OT: Any musicians here?

[travismcgee]

Hey Now! I drum along with the car stereo on the dashboard every freakin' day!

Yeah, looks like more and more folks our age are doing this. Can you say "Yusuf Islam used to be Cat Stevens"?

I'm getting a buzz over my 17 year old niece taking up stuff I'd dropped behind me years ago. She's really re-energizing my interest in some things.

However, I was never an Orch-Dork like she is. I leave the Violin in her more than capable hands.

But I am re-discovering my interest in dance and hope I can manage to get in shape and stick with it. I'm pretty creaky, and Contra Dancing is NOT for the faint of heart - or breath.

Tonight - Intro to Swing Dance!

LOL,
Babs

Yes I do too and I get a lot of funny looks from other drivers and stern admonishment from my kids to "put your hands on the wheel!"

cheers

Travis

[tansey]

I play celtic-classical guitar, uilleann pipes, and low whistle. Any of y'all play?
Tansey

i come from a very musical irish family; my father was a professional musician for many years; one of my brothers played drums in a band; another brother is lead singer in two awesome celtic bands and plays more instruments than i can count...
not a musician myself, though i can sing and on rare occasion my brother lets me sing with him

but, actually the reason why i'm replying is: how did you find yourself playing the uilleann pipes? are you irish?

well, about 8 uears ago, I was building a mantle in a a ladies house. She told me to feel free to listen to her CDs, and one of them had the uilleann pipes backing up a vocalist, I was totally smitten, as bad as teenage love. I already played celtic guitar and had taken up whistle when I quit smoking. The pipes are very difficult to even find. Without the Internet it would have been almost impossible. I have become a decent read maker, and have two half sets, one in D and the other in C. I am Scotch-irish-french. I just live the music and play a lot of the time. hope this isn't too much Info
Tansey

wow, that's pretty cool tansey
on the dvd of 'riverdance' there are some phenomenal musicians playing whistles, pipes, drums, you name it...something to see....er, hear?

but with all due respect, unless you actually ARE liquor, you're more like SCOTTISH-irish-french

Sharon, I actually are liquor, at times

Tansey

[tansey]

Hey Tansey,

Ever contemplate dressing up funny and bringing your pipes to a living history event?

We've got a cute little piper who comes up from Dothan to Wetumpka to attend Frontier Days at Fort Toulouse. And other events. Can't have too many pipers.

Your ancestry is calling you.

http://www.fttoulousejackson.org

If you check them out via email, tell them Barbara in Tacoma sent you. I think a few of them still love me enough to invite me back next year.

LOL,
Babette La Mauvaise - scourge of many historic sites across the continent

Nice web site. I am familiar with that area. I use to date a girl who lived on the Toulouse Plantation in wetumpka.

[sharon1965]

LOL, tansey
i hear ya!

[Guest]

SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Tansey, my rule is "What happens in Wetumpka, Stays in Wetumpka."

Hey, other people go to Vegas to get their freak on. I go to Wetumpka, Alabama.

And I highly recommend the Key West Motel, very close proximity to the Fort. I haven't camped out since being on the hose, but really, in that heat, I appreciate the AC and the shower too much to complain.

LOL,
Babs - Originator of 18th Century Stripper Night at Fort Toulouse

[Guest]

Oh, BTW, pix of me here:
http://www.fttoulousejackson.org/Toulou ... Events.htm

Under
November, 2001 (Frontier Days):
(Includes food in Commadant's Quarters, Parley, individuals)
22 photos in Flickr.com

I can't access Flicker from work to post the direct link.

Scroll to the bottom of the first linked page to see my buddy Ginger being massacreeed on the History Channel:

Ginger shooting the bow
Yelling after shooting the bow
Ginger, after being shot by Jackson's men

LOL,
Babs - Who gives credit to the French, but the English Pig Dogs have to pay cash! Ptui!

[MusicMan]

I play drums, bass, guitar, and keys. Used to play in bands but haven't since 2006. Playing 40 songs a night on drums in clubs was very strenuous, not to mention the temptation to drink. It's hard for me to be in a tavern where everyone is drinking and not drink. If I stay away from it, I'm fine. But it sure doesn't help my sleep apnea.

[cflame1]

Guess that I missed this post the first time around...

I play keys (Yamaha Motif ES6)/organ... and I sing. Have played and sang in a church band... but not at the moment. Now it's just all for me.

[Tcamillemars]

I have a masters degree in music and was a saxophone major and a piano minor. I make my living as a pianist. Also have studied guitar.

[nightjar]

Guess that I missed this post the first time around...

Me, too. Then again, I wasn't a forum member then--that's my excuse, anyway!

I mentioned this in MusicMan's first thread, but I'll put it here, too, so all us musicians can be together.

I'm a singer-songwriter, a baritone who plays a Gibson WM-00 small-body acoustic. I play mostly in Wisconsin, but every once in a while I make it out of the state.

So far I don't have any music up at my website, but you can read about the music and my influences, anyway--it's at http://www.nightjarrecords.com . (It's a dialup-friendly site, by the way.) (That's where my nighthawk avatar comes from, too.)

Very, very cool to read about all the musicians here in the forum!

nath

[oxygenium65]

I have played guitar 30 years... For hobby: 50's - 80's Rock'n'Roll, Rock, Rockabilly, Blues,
Rhythm'n'Blues.. Great fun!

2 years was enough for me in surf,- popular,- ballroom dance,- club,- music playing group.
Not funny at all. Too many hotels to woke up in the hallway because of my snoring... about 100 gigs/year
That was 2002-2003, and before my OSA diagnosis. I was soooo dead tired then.

I had small-budjet studio at -90's. Mainly for radio-commercials productions, but i also wasted almost every weekend for recording and mixing some rock-/punk-/subculture-/nameless- bands demos, and a few records... I was tired then as well, but i liked it.

I have a real job now

I haven't even tune my guitars in last 6 months.
I'm hoping my therapy starts to work. I have slept only 2 cpap nights, just got the machine. My OSA get so bad before i understund to get help.

[plr66]

Pretty cool how many musicians there are here! I've never been a pro, but play several folk-type instruments--autoharp, appalachian dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltry--as well as celtic harp. All self-taught, and been playing most for about 30 years, teaching and performing informally and formally with various folk music clubs/societies I've been involved with. Harp has now been my favorite for the past 12 years or so. Knocks my socks off, and I only consider myself an intermediate player. I have to say that over this past summer before being diagnosed with OSA, when I was so tired and fogged, and dizzy, and depressed, and feeling like I was in middle stage alzheimer's--I lost all interest in playing. And THAT was truly a factor which drove me to see my doctor.

[Songbird]

This is a fun thread. Thanks for bringing it back, MusicMan! (And welcome to the forum! )

I misspoke myself back in August when I said I didn't play any instruments and am happy to correct myself here. (how did I miss this??) I play the finger cymbals!!

Back then, I said I was a singer and very thankful that the groups I was in were very understanding about my need of a stool for concerts (due to increasing exhaustion, muscle weakness, back and joint problems -- general physical decline primarily due to OSA). To update that.... Going both to work and evening practices was exhausting me too much this fall. I decided my healing had to take precedence, so have taken a time-out from my groups in order to focus on healing. I'm very hopeful that I'll have improved enough by January to get back into the groove, so to speak. Singing and spending time with other musicians feed my soul, and I've found that my already deep appreciation for so many in this forum has deepened even more during this non-singing time. Although its primary purpose should always be helping one another with SA issues, I'm so glad that our forum is also balanced with helping to meet such other human needs as emotional support, simply connecting with other people (not to be confused with eHarmony-type socializing, which certainly has its place.... but at eHarmony, not here, IMO) and just plain fun once in a while.

Speaking of which, plr66, your post reminded me of something that bluegrass musician I had mentioned back in August loves to ask people: "What's another word for a hammered dulcimer?" After a well-timed (silent) pause, he delights in answering, "Kindling!!" NOT ME, plr66!! I love mountain music and hope to get into it more at some point.

Marsha

[jnk]

Well sung, Songbird.

[carbonman]

I've never been a pro, but play several folk-type instruments--autoharp, appalachian dulcimer, hammered dulcimer,

I have to say that over this past summer before being diagnosed with OSA, when I was so tired and fogged, and dizzy, and depressed, I lost all interest in playing.

66, very cool! A number of life times ago, I discovered appalachian dulcimers
on a trip to Central City. I learned how to play, then started building them.
I probably built 30. I gave them to friends and gave a few to the local
folklore center. Dulcimers are very cool.

When I moved to Alaska, just by chance, the group of people I met
were all musicians. We had all the makings for a jub band.
I played the autoharp. We had a guitar, banjo, harp, tub base and jug player.
During that time I learned how to "play" a limber jack.
It was very popular when we played the bars.
Boy, those were some fun times. Nothing like a little bar, in the dead of
winter, everyone 3 sheets to the breeze, doing a sing-along to
the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillys.

After everyone in the band went their separate ways, I started learning the
guitar. I know exactly the feeling of loosing your drive to play, I was experiencing
the same thing. Since cpap, I have been playing more and more.

.....and all this music talk brings to mind the tragic time.....
a group of terrorists, hijacked a bus load of banjo players.
It was awful.
They threatened to release a player every hour if their demands weren't met.