..two great tunes learned in a wee house in Donegal at a session at Easter 1979, along with a few others whose names escape me. The cassette is playing as I type, and the voices of the people in the room on the five minutes of tape bring back the craic of the weekend as if it were yesterday. No clean polished studio production, just a raw recording of things as they used to be.
I know not where you are today, Ian Stevenson, but I hope you are well and still enjoying the music as I am at this minute.
This melodeon player is playing your tunes to this day....about time you shared them with the folks on this forum.
Good luck.
Is that Ciaran Carson or Ciaran Curren?
Whoever, it's great to find an old comrade. Let me know which one because the memories are a wee bit different.
One other small thing, the tune was and still is, called 'The Whore on the Houseboat' and stems from the time we played a tour of Holland, and our agent, driving us back from a gig, pointed out a particular canal and told us 'That's where the Horses live'. He hadn't terribly good English.....
Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
..two great tunes learned in a wee house in Donegal at a session at Easter 1979, along with a few others whose names escape me. The cassette is playing as I type, and the voices of the people in the room on the five minutes of tape bring back the craic of the weekend as if it were yesterday. No clean polished studio production, just a raw recording of things as they used to be.
I know not where you are today, Ian Stevenson, but I hope you are well and still enjoying the music as I am at this minute.
This melodeon player is playing your tunes to this day....about time you shared them with the folks on this forum.
Good luck.
# Posted on January 7th 2005 by red diesel
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
Heh, heh. When you say:
"I know not where you are today, Ian Stevenson",
it turns out you don't have to look very far:
http://www.thesession.org/members/display.php/11884
Here are the links to the tunes themselves if anybody wants to add some comments specific to them:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2423
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/673
# Posted on January 7th 2005 by Jeremy
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
Is that Ciaran Carson or Ciaran Curren?
Whoever, it's great to find an old comrade. Let me know which one because the memories are a wee bit different.
# Posted on January 8th 2005 by Ian Stevenson
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
I've probably made a boo-boo there as neither played the box. This is now intriguing me. What a great day.
# Posted on January 8th 2005 by Ian Stevenson
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
One other small thing, the tune was and still is, called 'The Whore on the Houseboat' and stems from the time we played a tour of Holland, and our agent, driving us back from a gig, pointed out a particular canal and told us 'That's where the Horses live'. He hadn't terribly good English.....
# Posted on January 8th 2005 by Ian Stevenson
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
Ah me, I love watching stuff like this happen!
# Posted on January 8th 2005 by Zina Lee
Re: Rags to Riches and the Destitution....
Zena
Just by way of explanation, he turns out to be Ciaran Kelly and still lives in Co. Derry, someone I'd forgotten about completely
good musician.
# Posted on January 8th 2005 by Ian Stevenson