (1971)
(reportedly not too well produced)

BRUCE MURDOCH (Radio Canada International) 1980
(said to be his best album)
http://folk.uio.no/alfs/murdoch.htm

….
For many years Singer Songwriter Project was a rare, expensive collector's item. Fortunately, the album has recently been re-issued on CD in England together with David Blue's first solo album, with the complete liner notes as well (NOTE: one track by Patrick Sky was left off this CD). It is available on cduniverse.com. Make sure you get the Elektra release that has the two albums on one CD--there is a Collector's Choice release of just David Blue without Singer Songwriter.
Bruce Murdoch:
•        Rompin' Rovin' Days
•        Down in Mississippi
•        Farewell my Friend
•        Try 'n' Ask
Bruce Murdoch is much more obscure than the others, and I don't have much info on him. He had made a name for himself throughout the Quebec folk scene by the age of 17, and was discovered by Richie Havens' manager Jacob Solmon. Havens reports in his autobiography, They Can't Hide Us Anymore, that Murdoch was a prodigy who was so brilliant and well-read that he taught a literature course at McGill University. Solmon and Havens introduced Murdoch to the Greenwich Village scene, and in 1970 he recorded an album, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute on Richie Haven's label, Stormy Forest. Apparently he stopped performing in the late 70s and eventually became a high school principal in Alberta, though he did record one album after that. Beverly Davies remembers him thus:
Bruce was a friend of mine. He had very pock marked face, something like Brian Adams, and he carried his guitar, a Sunburst Gibson Hummingbird, in a beat up old case. But when he played, my God he was good. In 1965, he hitched to Toronto (or may have been driven by Billy Littler) and stayed at our house at 16 Admireal Road, where he sat in the kitchen playing his music. We were all blown away. That weekend he played the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orilla, Ontario, north of Toronto. He was a great hit that weekend in 1965 at Mariposa, as we read in the press. Bruce would come through Toronto again and then I didn't see him for a year or so. I ran into him at a march on the UN in New York City. Bruce's songs come to mind when I walk a city block, and his "Rompin' Rovin' Days" is never far from mind.

http://www.richardandmimi.com/singer.html

And occasionally the big names from New York would give a concert or do a club date. Thelonious Monk, played at McGill and Dizzy Gillespie at the Esquire Show Bar on Peele- a wonderful night of live bebop jazz by one of its inventors and masters. Bob and I took centre seats at the horseshoe shaped bar right beneath Dizzy - so close we got hit with the spit from his horn; this was our heaven of smoke and beer and jazz - those dark clubs that became a kind of home for some of us. Likewise, the folk music scene was incredibly active. Sid would go to hear his heroes, Ritchie Havens, Dave Van Ronk, Bruce Murdoch, Leonard Cohen - players who would fill the small folk clubs on Stanley Street, Bishop or Mountains streets, giving a vibrant musical backdrop to downtown Montreal nights.
http://quarles.unbc.ca/winter/number2.1/barry/barry7.html

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:26 PM

These "decent notice boards" Clintoin always goes on about - any time he's actually suggested one by name or address and I've visited it, I've found it's clunky conpared to the Mudcat. Fair enough, that's the kind of thing what he likes, but it's not what everyone likes.

I know that facility I mentioned is quite common, but it also always seems to go along with a lot of other features that I don't like, which get in the way of the simplicity I admire in the Mudcat.

If it were possible to bring in without messing things up, fine - but not otherwise, and it might be otherwise, for all I know. (And I certainly hope we never get into having those little cartoon icons that people choose from a chart, that are so common.)

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:11 PM

I learn more about people from their Secret Santa hints than some of their profiles. For What It's Worth.

(Brucie, you're okay--warm under the collar on occasion, but who isn't?)

SRS

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:17 PM

I'm from Hull, if yoou want to, know anything else about me, PM me, i'm not making a profile, as I can't be arsed.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Mudjack
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 05:42 PM

Mudjack here checking in, I come around once in a while to check on "How Folks Are Doing?" My Profile tells more about me than should be permitted.
I have resigned myself to spent a quick visit to Mudcat simply because I found it was to easy to get in the middle of the crossfire of hot issued topics and get ticked over nothing.
So now I creep in on ocassional threads like this. It also keeps my "Mudjack" status alive and don't have to reset my cookies.
Mudjack's profile is still current and up to date.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 06:59 PM

My entire profile is invalid.

I have had a sex change operation and am no longer a male. In fact, I am no longer of the species Homo Sapiens. I am a female giant squid with latent lesbian tendencies.

I have discontinued all attempts at playing anything vaguely resembling folk music and am working on a new gig that incorporates elements of rap music, juggling, firewalking and phrenology.

I no longer perform any useful work, but just vegetate in front of this computer all day. In fact, I don't even eat. I've been fed intravenously for months. I have not uttered a coherent sentence since 2002. The only words that seem to come out of my mouth are "Mudcat" and "HTML".

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 11:18 PM

TMI. BWL -- but duly noted anyway. §;-D

Open Mike,
Dunno about everyone else, but to me "died in the wool" conjures up images of WILD sado-masochistic ORGIES. LOL

Now, DYED-in-the-wool, well, that's a horse ... er ... sheep of a different color! §:-D

Genie
(Whose profile is pretty much up-to-date and who will [shudder] be eligible for some levels of Social Security TOMORROW!) §:-(

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 12:03 AM

I like the writing someone else's profile idea.

LR Mole (L R Mole)

Photo

Nov. 10, 1951-Dec 28, 2001

Taught college English. Mark Twain was one of his favorite writers. Lived most of his life in my home state of Rhode Island. Smoked a pipe. He loved rainy days and swamps. And moors to stalk on. Didn't much care for sunny days. Wouldn't touch a fruit or a vegetable, but was very fond of anything with cheeze of a very scary orange color in it, Cheeze Waffies being his favorite. Loved chowder and meatloaf. And potatoes.

One of the kindest and most thoughtful people I have ever encountered. He had a soul as big as the universe, and a gentle but wicked sense of humor. He played the guitar and sang, but I never heard him do it. He worried a lot, and sometimes he got depressed. But he never forgot to write. Even while I was in Canada.

He was a good family man, leaving behind a widow and two fine sons when he passed. I'm sure they are a credit to his memory.

He was a wonderful writer and philosopher. One of my favorite writers, in fact. He was my writing mentor. When I asked him once if he tought it outrageous for me to think I might be able to write a book, he said, "Of course you can write a book!"

He was my friend. I never met him, but he enriched my life and left an indelible impression upon it.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 06:35 AM

This is a discussion forum, not a notice board or a chatroom, where personalities tend to matter more than content.

It is what is said here that matters - not who may be saying it.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 07:20 AM

Little Robyn wrote

Kevin, were you the singer at the Folk Song Cellar back in 1972?
Do you sing Tom Kanakanaka? I think I met you.
Robyn

Excuse the delay in responding, just getting over the football result from yesterday.........

Yes that was me, Cellar C# House resident, also resident at The Enterprise Chalk Farm at that time, and since then The Herga, Chestnuts, Hale End and now Old Rose & Crown Wallthamstow (among various other odds and sods). I checked your profile and see that whilst you were in Britain we could also have met at Padstow and the Loughborough Festival. Your photo looked "vaguely familiar" but it's many years since we would have met!

This is beggining to sound like a profile perhaps I'll get round to a proper one sometime.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 07:29 AM

It is what is said here that matters - not who may be saying it.

Not necessarily. The same words from different people can mean something widely different, especially when you take into account the various modes of irony.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 12:05 PM

Personally, I think who is saying it matters a lot...I've made loads of new friends since I've been coming on here. What they say indicates who they are and makes you want to know them...or not.

And I like you too Brucie!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM

Phrenology BeeBub? Isn't that just an excuse to feel ladies bumps?
Giok [who wishes he'd thought of it first]¦¬]

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Little Robyn
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 01:47 PM

Hi Kevin
Oss Oss!
Robyn

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 03:24 AM

wee oss!

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 03:44 AM

We all love Bruce don't we? It would be nice to know more about the Cats that don't have profiles...

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: MarkS
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 12:36 PM

I am actually a Nobel Prize winning astrophysics professor in a prestigious Ivy League school.

I took the job after winning the megabucks lottery and got bored with starring in feature movies (actually everybody else in Hollywood was mad at me for winning all the Oscars.)


I only log on to Mudcat to get away from all the women who are constantly after me to father their children.

Mark

ps: I also have a vivid fantasy imagination.

Subject: RE: Review: Of member's info & location
From: harpgirl
Date: 18 Nov 04 - 05:02 AM

This record initiated my interest in folk music.

SINGER-SONGWRITER PROJECT Elektra EKS-7299 (1965)

I still have it and I still listen to it. I can sing Bruce's song by heart.

No profile because I don't think my little life warrants such ego.

Playing autoharp with my ear pressed against it and singing have kept me alive.

No sex in well over a year. Sad but true. (See my pictures!LOL)

I believe my life was intended to service.

I like to camp. I'll be spending Thanksgiving at Blackwater River State Park, listening to the owls.