I just came across an old programme for the "2nd Boys of Ballisodare Folk & Traditional Music Festival 1978".
The programme booklet cost 25p & you could get a T Shirt for £2.25p
On Friday evening, between 9.25pm & yon time, we saw Sean Cannon, Josie McDermott & Tommy Flynn, De Danann, Paul Brady & The Boys of the Lough!
& the weekend in the Concert Tent just carried on like that with Sunday Afternoon's concert featuring De Danann, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn, Tom Paxton & The Bothy Band!
The climax to the Sunday night concert was Clannad.
Obviously, if I had a Tardis I wouldn't go back there, because I've already been there & done that, but if you could go back in time, where would you go & who would you want to see, hear or play with?
What I'd like would be for someone to have a video recorder, for that night at a party when Paul Brady said "Let's have a song from Guernsey Pete now....".
35+ years ago and counting.......
You can't have it all, just the memories.
And you tell that to young folk now, they'll just laugh at you.
I don't know if I'd want to go back to something I've missed. I'd like to have seen Towns Van Zandt (not trad I know) but then he was famous for being out the box and blowing it, so maybe I'd just have been disappointed.
Having thought about it, I would like to go back to some those tunes down the years I wish had never ended. Just nip back to the point where I'd ended up in a romantic tangle or got drunk and missed the best bit. "Sorry darling I'll see you another time" or "I'll pass on the slammers and bong thanks", Oh the benefit of hindsight.
I'd like a few tunes with Tommy Reck, then back a wee bit to the McCrimmons to find out where we are all going wrong. Or maybe we're not, but I'd like to find out.
I think I'd follow Solidmahog's lead and go back to those moments of great craic and great tunes with your mates, before you got entangled with some stupid romantic relationship and f*cked everything up.
I'd go to all the festivals and sessions I've been to, but just a few years earlier, so I could have met the likes of Bobby Casey, P Joe Hayes, James Byrne...
I would return to the era when I was in the company of the likes of Bobby Casey, Jimmy Power, and Martin Byrnes on a regular basis. This time I would pay more attention.
I would also listen closely when Reg Hall gave me advice.
sigh.
Jimi Hendrix in 1967.
BTW, Dick, I spent a bit of time at Ballisodare in those days and, as was the way, can hardly remember anything about it apart from having a conversation with Rambling Jack Elliot on one of the years, so yeah, love to go back and see what I missed.
I don't think time travel is as far off as you think. I noticed that British Rail was making some plans, admittedly in the direction opposite that you were thinking:
Damn right, watched the first episode of the new series tonight. Smith did quite well I thought, and Amy Pond is just cute as a button. I could eat her right up!
But anyway, if I had a tardis, I might just pop back for a few tunes with my great grandfather Billy Cummins. He's featured in Grey Larson's flute book. Wouldn't mind a few tunes with his son John either (my grand uncle) who has been credited as the man who introduced the Paulo Soprani box into Ireland. I only discovered all that 2 weeks ago, so I'm still in bragging mode. Sorry
"Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by......................"
I got to thinking, why go back? Why not bring a few of the now passed on forward to now, for a tune. And then, I thought most would probably hate the way things have changed. Better to let sleeping dogs be.
"I see them there still, in all my daydreaming.....................", and thats what makes us who we are.
There was a night when Django Reinhardt (while touring with Duke Ellington) and Dave Apollon played as a duo in a Manhattan night club...
It must have been magic.
The trouble with the Tardis, it's so big inside, you put a book down and can't remember where you've left it.
But, bloopers re new Doctor Who - surely, inside the Tardis, it's still upright ?
Oh, please yourself !
Doesn't the writer know that The Highlands and Strathclyde could be two different countries?
We're a bit healthier foodwise in Inverness. Not too sure about the drink though.
If had access to a tardis, I'd go back just a few days and make the chef that poisoned me eat his own fkucin sandwich, I'm just wising up to why they call him Chef Ramadan, aye, because when he's on nobody eats......
"If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink" - Vivian Stanshall
"If I was as rich as Rockefeller, I'd be richer than Rockefeller". "How's that then"? "I'd do a bit of window cleanin' on the side". - The Two Ronnies
m.d.
Oh for a Tardis!
Oh for a Tardis!
I just came across an old programme for the "2nd Boys of Ballisodare Folk & Traditional Music Festival 1978".
The programme booklet cost 25p & you could get a T Shirt for £2.25p
On Friday evening, between 9.25pm & yon time, we saw Sean Cannon, Josie McDermott & Tommy Flynn, De Danann, Paul Brady & The Boys of the Lough!
& the weekend in the Concert Tent just carried on like that with Sunday Afternoon's concert featuring De Danann, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn, Tom Paxton & The Bothy Band!
The climax to the Sunday night concert was Clannad.
Obviously, if I had a Tardis I wouldn't go back there, because I've already been there & done that, but if you could go back in time, where would you go & who would you want to see, hear or play with?
Cheers
Dick
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by Ptarmigan
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Wow, what a line-up. Wish i was there
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
What I'd like would be for someone to have a video recorder, for that night at a party when Paul Brady said "Let's have a song from Guernsey Pete now....".
35+ years ago and counting.......
You can't have it all, just the memories.
And you tell that to young folk now, they'll just laugh at you.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
i wish that i could go back and see/meet sandy denny and the original fairport conventionn line-up. what a band they were and still are.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by mandolinist
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I don't know if I'd want to go back to something I've missed. I'd like to have seen Towns Van Zandt (not trad I know) but then he was famous for being out the box and blowing it, so maybe I'd just have been disappointed.
Having thought about it, I would like to go back to some those tunes down the years I wish had never ended. Just nip back to the point where I'd ended up in a romantic tangle or got drunk and missed the best bit. "Sorry darling I'll see you another time" or "I'll pass on the slammers and bong thanks", Oh the benefit of hindsight.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by Solidmahog
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I'd like a few tunes with Tommy Reck, then back a wee bit to the McCrimmons to find out where we are all going wrong. Or maybe we're not, but I'd like to find out.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by gam
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I'd go back to my childhood kitchen table after supper, 1950s, my brother and I on guitar, my mother on baritone uke singing her sweet alto harmonies.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by sara505sings
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I think I'd follow Solidmahog's lead and go back to those moments of great craic and great tunes with your mates, before you got entangled with some stupid romantic relationship and f*cked everything up.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I'd go to all the festivals and sessions I've been to, but just a few years earlier, so I could have met the likes of Bobby Casey, P Joe Hayes, James Byrne...
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
...and I'd go back a year or two for just a few more tunes with my late friend Joe Cahill, sorely missed.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
America in the 1920's. I've always loved the music of that era , in this country ( I'm American) , no matter the genre...
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by shanty
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I would return to the era when I was in the company of the likes of Bobby Casey, Jimmy Power, and Martin Byrnes on a regular basis. This time I would pay more attention.
I would also listen closely when Reg Hall gave me advice.
sigh.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by oldstrings
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Jimi Hendrix in 1967.
BTW, Dick, I spent a bit of time at Ballisodare in those days and, as was the way, can hardly remember anything about it apart from having a conversation with Rambling Jack Elliot on one of the years, so yeah, love to go back and see what I missed.
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by strayaway
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I don't think time travel is as far off as you think. I noticed that British Rail was making some plans, admittedly in the direction opposite that you were thinking:
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/images/temp%20images/future-travel.jpg
Yes, oldstrings, revisiting The Favourite would be nice!
Terry
# Posted on April 3rd 2010 by Terry McGee
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
If Amy Pond was accompanying me then I wouldn't really care where we went.
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Damn right, watched the first episode of the new series tonight. Smith did quite well I thought, and Amy Pond is just cute as a button. I could eat her right up!
But anyway, if I had a tardis, I might just pop back for a few tunes with my great grandfather Billy Cummins. He's featured in Grey Larson's flute book. Wouldn't mind a few tunes with his son John either (my grand uncle) who has been credited as the man who introduced the Paulo Soprani box into Ireland. I only discovered all that 2 weeks ago, so I'm still in bragging mode. Sorry
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by tradshark
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
"Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by......................"
I got to thinking, why go back? Why not bring a few of the now passed on forward to now, for a tune. And then, I thought most would probably hate the way things have changed. Better to let sleeping dogs be.
"I see them there still, in all my daydreaming.....................", and thats what makes us who we are.
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by Solidmahog
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Imagine being 18 again but with the knowledg and experience you have accumulated now. I don't know if I'd want to go there.
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by minijackpot
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I would go back in time and make a whole bunch of different mistakes
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by bazouki dave
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
> If Amy Pond was accompanying me
> then I wouldn't really care where we went.
She is an accompanist? Talented young lady...
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by Jams_O'Donnell
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I want lessons from Padraig O'Keefe!
# Posted on April 4th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
There was a night when Django Reinhardt (while touring with Duke Ellington) and Dave Apollon played as a duo in a Manhattan night club...
It must have been magic.
# Posted on April 5th 2010 by ed veras
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
The trouble with the Tardis, it's so big inside, you put a book down and can't remember where you've left it.
But, bloopers re new Doctor Who - surely, inside the Tardis, it's still upright ?
Oh, please yourself !
# Posted on April 5th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Classic stereotype line...
"You're Scottish. Fry something!"
Doesn't the writer know that The Highlands and Strathclyde could be two different countries?
We're a bit healthier foodwise in Inverness. Not too sure about the drink though.
Enjoyed the episode though.
# Posted on April 5th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Nothing to do with the music but why not check out young Amy once again?
http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/amy-pond-police-woman-623.htm
I don't believe that Police Officers even carry whistles nowadays..
# Posted on April 5th 2010 by Johnny Jay
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
"your scottish fry somthing" yeah but fish custard is so much better than fried bacon.
# Posted on April 5th 2010 by mandolinist
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
If had access to a tardis, I'd go back just a few days and make the chef that poisoned me eat his own fkucin sandwich, I'm just wising up to why they call him Chef Ramadan, aye, because when he's on nobody eats......
# Posted on April 6th 2010 by Solidmahog
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I can't take any more Amy Pond-spotting. Y'all need to quit gloating already. US premier of season five isn't until the 17th. I'm dying over here.
# Posted on April 6th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
"We're a bit healthier foodwise in Inverness."
Really?? Where is this healthier-than-Strathclyde side of Inverness?
# Posted on April 6th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
just about any where south of the tweed I would think
# Posted on April 7th 2010 by bazouki dave
Any chance of a fried mars bar ?
# Posted on April 7th 2010 by bazouki dave
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
I've never seen one in Glasgow, either.
I had fried haggis last time I was passing through Aviemore. So there you go.
# Posted on April 7th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Oh for a Tardis!
Two memorable quotes about time travel.
"If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink" - Vivian Stanshall
"If I was as rich as Rockefeller, I'd be richer than Rockefeller". "How's that then"? "I'd do a bit of window cleanin' on the side". - The Two Ronnies
m.d.
# Posted on May 25th 2010 by emmdee