Bill wants us to play 40 year old pop music on our 400 year old instruments. It's a matter of perspective. For me, 400 year old pop music is fine. The occasional blues riffs to shake up a rehearsal excepted.
Keep the messages coming, Bill, I appreciate them. Just the lack of capitals is a trifle disconcerting at times. ;-) David **************************** David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl **************************** >I really would like to have a deeper knowledge of the english language > when one of your messages arrive, dear Bill, because sometimes (for > instance in the thread 'vihuela black swan') I only understand about 30% > of them: they are filled with difficult words, slang, and so on, and for > me it's terribly difficult, so that, finally, I give up. > > That does not happen to me with other messages written by english, > american, australian, etc, people in this list, it happens to me only > with your messages. > > So this is a message in which I beg for mercy and pity, dear Bill: I do > really have interest in what you say. > > I am perfectly aware that what you say is deeply connected with how you > say it, and that it is perhaps impossible to simplify the how, but, > anyway, I wanted to express my frustration... > > Saludos from Barcelona, > Manolo Laguillo > > bill kilpatrick wrote: > >>i know you'll say it's none of my business - and quite >>right too - but i can't help feeling just that little >>bit anxious for the welfare of your poor little, >>etiolated vihuelas and baroque guitars and their >>future development as well rounded chordaphones in an >>ever diversifying contemporary music scene. >> >>i mean ... it's a wuff' life. >> >>instead of being zipped-up in the cheap n' cheerful >>confines of a chinese-made, nylon "gig" bag and >>whisked round - simply as "one of the gang" - to a >>wide variety of light-hearted venues ... road houses; >>smoke-filled taverns; rowdy bar-b-ques; raucous clam >>bakes; hale n' hearty sing-a-longs, etc., etc. (as >>their progenitors were, lo' those many, many years >>ago) ... cedric - as i learn lord fauntleroy's >>american christian name to have been - is usually >>cosseted in a purpose built case, costing many >>hundreds of dollars and carried forth to an >>oak-paneled, university chamber, of an evening, to >>perform before a select circle of stern-faced HIP-ese. >> >>.. pop open a brew! ... show him how to "walk the >>dog!" >> >>to this end, i've been thinking of a suitable >>composition for the boy, to increase the chances of >>his being accepted by all the other cheeky little >>chappies on the block ... >> >>how about "goodbye ruby tuesday" by the railing >>staines? >> >>.. a little bossa nova might not be a'miss, either. >> >>dreadfully concerned - bill >> >>http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________ >>New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out >>more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. >>http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> > > -- >
