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10 Nov 07 - 07:08 PM (#2190809) Subject: Sessions for shut-ins From: gnu Anybody else like me? I am rather pleased that You Tube has come to be. I lost my ability to sing about nine years ago. I lost my ability to play "strumming instruments" about seven years ago (meaning, I include Bodhran in that group - Hran being my weapon of choice). Oh, I can still crank out a few tunes on a good night, fuelled sufficiently, but, I had to give up any thought of performing publically and I don't even attend kitchen sessions much anymore. My choice, I suppose, but, when you can't do a good job, why bother? But, I love the You Tube. I can jam with some of the best musios on the planet and have a ball of fun. And, they don't even blink when my voice cracks or my tipper flies out of my hand. (I would like to choke that Arthur Itis, if I could!) So, any of you find solace or "company" in this new technology? |
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10 Nov 07 - 07:23 PM (#2190819) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Art Thieme gnu, I'm in the same place you are---and I fully comisserate. For nearly 40 years I was a folksinger. Then MS took it away. As I'm sure you know, and as I'm fond of saying: "The More things change, the more they get different!" Did you ever hear Butch Hawes with the Almanac Singers do a great song about arthritis?? It was on a grand old Folkways Records ten inch LP from the 1940s/1950s. All the best to you, Art Thieme Peru, Illinois----USA |
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10 Nov 07 - 09:15 PM (#2190870) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Beer Hay you old fart, it's me the abstainer. You sounded pretty good to me when we were chucking it back around mid-night. But your right, who we fooling. I can hardly make an "F" chord and two plastic implants in my vocal chords didn't make a difference. However I still go to the old folks home and play and sing once a month (This year being my 40th.in doing so.). Here is my advise. "Fuck it". Get off your ass and get to see your buddies again and if it is just one song you can do or just a couple on the Bodhran than great. I bet they would love to see you. Do it man. I think on some past thread I wrote this following verse and can't remember who wrote it but it was from someone out West (Canada that is.) When I can't play I'll sing. When I can't sing I'll whistle. When the time comes I can't whistle no more. I'll sit my self down and I'll listen. If someone reads this thread and knows the composer please respond. |
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11 Nov 07 - 02:28 AM (#2190975) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Liz the Squeak Shut in is a state of mind - as long as you're out there, even virtually, singing and playing, you're not a true shut in. At least you're doing something. The worst type of person is the one who sits on the edge of sessions whining into their beer croaking 'I used to be able to do that'. Makes me want to slap 'em and say 'find something else to do with them then', even if it's the shaky egg! LTS |
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11 Nov 07 - 10:05 PM (#2191662) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Art Thieme Now we know what Liz thinks. Very cute. I'm out-a-here... |
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12 Nov 07 - 10:58 AM (#2191969) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: gnu Guess not. Hehehe. And, I guess I kinda was whining in my beer, although I really didn't have that intent when I decided to start the thread. Force of habit perhaps. Beer... when you said, "You sounded pretty good to me when we were chucking it back around mid-night.", I think the operative phrase there is, "... when we were chucking it back...". Hehehe. |
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15 Nov 07 - 07:57 PM (#2194930) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: gnu WHAT? Hehehehe. Well, maybe it's just me. I am enjoying this tube. |
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15 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM (#2194964) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Beer Hay Gnu!, He is good but not as good as you. I'm hooked on the tube as well. Just send friend Peace a heads up on his pal Patrick Sky who does a few clips. Check him out and see a young Pete Seeger at the same time. |
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16 Nov 07 - 05:17 AM (#2195136) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Liz the Squeak Beer, re your post of Nov 10th. There is a song that has that very sentiment, recorded by a duo named Tundra, from Kent, UK, about a million years ago. I can't for the life of me find it at the moment but the basic premise is a sailor who suffers various misfortunes and bodily losses. He ends his days at the Old Sailors home sans a leg, an arm, an eye, his nose and his singing voice but as long as he's able to raise a cup to toast the King with, nothing will stop his drinking. I'll have a look and see if I can find the whole song. I think it may be 'Jolly Jack of Dover' but there's nothing in the DT. LTS |
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16 Nov 07 - 06:58 AM (#2195186) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Liz the Squeak It's not Jack of Dover, but Jack of Greenwich. It doesn't appear to be in the DT anywhere, and it's a bit long to type out now, but I'll put it up later. LTS |
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16 Nov 07 - 07:58 AM (#2195213) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Beer Thank you LTS. That is very thoughtful and kind. Will also try finding it later on this evening. Beer (adrien) |
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16 Nov 07 - 11:03 PM (#2195723) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Beer I give up LTS. When you have time maybe you could start with a few verses then finish some other time. Just a thought. beer (adrien) |
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17 Nov 07 - 12:20 AM (#2195739) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: katlaughing Heyagnudarlin'...I LOVE youtube and could spend hours just sifting through all of the great music stuff on there. I used to sorta be a shut-in, before youtube, though, but the internet saved my sanity and let me sing along with Mudcat friends when we had live song circles in PalTalk and before that in HearMe. I don't think it matters one whit if ya whine a little...you're entitled to now and then as long as ya don't wallow in it too long. Knowing Art's situation, I am damn glad he IS able to be here and share so much with us over the years. And, now, I seem to have discovered a gnew friend and that is great, too! kat |
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17 Nov 07 - 12:28 PM (#2196051) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca From Cdn Folk Mirror: Yep this is "When I Can't Play" by the late great Joan MacIsaac of Edmonton Alberta. I don't know if it's been recorded by anyone on cd. It's on Joan's first l.p. which would now be very hard to track down I expect. Also there are messages that follow this up. Just follow the links. |
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17 Nov 07 - 12:59 PM (#2196073) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Beer Thanks George. Much appreciated. Beer (adrien) |
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17 Nov 07 - 04:09 PM (#2196173) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: gnu Yes, indeed it is. |
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17 Nov 07 - 05:28 PM (#2196236) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Liz the Squeak Jack of Greenwich - provenance unknown, taken from the singing of Tundra, UK duo circa 1982. I'm sorry, I can't help with chords or anything for the tune. We tars are all for fun and glee A hornpipe was my notion. Time was I'd dance with any he Who sailed the salt sea ocean. I'd tip the roll, the side, the reel, Back, forward, in the middle, And roast the pig, and toe and heel All going with the fiddle. But one day, told a shot to ram To chase the foe advancing, A splinter queered my larboard gam And damn me spoiled my dancing. My dancing, my dancing, my dancing, my dancing, A splinter queered my larboard gam and damn me spoiled my dancing. Well I'm, says I, no churlish elf, We messmates all be brothers. Though I can't have no fun myself, I may make fun for others. A fiddle soon, I made my own, That girls and tars may caper. Learned 'Rule Britannia', 'Bobbing Joan' And growed a decent scraper. But just as I'd the knack had got, And did it pretty middling, I lost my elbow by a shot And damn me spoiled my fiddling. My fiddling, my fiddling, my fiddling, my fiddling I lost my elbow by a shot And damn me spoiled my fiddling. So sometimes as I turned my quid I got the knack of thinking, As I should be an invalid, Well then I took to drinking. One day called down, my gun to man, To tip it with the gravy, I gave three cheers and took the can To drink the British Navy. Before a single drop I'd sipped, Or got it to my muzzle, A langridge off my daddle whipped, And damn me spoiled my guzzle. My guzzle, my guzzle, my guzzle, my guzzle. A langridge off my daddle whipped, And damn me spoiled my guzzle. So then I took to taking snuff Cos how my sorrows doubled, And pretty pastime, 'twas enough, D'ye see, when I was troubled. But fortune, that mischevious elf Still at some fun or other, Not that I mind it for myself, But just for Poll and Mother. One day when lying on a tack, To keep two spanking foes off, A broadside comes; capsizes Jack And damn me knocks my nose off. My nose off, my nose off, my nose off, my nose off, A broadside comes; capsizes Jack And damn me knocks my nose off. In misfortunes school grown tough In this same sort of knowledge, Thinking mayhap, I'd not enough, Well they sent me here to college. And here we tell old tales and smoke, And laugh while we are drinking; Sailors you know, will have their joke Even though the ship be sinking. For while I get the grog to drink My wife, my friend or king in, 'twill be no easy thing I think, Damn me, to spoil my singing. My singing, my singing, my singing, my singing, 'twill be no easy thing I think, Damn me, to spoil my singing. I have no idea what a daddle is, but would guess it's well above the belt. LTS |
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17 Nov 07 - 08:12 PM (#2196362) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: gnu Haahaaahahahaha... I was checking out some Scots Pipe Bands and then some Hran on that thar Tube. Then, up came Solas... goooo dunes. While one was playing, I scrolled down thru the avaiable and "like" tunes... when I saw this title, I said to myself, "Sounds kinda sick to me.", so, naturally, I clicked this. |
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18 Nov 07 - 03:48 AM (#2196521) Subject: RE: Sessions for shut-ins From: Liz the Squeak Gnu - I can't decide who is the sicker puppy, you or the person with the Qtip! LTS |