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Is everyone in the East?

27 Nov 99 - 11:59 PM (#141578)
Subject: Is everyone in the East?
From: star2fire

Just a quick question...are singsirishsongs and I the only people on the west coast in this gathering?


28 Nov 99 - 12:01 AM (#141582)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Bugsy

I live on the West Coast - of Australia.

Cheers

Bugsy


28 Nov 99 - 12:04 AM (#141584)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Margo

Um, what do you mean in this gathering? I live in Vancouver, Washington; just across the border and Columbia River from Portland Oregon. There are a bunch of us in the Portland area; SandyBob (who rarely posts) MudJack, Barbara, Jonathan Lay, and MAG (even though she is in Walla Walla, I include her.) What puzzles me is that I hardly hear from anyone in Seattle. Seattle is such a huge area, there must be more people up there. Then there are folks in Vancouver BC, like Musicman and Miss Mac. Howdy... Margo


28 Nov 99 - 12:08 AM (#141586)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Joe Offer

Hmmm. Well, actually, we've got lots of West Coasters, just not many Southern Californians that I know of. I'm in Sacramento, and there are a number in the San Francisco area and lots in Portland (Oregon). I think we have a couple sometime Mudcatters in British Columbia. None in Seattle that I know of.
But we're a worldwide group, as Bugsy indicatated. Ya gotta specify which West Coast you're asking about. Where are you, star2fire? Are we neighbors?
-Joe Offer-


28 Nov 99 - 12:10 AM (#141589)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: bseed(charleskratz)

There are quite a few of us in California, as well--Joe Offer, Dave and Pam Swan, WintersWages, RiGGy, Mike Billo, FADAC, and me, all in Northern California. Lots more in the south. Where are you?

--seed


28 Nov 99 - 12:19 AM (#141592)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Metchosin

There's also two that I know of from the coast of B.C., Murray on Saltspring and me here on Vancouver Island.


28 Nov 99 - 12:19 AM (#141593)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mary

I live in Vancouver WA too....let's get together sometime...I love the Portland stuff but am carless right now so logistics are difficult..and Seattle does have some great singers and players....and I see at least one person from Vancouver B.C...JB....

mg


28 Nov 99 - 12:36 AM (#141606)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: bseed(charleskratz)

Metchosin, you undoubtedly know Bob Bossin. A great singer-songwriter (one whose songs are actually worth listening to).

--seed


28 Nov 99 - 12:53 AM (#141610)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: WyoWoman

I'm in Wyoming, as is katlaughing. That's the part of the map of the United States the weather lady stands in front of while she points to the rest of the country.

WyoWoman


28 Nov 99 - 12:56 AM (#141612)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Barry Taylor

Hey Metchosin!

Look out your window... I'm across town in Esquimalt!


28 Nov 99 - 01:19 AM (#141618)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Metchosin

I don't know him personally Seed, but have enjoyed his songs for many years. The Tugboat Song could shine a little light on all the sturm und drang that seems to be occurring on some of the threads regarding percieved changes in the discussion forum lately.


28 Nov 99 - 01:39 AM (#141625)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Metchosin

Hi Barry, if you can see Mt. Blinkhorn from where you are, you can almost see us. Although, if you head down to Swans on Thursday nights and introduce yourself to the mandolin player he can point to where we are sitting and you can join us for a beer.


28 Nov 99 - 01:49 AM (#141628)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: emily rain

here's a small-island-just-west-of-seattle-ite. and i know there are seattlite lurkers.


28 Nov 99 - 01:56 AM (#141629)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: SeanM

I'm one of the two Southern Californians that I've found on here. Farther north, as you can see, there's a lot more to be found.

M


28 Nov 99 - 02:21 AM (#141639)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Gary T

Not only is not everyone in the East, not everyone is within 100 miles of a coast. As WyoWoman alluded, there are some of us over 1,000 miles from an ocean. I'm in Kansas City, which as most (but probably not all) of you know is in Missouri. (Yes, there is also a Kansas City, Kansas, but it's smaller and we do our best to ignore it-BG.) The big plus here is a relatively short drive to the annual music festival in Winfield, KS, arguably the finest acoustic music event in the country--no, in the world--no, make that universe!


28 Nov 99 - 02:54 AM (#141642)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Liz the Squeak

Does that mean the East End or just East?

I'm further east than most of you,in London UK. It is a rainy Sunday morning, first in Advent, so get out those candles and calendars!! - and Micca I'm further east than you as well!!

LTS


28 Nov 99 - 04:13 AM (#141652)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: MudGuard

Sitting right now at

48°8'6" North,
11°29'54" East.

For all who are wondering where that is: Munich City, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe

MudGuard (yes, there is a life outside the USA)


28 Nov 99 - 05:00 AM (#141653)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: O'Boyle

I am also in Southern California and (beware plug coming here) can be found playing at The Harp Inn in Costa Mesa most every Wednesday and Sunday, around 9pm. Come on by.

Slainte,

Rick


28 Nov 99 - 05:29 AM (#141656)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Frankie

West... coast of Florida.

Squeak you're so far east I think of you as near west.

Frankie


28 Nov 99 - 05:53 AM (#141660)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Will Bakker

MudGuard I couldn't agree with you more. There's also life on 52.11' North, 5.36' West, Voorthuizen, Holland!


28 Nov 99 - 01:13 PM (#141728)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Musicman

One of the many West Coast Canadians, eh? Hailing from Vancouver, BC. Actually, MissMac and I are both in a small town about 45 mins drive east called Maple Ridge..... Remember Racing car driver Greg Moore who just died?, same town....

Often head into vancouver for music sessions.....usually good ones happening most every night of the week in several different places....

Anybody else in vancouver??


28 Nov 99 - 02:09 PM (#141745)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Banjer

I'm also on Florida's west coast....west central....


28 Nov 99 - 02:50 PM (#141755)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: star2fire

My embarrassed apologies to those of you in Europe. I had not realized, obviously. By "this gathering" I meant the mudcats et al, you all, them there, we-uns, etc.

I am in the desert above Palm Springs CA, although my picture in the mudcat album is in a hotel in Reno NV. I am happy to meet all of you, and thanks for answering my question. I have enjoyed your posts a lot. (I may even make it down to Costa Mesa some evening...)


28 Nov 99 - 03:33 PM (#141768)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: DougR

I'm in Phoenix (Arizona that is) and I suspect that at least one more Mudcatter lives in this area.

DougR


28 Nov 99 - 03:55 PM (#141772)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Willie-O

Eastern Ontario.

Does not include Toronto.

We are few but mighty.

Bill C


28 Nov 99 - 04:15 PM (#141776)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Susan A-R

I'm east-northeast up in Vermont, two hours from Montreal, 3 from Portland ME. (maybe 4, depending on who's driving)


28 Nov 99 - 04:19 PM (#141777)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Michael K.

Tranna.

(Loosely translated).......Toronto, (Cana-Duh).


28 Nov 99 - 04:45 PM (#141786)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Liz the Squeak

Frankie, I am so far East, I could meet myself coming back... bit like being round the bend.... I'm already there!!

If we are going to be really picky about this, my mum and my sister are in Auckland, NZ, further round the bend than any of us.....

LTS


28 Nov 99 - 05:11 PM (#141798)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Little Dorrit

I'm in East Yorkshire, England, and because of coastal erosion I am getting 'easter' by the minute- in a couple of months time I shall probably be on the west coast of Holland!


28 Nov 99 - 05:11 PM (#141799)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mbo

Sorry, I'm east through & through. East side of town, eastern part of NC, eastern part of the U.S., and I go to East Carolina U. But I used to live in California... --Mbo


28 Nov 99 - 05:34 PM (#141811)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: bseed(charleskratz)

MudGuard: You're there where they celebrate October in September so they can have it outside, huh? I once lifted my feet off the ground and got carried from the Fest entrance to the middle of the Michelob tent where I engaged in a bit of highly competitive drinking.

--seed


28 Nov 99 - 05:47 PM (#141819)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: dw


28 Nov 99 - 05:51 PM (#141824)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From:

damn, wish they'd put the shift key where the enter was i wouldnt make so may mistakes. anyway what i wanted to say was, east is relative of where you are are the time. just as eveything else is. and i'm from north florida.


28 Nov 99 - 06:22 PM (#141836)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Sandy Paton

I met my wife in Berkeley, but we're now in the northwest -- corner of Connecticut, that is.

Frank of Toledo ought to get into this one. His Toledo's right near the coast of Oregon!

. Sandy


28 Nov 99 - 06:37 PM (#141845)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Amos

I came from the East about a hundred years ago and ended up in sunny San Diego, a sleepy little Navy town where nothing happens.

A.


28 Nov 99 - 07:13 PM (#141856)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Banjoman_CO

Yep, there are some of us who do not live near an ocean. I am flat-dab in the middle of the US. But I'm on the southern coast of the Arkansas River, here in eastern Colorado. Gary T is also land locked--- in Kansas City, MO.


28 Nov 99 - 07:14 PM (#141859)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: margaret

A propos of Frankie and Liz, one of my favorite bands (decidedly from the West Coast -- California) is Geggy Tah, who have a line in a song that goes "What side of the tracks are you on? Both sides, because the world is round." I think of that infallible logic often since I recently moved to the other side of the tracks in my town (ah, there's the train now. Love the sound!).


28 Nov 99 - 11:15 PM (#141958)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: reggie miles

I live just beyond the event horizon of the known universe here in the Northwest. I perform mostly in the greater Seattle area. It's the closest thing to a large metropolitan area, an hour away. I haven't met anyone who hangs here at this site in person yet but bumping brains on the net has been fun.


28 Nov 99 - 11:15 PM (#141959)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mike,NZ

I must be one of the furthest easterlies...another hour to the east and I'd be in the west! Liz the squeak, we are not all 'Harpics" just like to give that impression!

Mike in Auckland

Any other NZ'ers out there?


29 Nov 99 - 03:05 AM (#142034)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: MudGuard

Yes, Seed, I live in that town of the biggest beer festival. About 3km (2 miles) from the festival area, and every working day I pass by it.
And I hate the beer festival - I myself prefer wine, and it is such a mess with up to two million people (at peak times) on that small area. I usually try to take holidays during the beer festival to evade the traffic chaos, the stink (of pure beer, beer filtered through kidneys, beer which was drunk twice - once down and once up ...), the noise (during Octoberfest I have to turn up the volume on my TV to understand what is spoken), all the drunk people (up to last year I worked in a company about 200m (220yards) from the festival area, on the way to the city railway, and very often in the morning I had to use the backdoor to the office because the front door was blocked by drunk people sleeping in front of the doors).

About celebrating October in September: it is called Octoberfest because the festival traditionally ends on the first Sunday in October (and start two weeks before that). Nowadays it can last even longer, but only if the first Sunday in October is the 2nd of October, because then it ends on Monday, 3rd October (3rd October being our national holiday - the day of the re-union of east and west Germany)
But perhaps we celebrate October in September because "in Bavaria the clocks are working different" (In Bayern gehen die Uhren anders - a popular proverb here). You can actually buy "Bavarian" clocks where the watch hands turn anti-clockwise!


29 Nov 99 - 08:46 AM (#142067)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: harpgirl

...east of the Blackwater River...west of the Santa Fe...hey sounds like a song!


29 Nov 99 - 08:55 AM (#142071)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Terry Allan Hall

West Texas, here.


29 Nov 99 - 08:58 AM (#142073)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: JedMarum

I'm impressed with how far and wide our Mudcatters are spread!


29 Nov 99 - 11:27 AM (#142128)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mían

I, too am from Vancouver, Washington (just over the border and across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon) but live now in San Francisco. Our family has a little house on Vashon Island which is within orbit of Seattle.

Three of the prettiest cities on Earth: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco.


29 Nov 99 - 10:20 PM (#142419)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Escamillo

Liam, to contribute to your impression, I think I am the only Latin American.
Un abrazo, Andrés Magré (Buenos Aires, Argentina)


29 Nov 99 - 10:33 PM (#142430)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mark Cohen

Once upon a time, from Philadelphia, then up and down the West Coast for a while, including Portland and Seattle, where I rediscovered folk music, and now even farther west, Hilo, on the rainy side of the Big Island of Hawaii, where the music is much harder to come by, but the rain is warmer. I've seen at least one posting from a Seattle folkie here on the Mudcat (hi, Mary), and I can't believe there aren't more lurking about.

Aloha,
Mark Cohen


30 Nov 99 - 10:11 AM (#142602)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Liz the Squeak

Mike NZ, what is a Harpic? It's a toilet cleaner where I come from...

Which part of Auckland? Sister et al live in Browns' Bay, fine view of nothing in particular, and a rather nice bus ride into town...

LTS

OK, just got it, Harpic, cleans round the bend.... Duh!

You've obviously never met my sister, I'm considered the normal one.......!

LTS again.


30 Nov 99 - 10:46 AM (#142621)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: star2fire

Mark Cohen, how did you get so lucky?


30 Nov 99 - 06:55 PM (#142864)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Jon W.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only Mudcatter in Utah, not counting Kat's dad who last I heard was a second-person Mudcatter.


01 Dec 99 - 08:01 AM (#143117)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Alan of Australia

G'day,
If you click here you will find a long thread where Mudcatters world wide told us where they live.

I'm on the east coast. Of Oz that is.

Cheers,
Alan


01 Dec 99 - 11:32 AM (#143187)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: InOBU

East? Hmmmm, well, we are all east of somewhere, however, I am on Saint Marks Place, the Lower East Side of manhattan, called by yuppies who dont know any better, the east village - We believe we are the center of the eastern conceptual univerce, but we may well be wrong. However, every underage kid in New Jersey travels east to get tanked here on every weekend, retreating west in the wee hours of the morning to paint the Jersey Trunpike red, so maybe we are some sort of spirtual east, drawing New Jerseys teens like moths to a fire... Larry Otway


01 Dec 99 - 10:31 PM (#143486)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Mike,NZ

LTS

I'm In Orakei/Mission Bay, got a good view of our wee volcano right out the lounge window.

Harpic was a cleaner where I grew up too, Sth Ockendon in Essex,UK. The reference came from a Nevil Shute novel I read many years ago.

Mike


02 Dec 99 - 07:06 PM (#143860)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Midchuck

"Susan A-R" said:

"I'm east-northeast up in Vermont, two hours from Montreal, 3 from Portland ME. (maybe 4, depending on who's driving)"

Well, bouy the Jeezush, you mus' be the hell up in the Kingdom, don't 'cha know?

I'm just north of Rutland.

I have noted posts from another individual - the owner of the trans-satanic D-28 (4 consecutive 6's in the serial #) - who hangs out amongst the aging hippies in the Goddard area. That makes three of us anyway.


02 Dec 99 - 07:15 PM (#143865)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Marion

Willie-o, where in Eastern Ontario are you? I live in Ottawa, and am originally from Perth.

Marion


02 Dec 99 - 11:32 PM (#143992)
Subject: RE: Is everyone in the East?
From: Sarah-HS

Toronto here. Having moved here from Montreal (and I don't speak French very well) ... I call Toronto "To-Run-To"