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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:00:20 -0500 
From: Eli Brian Goldberg <eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Huh????

[Kay sed...]

>One interesting thing I've noticed in here is the number of people who took 
>up the piano then discovered they preferred the guitar.  I have TRIED to 
>learn the guitar several times and invariably found I'd rather go play with 
>my keyboard.  So I finally bowed to the inevitable and have been using the 
>keyboard for accompaniment.  I'm not really to the stage where I can 
>perform much with it - I still do most of my filking either a capella, or 
>with the assistance of whoever cares to join in with a guitar or whatever 
>(last LAFA filk, one of the filkers whose last name I have managed to 
>forget, oh the shame of it - her first is Marilyn and she has a VoicE - 
>brought along a lot of percussion instruments and we all had fun playing 
>with them.)  But I find that I am willing to sit down and practice it 
>without it turning into a chore. 

IMHO, it would be fascinating to do a survey of instrumentalists at a filk
con to see which instruments psychologically appeal to them, and to get
a broad idea of their personality traits.  I know one filker who picked
up the guitar so-so, and then tried a Mandolin, and within a few minutes
was picking out Celtic songs, and just fell in love overnight...Likewise,
there's one person's style of guitar playing which I honestly can't do
a passable imitation of, and then there was Fish's style, which is much harder,
but seems to just "make sense".  It would be equally interesting to see
why certain playing styles subconsciously appeal to certain people more
than others...

I would also be very surprised if there wasn't any psychology research done
on this; there IS a branch of musical psychology.  Anyone know details?

[3 months of social science really HAS rotted my brain... ;]


           Hate is not a traditional family value: Boycott Colorado! 
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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Ye rules
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 14 Nov 92  08:57:00

 -=> Gerald Bliss said to Kay Shapero on 11-10-92  18:42 <=-

 GB> BTW, have I ever posted "The Martian of the Swamp Country", my first
 GB> ever filk (1969, but it needed cleaning up, which was done in 1970)?
 GB> The tune is Dylan's "Girl of the North Country".  I figured if he
 GB> could  rip off Scarborough Faire, he was setting himself up for a filk.

Heh! Quite a lot of his early stuff are filks of trad. tunes.....

... How many Borg does it take to screw in a lightbulb? All of them.


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From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Huh????
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 19 Nov 92  10:11:37

On <Nov 16 09:16>, Eli Brian Goldberg <eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>, wrote to All:
  
 U>I recall being told by a filker that the area of the brain that 
 U>deals with
 U>math also deals with music.

 U>Have any other filkers experienced a serious decline in 
 U>mathematical abilities
 U>after getting musically obsessed? (other than what would be 
 U>reasonably expected
 U>from a lack of practice?)

Not that I've noticed - I was good at both when a kid, to the point where I
seriously considered taking math as a major at the same time I was also
considering taking up singing as a profession.  I did neither, which is just
as well I suppose - my math skills topped out at partial differential
equations (all of a sudden it was WORK!) and from what I've heard of the
singing profession... well I think I'd rather be an amateur.

My calculus is not what it once was, but that's purely lack of practice; a
skill you haven't used in 15+ years is bound to get a tad rusty.

One interesting thing I've noticed in here is the number of people who took up 
the piano then discovered they preferred the guitar.  I have TRIED to learn
the guitar several times and invariably found I'd rather go play with my
keyboard.  So I finally bowed to the inevitable and have been using the
keyboard for accompaniment.  I'm not really to the stage where I can perform
much with it - I still do most of my filking either a capella, or with the
assistance of whoever cares to join in with a guitar or whatever (last LAFA
filk, one of the filkers whose last name I have managed to forget, oh the
shame of it - her first is Marilyn and she has a VoicE - brought along a lot
of percussion instruments and we all had fun playing with them.)  But I find
that I am willing to sit down and practice it without it turning into a chore. 

 

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: rafe@cix.compulink.co.uk (Rafe Culpin)
Subject: Re: Pentatonic
Reply-To: rafe@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:22:00 +0000

In <n0e63t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:
> Would anyone on the Echo/Net post con info for Pentatonic, please?  

Right - this gives me a chance to see if the trick of posting to Usenet via
demon's gateway actually works - if you don't see this, please let me know!

Some additions to what Steve Glover posted - apologies if someone already
sent this - the CIX/Usenet link has been down and I think some messages got
lost.

The con starts Friday evening, so actually runs 5-7th Feb 1993
Rozel Hotel, Weston-Super-Mare - this is a seaside town on the Bristol
channel, SW of Bristol.
Snail: Pentatonic, 3 West Shrubbery, Redland, Bristol, BS6 6SZ, UK
Email: dholladay@cix.compulink.co.uk

From PR2: The room rate is now fixed: UKP24 per person per night in the
"family" rooms, sharing three to the room; UKP25 pppn for twin and double
rooms; UKP26 for single rooms, UKP10 per night for children aged between 9
and 14 years sharing a room with an adult, no charge for under 9 sharing.
In addition, those who wish to extend their stay for Sunday night will be
charged only UKP15 for bed & breakfast on that night, provided that they
were at the hotel for the previous two.

Membership is now UKP18, payable "Pentatonic" - this rate will rise later
They can take checks in US dollars payable to Roger Robinson - this was at
UKP * 2, but that was before the exchange rate went heisenberg.
Children under 9 UKP1.


By the way Deborah, could you please add my Edress (rafe@cix.compulink.co.uk)
to the TFT Filker's Directory, and to the Filksings listing?

To All: I'm the contact for the monthly filkers meetings in London (social,
not singing - usually last Friday of month). Mail me for details if you're
coming over.

Rafe Culpin


... And what do you have against filamentarily challenged lightbulbs?
From: Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Hosing down the Fridge
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 09 Nov 92  03:45:01

Here's a start for someone to pickup on if they should feel so inclinedL

To the tune "Somewhere, Out There" from An American Tail,

"Something's growing.  I wonder what it was.
 Something's growing in there and now it's just blue fuzz."

--- Mark Perew  Mark.Perew@ofa123.fidonet.org
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Post Permission
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 20 Nov 92  09:07:12

On <Nov 17 16:31>, electro@access.digex.com (Gary Ehrlich), wrote to all:

 GE>My attempt to post last night got garbled, so I'll try again:

 GE>To the person who wanted to repost "Amanda Be Q": fire away!

It's ok with me too, for those who prefer to be "official".  (What, in here?)

 GE>To the keeper of the blanket permission list: Please add me to it

 GE>    Gary Ehrlich    electro@access.digex.com

Will do. 

                 Ye Moderator / Designated Topic Cop, Kay Shapero 

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From: Kihe.Blackeagle@p4003.f6224.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: calls & cadences
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 16 Nov 92  11:51:30

 KS> And then there are cadence calls of the
 KS> "I don't know but it's been said
 KS> Navy wings are made of lead
 KS>          SOUND OFF"
 KS> or 
 KS> "I don't know but I been told
 KS> Air Force wings are made of gold"
 KS> variety.  Along with a lot I probably shouldn't post on a 
 KS> public newsgroup... :->
 KS> Anybody else know some good ones that they CAN post?

Cub Scouts, believe it or not ("normal" cadence call&response):
                The Mud Duck Marching Song
        Pack 1030 Webelos, Gray Owl District, Circle 10 Council, BSA
        (Original verses attributed to the Miller & Jackson families,
         plus other 'Ducks -- the following are courtesy of a 'Duck-Dad)
                "fair use" provisions, please...

        We are the Mud Ducks, small but loud
        And we're glad to see you, glad & proud
        The Mud Ducks do what we are told
        In summer heat or winter's cold

                SOUND OFF
                  Quack Quack
                DO IT AGAIN
                  Waddle Waddle
                BRING IT ON HOME NOW
                  Quack Quack Waddle Waddle
                  QUACK QUACK! WADDLE WADDLE!

        The Mud Ducks are in this camp to stay
        No litlle wind will keep us from our play
        Our feet our webbed now, yes that's true
        But *we're* not stu-uck, how 'bout you?
                SOUND OFF...

        (and there is more where this comes from!)

 KS> (Feel free to send me the other type via e-mail... snicker....) 

Me too!

Pax ... Kihe

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From: Mike.Liebmann@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Apple beer?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 21 Nov 92 07:47:16

You won't find it in Utah, I don't think.....however, you'll find some good
filking, I hope. 

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From: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Clarifications
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 16 Nov 92  06:59:16

Replying to a message by Mike Liebmann of 1:102/524, Nov 14 07:36, to Uucp:

 ML> One other point, as an example, backing up: I've been told by 
 ML> some people that...has been offended by some of my singing from several 
 ML> years back.

"Offended" by your singing?  Pretty amazingly snobbish.  I've got to tell you, 
I've been annoyed by off-key singing--but never offended.  That's sort of like 
being offended by a jackhammer, or the existence of Limburger cheese.

And if one were offended by the thought of off-key filkers, why, one would
have to be offended much of the time, because most are....  ;-)


Rob L.

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From: figmo@netcom.com (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: BNFs vs "Filk Elitists"
Organization: The Burn the Candle at Both Ends Club
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:02:18 GMT

In article <n0e66t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>...in the Con Suite.  Somewhere along the line, we got a small filk going into
>which various people such as Tom Smith, Steve Savitsky and Joe Bethancourt and
>so on wandered from time to time.  So I got to sit there and watch Joe play
>more stringed instruments than I ever knew existed (that guy is Impressive... 
> Hi, Joe!), listen to some very fine songs, and sing a number of things
>myself; far more than if I had joined one of the "official" filks downstairs
>since there would have been more other people to take turns.  Were we elitist?
>No - anybody who wanted to could wander in and sing or whatever.  Were we
>left out?  I don't know about the others, but _I_ sure didn't feel left out!  
>This is a hobby.  This is for fun! 

Agreed.  When it's open and anyone can join in the fun, it's not
elitist.

--Lynn
From: J-Mag@p25.f2000.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Pagan Yule Carols
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 18 Nov 92  11:12:14

Sunday November 15 1992, Karl Lembke writes to All:

 KL> I can't seem to get at the files section yet, so I'll risk being
 KL> redundant and ask over the echo....

 KL> I'm looking for Pagan or Paganized carols for the Yule circle this
 KL> coming December.

Catherine(sp?) Madsen has a version of "Now the Green Blade Riseth" on "The
Patience of Love" which used to be available from Circle (although it's a
spring song).  There're also the wren-hunting/winter king songs.

Hope this is somewhat helpful.

- J-Mag

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From: Mike.Liebmann@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: New Filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 14 Nov 92 00:50:35

The "Ferryman Ferryman" filk you're referring to is on one of the Songworm
tapes, and it's called "Filksingers Filksingers." 

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From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Clarifications
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 13 Nov 92  23:38:00

 On 11-11-92 Uucp wrote to All... 
 
 U > From  ucivax!heifetz.msen.com!dgsi!puck!markb 
 U > From: markb@puck (Mark Bernstein)

 U > To:   filk@ofa123.fidonet.org 
 U > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 08:33:21 EST 
 U > 
 U > I'm not sure I understand the distinction.  How do you tell a "name" 
 U > from 
 U > a "performance filker"?  In any case, I'm sorry our experiences have 
 U > been 
 U > so different. 
 
Just for a giggle, I thought I'd respond to this.  Bob Kanefsky is a 
"name" filker.  Tom Smith is a "name" filker and a "performance" filker. 
Harry Smothers is a "performance" filker (and a royal stage-hog, but I 
apologize as frequently as people will listen...)  I would mention 
people who don't fit in either category, but they're such nice people 
that others should not care if they THINK they fit in a category. 
 
The above listing is by no means comprehensive, and is meant to be for 
the sake of example only.  In your own words, your mileage may vary. 
 
... OFFLINE 1.39 * Rhyme doesn't pay. 

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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Re: Math skills 
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In article <n0f03t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
           Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>Oddly enough, math was my main problem in chemistry too - only it wasn't that
>I was bad in it, it was that I made the fatal mistake of treating chemical
>equations the way you treat math equations and kept trying to work out
>LOGICALLY what the reactions between two chemicals were.

ROFL!  No, chemistry isn't logical - ask any cook!  Oh, gods, that
*still* has me giggling, thinking about it!  Chemystery is still a Black
Art, more related to particle physics than to a science (and yes, I know
that's an inflamatory statement - if anyone can tell me IN DETAIL how
the exothermic reactions created by that statement occur, they're
welcome to do so <g>).

Incidentally, I'm one of the people who's switched from keyboard to
guitar.  I used to be good at math, but years of non-practice have
eroded the ability...

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From: lola@lucid.com (Lola McCrary)
Subject: Re: The Filkso"ngs
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:49:47 GMT


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From: Gerald.Bliss@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Per Kay's Request
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 18 Nov 92  20:33:00

                    The Martian of the Swamp Country
                     Harry Smothers, c. 1969, 1973
 
             [Tune: Girl of the North Country by Bob Dylan]
 
     If you're goin' to the Michigan swamps
     Where the UFO's fly 'cross the line
     Say hello to a Martian I once knew
     It once was a good friend of mine
 
The Air Force said that I'd just seen "swamp gas"
An' they implied that I was nuts, or lyin'.
But if gas is solid, it still don't shake your hand.
An' it once was a good friend of mine.
 
     If you're goin' to the Michigan swamps
     Where such strange sights the folk are spyin' --
     Four legs in front; in the rear, it had two,
     An' it once was a good friend of mine.
 
If you get out of this old Metro State
Where they put folks who've lost their mind
Wont'cha visit this Martian that I knew
'Cuz it once was a good friend of mine.
 
     If you're goin' to the Michigan swamps
     Whence come the stories no one's buyin' --
     One eye was orange, the other two was blue,
     An' it once was a good friend of mine.
 
If I get out of this hospital, too,
Where all we do is sit and waste our time,
I'll come on out to see both it and you
F'r it once was a good friend of mine.
 
     If you're goin' to the Michigan swamps
     Where the UFO's fly cross the line,
     Say hello to a Martian I once knew.
     It once was a good friend of mine.
 
 
 
[Historical notes:  I was born and raised in Norwalk, a suburb of Los
Angeles, California.  The hospital referred to, Metropolitan State
Hospital, flanked my neighborhood on two sides, which is where I got my
sense of bedlam.  Also, I wrote this song 23 years (a good number)
before moving to Michigan, something I never dreamed of doing - Michigan
just fit the scansion and had lots of water...]

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From: Bob.Hirschfeld@p2.f74.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Tom Lehrer
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 20 Nov 92  20:03:00

> On October 16, 1992 (I think) you asked:
> BA> speaking of tom lehrer, does anyone know what happened to him?
> (I've been a little slow getting to my mail)
 
> Last I heard, he was still teaching up at the university in Mass. that
> told
> him he had to stop singing such outrageous songs in order to get his
> tenure
> (at least, that's the story I was told).  Do you know any more about
> that?
 
> I wish he would publish some new stuff--I like the way he looks at
> things.
 
 
Since you "missed it", here's a reprise:
 
Date: 25 Oct 92  13:00:00
From: Bob Hirschfeld
  To: Duke Mcmullan N5gax
Subj: Re: Tom Lehrer
____________________________________________________________________________
 
> I dunno if I want to do it, but the filk is irresistable:
 
> What ever became of Tom Lehrer?
> Has anyone heard a thing?
> . . . .
> Anyone?
 
OK, here goes, composed online as I type:
 
WHATEVER BECAME OF LEHRER (c) 1992 by Bob Hirschfeld
 
Whatever became of Lehrer?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Does he teach, does he preach, does he tan on the beach?
Why is there no new song to sing?
 
What's become of satirical spirit?
When he writes now, must Santa Cruz clear it?
How can we his absence endure,
As a teacher, returned to obscure?
 
Oh, give us fresh songs, Tom, we beg you
The times merit i-con-o-clasm
There's hardly any worth repeating,
Though sometimes the FILK echo has'm.
 
Does Lehrer, at Santa Cruz campus, U.C.
Stay at home, no more brave, in the land of the free?
Are the barbs of your satire now through?
Tom Lehrer, what happened to you?

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From: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Getting everyone involved
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:29:00 GMT
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992

In a message to Leonard Erickson <11-14-92 13:12> Kay Shapero wrote:

KS> That and a nice LOUD voice to address the shy guy in the corner "YOU
KS> haven't sung anything yet!  Whatcha got?"

Oh? Did I forget to mention that I've had SCA folk try to recruit me for field 
herald duties because I won't need training on how to get my voice to carry?
(15 years of carrying on "normal conversations" between opposite ends of a
large house does that to you :-)

Now if I could only carry a tune...  
 
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From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Ye Rules
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 14 Nov 92  13:22:03

On <Nov 10 18:42>, Gerald Bliss (1:120/281) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 GB>I would like to give blanket permission to post my songs, few 
 GB>though 
 GB>they be.  These songs should be posted with Harry Smothers as the 
 GB>author, regardless of whether they were originally posted as 
 GB>Harry 
 GB>Smothers, J. Random Folksinger or even my "real world" persona, 
 GB>Gerald 
 GB>Bliss; no other caveats.  You can get my address from my tagline, 
 GB>but 
 GB>I'm pretty sure it's 1:120/281. 

Gotcha, and will do.  (Er... I'm handicapped by the fact that I don't recall
the first names of the infamous Smothers Brothers (oh, the shame of it all!) - 
if Harry was one of 'em, is there any way we could have aliases that won't
create confusion?)

 GB> 
 GB>BTW, have I ever posted "The Martian of the Swamp Country", my 
 GB>first 
 GB>ever filk (1969, but it needed cleaning up, which was done in 
 GB>1970)? 
 GB>The tune is Dylan's "Girl of the North Country".  I figured if he 
 GB>could 
 GB>rip off Scarborough Faire, he was setting himself up for a filk. 
 GB> 

No you haven't, but please do! 

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