The Yb Romantic Club

[MisterBoll]

If anyone buys from Amazon let me know how long it takes within the U.S. I keep getting 'ships in 1-4 months' messages so I haven't pulled the trigger.

[inkstainedruth]

That's the very chap. Saw him in Manchester some years back and a wonderful evening of entertainment it was too.

Richard Thompson used to play fairly often in a folk club about an hour north of where I used to live. Although one tour when he brought a full band with him, the site was too small and the venue got changed to a high school auditorium about 4 miles from where I was living (sucks to be me -- NOT!).

Sadly, I do not know the fate of the Town Crier Cafe -- right after I got married I was still getting event calendars/schedules sent to me, and I dragged my husband off to visit my parents the weekend of Richard Thompson playing one night and Tom Rush the next. Only to discover that the place was having plumbing (and landlord) problems and the venue had been changed to the banquet room of a restaurant another 20 minutes north. Good concerts, but the ambiance was all wrong. So my husband never got to experience the Town Crier for what it really was (which, amongst other things, a place that Dave Van Ronk -- who also played there fairly often -- described as "the only coffee house I've ever been in where the coffee was any damn good").

Come to think, The Town Crier is *also* where I saw Fairport Convention the first time (they were way over-amplified for the size of the place, which meant that there was this wall of sound about six feet from the bench against the back wall -- it was an L-shaped room -- which was bad. But they played "Sloth" -- which was very VERY good. And having Dave Swarbeck get up at the beginning of the show and say something to the effect of "We told Richard Thompson we were playing here this tour and he looked at us real funny...." was SOOOO worth the price of admission.

Really sadly, that was over a quarter of a century ago.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

(written in the closest I can get to Yama Budo without having to buy a Pantone matching system swatch book....)

PS: @ The Good Captain: if RT played "The Great Valerio", whatever you paid for the show was worth the cost for that alone -- and all the rest of the concert was gravy!!

[MisterBoll]

PS: @ The Good Captain: if RT played "The Great Valerio", whatever you paid for the show was worth the cost for that alone -- and all the rest of the concert was gravy!!

 

SInce I over-read. What an amazing song. I love it. Have you heard the version done by 'The Fatima Mansions'? A great rendition.

 

What about RT when he was with Fairport?

[GabrielleDuVent]

If anyone buys from Amazon let me know how long it takes within the U.S. I keep getting 'ships in 1-4 months' messages so I haven't pulled the trigger.

 

I placed order today and they've already prepared shipment. Dunno how long it'd take to arrive, though, since it ships from Japan. Ten days, maybe?

[MisterBoll]

 

I placed order today and they've already prepared shipment. Dunno how long it'd take to arrive, though, since it ships from Japan. Ten days, maybe?

 

Hmmmmmmmmm.............man oh man..... I know this might be sacrilege in these waters but I'm starting to think I have way too much ink. I could always start doing some large pieces of 'modern art' to use some up. That or start offering samples to some Yb Club members.

[ethernautrix]

Come to think, The Town Crier is *also* where I saw Fairport Convention[/i]

Never saw Fairport Convention. Hadn't heard of them 'til I met the man who would become my ex-husband. He played a song on his guitar one night, sang "It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal, like you never done before...." The chorus killed me. I said, "Who sings that?" He looked at me, paused, smiled, said, "I do." "No, no, who wrote it?" He chuckled. He said, "I did." I'm sure he was astounded that I was so unfamiliar with Dylan that I didn't recognize the song. But I had never heard it. To this day, wow, 25 years later, his was the best version I've ever heard.

 

But then even experience can't beat the romantic out of me.

[RuiFromUK]

 

I placed order today and they've already prepared shipment. Dunno how long it'd take to arrive, though, since it ships from Japan. Ten days, maybe?

Hi Gabrielle,

 

Just a question please.

 

Since you live in UK (or am I mistaken?) would you mind telling us how much did you pay for transport and would you be paying for import duty?

 

Many thanks.

 

Rui

Edited June 26, 2013 by RuiFromUK

[JonSzanto]

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb204/EnvoyC/FP/yp_ltr_zps8d1ecc29.jpg

[GabrielleDuVent]

Hi Gabrielle,

 

Just a question please.

 

Since you live in UK (or am I mistaken?) would you mind telling us how much did you pay for transport and would you be paying for import duty?

 

Many thanks.

 

Rui

 

I currently do not reside in the UK, but the merchant I purchased from gives free shipping, and no import duty. Please refer to this page for more details.

[GabrielleDuVent]

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I knew you were going to show up sooner or later on this topic. Welcome to the club

 

Btw, is that your regular handwriting? It looks quite Carroll-esque and very rhythmical (but since you're a percussionist, maybe that's natural).

[JonSzanto]

It is fairly normal writing for me, I suppose. I slowed down, both to not make a mistake, as well as the pen (a little gold Wahl flex-nib ringtop) requires... attention. I'm not the most graceful of writers, and all of this is on top of being left-handed.

 

My entrance to the thread was not a foregone conclusion, but it intrigued me, and gave me a chance to try that pen on some Tomoe River paper. What a suave experience that is!

 

Nice thread, btw. Have fun. http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb204/EnvoyC/emotes/flower.gif

[RuiFromUK]

Hi Gabrielle,

 

Thank you very much.

 

Rui

[GabrielleDuVent]

It is fairly normal writing for me, I suppose. I slowed down, both to not make a mistake, as well as the pen (a little gold Wahl flex-nib ringtop) requires... attention. I'm not the most graceful of writers, and all of this is on top of being left-handed.

 

My entrance to the thread was not a foregone conclusion, but it intrigued me, and gave me a chance to try that pen on some Tomoe River paper. What a suave experience that is!

 

Nice thread, btw. Have fun. http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb204/EnvoyC/emotes/flower.gif

 

Boredom, an urge to write/try out new product, and a dash of romanticism were ingredients to creating this thread. I first thought I'd be the one with a mushy romantic bone in the body and I'd get laughed at, but apparently a lot of people have a bone of romance (or sarcasm).

 

Grace in writing is one thing, but your writing is very rhythmical; it's rare to see these kinds of traits these days. It's the kind I want to giclée-print and hang it up on the wall (obvious not that letter, though) with its whimsy.

 

I'm expecting an influx of posts in this thread in the next few weeks, as quite a few ordered the ink (and probably more will, after MisterBoll's kind post). And besides, when else would you get to write disgustingly sweet words without judgement these days?

[HDRoot]

 

I'm expecting an influx of posts in this thread in the next few weeks, as quite a few ordered the ink (and probably more will, after MisterBoll's kind post). And besides, when else would you get to write disgustingly sweet words without judgement these days?

 

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[inkstainedruth]

Never saw Fairport Convention. Hadn't heard of them 'til I met the man who would become my ex-husband. He played a song on his guitar one night, sang "It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal, like you never done before...." The chorus killed me. I said, "Who sings that?" He looked at me, paused, smiled, said, "I do." "No, no, who wrote it?" He chuckled. He said, "I did." I'm sure he was astounded that I was so unfamiliar with Dylan that I didn't recognize the song. But I had never heard it. To this day, wow, 25 years later, his was the best version I've ever heard.

 

But then even experience can't beat the romantic out of me.

Actually got to see Fairport twice (the second time was at a smallish venue (400 seat theatre) here in Pittsburgh a year or two after I got married). Once again, somewhat sadly, they over-amplified.

Even more sadly, I did not ever get to see them live in their heyday (the Sandy Denny years).

A woman that used to be in my choir years ago said once that she wanted to grow up to be Maddy Prior (of Steeleye Span). I had higher ambitions (much, MUCH higher): *I* wanted to grow up to be Sandy Denny....

To get (somewhat) back on topic, I am going to look up the lyrics for a song that TGC put me to mind with something he said the other day back when the tangent started. It's pretty much an anti-romantic song, though (more like, "I hate your guts and can't believe you're trying to walk back into my life again"). If I find it online anyplace, I will try to write it up and post it. Although using Yama-budo would be making a somewhat ironic statement -- I'm not sure but what El Lawrence would be more apropos.... Hmmm. Maybe I should dig *that* sample out....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

Rats. Couldn't find the lyrics. Did find mention of the song (and the band) that I was looking for, which is something (I searched for the lyrics to best known song on that album for 3 YEARS till someone finally put them up online. :-(

So now I'll have to go reconstruct them. Which means I have to wait till my husband gets home because the CD is in the other car....

Sigh.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: The song I"m looking for is called "Rescue Me" and it is decidedly NOT the Aretha Franklin song of the same title....

Edited June 26, 2013 by inkstainedruth

[MisterBoll]

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[The Good Captain]

We had an evening with Dave Swabeck a few months ago, here in our little town. Sadly I couldn't go be I've suggested to the chap who organised it, that he tries to get Richard to come and make an appearance too. It would seem that RT and his small new 'electric' band are probably a whole lot easier to approach than they might have been in the old days. I saw them in Manchester at the Ardwick Apollo but it's some while ago, as I said.

Edited June 26, 2013 by The Good Captain

[Jadie]

If anyone buys from Amazon let me know how long it takes within the U.S. I keep getting 'ships in 1-4 months' messages so I haven't pulled the trigger.

 

I placed my order on the 25th and Amazon estimates delivery by: Friday, July 26, 2013 - Friday, August 16, 2013 by 8:00pm. Hope that helps.

 

That aside, I dug up some leftover YB in a sample vial from the Goulets and wrote a love letter in the meantime. Please excuse any typos and the wrong date----time flies when you're in love, you know?

 

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k599/Jiadepix/ybromantic.jpg

[MisterBoll]

 

I placed my order on the 25th and Amazon estimates delivery by: Friday, July 26, 2013 - Friday, August 16, 2013 by 8:00pm. Hope that helps.

 

That aside, I dug up some leftover YB in a sample vial from the Goulets and wrote a love letter in the meantime. Please excuse any typos and the wrong date----time flies when you're in love, you know?

 

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k599/Jiadepix/ybromantic.jpg

 

Thanks Jadie. Lovely letter too!