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From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: stupid question
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  08:25:00

 -=> Chris Croughton said to All on 12-10-92  13:37 <=-

 CC> Organization: Keristor Systems

 >Why does the Em-G chord switch sound so neat?

 CC> Gods, you *really* want lessons in music theory <g>?

 CC> In short form, it's because Em is the relative minor of G.  In other
 CC> words, if you take the G major scale (G A B C D E F# G) and go down a
 CC> minor third to E, then take the chord that results in that scale (E G
 CC> B) then you get Em...

 CC> Incidentally, a person on one of the local BBS systems is doing an
 CC> online course on music theory (specifically, chord theory).  I won't
 CC> post it here, but I *will* make it available on my mailserver (leave
 CC> it a week or so - I'm modifying the system - I'll post when it's
 CC> working).

I'd like to have a copy of that......


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--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Charlotte.Jerscheid@f1044.n261.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: another christmas carol trashed
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  10:56:00

 FR> Organization: Indiana University
 FR> From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
 FR> Message-ID: <reid.12.724457910@ucs.indiana.edu>
 FR> Newsgroups: alt.music.filk

 FR> Some of us made this up while caving in Kentucky during the
 FR> Thanksgiving holiday:

 FR> tune:  Angels We Have Heard on High

 FR> Oreos, my favorite snack.

Love it!  I'm going to show it to my son...I don't know if he'll appreciate
the humor of it's being set to a Christmas song, but he *will* understand the
sentiment. :-)
                                             csj
.
.
 
... I'm from outer space.  I only work in Baltimore.
--- Blue Wave/RA v2.10 [NR]
From: Carl.Mork@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Shaking of the Sheets
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  12:44:00

 -=> In a missive from Joe Bethancourt to All <=-

 JB> Just for funsies, here's the words to "Shaking Of The Sheets" (don't
 JB> worry, Kay, they're -seriously- Trad. by several hundred years)


 JB> *

 JB> THE SHAKING OF THE SHEETS
 JB> -recorded by Steeleye Span
 JB> "Tempted & Tried" Shanachie 64020

 JB> CHORUS: Dance, dance, the shaking of the sheeets
 JB> Dance, dance, when you hear the piper
 JB> Playing, everyone must dance
 JB> The shaking of the sheets with me.

 JB> *


 JB> ... GRIM, ain't it! Typical cheerful medieval song, it is!
	Well, it isn't that all medieval songs are gloomy, but that this is obviously
one of the various songs about the Black Plague and what was referred to as
"The Dance of Death."  Fatalism is appropriate to the situation...


... Not tonight, dear.  I have a modem.
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10 [NR]
From: Allan.Burrows@f338.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Xenofilkia, for the record
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  06:17:26

me>      Lee Gold                COST: five cents per song page up to $1.00
(etc.)

DMN> In front of me here on the desk lies a letter from Lee Gold which....

        The info I gave was taken straight from Xeno #26. No dount yours
was more up-to-date; hopefully it'll be in the next Xeno.

DMN> He also has numbers 1-3 of Filker Up.  He describes these as about
DMN> 44 pages of songs (each?).  $2 + postage....

        She.

                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: More sexy banjo stuff
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  10:54:00

On 12/13/92, Joe Bethancourt said to Usenet concerning More sexy banjo stuff: 


  JB> ******************* RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS/ARTISTS
 
[list omitted]

I'd like to add anything by Roger Sprung and the Progressive Bluegrassers,
particularly "Let's Pick," "Bluegrass Gold Vol. 1" and "Pickin' On the Sunny
Side" ("Yackety Sax" on the banjo!  Yes!!!)

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: mathoms, gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 12 Dec 92  08:28:00

 -=> Pete Granzeau said to Allan Burrows on 12-09-92  13:03 <=-

 AB>MC> Dredge up your wrapped mathoms for a mathom party one each per
 AB>MC> person -- grand opening to be at 10:00PM

 AB>        Pardon, please; what is a "mathom"?

 PG> Something out of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings".  I won't look
 PG> it up, but it's something like a useless present for a party.

Actually it's perfectly good OE/ME.....a useless object of any kind that just
adds to the clutter.


... Under socialism, Man exploits Man; Capitalism reverses the trend


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: More neopagan Xmas
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 10 Dec 92  22:37:00

                HARK THE NEO-PAGANS SING
                                -"Sunblade"
           (Tune: "Hark the Herald Angels Sing")

    Hark the neo-Pagans sing,
    Glory to the Holly King!
    Peace on Earth and mercy mild,
    God and Goddess reconciled,
      Hear us now as we proclaim:
      We have risen from the flames!
      Our ancient Craft now we reclaim,
      In the God and Goddess' names
    Hark the neo-Pagans sing,
    Glory to the Holly King!

    Herne by highest love adored,
    Herne the ever-reborn Lord,
    At all times behold Him come,
    Offspring of the Holy One,
      Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see,
      Hail Incarnate Deity!
      Our ancient Craft now we reclaim,
      in the God and Goddess' names
    Hark the neo-Pagans sing,
    Glory to the Holly King!

                                *


... Where is Wonder Warthog now that we need him?


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: It's Snow Joke!!
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  08:41:31

On <Dec 14 22:43>, abd4w@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Amado Bautista Deguzman) 
asked the magic question....

 AB>Very Creative! I hope your boss doesn't scan the net.  By the
 AB>way, what's a filk?

Welcome to the FILK echo!  It's for discussing filksongs and related things.  
And in answer to the obvious next question:

WHAT THE HECK IS FILK MUSIC? 

by Nick Smith (of LA Filkharmonics) 
  
Well, it's sort of like folk music.  It is a mixture of song parodies and
original music, humorous and serious, about subjects like science fiction,
fantasy, computers, cats, politics, the space program, books, movies, TV
shows, love, war, death. . . 
  
Filk music started off forty or fifty years ago, at science fiction
conventions, where people got together late at night to have good
old-fashioned folk music song circles.  Well, late night circles being what
they are, some folks got a little silly and started singing song parodies
about their favorite SF books and authors.  Fans started writing song parodies 
about themselves or each other.  Some started composing serious songs about
favorite topics.  Some authors started composing original songs for their
books.  If the author didn't list a tune, fans made up one.  Sometimes two. 
Sometimes several. 
  
Eventually, Filk songs wre written for just about every major science fiction 
or fantasy work.  Some of them were actually good enough that people wanted to 
learn them, or just listen to them more than just at conventions.  At that
point, song books and recordings started being made. 
  Over the last decade, Filk Music has reached the point where there are
entire Filk Music gatherings, conventions, recording companies, and
publications.  Filk Music includes song parodies, original songs, and slightly 
musical poetry.  It's a fun way to indulge in a little musical creativity,
especially if you are a science fiction or fantasy fan as well as musically
inclined.  If you are only a fan, but not musical, you can still listen.  Filk 
circles aren't pushy about requiring you to play or sing.  If you are only
musical, but not a fan, no one will hold it against you.  Remember, we're in
this thing for fun! 
  
[Written for flyer for distribution at California Traditional Music
Society Annual Summer Solstice Dulcimer Festival and other local Los
Angeles folk music events and stores.]

What Nick didn't tell you is that the name started out as a typo of "folk"
and was gleefully adopted by all and sundry as a term for what is after
all a somewhat unusual subset of folk.

Kay Shapero, Moderator/Designated Topic Cop, FILK echo 
 

 


--- msged 2.06
From: Major.Matt.Mason@p11.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Wet Christmas
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  18:15:44

On 12/13/92, Allan Burrows said to Major Matt Mason concerning Re: Wet
Christmas: 

  MMM> Why, shore. Subject: christmas filk? Wet Christmas
  MMM> 
  AB> You're a friend, Major. I owe you one. Allan

No problemo.  De nada.

-MMM-

--- MacWoof Eval:25Oct92
From: Harry.Smothers@f281.n120.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Julia Ecklar (was: Re: Hu
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  12:01:00

 On 12-12-92 Mary Creasey wrote to Harry Smothers... 
 
 MC> Well, Julia was the lead singer on _The Horse-Tamer's Daughter_; 
 MC> but that wasn't all her songs. That may be the tape you're thinking 
 MC> of, though. She also sang many of the leads on _Minus Ten And 
 MC> Counting_, 
 MC> but not all of them. 
 MC> And, before you ask--Yes, those are both LONG out-of-print OCP tapes, 
 MC> and will in all likelihood NOT be reprinted from their original 
 MC> masters. 
 
Already knew they were both out of print, and not to be republished. 
But I know where the masters LIVE, and it's my wife's alma mater, about 
8-9 hours south of here... maybe I can sneak a tape recorder in... 
 
... OFFLINE 1.41 * I probably stole this tagline, but I don't remember 

--- DCQwk/T.A.G.  1.5
From: Allan.Burrows@f338.n250.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Ave Maria Filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  06:57:31

CAG> Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
CAG> From: carson@cs.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar)
CAG> Message-ID: <Bz0CI1.J1u@cs.columbia.edu>
CAG> Newsgroups: alt.music.filk

CAG> Speaking of Jewish/Xian  filks, does anyone have all the words to
CAG> the Ave Maria/Have Negila (ACK! So I can't transliterate hebrew -
CAG> it's not my fault!) filk?....

        By any chance, would that be "Non-Denominational Hora" by Murry
Porath? I'm not sure if his stuff is distributed at all, (I'm not that
familiar with published stuff), or what his copyrights are. (Since he's a
lawyer, I wouldn't want to guess! <smile>) I know he wrote a second verse
to it, though.
                Allan

--- Blue Wave/Max v0.7 Q-Blue
From: Scott.Malcomson@f110.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Modem filk
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  13:49:00

 The Lady R denied allegations of involvement with All over Modem filk:

 TLR> (to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby")

 TLR> Ah, look at all the busy modems!
 TLR> Ah, look at all the waiting users!

[LOUD APPLAUSE] Magnifique! :>


---LCd


... Think global, act loco! Yeehah! Schma!
--- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.10
From: mooring@grimoire.tymnet.com (Ed Mooring)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Mathoms, Gracey?
Date: 19 Dec 92 01:41:00 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet Bit Bucket Brigade

As with many terms from LOTR, Tolkien borrowed a real
word from an old language.  In Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
'mathom' (the 'th' is a thorn) meant 'treasure'.




Regards,
Ed Mooring (mooring@tymix.tymnet.com 408-922-7504)
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Lyrics needed
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 10 Dec 92  15:46:35

On <Dec 07 10:35>, Bruce Lane (1:161/412) wrote to All:

 BL>    Does anyone have the lyrics handy for 'Purple People Eater,' 
 BL>by Sheb Wooly? If so, please to NetMail to me at 1:161/412 or 
 BL>post here. I've got a parody brewing for it <eevyl gryn>.
    ^^^^^^^^^

No - use e-mail.  The thing is copyright and has no business being broadcast
over the net.
 

--- msged 2.06
From: Kettlingurr@f708.n362.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: lords of the dance
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  09:57:08

 -=> I once heard Kay Shapero say this: 

 KS> Gang?  I think this one has gone on long enough, don't you? 

oh, pooh.......  <looking up at you with kitten eyes>  ..but I LIKE this 
topic!  The song has that nice Gmaj chord (I *think* that's what it is) at
the beginning.......  <sigh>

Oh, well.  



... Please don't kabong me, Kay...... you might hit my tail!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.11

--- Maximus 2.01wb
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Mathoms, Gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 16 Dec 92  09:26:28

On <Dec 12 18:17>, Major Matt Mason (1:273/715.11) wrote to Pete Granzeau:

 MM>As I recall, it's a present that never gets unwrapped, but is 
 MM>given back and forth to various people over the years...I think 

Actually I like your description better, but it's just any object that you
have no use for but is too good to throw away.  

Your comment reminds me of the legend of The Fruitcake.  There is only one
fruitcake in the world.  Every year it is given by whoever got it last year to 
someone else... 

--- msged 2.06
From: Sherman.Dorn@p6.f715.n273.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: More sexy banjo stuff
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92  09:06:58

On <13 Dec 92  11:37>, Joe Bethancourt scribbled the following to Usenet:

 JB>  But take a look at it: it is strings
 JB> mounted on a drum-head....and this
 JB>  should be a pretty good indicator that the banjo is a PERCUSSION
 JB>  instrument as well as a STRINGED
 JB> instrument. The banjo should have a good
 JB>  -strong- rhythmic beat, accenting and driving the rhythm of the song's
 JB>  tune and lyrics. Pay attention to that!

Of course, any jazz musician or afficionado must note that drums, guitars,
basses, and pianos all are considered "rhythm" (and thus percussion) for the
purposes of jam sessions.  We know a piano is percussion.  A guitar *should*
be considered also a percussion instrument, as well as basses when not bowed. 
 Well, I guess that means drums are the only non-percussion family of
instruments in a rhythm section, right?
--- via XCS 1.00
From: J-Mag@p25.f2000.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: more juvenile Christmas ditties
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 09 Dec 92  09:49:44

Sunday December 06 1992, Suzanne Buck writes to All:

 SB> Deck the halls with gasoline
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la
 SB> Strike a match and watch it gleam
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la

Okay so far.

 SB> Break a window, pop a tire
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la
 SB> Set your old man's pants on fire
 SB> Fa la la la la la la la la

Burn the school down to ashes
Fa la la la la la la la la
Aren't you glad you play with matches
Fa la la la la la la la la

(from my 4th grade son -- I swapped him "Randolf the Red-haired Cowboy")

- J-Mag

--- GoldED 2.40
From: Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: (1/4) DR. DEMENTO
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 14 Dec 92  08:43:54

On <Dec 10 22:10>, Kelly Lopes (1:101/165) wrote to Kay Shapero:

 KL>Thanks for the Dr. Demento station guide.  I haven't listened to 
 KL>him since last Christmas.  Has he already done his Christmas 
 KL>special with the Christmas Funny Five?  "Christmas at Ground 
 KL>Zero" can't be beat, nor can Doug and  Bob McKenzie (did I get 
 KL>the names right?) Twelve Beers of Christmas...

Last night was the Funny 25 - including "Christmas at Ground Zero" and "The 35 
Point Buck".  Number two was a song about Ren & Stimpy... and number one was
"Happy Happy Joy Joy"!  And the Doctor says we can blame it all on Weird Al
who introduced him to the R&S phenomenon.  Next week is the big Christmas
special with...  God and the Doctor only know! 

--- msged 2.06
From: Deborah.Weiss@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Re: Mathoms, Gracey?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:39:03

The term "mathom" is from Tolkien.  It describes an object for which you have 
no use, but which is too good to discard.  In mundane terms, 
"white elephant" is the equivalent.
 
A mathom party is a party where everyone brings a wrapped mathom.  At the
appointed time, a box with numbered slips of paper, 1 per gift or attendee, is 
passed around & each attendee takes one slip.  Each person, in numerical
order, gets to choose a gift to unwrap and hold up for all to ogle.
 
Each successive person to unwrap a gift is given the option to view all
previously opened gifts & decide whether to exchange the new gift for one
already opened.  This can get interesting especially if there is a great gift 
that everyone immediately covets.  (I have seen 1-2 gifts change hands in
almost every round.)
 
After the last person has taken his/her turn, the 1st person to open a gift
then gets to choose from all the opened gifts.  AFter that, gift swapping is
open to negotiation, which again can get interesting. 
 (At the Mathom Exchange at our latest party, the filk tape _Filkcon 
5.2_ and a humongous beer stein were swapped back & forth & there was some
spirited bidding for the recorder.
 
 
And that's what a mathom is used for.  Sometimes, some mathoms are so good as 
mathoms that they get exchanged year after year after year ad infinitum.  It
gets fun trying to guess how many times a mathom has appeared.
 
N.B.:  It never hurts to have a few extra mathoms on hand.  You never know
when it might be needed.


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From: Kelly.Lopes@f165.n101.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: "BREAK THE LAW"
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 10 Dec 92  22:07:25

.....UMM.... A tape of Leslie doing What????

--- TMail v1.30.4
From: electro@access.digex.com (Gary Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: It's Snowtime!
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:56:35 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


                       Winter Traffic Jam
               (Tune: "Winter Wonderland", trad.)
               Lyrics: Gary Ehrlich [ (c) 12/92 ]

Out the window I see the white stuff
And I know driving's gonna be rough
I should be at work
But I'm stuck here with these jerks
Crawling through a winter traffic jam

Oh the snow is coming down now
And the bridges all are iced now
And I can't help but grin
As drivers curse, skid, and spin
Crawling through a winter traffic jam

Maryland's a pretty state to drive through
Except on days when it begins to snow
Then all the local drivers start to panic
And I start to wish I lived in Buffalo

Front wheel drive puts me at ease now
I've got a car that's Japanese now
And with four wheel drive
I'm sure to make it alive
Crawling through a winter traffic jam

Finally make it down to work
And the office is still all dark
But I can play on the net
'Cause noone else is here yet
They're crawling through a winter traffic jam

I will still get my 40 hours
The firm will pay me lots and lots of dough
Then I'll take a week off and fly south
Somewhere warm and far away from all this snow

Now I've driven to my girlfriend's
And I'm praying we get snowed in
We'll make a fire and tea
And curl up, glad as can be
We're not crawling through a winter traffic jam

< This was written *WHILE* stuck in a traffic jam on I-95 during last
  Thursday's "dusting" of snow we got down here in DC.  To me, it was a
  flurry -- not even a inch, I'd say.  But to the average DC driver,
  *one* snowflake is "THE BLIZZARD OF <insert year>!!" >

-- 
     ELECTRO   | Gary J. Ehrlich           | "Real filkers don't document;
    E_____     |                           |  if it was hard to write it   
   E           | electro@access.digex.com  |  should be hard to scan" 
  ELECTRO      | G. EHRLICH on GEnie       |
From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: Banjos with big breasts
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 13 Dec 92  11:38:00

 -=> Usenet said to All on 12-10-92  18:01 <=-

 Us> Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh,
 Us> PA From: Eli Brian Goldberg <eg1n+@andrew.cmu.edu>

  RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

  "How To Play The 5-String Banjo"; Pete Seeger, Box 431, Beacon, NY 12508
       (Every banjo maniac should own this book. Lots of info in it!)

  "Old Time Mountain Banjo;" Art Rosenbaum, Oak Publications

  "Mel Bay's Frailing The 5-String Banjo;" Eric Muller and Barbara Koeler,
       Mel Bay Publications Inc.

  "John Burke's Book Of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes For Banjo" Amsco Music
       Publishing

  "Banjo Chord Dictionary" and the "Banjo Strum Dictionary" Both of these
       from Alfred Publishing Co., 15335 Morrison St., Sherman Oaks, CA
       91403. GOOD references!

  GOOD MAGAZINES:

  "The Banjo Newsletter" PO Box 364, Greensboro, MD 21639

  "Sing Out" 125 E. 3rd St, Bethlehem, PA 18015-5253

  "Frets" (no longer publishing, but they paid a lot of attention to the
          banjo, so hunting down back issues is worth your time. They devoted
          almost all of the May, 1984 issue to the banjo, and that single
          issue contains quite a bit of good information indeed!)

  GOOD MAIL ORDER MUSIC STORES:

  Elderly Instruments, 1100 N Washington, E. Lansing, MI, 48906 (517)
          372-7880 (get -all- of their catalogs....they carry EVERYTHING!)

  A SHORT WORD ABOUT OLD BANJOS:

  Banjos made before about 1900, the ones with non-laminated necks and very
  thin rims, were NOT made for steel strings! If you get hold of one of
  these, PLEASE put nylon strings (the first four from a classical guitar
  set work ok, with an additional first for the fifth string, on it, and
  DON'T tune it to G tuning! Tune it to an E chord with the same
  relationships, i.e. three frets -lower- than G tuning. This is how they
  were tuned back then, and they sound -great- that way. La Bella makes a
  set of nylon banjo strings that are -very- good, and will tune to "G" with
  no problems, tho. Try not to put geared pegs on them.....please? Geared
  pegs use a -larger- hole, and this makes it difficult to restore the old
  friction pegs to them. Leave them as original as possible! They are pieces
  of our history, and need to be preserved.



... Never trust a grapefruit........................................


--- WM v2.04/92-0475
From: Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
Subject: More sexy banjo stuff
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 15 Dec 92  13:51:20

 JB>   RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS/ARTISTS

 JB>   Anything by [...] MIKE SEEGER

Any relation to Pete?

 JB> (yes, -that- Steve Martin...he plays very fine banjo indeed!)

I dunno what other albums he does it on, but there is some banjo on "Let's Get 
Small".  Or does he do some on every album?

 JB>   (all these guys are basically frailers); then for the "other"
 JB>   banjo players: EARL SCRUGGS,

Quiz time.  His playing can be heard in the theme to what old sitcom?

 JB> ... ** SMART BOMB **    >==o    "I explode, therefore I am!"   o==<

Hey!  Get back in the bomb bay!

--- Maximus 2.01wb
Newsgroups: alt.music.filk