Re: Barrett's Barking Spiders

[Bards keep <s0jswelc@atlas.vcu.edu>]

Poster: Bards keep <s0jswelc@atlas.vcu.edu>

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> Poster: Wynn Klosky <klosky@meeker.UCAR.EDU>

> I disagree. It is the studious bard's duty to perform appropriate
> music within the environment. This means a bard of any status,
> who will be looked to as a source for appropriate music AND how
> to behave, should NEVER launch into California Girls in the middle
> of the event just because it is something everyone knows, or even
> Barrett's Privateers.
--->And I agree with you completely. I was refering to a
certain time and place, i.e. a bardic circle late at night, not
say on the corner of the eric at Knight of the Heart.And to
clarify, I had already discounted Beach Boy songs( the "anything
by Brian Wilson" crack-<sigh>- it's such a shame that i'm not as
humorous as I think I am... :)  )
> Now, God knows Pennsic is a greased pig if you are trying to 
> get a handle on where the "center" of the event is, and if nice
> folks that you go to sing for IN THEIR OWN CAMP want you to sing Niall's
> dad's group's sea chanties, by all means go for it, so long as you educate
> them while you do it so they don't mistakenly think it is OOP.
---> See the other note that begins with "Oh Flaulating
mistress..."

> I will plead guilty myself to singing a song to El Pinko to the
> tune of Galway Bay in our camp one year (naturally, El Pinko was
> NOT in our camp, you see, it was merely Guido, but in the dark you can
> understand my confusion...)
----> What you didn't spit after saying Guido's<ptuh> name...
 
> My response to Alfredo conveys what I think is an important duty
> of musicians: CREATING the atmosphere. If someone asks a bard to
> sing Barrett's Privateers in the middle of the hall, s/he should
> just say no. The audience is NOT always right 

Here's where we both agree and disagree( and Niall thought he was
a Libra...)
I agree that barrett's in the hall would be inapproate in most
gentle Atlantian society...what I was trying to say was rather
that a bard should be able to determine what's right for any
given scenario, and that can change in the blink of a eye(" Gee
two minutes ago I thought the audience would LOVE this five
minute Itlatian aria...but now that I see that the crowd has
passed out into whatever was in the third remove, maybe I should
have done somthing a little more UP...")
-- this is NOT a gig,
> this is an event.
----> Well, speaking as a professional musician, I would say that
in general you have even more creative control if it's your own
gig( The restuarant i used to sing in was subjected to bebop,
scat singing, and all sort of weirdnesses, that like the
Beachboy's I don't find appriopate for the SCA,BTW...Hey! Wait a
minute, maybe that's why i say USED to work in... :)...)
Still, there is, IMO, a definite responiblity a bard has to his
audience to be entertaining.

 Expand your repertoire to include songs that 
> convey similar mood.

---> Good advice,with all the songs I know(mostly period or
perioid, despite the rumers of my scat singing<grin>) The more
you know the better prepared you can be.
 Tell the requestor that you'll be happy to
> sing BP for them on the way home or at the post-revel (or at their
> cabin or camp if it is a long camping event and you CAN get away --
> I remember that camping events are not nearly as common in Atlantia
> as crash-space events, is it still true?), but that you have Thus
> and Such that you will be happy to sing instead.

--->Sometimes this works, on drunks I find it doesn't(Of course I
never have sung "Stairway to heaven, or Freebird, or Stairway to
freebird, and I have been asked, for that matter).

<snip a verty good bit about hardnoses, grandmothers, and doing
the RIGHT THING!<tm> :)

> was in a position of some esteem whereby I could lead BY EXAMPLE.

---> I fine myself lucky enough to be there a great deal of the
time too.And remember, unlike the poor struggling jazz musician
straining to read the words to "As time goes by" out of a fake
book, you as a bard can always say, "Nope, I don't think
"Stick-jocks is easy", would be approiate at this Queen's tea,
Your Grace" or the more GREY..."I forgot the words to "Old Dunn
Cow" This is a hobby, no one can make you sing...

Signing off,
Trying not to apoligize, for Niall's sake,since he's over in the
corner minding his own business, quietly reading about Vikings...

Bryce de Byram
("You know, tall, blonde guy, Anton's squire, sings alot..."-Lord
Jon. Blackbow) [ I can't believe I just quoted jonathan... :-) ]

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