Will Fly - I'm satisfied

Subject: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 11:19 AM

Ya gotta check out the singing and picking of our Will on this old Chestnut ... great stuff!! I know I drive Will nuts cause he is a very modest person but this is too good not to share

Will Fly

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 11:54 AM

Go to Wills site and wander around. It's like a candy store with no one around watching the joint.

Don

http://www.mjra.net/WillFly/email.shtml

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 12:33 PM

i agree Don

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: open mike
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 01:59 PM

great to be in the digital neighborhood--nice work, Will.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 02:21 PM

Gravy!

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 04:42 PM

Hey I am in no neeed of conversion re Will he is ace and a hero of mine.
When I get time for such delights I go for a listen.
You might also like
http://www.youtube.com/user/oldmanoldman
A local man for us in Grimsby and I think we should be proud to have him.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:13 PM

Great!

I've been playing and singing this song since about 1964 and rarely get tired of it, although the melody consists of just the one verse (no bridge/"middle 8") and there are just the two verses of lyric (or one verse + one chorus, if you prefer).

I'm intrigued by Will's instrumental variations. I don't recall hearing them on my MJH record, but I do realize that several different recordings exist of many of his songs, and another source might reveal John playing some, if not all, of these licks. I would guess that Will came up with at least a few wrinkles on his own, and wonder if he's responsible for the whole shebang.

Either way, I'm about to follow Will's link to his own tabs to try and learn some new bits...

(PS: I've always heard, and have always sung "Roll my britches up to my knees, sell my todalo [sp?] to who I please," for what it's worth. There have been lengthy discussions here about the meaning and pronunciatrion of "toodleoo," or whatever, but I don't recall any controvery about which article of clothing was being raised up high...)

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: alanabit
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:20 PM

It's a smashing version of the old MJH classic, which I first heard by Simon Mayor and Hilary Jones back in their Spredthick days. The picking is clean and there is just something likably avuncular about Will Fly that makes you want to like everything he does.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Ron Davies
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:26 PM

Real sweet.   Great stuff.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: olddude
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:11 PM

He is pretty dang good isn't he, love his playing style for sure

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:32 PM

Well, I've tried to get my head through the kitchen door - but it's swelled up to gigantic proportions. And it's ALL that Olddude's fault!

Anyway, I'm glad you liked the picking and, yes, the wrinkly bits in the middle are just me screwing around with the chord sequence (as usual) and doing what I can before age sets in... :-)

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:45 PM

What a great discovery! I'll check out his website. I tell ya' Will, you are one fine picker and singer. Gotta hear A LOT more.

Jerry

Thanks for posting this, Dan.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:54 PM

Jerry - I don't do a huge amount of singing in my YT videos, whereas I do a fair amount in a "live" situation. This is because I find - on the whole - that the projection needed when playing "live" is hard to replicate when recorded in my music room. Still, there's a bit of groaning here and there, though a large number of my videos are really intended as quasi-instructional/demonstrational.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:03 PM

Lots of people have found them useful as well as just good to hear mate cheers.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: TheSnail
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:14 PM

Couple of excellent songs from Mr Fly at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club last night including a rather rude version of Candyman. Innocent that I am, I'd always thought it was about drugs not sticks of confectionary.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:20 PM

a rather rude version of Candyman

Indeed - John Hurt's words, I have to say, and not mine.

It was a very good night at the Elephant & Castle last night - I thought Mike Nicholson (the featured guest) was absolutely wonderful. I'm looking forward to presenting him with a nicely produced DVD of his performance (which I shot at the club) at the Charlwood village singaround tomorrow evening. Just a pity that the raffle was rigged, with not a blue ticket in sight... :-)

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 05:55 PM

I should think you are satisfied,very enjoyable, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkhgk13ECE,I hope you enjoy this PollyVaughan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkhgk13ECE

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: alex s
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 07:20 PM

top stuff, Will. If you're ever up Lancashire way give me a shout - we'd love to have you at the club.

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 08:12 PM

Lovely pickin' & singin'. Nice to be able to put a face (& voice) to the name too -

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 09:39 AM

Hi Alex - I go up once or twice a year to old home territory. The next trip's in the third week in April. Which club are you?

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Alan Day
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM

He may bring his mate with him
Will and I are at Warwick this year doing a session of mainly non Folk.
Everyone is welcome
Al

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:37 PM

Great, "applause, applause" Thank you!

Rog

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: olddude
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 10:10 PM

Check out one of Will's own tunes
blows me away with his amazing pickin

Two Step

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Alan Day
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:40 AM

Will's Guitar Tutors are highly acclaimed, with every detail clearly explained.Highly recommended.
More of Will and a bit of me on Mr Tenor Guitar
Al

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:09 AM

What Alan Day is referring to when he mentions the MrTenorGuitar channel on YouTube is this sort of thing:

Gentianne Mazurka

It's a delight to play duets with Al. The very first time I ever heard him play the Anglo concertina, I wanted to get together to play concertina and guitar duets. He's a great player.

Well, I think that's just about covered the agenda of the Mutual Appreciation Society - back to some serious fiddle practice before my lesson this morning...

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:46 PM

Fiddle and you play fiddle also ... my friend just gave me one cause I always wanted to learn. Can't even figure out how to hold it ... then I realized that the bow is short, it is 27 inches , I guess it suppose to be 29 ? Oh well another project I won't get good at LOL

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 12:57 PM

Dan, I play fiddle like someone who's been playing fiddle for about a year - which is to say I've been playing for about a year! I learned a bit of viola over 50 years ago, so it wasn't totally new. In fact, I've just bought a new instrument when I realised the one I bought a year ago just wasn't me. I've had it about two weeks now, and it's wonderful...

See? - you're never too old!

Subject: RE: Will Fly - I'm satisfied
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 02:49 PM

"Candyman" is not (literally) about candy, but it's not about drugs, either.

In the grand old tradition of double-entrendre, the "coded" references are sexual. And in the more recent tradition of US=folk-revival instrumental prowess, one's ablility to perform the John Hurt arrangement came to be very much about one's "manhood," not specifically sexual, but as a full-fledged grown-up fingerpicker.

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time working on "Candyman," and eventually, after years of effort, developed the ability to fight my way through it without any glaring errors. Can't do it as well any more, however, thanks to one Mr. Arthur Itis...