Does anyone want to contribute to the 'Mighty Craic Online'? It's just an idea of mine, and it goes like this : the original Mighty Craic project is officially still on, but there's no estimated time of completion, so - in the meantime, anyone who wants to submit their original or subsequent contribution can mail it to me (by e-mail or regular post), and I can put it up on a sub-domain of my http:/worldfiddlemusic.co.uk site. The content will then be available to any and all of 'thesession.org' site members, for playing or downloading.
At the moment, this should not affect the progress of the original project. All I am offering is a chance for members to share their tunes and music with everyone else. To make a sensible presentation on my site, I would need as a mimimum for each contributor :
1 Music files (eg mp3 audios, video clips)
2 Name (site name or real name)
3 Approximate location
Other items like text descriptions, profiles, background, photos would obviously enhance the presentaion, but providing these extras would be up to the individual making the contribution.
To my mind, one advantage of this approach is that contributions would be available fairly quickly (they simply get added to the site as I receive them), so no long waits (there won't be an awaited completion date).
What say you all?
Any general comments or questions, just post them here. If there's anything specific to you which wouldn't be relevant to the rest of 'thesession' members, please email me off list.
I think it's a very generous offer, thank you! I would love to contribute and download others' tunes. I think the plan is fine and needs no changes. Mark
I would like to voice my support for this venture. How can Jim manage to do all this hosting for free? Or maybe I shouldn't ask.
About how many mp3's do you think you would have space for, Jim? If space becomes an issue maybe you could clean them out every month or two and then get new submissions. That would give everyone time to download what they want and make up their own Mighty Craic compilation CD.
Anyway Jim you're a star.
I think it a really good idea. Thanks for starting it off Jim. In the long term it could get bigger than any one server could host, so it may be worth thinking about how it could be spread over several servers and accessed via a (central or distributed) database.
Well I've just rediscovered my original recordings and think it's damn well high time the world got to hear them. You've all been missing out for so long. Acually, when I first made and listened to them they made me cringe, now they don't seem so bad and even have some redeeming features. Perhaps age is dulling the brain ...
Mattrick, it's already started...I just need the audio / video tracks from you, and I'll put them on the site right away.
People - Jeremy very sensibly removed my e-mail address from my original post for security reasons, so just contact me through my via my 'thesession.org' profile, then you'll get my e-mail address.
About web space - we'll see what the response is like. If it gets full, I'll download & remove the oldest stuff first, so everyone get a chance to download what they want. it's hard to quote space figures at the moment till I start receiving stuff.
If people are sending several items, please let me know the order of the favourites, just in case I have to restrict them due to space.
Having the IT skills of a flip flop, can someone tell me:
1 How can I record to my pc (Windows XP)
2 How do I convert into MP3 format
I' m not embarassed asking this, really, not much anyway.
You can plug a microphone into the socket of your sound card and use the sound recorder (one of the 'Entertainment' programs) record yourself.
There are several digital audio editor rograms you can download on a trial basis which will record stuff for you, you can also do some good editing on them, including removing background noise, and converting file to MP3 format. I used 'Goldwave':
Hi Len... I downloaded a program called Cool Edit Pro, and after fiddling and fartin' around with it i got the hang of the basic functions and a few advanced ones... I have a 99.00 microphone (that's CDN $) that's plugged right into the mic input jack on my laptop. It took some messing around with and trial and error but i got the hang of it... the beauty of the progrram is that you can multitrack.. which means you can record something and then record another part over it... if you go to the thread called "hosting mp3 demos" i've got 3 tracks up there that you can listen to.. i did them using all that I described above.
Hope that helps
And Jim.. Im' going to send some stuff your way if you don't mind :D
A wee word of warning to prospective self-recorders; I bought a cheap microphone (3 Australian Dollars - what a tighta@se!) and tried recording direct to PC. The sound wasn't bad apart from the fact that the Beach Boys appeared to be backing me up. It completely baffled me for a couple of attempts - was my trial copy recording software adding a backing track?
Then I realised my cheap microphone was picking up the local radio station as well as my squeezings. The lead from the mic to the jack socket wasn't screened (didn't have a metal shield around it which is connected to the earth connection of the PC via the jack plug, for those of a less technical bent). Out came the Alfoil, and one bodgy wrapup and wedge in with the plug job later all was hunkydory.
Moral of the story - perhaps the X-files fans are right. The Beach Boys are stealing our thoughts!
Jim
How do we access other people's uploaded mp3's??? Can you give us a URL. I have looked at your website and the tune section is obviously not what we are to look in, as that is for the tunes you are teaching.
Go Conway - Well done.
Top of the charts this time.
As for Mattrick - I have already commented on his playing and won't repeat myself againagain. I might just get around to submitting my offering but it's guitar again and I wouldn't like to see two guitar postings and one flute - it might give folks the wrong impression.
As an accompanist I am used to holding my peace when needed!
On second thoughts I did just listen to the Mattrick offering and I thought it was going to be the same as what he already posted on the other site - guitar. I now find that his posting is a full band composed of himself - methinks this man is dangerously talented. Great work.
Jim - you're a feckin' hero!
After all these years, suddenly there's faces, and tunes. The Mighty Craic CD is rendered irrelevant at a stroke!
I've sent you some inebriated tootling, to bring the standard back down to earth.
Great to hear Conway, and Toni. I just love to hear other flute players!
Thanks again Jim!
Has anyone else contributed to the Mighty Craic Online, or is my ugly mug going to be stuck at the top of that page for good?
What happened to Aaron Aardvogel, the mighty South African uilleann piper, or Brendan O'Billygoat, the dynamic yet sensitive bodhrán beater from Ballybunion?
Zina and Will, count your lucky stars you've got an alphabetically advantageous monicker and get your MP3s up there pronto, or do I have to call the guards?
Speaking as Fergal O'Flutestrangler, I sent Jim a sample of my attempts at flutatio only yesterday. I expect he was so appalled when he heard the abuse to a couple of hithero innocent tunes that he is still unable to bring himself to update the website.
I'd be happy to send a tune off to Jim, but I honestly have no way of recording myself. I'll see if I can beg a friend the loan of their minidisk recorder, but that may take a week or two.
To those that have the original mighty craic recordings: please send them to Jim! An online resource was always going to be the best way to do this, but the killer was always lack of hosted space.
This is loads better - I might actually hear the thing!
Plus I've got no excuse for not sending a recording now given that I completely failed before...
I think Sandy is sending a cd of the original tracks off to Jim, but if he doesn't, then I will (or I can put them up there onto your server if you want to trust me with your server info, Jim, to save time and effort and all that).
Where's *your* track, Conan? Pbbbbbbtthhhht. I dunno, I'm still trying to get used to the new fiddle. Maybe after that.
Ottery, what about a profile bit for your tunes? Or so you want to leave it as the default thesession profile (which is linked when you click on your name)?
and another fluter soon to join you all, exposed for the world to be heard ...
come on, all you fiddler-pipers-boxers-goatwackers ... where are you all ...
mm
Hey Jack, I think I can help you out with the name of that "Gan Ainm". I liked the authentic pool table sound effects. It did take me a while to realise it was a looped recording tho
I beg your pardon, Orson. The pool sounds weren't looped -- WE were looped. We flew Fangface in from Montreal to play guitar with us that night, by the way. That's her screaming, "SHUT UP!!!" at the end of the tape because she thought she was playing really "fasht an' bad" and wanted everyone to hear how brilliant she was. She sounds just like a guy yelling huh. Weird!
"fasht an' bad"? that could be the second quote from Kerri to make it into my profile. I don't know about "fasht", but I can do "bad" any day. Maybe I'll play some of my favourite Olde Worlde jigs. I dibs either Frost Is All Over/Connaughtman's Rambles or Des Hurley's Jigs. Although if I haven't got round to it by the end of February I'll throw them all back in the pool
Actually, Patrick Ourceau gets credit for "fasht and bad" and he got it from somebody else whose name I recognized but promptly forgot. And it doesn't mean good-bad. It means bad-bad and signifies "tunes played too quickly and devoid of any subtlety, nuance, or skill". Not something people are generally supposed to show off.
Anyway, Jack, I thought I did a nice job of keeping up with you guys. I have to admit, at first I found the whole idea of playing with such a talented group intimidating.
You know what, Kerri, your guitar intro is awsome. And I don't know if anyone noticed, but I'm playing two instruments at the same time. For that reason you can't hear either of them, but that's ok -- it was the performance that was important.
I thought you were only boasting - calling your whistle a "flute" and your ukelele a "concertina", and I assumed you got crafty and pulled a showy instrument switch between the A and (uh...) B parts.
Mark, close. It's actually an obscure tune type only heard in tents that are sometimes set up out on the Burren known as a slippery-hoppity jig. Nice huh?
I did in fact yell, shut up, but I was talking to those bikers at the pool table. Their disrespectful clickety clacking was throwing us off all night long. Christ, they were worse than a couple of spoon players on a honeymoon bender.
Actually, I believe Kerri took a guitar lesson from Phoebe one time. She also attended one of Phoebe's tune naming workshops. You don't name tunes things like: "Better Off Without Him" and "The Cheating Bastard" unless you've had expert instruction on such things. I think Kerri might have even done a gig at a maturnity ward with Phoebe once.
I'd like to see more folks sending tracks to Jim. What's the hold-up, folks? Be careful, if you don't submit something yourself, somebody might get up to some mischeif and submit something for you.
Thanks MM! I'll send the tune title to Jim and he can update it. I knew someone would have the name for it.
Jack, your note stirs the memory that I first learned the Glens from Kevin Burke on the recording "An Fhidil". I later heard Fred Finn playing it and adapted the version somewhat. I am not sure if Fred had a name for that tune.
I just did a quick search and I see Will posted this tune as The Dash to Portobello. Oh, and there is a similar version called the Ebb Tide posted by Mikea that he took from the Fred Finn Peter Horan recording.
Just shows to go yeah that I should do my homework!!
And thanks for the compliments too, although undeserved. What is both wonderful and painful in this musical life is that one continues to grow and change, hopefully in the right directions. As that recording gets older, will I become more critical of it, or less?
(note that it is the recording getting older, not me!)
Hey, where is everyone else? I thought others had tracks ready since you all discussed this before!
I even sent a note along with my submittal to say "have I been a session contributor for long enough to submit a track, since I was not around for the last Mighty Craic invitation?"
I agree Jode; let's hear from Zina, Will, Dow, Grego, etc. And what about the guy who's putting this whole Mighty Craic Online thing together... and Jeremy for feck's sake -- my God! (Sorry, I got a bit worked up there... I'm ok now.) And I think more folks should have tracks recorded live at their session, like my one, where you can hear the mighty crack of the pool balls in the background, glasses breaking and the crowd adulation and stuff. C'MON YOU GUYS!!!
Since I was but an infant when I created my original Mighty Craic submissions, I'm hoping to record a fresh track this week to send to Jim to avoid embarrassment. So, Jim, please hold off on transferring my stuff from the CD?
Just thought I'd let you in on some statistics here, as in what the world decided to download from the Mighty Craic Online site, after looking at figures in my site admin account - remember, this is the top ten, and it's exactly what visitors decided to download just after seeing the pics, and reading the text, and the tune set names, without first having heard the audio (admittedly a large amount of visitors are members of thesession.org.....) The actual amounts of downloads per contributor average about 100 per month.
1 : Ceciltguitar - St Patrick's Day
2: Jim Dorans - Parkinson's Glory reel set
3: Kerri Brown (just the photo)
4: Conan Mc Donnell - Jenny's Chickens set
5: Jack Gilder - unnamed
6: MM - Deep Channel set
7: Donough - Carolans Draught
8: Grego and Gzeg - Geese set
9: Ketida - Willie and Mary
10: Jode - The Dawn set
Mighty Craic Online
Mighty Craic Online
Does anyone want to contribute to the 'Mighty Craic Online'? It's just an idea of mine, and it goes like this : the original Mighty Craic project is officially still on, but there's no estimated time of completion, so - in the meantime, anyone who wants to submit their original or subsequent contribution can mail it to me (by e-mail or regular post), and I can put it up on a sub-domain of my http:/worldfiddlemusic.co.uk site. The content will then be available to any and all of 'thesession.org' site members, for playing or downloading.
At the moment, this should not affect the progress of the original project. All I am offering is a chance for members to share their tunes and music with everyone else. To make a sensible presentation on my site, I would need as a mimimum for each contributor :
1 Music files (eg mp3 audios, video clips)
2 Name (site name or real name)
3 Approximate location
Other items like text descriptions, profiles, background, photos would obviously enhance the presentaion, but providing these extras would be up to the individual making the contribution.
To my mind, one advantage of this approach is that contributions would be available fairly quickly (they simply get added to the site as I receive them), so no long waits (there won't be an awaited completion date).
What say you all?
Any general comments or questions, just post them here. If there's anything specific to you which wouldn't be relevant to the rest of 'thesession' members, please email me off list.
Cheers
Jim
# Posted on January 14th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
ooops. I mean my http://www.worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/ site.
Jim
# Posted on January 14th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
What if I wished to do a few different tunes than what I did for the MC?
-Pádraig
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Pádraig
Re: Mighty Craic Online
No problem, Pádraig. Just send them to me when you're ready.
My email address is in my original post.
Jim
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Righto then.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Pádraig
Re: Mighty Craic Online
I think it's a very generous offer, thank you! I would love to contribute and download others' tunes. I think the plan is fine and needs no changes. Mark
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by markwilson
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Dibsing:
Polka Set: Walshe's, Jack the Bridge, the Ballyvourney, Ger the Rigger, and Bill Sullivan's.
LIstening Tunes: Da Fullriggit Ship and Da Newriggit Ship
I should have them to you sometime next week, jim.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Pádraig
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Sounds good to me, specially since I haven't gotten the CD from Sandy, and Max seems to have disappeared into the ethers with the other material!
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Yay. :D
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Pádraig
Re: Mighty Craic Online
excellent idea... especially the video part....
when do you want to get this up and running?
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Mattrick
Re: Mighty Craic Online
I would like to voice my support for this venture. How can Jim manage to do all this hosting for free? Or maybe I shouldn't ask.
About how many mp3's do you think you would have space for, Jim? If space becomes an issue maybe you could clean them out every month or two and then get new submissions. That would give everyone time to download what they want and make up their own Mighty Craic compilation CD.
Anyway Jim you're a star.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Donough
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Ooooooooooooh!!!!
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by fiddlinviolinin
Re: Mighty Craic Online
I think it a really good idea. Thanks for starting it off Jim. In the long term it could get bigger than any one server could host, so it may be worth thinking about how it could be spread over several servers and accessed via a (central or distributed) database.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by harry
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Great idea! I sounds like the kind of thing that could grow REALLY quickly, though. Good luck!
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Emily Horne
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Well I've just rediscovered my original recordings and think it's damn well high time the world got to hear them. You've all been missing out for so long. Acually, when I first made and listened to them they made me cringe, now they don't seem so bad and even have some redeeming features. Perhaps age is dulling the brain ...
Martin
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Conway
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Mattrick, it's already started...I just need the audio / video tracks from you, and I'll put them on the site right away.
People - Jeremy very sensibly removed my e-mail address from my original post for security reasons, so just contact me through my via my 'thesession.org' profile, then you'll get my e-mail address.
About web space - we'll see what the response is like. If it gets full, I'll download & remove the oldest stuff first, so everyone get a chance to download what they want. it's hard to quote space figures at the moment till I start receiving stuff.
If people are sending several items, please let me know the order of the favourites, just in case I have to restrict them due to space.
So, everyone, fire away, and keep 'em coming!!!
Jim
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Having the IT skills of a flip flop, can someone tell me:
1 How can I record to my pc (Windows XP)
2 How do I convert into MP3 format
I' m not embarassed asking this, really, not much anyway.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by len
Re: Mighty Craic Online
You can plug a microphone into the socket of your sound card and use the sound recorder (one of the 'Entertainment' programs) record yourself.
There are several digital audio editor rograms you can download on a trial basis which will record stuff for you, you can also do some good editing on them, including removing background noise, and converting file to MP3 format. I used 'Goldwave':
http://www.goldwave.com/
Good luck!
Martin.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Conway
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Hi Len... I downloaded a program called Cool Edit Pro, and after fiddling and fartin' around with it i got the hang of the basic functions and a few advanced ones... I have a 99.00 microphone (that's CDN $) that's plugged right into the mic input jack on my laptop. It took some messing around with and trial and error but i got the hang of it... the beauty of the progrram is that you can multitrack.. which means you can record something and then record another part over it... if you go to the thread called "hosting mp3 demos" i've got 3 tracks up there that you can listen to.. i did them using all that I described above.
Hope that helps
And Jim.. Im' going to send some stuff your way if you don't mind :D
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Mattrick
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Oh one more thing... you can "bounce" all of your session into an mp3 with the click of the mouse... the program does it for you. it's great.
# Posted on January 15th 2005 by Mattrick
Re: Mighty Craic Online
A wee word of warning to prospective self-recorders; I bought a cheap microphone (3 Australian Dollars - what a tighta@se!) and tried recording direct to PC. The sound wasn't bad apart from the fact that the Beach Boys appeared to be backing me up. It completely baffled me for a couple of attempts - was my trial copy recording software adding a backing track?
Then I realised my cheap microphone was picking up the local radio station as well as my squeezings. The lead from the mic to the jack socket wasn't screened (didn't have a metal shield around it which is connected to the earth connection of the PC via the jack plug, for those of a less technical bent). Out came the Alfoil, and one bodgy wrapup and wedge in with the plug job later all was hunkydory.
Moral of the story - perhaps the X-files fans are right. The Beach Boys are stealing our thoughts!
Eno
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by bc_box_player
Re: Mighty Craic Online
If more space is needed, I'm able to host files. E-mail me from my profile if you're interested.
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Pontus Adefjord
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Thanks, Pobe. I'm OK for the moment, but who knows how it can grow?!!!
Jim
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Jim
How do we access other people's uploaded mp3's??? Can you give us a URL. I have looked at your website and the tune section is obviously not what we are to look in, as that is for the tunes you are teaching.
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Donough
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Donough, I've sent you an e-mail. I'll give the URL of the site in a few hours, when I've finalised the name.
Jim
# Posted on January 16th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
OK guys - the first two members' tracks are up there now : the address is http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/mightycraiconline/
Keep 'em coming!
Jim
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Oh Jeez - No. 1
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Conway
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Go Conway - Well done.
Top of the charts this time.
As for Mattrick - I have already commented on his playing and won't repeat myself againagain. I might just get around to submitting my offering but it's guitar again and I wouldn't like to see two guitar postings and one flute - it might give folks the wrong impression.
As an accompanist I am used to holding my peace when needed!
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Donough
Re: Mighty Craic Online
On second thoughts I did just listen to the Mattrick offering and I thought it was going to be the same as what he already posted on the other site - guitar. I now find that his posting is a full band composed of himself - methinks this man is dangerously talented. Great work.
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Donough
Re: Mighty Craic Online
I should mention that anyone can send in stuff anytime, even to add to what they have there already - eg, add a tune, a profile, a photo, whatever....
Just e-mail me via my 'thesession.org' profile.
Jim
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Geez, Mattrick.
great playing, but really good arrangements too.
Jim, put me down for Lansdowne Lasses. Can you nick it out of the link I've got in my profile? I can't seem to mail it from where I am atm
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Q
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Mattrick, that's a scarily accomplished track!
I'll try and record something tonight to redress (regress?) the balance...
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Ottery
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Great idea Jim !!
I'll be sending some tunes soon.
Toni
# Posted on January 17th 2005 by Toni Ribas
Re: Mighty Craic Online
OK, guys - Conan, Ian Stevenson, Mattrick, Q, Toni Ribas - you're all up there now.
http://worldfiddlemusic.co.uk/mightycraiconline/
Cheers
Jim
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Jim - you're a feckin' hero!
After all these years, suddenly there's faces, and tunes. The Mighty Craic CD is rendered irrelevant at a stroke!
I've sent you some inebriated tootling, to bring the standard back down to earth.
Great to hear Conway, and Toni. I just love to hear other flute players!
Thanks again Jim!
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Ottery
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Jim -
Way to go!
Do you accept songs too, or would you prefer to keep it just tunes?
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by ketida
What's keeping you?
I refer my learned friends to the discussion posted yesterday:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/5539
Has anyone else contributed to the Mighty Craic Online, or is my ugly mug going to be stuck at the top of that page for good?
What happened to Aaron Aardvogel, the mighty South African uilleann piper, or Brendan O'Billygoat, the dynamic yet sensitive bodhrán beater from Ballybunion?
Zina and Will, count your lucky stars you've got an alphabetically advantageous monicker and get your MP3s up there pronto, or do I have to call the guards?
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: What's keeping you?
Speaking as Fergal O'Flutestrangler, I sent Jim a sample of my attempts at flutatio only yesterday. I expect he was so appalled when he heard the abuse to a couple of hithero innocent tunes that he is still unable to bring himself to update the website.
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Ottery
Re: What's keeping you?
Who's the "fellow" beside you in the pic Conan ?
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by BegF
Re: What's keeping you?
It's Nell actually.
The pic was taken in Donegal last January. Not that you can tell that from the background.
So when are we gonna behold your wondrous physiognomy, BegF?
We're waiting....
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: What's keeping you?
mmm...believe me, that smiley would be inverted if I did !!!
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by BegF
Re: What's keeping you?
I'd be happy to send a tune off to Jim, but I honestly have no way of recording myself. I'll see if I can beg a friend the loan of their minidisk recorder, but that may take a week or two.
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Will CPT
Re: What's keeping you?
BegF, what's up? Have ye got three noses or something?
You could always go incognito like Q.
Will, nice one. Any idea which tunes you're going to record?
Well chap(esse)s, gotta go catch the tube.
Alles die besten, as we used to say in German Class.
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Mighty Craic Online
To those that have the original mighty craic recordings: please send them to Jim! An online resource was always going to be the best way to do this, but the killer was always lack of hosted space.
This is loads better - I might actually hear the thing!
Plus I've got no excuse for not sending a recording now given that I completely failed before...
Jim, you're a star!
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by rog
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I think Sandy is sending a cd of the original tracks off to Jim, but if he doesn't, then I will (or I can put them up there onto your server if you want to trust me with your server info, Jim, to save time and effort and all that).
Where's *your* track, Conan? Pbbbbbbtthhhht. I dunno, I'm still trying to get used to the new fiddle. Maybe after that.
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Oh, sorry, I must have had it cached. That old thing? *smirk* Anyway, sooner or later, Conan.
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Zina,
I'll wait for the CD. My web providers won't allow 3rd party access to my hosting account control panel. Thanks anyway.
Jim
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
OK, Ottery, you're up there now!
Jim
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Ketida,
Songs OK at the moment, as they are traditionally part of the 'craic'...OK so long as web space is plentiful...if not, then tunes take priority.
Jim
# Posted on January 18th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
I've sent you a tune, Jim. Nice work, everyone. You're all rather brilliant. My own track is rather embarassing.
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Kerri Brown
(but fun, oh, terribly fun)
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Wow, I checked the page and found it great. But, where are fiddlers?
I'll try to contribute but not sure when I can get a proper microphone.
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by slainte
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Well, I sent something, but I think I come off as more of a flute player than a fiddler myself on that track...
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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OK - Kerri, Toni Ribas & band, Ian Stevenson & reels - you're up there now!
Jim
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Ottery, what about a profile bit for your tunes? Or so you want to leave it as the default thesession profile (which is linked when you click on your name)?
Jim
# Posted on January 19th 2005 by Worldfiddler
Re: Mighty Craic Online
It might be a good idea if everyone who has a tune up on Jim's site added a link to the Mighty Craic Online page from their member profile.
Then, as well as your member profile listing who you are and where you live, you can also say "and here's what I sound like...".
Just a thought.
# Posted on January 22nd 2005 by Jeremy
Re: Mighty Craic Online
Jeremy,
do you think I want people to know what I sound like?
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Ottery
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Do you think maybe Jim should add TMCO to the links page?
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Ottery
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Hmmmmm. I'm not doing it unless everybody else does it too.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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OK, I've done it - might as well be hung for a sheep as a mackeral...
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Ottery
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or a mackerel, indeed!
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Ottery
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I did it too, Mark. There goes my credibility, if ever I had any.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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and another fluter soon to join you all, exposed for the world to be heard ...
come on, all you fiddler-pipers-boxers-goatwackers ... where are you all ...
mm
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by MM
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OK, MM, you're up there now!
Jim
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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LOL! Yes, let's have more bodhran players! Solo, please, and don't forget to send Jim the names of the tunes you're playing.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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And be sure to include photos too.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Oh, now, Jack, you're just a big meanie! I'm laughing my arse off at work again. You're going to get me fired.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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"Can you believe we're getting PAID for this? It's glorious!" - Kerri Brown at her job (copying & pasting into an email to Kerri's employer)
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Don't worry, I have a cover story prepared.
# Posted on January 24th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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lot of fluters there now - not one fiddler!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Ottery
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.. apart from Kerri of course, who is prouder of her guitar playing!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Ottery
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Doesn't Kerri look scary? It's "Scary Kerri." hahahahaha
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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I've done too.
Come on lads! we're are the tracks from our most prominent contributors: Zina, Will, Jeremy, Brad, Glauber, to name a few ??
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Toni Ribas
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hey, jack,
LOL
you obviously can really 'touch' your audience!
mm
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by MM
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laugh it up, fuzzball. Your time will come.
(and I'm occasionally proud of my fiddling, Mark, just not on this particular occasion. I'm going to try a little harder next time.)
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: Mighty Craic Online
On the other hand, Miss Fangfacei, I'm very proud of my contribution to the MCO.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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You're coming along very nicely, Jack. Well done!
%7P
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Q
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Hey Jack, I think I can help you out with the name of that "Gan Ainm". I liked the authentic pool table sound effects. It did take me a while to realise it was a looped recording tho
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Just a person
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I beg your pardon, Orson. The pool sounds weren't looped -- WE were looped. We flew Fangface in from Montreal to play guitar with us that night, by the way. That's her screaming, "SHUT UP!!!" at the end of the tape because she thought she was playing really "fasht an' bad" and wanted everyone to hear how brilliant she was. She sounds just like a guy yelling huh. Weird!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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"fasht an' bad"? that could be the second quote from Kerri to make it into my profile. I don't know about "fasht", but I can do "bad" any day. Maybe I'll play some of my favourite Olde Worlde jigs. I dibs either Frost Is All Over/Connaughtman's Rambles or Des Hurley's Jigs. Although if I haven't got round to it by the end of February I'll throw them all back in the pool
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Just a person
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Actually, Patrick Ourceau gets credit for "fasht and bad" and he got it from somebody else whose name I recognized but promptly forgot. And it doesn't mean good-bad. It means bad-bad and signifies "tunes played too quickly and devoid of any subtlety, nuance, or skill". Not something people are generally supposed to show off.
Anyway, Jack, I thought I did a nice job of keeping up with you guys. I have to admit, at first I found the whole idea of playing with such a talented group intimidating.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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You know what, Kerri, your guitar intro is awsome. And I don't know if anyone noticed, but I'm playing two instruments at the same time. For that reason you can't hear either of them, but that's ok -- it was the performance that was important.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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I thought you were only boasting - calling your whistle a "flute" and your ukelele a "concertina", and I assumed you got crafty and pulled a showy instrument switch between the A and (uh...) B parts.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Wow Jack, that sounds like a very West Coast tune, is it what you'd call a slip-hop jig?
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Ottery
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Mark, close. It's actually an obscure tune type only heard in tents that are sometimes set up out on the Burren known as a slippery-hoppity jig. Nice huh?
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Or in this case, a slop jig.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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That night it was more of a Slurp Jurg.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Are there words Jack?
All around the Plough and Stars pub
The fangie chased the fluter
The pool balls clacked, the windows smashed
Shut up!!!!! Goes the Gilder!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Jode
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I guess there is mow, Jode, but you have some of the details wrong. Glasses were smashed, and it was fangface that yelled "shut up," not me.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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I guess there is NOW even... geesh!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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'tis a lovely tune, whatever it's provenance, and the playing of the guitar provides a fine accomplishment!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Ottery
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Well mow, how's this:
All around the Plough and Stars Pub,
The fluter chased the fangie
Pool balls clacked and pints were smashed
Shut up!!!! Cries the lassie
A pint of G for everyone
A pint served up so frothy
That's the way the session goes
Shut up!!! Cries dear K.B.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Jode
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Uh... I didn't say the part about Fangface chasing fluter was backwards, Jode... aren't you listening?
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Phantom Button
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don't make me do it again!!!! somebody tell me to get back to work!
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Jode
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Go back to work.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Zina Lee
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Phew.
# Posted on January 25th 2005 by Jode
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I did in fact yell, shut up, but I was talking to those bikers at the pool table. Their disrespectful clickety clacking was throwing us off all night long. Christ, they were worse than a couple of spoon players on a honeymoon bender.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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(It was Jack who threw the pint at them though, and I think that was going a little too far. He should have thrown his own.)
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Wow, this thread almost set a new record for staying on topic.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Laughtonb
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Funny you should pipe in at this juncture, Bob, I believe it was you on mandolin that night actually.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Mwaahahaha!
O.K. I just had to go listen to Jack's 'Gan Ainm' - maybe he should have titled it 'Gan Anam'.
Wouldn't you know it - I'm sure that was the only time I ever took my mandolin to the Plough & Stars.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Laughtonb
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Actually I also joined in Jack's "Gan Ainm" track as a guest. You hear me playing the first part of 4'33 on banjo.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by slainte
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Dang, I can never remember the A part of 4'33"
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Laughtonb
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Is that Phoebe (from 'Friends') playing guitar on that? Well, you are famous after all!
Jim
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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> Dang, I can never remember the A part of 4'33"
It goes like this...
Remember to repeat it.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Bob himself
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Actually, I believe Kerri took a guitar lesson from Phoebe one time. She also attended one of Phoebe's tune naming workshops. You don't name tunes things like: "Better Off Without Him" and "The Cheating Bastard" unless you've had expert instruction on such things. I think Kerri might have even done a gig at a maturnity ward with Phoebe once.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Phantom Button
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No, you have it backwards. Phoebe took lessons from me.
# Posted on January 26th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Hmm.... can't get JerryH's polkas.... help!
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Pádraig
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oooops....my mistake - fixed it now.
Jim
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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I'd like to see more folks sending tracks to Jim. What's the hold-up, folks? Be careful, if you don't submit something yourself, somebody might get up to some mischeif and submit something for you.
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Or maybe mischief.
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Dracula especially loves fiddlers' blood.
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by slainte
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I already had something submitted for me. s'fun.
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Sheesh. And here I was trying to humiliate you.
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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I love it when you humiliate me, Kerri -- especially when you have your whip and you're wearing those stilettos. (raises eyebrows)
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Bad dog. Sit. Stay. (yanks on leash).
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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hey, donough,
love your playing.
pure and simple, bright sound!
kerri, jack, care for a private room?
mm
# Posted on January 27th 2005 by MM
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No thank you. All the best humiliation is public.
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Kerri Brown
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jode,
nice playing there too.
last reel in the set is "morning star"
mm
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by MM
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Jode -- I didn't realize there was another tune titled, "The Glens of Atherlow," I'm only aware of Sean Ryan's tune by that title. Nice playing BTW.
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Thanks MM! I'll send the tune title to Jim and he can update it. I knew someone would have the name for it.
Jack, your note stirs the memory that I first learned the Glens from Kevin Burke on the recording "An Fhidil". I later heard Fred Finn playing it and adapted the version somewhat. I am not sure if Fred had a name for that tune.
I just did a quick search and I see Will posted this tune as The Dash to Portobello. Oh, and there is a similar version called the Ebb Tide posted by Mikea that he took from the Fred Finn Peter Horan recording.
Just shows to go yeah that I should do my homework!!
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Jode
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And thanks for the compliments too, although undeserved. What is both wonderful and painful in this musical life is that one continues to grow and change, hopefully in the right directions. As that recording gets older, will I become more critical of it, or less?
(note that it is the recording getting older, not me!)
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Jode
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The compliments were not undeserved in the slightest, Jode - and let me add mine. I hope your Mom enjoyed it half as much as I did!
# Posted on January 31st 2005 by grego
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Hey, where is everyone else? I thought others had tracks ready since you all discussed this before!
I even sent a note along with my submittal to say "have I been a session contributor for long enough to submit a track, since I was not around for the last Mighty Craic invitation?"
More music please!
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Jode
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I agree Jode; let's hear from Zina, Will, Dow, Grego, etc. And what about the guy who's putting this whole Mighty Craic Online thing together... and Jeremy for feck's sake -- my God! (Sorry, I got a bit worked up there... I'm ok now.) And I think more folks should have tracks recorded live at their session, like my one, where you can hear the mighty crack of the pool balls in the background, glasses breaking and the crowd adulation and stuff. C'MON YOU GUYS!!!
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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I can see why you find it so upsetting Jack, since you worked so hard on your own submission...
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Some of the stuff from people mentioned is on the CD that we're waiting to get to Jim Dorans. It'll get there. Cool your jets, kids. ;)
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Zina Lee
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I DID work hard on my submission -- you saw the fangs!
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Well, I'm afraid that as soon as I complete my top secret Uilleann Poodle Project the Fangy photo will be a thing of the past.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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Why did the hornpipe cross the road?
To get to the other slide.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Q
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Bugger. Wrong thread. Oh well, I'm not repeating it.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Q
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Kerri, you can't remove your fang-photo now because it's referred to in this thread. You'll frustrate and confuse future readers.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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But then where will I put my uilleann poodle? :^(
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kerri Brown
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"CD that we're waiting to get to Jim Dorans" ..
Since I was but an infant when I created my original Mighty Craic submissions, I'm hoping to record a fresh track this week to send to Jim to avoid embarrassment. So, Jim, please hold off on transferring my stuff from the CD?
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by grego
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Uh... link it to your profile?
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Yep, my original tracks are on that CD too.
Jim
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Worldfiddler
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So that means we never get to hear it then eh?
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Phantom Button
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Sorry, there's no guarantee Jack. Perhaps if it escapes, I'll just say Kerri posted it on my behalf.
# Posted on February 1st 2005 by grego
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If you get Kerri to do one for you you'll be lucky... they rock!
# Posted on February 2nd 2005 by Phantom Button
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Just thought I'd let you in on some statistics here, as in what the world decided to download from the Mighty Craic Online site, after looking at figures in my site admin account - remember, this is the top ten, and it's exactly what visitors decided to download just after seeing the pics, and reading the text, and the tune set names, without first having heard the audio (admittedly a large amount of visitors are members of thesession.org.....) The actual amounts of downloads per contributor average about 100 per month.
1 : Ceciltguitar - St Patrick's Day
2: Jim Dorans - Parkinson's Glory reel set
3: Kerri Brown (just the photo)
4: Conan Mc Donnell - Jenny's Chickens set
5: Jack Gilder - unnamed
6: MM - Deep Channel set
7: Donough - Carolans Draught
8: Grego and Gzeg - Geese set
9: Ketida - Willie and Mary
10: Jode - The Dawn set
Jim
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Worldfiddler
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Just the photo? Hah! That's a wonderful picture, Kerri. Can't deny that.
# Posted on February 28th 2005 by Emily Horne
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I was wondering what happened to Jim and this Craic project. Have I missed something.
Also curious to see if an old thread can be re-threaded.
# Posted on May 2nd 2005 by Donough
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It's still up on Jim's website.
# Posted on May 2nd 2005 by Zina Lee
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Go thru' links. It took me ages to find that coz I'm thick. I had to keep typing in the URL each time. I'm such a div.
# Posted on May 2nd 2005 by Dow
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As in, the links tab on his website.
# Posted on May 2nd 2005 by Dow