Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:44 AM As religions go, folk music is one of the best. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Georgiansilver Date: 31 Dec 04 - 10:06 AM 69 |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Peace Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:57 AM The first folk song I recall hearing was that classic done by Lonnie Donegan (sp?). I do not remember the title, but the first line went, "Does your chewing gum lost its flavour on the bedpost over night?" Ever since then I have loved folk music. The first American folksong I remember was "Flying Purple People Eater." These songs have stayed with me, almost religiously, and they define the parameters that enclose what I consider to be folk music today. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Peace Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:35 AM Out with the old and in with the new. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Ooh-Aah2 Date: 31 Dec 04 - 05:18 AM Isn't that 'Poof the magic fag-on', Mr Fartin' Gibbon? OOOOOOOOH YESSSSS!!!! (I just got a good grip). |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 30 Dec 04 - 10:00 AM Ooh-Ahh Cha Cha Cha, you're right. Puff the Magic Dragon is not a children's folk song. It is a rap song about gay militant lifestyles. Please get a grip. but glad you like what I post, anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Ooh-Aah2 Date: 30 Dec 04 - 04:13 AM I am lucky enough to have two forbears whose occupations provide a lot of folk songs - my great-grandfather sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco and a great many of my others were illiterate farm labourers, which I'm very proud of (resist that temptation Martin! Resist it!). Also soldiers but only wartime recriuts - great uncle died at Passchendaele. If you sing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and think it folk music you are a real sad bastard Martin. (Actually I forgive you, I think your outbursts rather fun). I agree with you completely Teresa. Folk music has the power to make you feel connected to the past in quite a spooky way - I remember the first English song I heard, it was 'Brigg Fair' and all my hair stood on end. "I had that sense of recognition...here was something I'd known all my life, only I didn't know it..." (Ralph Vaughan Williams, on discovering English folk music). |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Teresa Date: 30 Dec 04 - 12:15 AM When I was fifteen, I heard my first "Celtic Music" and truly had a religious experience. Same with old-time Apppalachian music, and subsequently world music. I could feel the primal nature of it; something timeless and ancient and soul-stirring. So, for me, yes, it has that feeling, along with nature and the recognition of truly human virtues. And, Giok, I can't help laughing about your prerequisites/conditions. :) Teresa |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 11:07 PM No cunt where these legs come together, Hoss. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: tarheel Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:39 PM hehehehe,with a name like Martin Gibson(obviously a nick name of sorts...)he has to be a cunt...oppps,cut....geeezz...cult!!!...lmbo... too funny!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Bert Date: 29 Dec 04 - 06:08 PM He'll survive |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Dec 04 - 05:57 PM I think Martin Gibson is almost a cult. Giok :~) |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:59 PM How's Ernie, Bert? Hope he's not sore. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Bert Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:46 PM LOL Kay. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:25 PM Maybe Ooh-Ah's forbearers were hairdressers. Maybe they were Cha Cha dancers. Or even guys who worked in Hot dog joints. I don't know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:14 PM It all sounds a bit dodgy to me. All very well if your forbears were gallant sailors, or buffalo hunters, or roving jacks of all trades. but what if they were quantity survryors, carpet layers and hairdressers - these people never get honoured with folksongs... |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 04:12 PM Ooh-Ah Cha Cha Cha. Was your ancestor Puff the Magic Dragon? do you honor his struggles, disasters, and triumphs by singing his song? do you pray to the Glen Yarbrough warbling folk music idol> Pagan roman, my ass. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Ooh-Aah2 Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:49 PM Oh do shut up you idiot. I think folk music is reminiscent of ancestor worship in various religions - especially Pagan Roman religion where the lares and penates, the spirits of the ancestors and the household, had their own cult. By singing these songs we honour our forbears, their loves, struggles, disasters and triumphs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:39 PM tarheel, you forgot to mention that the prayers of the folk music religion require braying and warbling. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: tarheel Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:36 PM i look on the folk music scene as a cult...they all look as if they just woke up from under a rock or come out of the cracks of the walls,everytime a festival is near by.... i have never understood the long pigtail on the guys nor the long hair on the gals... to me,that combination does NOT a musician make! and just because thery play in a smelly bar room somewhere in the UK,does not make them a great entertainer either! when you are the customer and drunker than a cpooder,all music sounds great...no matter who the performers are! oh,i'm happy that we don't dress up for performances like we did back in the 50's...cowboy hats,boots, coat and ties...anything to make you look nice and clean! and,your music was clen then too! no dirty words,or dirty moves on stage.... just a staight performance...(Of course Elvis changed all of that!) dang,i miss the 50's! the decade before the hippies and comtemporary country music! |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 29 Dec 04 - 02:24 PM Hey Bert, I'm no girl, but I'm hearing you're butt fucking Ernie. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Bert Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:57 PM And we get to have a Gargoyle on our church. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Bert Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:51 PM Nah, Mudcat is the religion and folk music is it's object of worship. Martin Gibson is a girl and her name is really Kay Harmony, which could account for the obsession with dykes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:57 PM Will there be human sacrifice? There were in some of the old religions, and if we're gonna be traditional... Of course, we might make allowances for vegetarians, and only sacrifice wheat germ... Just some stray thoughts that have apparently not occured to others, or they were too politic to post. Cheerily, Charley Noble, who's been known to pour a horn of honey wine at the foot of some old tree. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Amos Date: 28 Dec 04 - 06:02 PM Of course folk music is not a religion. It is merely a form of time-travel. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Songster Bob Date: 28 Dec 04 - 02:59 PM "I see it, but I don't believe it!" -- Wrong! It's religion, so the phrase is, "I believe it, but I don't see it!" And the "Do you need to be told everything?" remark brought to mind a joke with the punchline, "Put it in, pull it out! Damn it, lady, make up your mind!" Bob |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Dec 04 - 01:08 PM This gives rise to a weird vision of Maud Karpeles as the BVM. WOWEEE!! Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Crystal Date: 28 Dec 04 - 12:46 PM If folk music becomes a religion what is Cecil Sharpe? The savior or the anti-christ? See also Bob Dylan. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Mr Red Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:01 AM I think the question (though well meaning) is rather understating the situation a trifle. Paraphrasing Vince Lombardy - Folk isn't everything - it is the ONLY thing. #8^) |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: 42 Date: 28 Dec 04 - 07:57 AM In Canada there would be some serious tax benefits to being a religion...church property would not be taxed for one thing. j |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Dec 04 - 06:30 AM Morris!! Nah mate you can't pin that one on me. Giok [or am I Goik? I get so confused] |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Bassic Date: 24 Dec 04 - 04:23 AM On the first day Goik created Folk On the second he created Morris On the third day he did research at Sharp House On the fourth day he created Old Time On the fifth day he created Bluegrass On the sixth day he thought it was about time for a revival On the seventh day he had a day off and went to a session in the "Ferrit and Laptop" |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 24 Dec 04 - 04:09 AM Can you type a little louder please? |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Dec 04 - 01:06 PM I like your new spectacles |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Dec 04 - 12:33 PM Some people need to be told everything, don't they? |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 23 Dec 04 - 12:18 PM How do you know when you've reached that point? |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 23 Dec 04 - 11:14 AM Rub it if it feels good. stop when you don't need to any more. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 23 Dec 04 - 11:11 AM Stop rubbing it then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:10 AM Aye Martin; there's the rub. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Once Famous Date: 23 Dec 04 - 10:07 AM How can anybody? |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Dec 04 - 08:17 AM I don't think some people are taking my thread seriously, like what it was intended to be ;~) Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:58 AM Not so much a religion, more a way of life. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:55 AM Well that's me out of it ........ I'm not joining ANY religion |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:39 AM I'll say. Like leaving a room filled with unconscious people is definitely UNcool. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 23 Dec 04 - 06:23 AM The travelling outhouse IS the church. It is where one can sit and ponder the big questions of the day such as E# or Fb. Lower pitched farts, of course, can be troublesome. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 04 - 05:12 AM Martin Gibson is a little devil. The anti-Christ lives across the hall from me. He gets all stoned at odd hours and plays this bloody rap music at 10,329 decibels with lots of bass. We had words a few nights ago--morning, actually. Basically, it was a brief conversation that involved the use of a few polite words. Things have been quiet since. He's a quiet guy when he isn't making noise. |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Dave Hanson Date: 23 Dec 04 - 04:45 AM Is Martin Gibson the new anti christ ? eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: Peace Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:24 PM I ain't gonna be an altar boy. That's final. Is there gonna be an altar? (Say, do y'all need travelin' outhouses for the church? I can get you a great deal.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:19 PM "I see it, but I don't believe it!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Is folk music a religion? From: MBSLynne Date: 22 Dec 04 - 05:54 PM Well that's great, we have schism to start with...that'll save time. LOL!!! BPL!! |