Bruce Murdoch: Liar! (CD Review)

Subject: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:27 PM

I begged, I grovelled, I pled (OK, I just asked, & he not only said "delighted", he refused payment, but why let the truth get in the way of a good story? The Sun didn't. Fox didn't. His Murdoch-namesake never did... Right... Now, where was I? Oh, yeah..)

I begged, I grovelled, I pled... He showed no mercy, cruel to the core, he did exactly what I... ummmm... asked him to... (This isn't working...)

Did he listen to my pleas (Ummm... Yes...), "don't, please don't, no I couldn't bear... (being deprived of a copy of...)" Ha! He sent me a CD anyway, just as I *drat* asked him to. (Look, who wrote this script? I'm gonna kill 'im, 'e's got it all wrong, where's the drama, eksetera? Pillock!)

"Oh, it's only a CD copy of a very old record", says Bruce "peace on you" Murdoch.

Do you know what he did?

Do you know what that f*&^%$£ bastard did???? (I'm never going to forgive him, NEVER!!)

He wrote Music CD, No Value on the envelope!!!!!

Yeah, like... If he tells you the sky is blue, the grass is green, & the world is round, don't believe him!!! He is a monumental liar! He cannot be trusted!!! Ek setera, ek thingy, ekky thump...

All of which is my of saying publicly (since no-one else seems to have done..) bloody excellent CD, Bruce! And though you refuse payment, you still can't stop me donating to MC on your behalf! (Yes, I fight dirty. What else can you do with an Antipodean... Ooooops! I mean, Yank... damn... Canuck...)

R

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:30 PM

Ach, Raedwulf, this CD has been roundly applauded up and down the corridors of the Cat, weeks back!! Dinna be syaing no-one else knows how good Brucie is. The only one who doesn't celebrate his talent is hisself!! :D
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A

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:33 PM

It doesn't surprise me, Amos, but I'm here so infrequently these days, mea culpa, I'm useless AND absent, instead of... Can I have a couple of weeks to forget to think about this?!

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:37 PM

There's already a thread extoling the virtues of this CD... maybe someone can cross link this one to it, and lock this?

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:40 PM

It IS a good CD, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peace
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:43 PM

Hi, Raedwulf. I am very pleased it got to you. You are one crazy bugger. LOLOL. Thank you very, very much. I will never forget this post.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:43 PM

Wasn't that other thread closed by one of the Clones on Bruce's request?

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:45 PM

It is a VERY good CD, actually. Thanks, Bruce. I may start doing "Rough Night in Jericho"...

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:48 PM

"Wasn't that other thread closed by one of the Clones on Bruce's request?"

It appears to not only have been closed, but removed..... Unless I'm just undercaffinated....

Seems like a stupid thing to do if ya ask me...

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:58 PM

Yes, it was. I'm being told off from several quarters.

Like I care!

Ha! If Mr Murdoch is cringing, serves him right for writing "No Value" on the bloody envelope.

I console myself with the thought that my thread title was much more effective!

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:58 PM

Nope, it's still there.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:08 PM

That wasn't the thread I was on about... I know I started one when I got my copy months ago... but I can't find it....

Maybe Shambles IS onto something...

LOL

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:08 PM

It is indeed a very good CD....and this thread title about had me drawing the claymore as well!! LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:11 PM

I also was amused by Bruce's "no value" declaration on the CD mailer. He obviously meant "no cash value". There's a difference. But whattaya expect from a guy who once infested the entire unmarried population of Jacksonville, Florida with the most virulent strain of crab lice ever known to humankind? I mean this is a guy who thinks the proper name for a spatula is a "flipper", when everyone knows Flipper is a really big smart fish. Cut the boy some slack, okay? It's a damned good CD for a guy with so few working brain cells! And, hey, guys named "Bruce" is always cool.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Goose Gander
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:26 PM

Actually Flipper was a dolphin, which is a mammal and not a fish.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:33 PM

I thought Flipper was a dolphin, not a fish? And what is the unmarried population of Jacksonville (Before or after Bruce happened, I'm just trying to establish a baseline)?

And were you referring to the male or female unmarried poulation (I'm not trying to establish a baseline, I really don'twant to know the details of what Brucie has been up to...)?

As for "Bruce" it's Australian for...

{fill in ye blanks com-per-tish-un}

R

[You want a prize?! You get a chance to call Mr Murdoch names gratis, & you want a prize?! Sheeeeeeeeeeesh! No satisfying some people... Hurhurhur...)

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 05:40 PM

Cor Raedwulf, you nearly pressed my buttons there! When I saw the thread title, I thought I was just about to walk into a rare old Mudcat punch up there. Yup. On my copy of that lovely album, it said on the back, "No value," too. Now, of course, we all know that is a bit of a fib... No need to be giving an old man a heart attack though... Cheers!

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 06:17 PM

If indignation with ready combativeness were visible it would be interesting to watch it ripple around thw globe. I too was getting out my sharpest knives.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:36 PM

Yes, Flipper from the movies and television series was, in fact, a dolphin. But I wasn't talking about that Flipper. I was talking about "Flipper, The World's Smartest Amberjack". Everybody knows about Flipper the dolphin because he was dumb enough to get caught by humans and then learned a bunch of stupid tricks in hopes that they'd think he was really smart and go "Aw! He's too smart to be kept in a swimming pool! Let's let him go." But Flipper the amberjack was smart enough to totally avoid human contact altogether. So, while he's not very widely known by humans, the other fish all think he's tops. Just ask the next tuna you happen to see.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 10:53 PM

Well, THIS thread is a gem. So is Bruce's CD, which sixtieschick played for me.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:24 PM

So when is Brucie going to grace this thread himself, and when might some of the rest of us be able to buy a copy of this gem? (I remember seeing his thread trying to track down those he'd promised it to, and I didn't sneak in line and say I was one of them, even if I wasn't, just to get the CD.)

Just wondering.

SRS

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:34 PM

Well Raedwulf, you certainly got a lot of us going! I saw the title, saw it had 20 posts and thought - What? How could they let a personal attack thread get to 20 posts? I was all ready to have somebody's guts for garters, until I started reading it.

Yes, it is indeed an excellent CD, and "No Value" on the packaging is about as far from the truth as you can get. G'wan Bruce, I dare you to tell someone to close THIS thread. Ya can't stem the Mudcat tide of opinion this time. Just go quietly, admit you are one talented dude, then sit back and enjoy it :-)

Oh yes, and lets be having the next one real soon!

Jenny

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:38 PM

SRS, he already has - here. He changed his handle to Peace, in case you didn't realise.

Jenny

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:43 PM

Thanks--I haven't been keeping as close track for a while (a lot going on at work).

SRS

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:40 AM

I second the request for an opportunity to acquire my own copy of this CD as it is obviously the work of a fine upstanding man of christian principles. Why else would he have left the married women out of his joy spreading exercises in Jacksonville Florida?
Giok

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: freda underhill
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:37 AM

Raedwulf, I was ready to stand there with Ebbie & the others and bop you one. But...

like you, and the others on this thread, I love Bruce Murdoch's music.

good thread.

freda

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Azizi
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:51 AM

As per Ebbie's comment about our immediate reaction to this thread's title prior to reading Raedwulf's first post, "If indignation with ready combativeness were visible it would be interesting to watch it ripple around the globe," here's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA signing in.

I'm here to say that I love Bruce Murdoch's music too.


Azizi

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:36 AM

Horrible thing happened here and I don't quite know what the international repercussions will be.

I was down at The Big Bull Bar and Internet Grill and borrowed one of their Apple IIe's to check some out the 700 Club website, pick up some apple pie recipes and stuff. Loansome Harry drifted over, preceeded as usual by his personal miasma (which is one of the reasons why he's called Loansome, the other being his chronic indebtedness), took a sip from my coffee (the BBB&IG sells coffee and don't ask for a latte or cappuchino or, God help you!, so-called gourmet coffee), glanced over my shoulder, and saw this thread title.

He let out a screech like he'd gotten certain parts of his anatomy caught between his body and the saddle again and ran out the door shouting the assembly call of the Idaho Legion ("They're Outa Beer!").

Knowing the Legion I finished my coffee, had a piece of Hazel's pie, and ambled out to the Legion's armoury-cum-stable. To my surprise they were formed up in good order and ready to ride north. (That's not a picture of the Legion, but of some horse artillery unit from England. But the Legion uniforms and things are identical, except in camouflage.)

Loansome shouted to me to get ready, they were riding north to avenge the insult to Bruce Murdoch by Raedwulf.

I told him that I didn't think Raedwulf was IN Canada, but he wouldn't listen. The troop moved out and I can only hope that they were distracted by Gert's Eat Here And Get Get Gas Grill and Bar in Shoup.    Otherwise, if they make it to the Alberta border there's gonna be one nasty international incident. I mean, the US has invaded Canada before, but not recently.

Of course, they'll be turned back at the border. I hope they'll be turned back at the border. Please God let them be turned back at the border. 'Cuz if they aren't turned back at the border they're gonna see one of those "Drink Canada Dry" signs and try to do just that.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Azizi
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:38 AM

LOL, Rapaire!

That was a hoot.

I'm "surrounded" by such talented folks
and I'm loving it!

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:43 AM

LOL!

Fine fettle, Good Rapaire.

Must be the codpiece.


A

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:30 AM

I have received my copy of Brucies CD and have to say I am impressed...it will find some fame as it is passed around in the UK I am sure. Well done Brucie.....my kind of music...will PM you.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 11:01 AM

P.S...It will only be passed round with Bruces express permission..sorry forgot to mention that.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peace
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 06:52 PM

You people are way too kind. Sent a message to Giok.

Was wearing shorts when I responded to a fire page (have long pants on my hook at the hall). One of the fellows looked at me and suggested my legs would improve with some Colonel Sander's 'Herbs and Spices.' Life can be cruel at times.

Thank you all.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:33 PM

Oh, Bruce, when are you going to realize that this modesty thing has gone too far? It's a Kick-A** piece of work, take some pride in it, will you? I feel priviledged to have been on the mailing list. Thanks again.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peace
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 12:42 AM

Thank you, Ranger1. I was happy when it was done, and one or two of the songs still appeal to me, but I find the stuff I'm writing now to be better quality, more expressive and matured. My voice isn't what it was--not that it was ever all that good. But the truth is that all I ever wanted to be is a songwriter. The course of my life made that dream impossible for one reason or another. However, I have been writing a fair amount lately, and I honestly think my last two are ten times better than anything I've done before. I'm in love with the newest melody I'm working on (may have something to do with open E tuning) and the words to a song I completed a few months ago make my other writing--with maybe the exception of Fool Like Me--pale in comparison. (Sorry to go on so.) Two others I have 'in progress' are good--but they lack what I call the magic quality. I have been very encouraged by the response of so many people on this and the other thread. It has been helpful to me in deciding to do another CD, God willin', and to get back to writing for whatever time the universe allows me. As to the 'modesty thing', I have never been all that good at accepting compliments--they embarrass me. It is a skill I wish I had, but don't.

Thank you for YOUR kind words, and don't get POed because I said that. I do know that if the latest song--still unfinished but coming close to being finished--gets in the hands of someone who has decent distribution available, it will hit the top 20 in the soft rock charts. (Now, that's just a bit immodest dontcha think? Sonuvagun, I am as excited as I ever get about a song. Now, I will shut up about it. BUT, it's really really good. LOL. Really!) It's a love song with a super melody--very catchy and easy to sing. It ain't the greatest song I ever heard, but it is the best I ever wrote. Good words, GREAT melody and neat, slow rhythm in 4/4 time. My fingers are getting back in shape and slowly so is my voice. The words and melody work together, and that's what's taking so long. I was never a fast writer, and considering I'm 'starting' again, it's coming apace.

Thank all of you for your kind words, encouragement and support. You will never know how much this has meant to me. I am back writing again because of people on this site, and it's one of the two best creative feelings I have had in over 30 years, the other being some short story efforts that are still underway. Merci bien beaucoup.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 01:31 AM

I'm happy for you, Peace Brother! AND it will be hard to wait for your next CD. No hurry, though- take your time and enjoy it...

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 03:39 AM

Amos is that the piece of cod that passeth all understanding?
G..

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: ragdall
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 04:03 AM

Good words, GREAT melody and neat, slow rhythm in 4/4 time. My fingers are getting back in shape and slowly so is my voice. The words and melody work together, and that's what's taking so long. I was never a fast writer, and considering I'm 'starting' again, it's coming apace.

Peace,
It must be wonderful!

If I beg and plead a lot, might I hear it when I come through there in September?

rags

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 08:05 AM

Hey brucie.... beanstoyou (bienvenue to youse what's not belingamal).

Great news. Put me on the list.

g

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 08:30 AM

Can't wait to hear the latest offerings mate. If they're anywhere near as good as what you've sent we're all in for a real treat.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 09:10 AM

Well, they're home again, most of them, thank goodness. Seems like they got as far as Whisky Jack Gulch up in the Frank Church Wilderness, lost their compass, and found out that Scours has "misappropriated" the map. They argued for a while, from what I've been told, and then retired to the former town of Goldenend for a visit to the liquor cache.

As you probably know, Goldenend was the only town in the US that was populated only by good-time girls, hence its name. When the mines ran out and the town broke up back in 1897, they buried their leftover liquor ("cached" it) and the location is one of the State's best-kept secrets. Only those with a need to know, like the Legion, are allowed to know.

Anyway, the liquoring-up led to various shenanigans and fights, and the next day those who could ride drifted back. There are still a few missing in action (so to speak), but since their horses have returned without them we just assume that they're afoot. (You ever try to walk any distance in cowboy boots? They'll be a while returning.)

There are the usual black eyes, contusions, bruises, cuts, hangovers, knife wounds, powder burns and broken bones, but all in all they're in pretty good shape.

As for the insult to Bruce, they've decided to sent a "strong note" to the Canadian Government, urging them to declare war on "where ever in Hell that Raedwulf feller is at." This will be posted as soon as they raise the money for stamps.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:13 AM

I love geography! Goldenend is the town right next but one to Goldenrod.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:45 AM

Goldenrod was a suburb. In fact, one of the reasons the towns failed was because they were so intertangled that nobody could figure out which was which. And, of course, the mines at Golden Mountain failed -- there was no market for coprolite at the time, and now the location of the mine is forgotten. The Lost Dungheap Mine is one of the many "ghost mines" of Idaho.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:59 AM

I love Geography too but could never find the classroom at school!

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peace
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 07:02 PM

HEY, y'all. A very good friend of mine (Mike R) from Montreal just told me that "Come Across" is being 'busked' by a gal there. She learned it from a Penny Lang CD. Talk about feeling flattered.

Thank you for the info, Mike.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Peace
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 07:04 PM

Ragdall,

You bet. You can locate me through the firehall. Please do.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Aug 05 - 10:46 AM

Well here speaks yet another Bruce Murdoch Fan Club memeber, I got my copy yesterday, and boy I just love it, and BTW Brucie; I'm not just saying that to be nice, I love it!
Giok

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Raedwulf
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 02:56 PM

As for the insult to Bruce, they've decided to sent a "strong note" to the Canadian Government, urging them to declare war on "where ever in Hell that Raedwulf feller is at." This will be posted as soon as they raise the money for stamps.

??? I've been watchin' 'em through binoculars all the time. ??? Hope The Shrub don't find out. I hate to think what he'd to do to Idaho if he thought a war was gonna start...

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 03:21 PM

Keep in mind that Idaho needn't actually start a war before federal action is taken. We are now firm believers in preventive war.

Subject: RE: Bruce Murdoch: Liar!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 03:37 PM

Throw potatos at them!