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i have come to the following conclusion

1. there are tunes i know that i know i know
2. there are tunes i know that i've forgotten that i know
3. there are some tunes i don't know that i know i don't know
4. there are tunes i don't know that i don't even know i don't know

all the best
john

I've got a fifth category, and those are the tunes that you don't know that you know, although you know them.

My entire repertoire now seems to consist of tunes titled "What Was That?"

I'm trying to get a running joke going at t'Folk Club with the line "Don't play that one, play the other one!"

It's not going well so far.

My entire repertoire now seems to consist of tunes titled "What Was That?"

Yup. And every tune I know is confused with another one I know equally well (or badly). The chance of me playing the right one is 50%.

How about "Fashionable, recently composed tunes that just plain suck but get played anyway because some respected performer composed them?'

Pat Cannady wrote:How about "Fashionable, recently composed tunes that just plain suck but get played anyway because some respected performer composed them?'

That's almost as bad as "Old, traditional tunes that just plain suck but get played because some respected performer played them."

MTGuru wrote:

Pat Cannady wrote:How about "Fashionable, recently composed tunes that just plain suck but get played anyway because some respected performer composed them?'

That's almost as bad as "Old, traditional tunes that just plain suck but get played because some respected performer played them."

And don't get me started on the "and there goes my respect" part.

If all you crave is novelty, you're wasting your time playing trad music. Instead you should be figuring out a way to be like this person

that would be an "interesting" look for him

do ya really think he could pull it off?

Denny wrote:that would be an "interesting" look for him

do ya really think he could pull it off?

Pat? "Elfin" just ain't him.

didn't look like an elf to me

No I don't do elfin at all. Lumpy, dark, and ogre like, yes.

I guess I went a bit OTT with the Gaga pic. Sorry.

Carry on folks.

Probably a good call. Take it from me ... piping in a veil is a b****.

Pat Cannady wrote:If all you crave is novelty, you're wasting your time playing trad music. Instead you should be figuring out a way to be like this person

Sorry Pat, I wouldn't recognize Lady Gaga if she bit me on the arse, so to speak. So I'm afraid your feminizing insult was lost on me. Sorry.

If all you crave is antiquity, you're wasting your time playing trad music. Instead you should be figuring out a way to open a museum. And mind the dust.

The point being that statements like these, that can be turned around so easily and make just as much sense, are basically vacuous. Set up a straw man like "all you crave is novelty", then knock it down. Easy peasy.

How about: If you think that the traditional folk process involves something other than ordinary people playing tunes that they, um, you know, like - whether they be new or old, and constantly renewing the repertoire - then I can recommend a few ethnomusicology courses.

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...... basically vacuous.

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Now there's a concept I can get my head around!