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11 Aug 07 - 02:25 PM (#2123819) Subject: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon Next Saturday, 18 August is the date this month, 3:30 - 7:30 PM.Hope to see lots of regulars there, and just maybe some new faces and irregulars as well -- Tom |
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11 Aug 07 - 02:36 PM (#2123823) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: jacqui.c Darn it, looks like we're in Canada that weekend - I'm not having much luck with the dates at the moment! |
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11 Aug 07 - 04:50 PM (#2123896) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL I will. Seamus will have to cross his legs and wait. |
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11 Aug 07 - 04:57 PM (#2123898) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Barry Finn Mary, please come empty handed Barry |
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11 Aug 07 - 05:56 PM (#2123936) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Sorry Barry. I am bringing Linn's birthday gift. You can't complain - you got the spectacular Hawaiian luau tower. |
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12 Aug 07 - 04:34 PM (#2124335) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble I'll be coming along for sure. Having missed the July gathering I've been experiencing symptons of sea music withdrawal. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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14 Aug 07 - 08:06 PM (#2125611) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: DebC I think I'll try to make it. I have to stop at the NH liquor store and get a few bottles of "Love My Goat" wine :-) Deb www.DebraCowan.com |
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14 Aug 07 - 08:14 PM (#2125616) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Barry Finn Is that labeled as Woolite Deb? It'll be good to see/hear you again Barry |
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14 Aug 07 - 08:43 PM (#2125635) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Barry will you have your CD with you? M |
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14 Aug 07 - 08:45 PM (#2125636) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon Looking forward to seeing you Deb - it's been nearly two years. And I want to know more about that wine - Tom |
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14 Aug 07 - 09:42 PM (#2125677) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: TRUBRIT Damn -- I'll be on a plane to Texas - leaving that morning.............on the subject of which, I will be 5 days in Austin - no car staying 'downtown' (whatever that means -- have never been there) with a bunch of other realtors about whose musical tastes I know nothing. My friend and I are flying in Saturday to avoid some sort of travel horrors on the Sunday.....she is English too, (and called Deborah!) --she likes all sorts of music. So -- WHERE SHOULD WE GO ON SATURDAY NIGHT?????? (if we can't be at the Press Room??)...and assuming we can squeeze another night out of hanging out in large groups of realtors (perish the thought) where is the MUST GO place? Thanks - any thoughts greatly appreciated if not ultimately acted on......! |
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14 Aug 07 - 11:28 PM (#2125713) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL The Alamo? |
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15 Aug 07 - 08:25 AM (#2125926) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble Deb- The Armadilla, if it still exists. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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15 Aug 07 - 08:46 AM (#2125937) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon Is that the Spanish Armadilla? |
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15 Aug 07 - 08:58 AM (#2125940) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble Tom- Possibly! At least the inspiration for this lovely poem: By Rudyar Kipling The Beginning of the Armadilloes I've never sailed the Amazon, I've never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! Yes, weekly from Southampton Great steamers, white and gold, Go rolling down to Rio (Roll down—roll down to Rio!). And I'd like to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old! I've never seen a Jaguar, Nor yet an Armadill— He's dilloing in his armour, And I s'pose I never will, Unless I go to Rio These wonders to behold— Roll down—roll down to Rio— Roll really down to Rio! Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:08 AM (#2125946) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Jeri The Armadillo World Headquarters has been gone for some time. Saw Earl Scruggs there way-back (I think it was 1978). |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:16 AM (#2125953) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble Jeri- Thanks! As I feared, reminescent of these lines from C. Fox Smith: The ships I knew laid up or lost, The ports I knew grown strange... Charley Noble |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:33 AM (#2125968) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Jeri And Austin TX is definitely one strange port. |
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15 Aug 07 - 10:01 AM (#2125985) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Barry Finn I vaguely remember am good song that sang about "I'm going home to the Armadillo". C&W Deb start a thread asking about local Austin music, I'm sure there must be someone with local knowledge. See ya Barry |
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15 Aug 07 - 10:19 AM (#2125997) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: DebC Actually, Tom...we saw you at Mary's TWICE in the last six months. Once for my house concert there and then when John Roberts performed. But you are excused. You have had some extenuating circumstances since then :-) The wine is called "Love My Goat" from a NY winery called Bully Hill. We found it on our way back to Massachusetts from our last visit to Sinsull's. Now I don't usually drink red wines, but I did like this one and it seems that the only place I could find it was the NH liquor store. Anyway, it's llooking like I'll be coming along on Saturday. My brand new husband (yes, Kev and I got married last June) has decided that he wants to hear improv jazz that night in Lowell. So I'll either be solo or bringing my dear friend Buffie Groves with me. See you Saturday, Deb www.DebraCowan.com |
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15 Aug 07 - 11:40 AM (#2126060) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon Quite right, Deb. When I posted that, I was thinking entirely in the context of the Press Room which has a completely different kind of chaos than that which occurs sometimes at Mary's. BTW, there's a great jazz session at the Press Room from noon to 3:00 on Saturdays - Tom |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:51 PM (#2126574) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: TRUBRIT Did something important happen at the Alamo -- I must have missed it !!!!! Barry _ I may start that thread........ |
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16 Aug 07 - 06:45 PM (#2127451) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Come over here, Deborah, so I can smack you this side of your head! Have you never heard of Davy Crockett and Sam Houston? Remember the Alamo!? Mandatory reading: http://www.thealamo.org/ How do these people get into the country???? REFRESH |
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17 Aug 07 - 07:51 AM (#2127787) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Bat Goddess Oh, and see the 1960 film "The Alamo" best remembered for the song "The Green Leaves of Summer", John Wayne as director and Davy Crockett (and I grew up with Fess Parker as Crockett; had my own rabbit fur "raccoon" hat), Frankie Avalon acting (this WAS 1960, you know), and lots of historical inaccuracies. I've just always liked Laurence Harvey and the song "The Green Leaves of Summer". Remind me , Deborah, to put together a film list of the history of the United States for you. Not that Hollywood ever really got things right (don't let the facts get in the way of a story), but it's a good excuse for popcorn. Linn |
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17 Aug 07 - 09:22 AM (#2127834) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble There was also a clipper ship called the Davy Crockett during the Gold Rush Days. I suppose there may even be a song, or at least a reference in one so that we can legitimately croon it at the session. The wisdom that one can accumulate from a shanty/forebitter session: it's amazing! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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17 Aug 07 - 09:16 PM (#2128311) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: TRUBRIT i was being ever so slightly sarcastic -- I do know that something happened at the Alamo but honest to God, at the risk of being permanently shunned - I don't know what is was. But my husband has told me that I REALLY NEED TO SEE THE ALAMO.......so I'll try. You see I suffer under a disadvantage.....when I was at school in England we virtually denied the existance of America -- I can tell you what crops there are anywhere in the commonwealth and my history of the commonwealth iis really pretty good - but the US ????? My husband just came out to join me on the deck so I asked him what happened at the Alamo -- he told me Texas was fighting for independence from ... MEXICO,,,,! Now that I did not know -- sorry guys, Lynn - you better get me that film list ASAP..... Mary -- please let me stay in the country and I promise I will get better educated. Having said that.....where will we get good folk music........my friend and I will be there Saturdat night without any of the other realtor gang......would like to hear some music. |
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18 Aug 07 - 11:41 AM (#2128574) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon The weatheris sublime! There is a bit of a chill in the breeze, but this should mean that we won't have a noisy AC to contend with. See you in four hours - Tom |
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18 Aug 07 - 04:00 PM (#2128744) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Independence from Mexico???? I thought Crockett was fighting Indians! You can stay Deborah. |
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18 Aug 07 - 04:02 PM (#2128745) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Did Santa Anna really have a wooden leg? Head-achy and cranky after a battle of wits with Seamus at the beach (I lost). Fell asleep and won't make it. Next time I will say nothing and show up if... |
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18 Aug 07 - 08:28 PM (#2128880) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Barry Finn Deborah, don't fret. Davey like a good fight no matter the place or the cause & Texas, didn't need to be freed from Mexico we just got the place confused with a country we wanted, again. We wanted South America but the damn Generals got lost & that's why we call it today the American South. We should rightfully give it back but Mexico won't take it. Barry |
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18 Aug 07 - 08:32 PM (#2128881) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Barry Finn Oh it way a great session BTW for those that missed it, heavily attended with a sparce bar crowd. Some of the sideliners were nice enough to join in & give the regulars some songs of there own. Barry |
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18 Aug 07 - 10:03 PM (#2128926) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Charley Noble It was a fine session, and even more so since I'd missed the July one. There were about two dozen singers. For the first time in my experience there were gaps in between the songs, and people had to be encouraged to sing. Maybe we were all just suffering August burn-out. I tried out a few new songs, "The Sea Cook" and "Sea Dream," that I've adapted for singing from poems by old sailor-poets Bill Adams and Burt Franklin Jenness respectively. I revived "The Pirates Own Song" which I've set a tune to and plan to sing with Roll & Go at the Downeast Pirate Fest in Rockland Labor day weekend. I also sang my arrangement of "Lee Fore Brace" by Cicely Fox Smith. I first sang "Concrete and Glass" which is an anti-urban displacement song to the tune of "All for me Grog" which Tom Hall had led; "Concrete and Glass" was first composed in Sydney, Australia, back in the late 1970's during an urban renewal battle in the Woolloomooloo neighborhood but the verses I sang were based on my own experience on Portland's working waterfront in the 1980's. It was nice to have a listening table energized enough by the singing to lead a couple of songs as well. However, the three bikers who came in didn't even raise an eyebrow. The kitchen staff provided their usual spirited accompaniment. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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18 Aug 07 - 10:14 PM (#2128931) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: GUEST When's the September session going to be, and does the Pressroom serve food? |
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18 Aug 07 - 11:18 PM (#2128956) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: TRUBRIT well - we did barbeque down here in Austin but no music. Barry - thanks for the mini history lesson -- this whole thing has been so shaming that i will have to actually get my act together and start studying a bit about my adopted country....... Sounds like you all had fun tonight..... |
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19 Aug 07 - 09:39 AM (#2129083) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: curmudgeon We missed you, Mary. But at least, some of us will see you next weekend. The kitchen clatter was annoying, but worse was the kitchen radio. When the scullery boy, after a polite request , did not turn the radio down, Peter Souza offered to turn him down. He then complied. Guest - There will be two sessions in September, the regular on15 September rom 3:30 to 7:30, and another on the 29th as part of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festval The Press Room does serve very good food at modest prices, and will be smoke free for the second session - Tom |
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19 Aug 07 - 11:34 AM (#2129141) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: DebC Hahaha!! I wouldn't want to get Peter Souza pissed off at me. It's a good thing the scullery boy paid heed. I am so sorry I didn't make it. I had to make a trip into Somerville and then planned on heading up. But I got caught in a back-up on I-495 (took me an hour to go 2 miles) and I had heard that the Hampton Tolls were backed up as well. Compounded by a voice problem, I decided that it would be in my best interests to have quiet day/evening at home. I get into a singing session and get excited and sing when I really shouldn't. Deb www.DebraCowan.com |
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19 Aug 07 - 12:24 PM (#2129165) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Bat Goddess I didn't sing that much, but mostly because I was TIRED. And I'm tired of being tired -- it was a grueling week, the usual magazine deadline craziness (coupled with the fact that it's getting harder and harder to get advertisers to spend money they don't have) plus I had two rather intense interviews two days running. Two very different jobs, but both appealing in their own way as more than just an escape from the status quo. Got another to apply for today, too. But I did sing the "Plum Island (MA) National Anthem" in honor of any tourists in residence ("and when you hear the screams you know it's lunchtime for the [greenhead] flies"), "Sandgate Girl's Lament", and, and...something else I think. Sorry, I'm brain dead. Have to go schlep stuff out of the cellar and clean off the table (I'm sure there's a table there someplace...I left one there once). Sounds like the Boston/Irish contingent at the round table will be back. Nice that they found us, but could have lived without the cigar -- especially when he was standing in front of the door (outside!) but the wind was bringing the smoke back directly to ME. Sigh. Looking forward to the smoking ban due the middle of September! Anybody else remember what I sang? Getting old is a bitch. Linn |
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19 Aug 07 - 02:30 PM (#2129219) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: SINSULL Ah Linn - you're not getting older, you're getting senile. Quit that job! Soon! |
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19 Aug 07 - 03:49 PM (#2129255) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Bat Goddess I can't afford to quit that job until I find an alternative! I am planning on calling in "sick" on Tuesday. I don't actually get vacation time -- they just pay me for any time I take off without abusing it, not that I can take much time off because of the relentless deadlines and having no backup Sigh. Anyway, I figure I WILL be finding another job soon and I WON'T be getting unused "vacation time" when I leave that I might as well take Tuesday off. I remembered, while talking to Tom over lunch (and he kept pouring me more pinot grigio) t, that I also sang "Bay of Biscay" yesterday with Jeri doing a lovely harmony. I think I sang something else, too, but I won't remember until I listen to the tapes. Sigh. Linn |
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19 Aug 07 - 04:19 PM (#2129269) Subject: RE: Press Room Shanty Session, Aug. From: Jeri I didn't even remember 'Bay of Biscay', so I have fewer marbles left than you. The scullery boy got his second wind and cranked up the old passive aggressive crap a notch or two. We were saved by Feadog the Concertina Commando and the Walking Around and Rolling Down Army. Guy exited kitchen to tend bar for a while, then went outside. I don't know what happened - he always seemed nice before. Other than that one little annoyance, it was a super session. |