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replyHi again,

Charlene said:

>>-- 101 Panels =
>Again, a wonderful idea, even if it was done unofficialy in someones hotel
>room a few hours before the filk circle. A "Newbie Filk Class" would be a
>good way to introduce well known filkers. I knew who Cecilia was, but some
>of the others who
>had obviously been around a while, I had no idea who they were. And it would
>be higly embarassing (for me at least)to sing a song by "Joe Filker" and
>then have Joe come up to me later and say "nice job on my song" (or
>coversely, "You mangled my song!) I tend to think that a song should be sung
>by the person who pened it, if they are around.

        Speaking for myself, I'd be very pleased and proud to hear someone else singing a song I'd written. That and being parodied are how you know you've truly "arrived":-). Also, it would give "airtime" to an old song, so that I could sing something newer....

        I guess there might be people who would be touchy about having someone else sing "their" song, but I can't recall having met any.

> Also it'd be nice to know
>what's "OK" to sing. A newbie could sing a nice rendition of BFA and not
>know *why* people were giving them nasty looks, or groaning, or whatever,
>for *them* it may be a good filker in joke, for the person singing it could
>be devastating.

        About the only think I could think of that wouldn't be okay to sing would be songs that are *very* vulgar...there are a few out there, or songs that are out-and-out hateful.

reply        It's true that some old timers will run screaming into the night if you start _Old Time Religion_--but that's our problem, not yours.

>It could help avoid something I almost did too. Most of the
>songs I know well were written by Mercedes Lackey, and at the time I'd
>never heard about the Great Conflict. I still don't know what really
>happened, but it makes me very squeamish to sing them anywhere, filks or
>otherwise. But if I haddn't been so shy, I would have sung several at OryCon
>and never known what I did wrong

        Errr... I think I know what you mean by the "Great Conflict" (Cat looks doubtful) but I had no idea it might have gone so far as to make Misty's songs unwelcome (and stain their singers as well) in local filks. Does anybody have more info on this? Personally I've never disliked anyone so much that I would punish people for singing their songs...

reply(Being nervous at the big filk at Orycon)> It felt way to much like
>an audition or something, where all those people, some of whom do this for a
>living, were going to be watching ME and critiquing my performance. If I'd
>tried to sing I wouldv'e sounded terrible, no matter how well I knew the song.

        Try to think of us as a bunch of friends you don't know yet, people who love music and are anxious to hear the gift you're going to sing for us. Critiquing your performance? The closest we are likely to come is winces of sympathy if something goes wrong. We want you to do well as much as you want you to do well. Honest.

        I kind of like the idea of doing Bardic one night and Chaos the next. I've also seen "pokerchip" chaos done in Salt Lake City at ConDuit--it works like chaos, except that when you pick pass or play you toss your chip in, and you don't get another till all the chips are in, so it still works out to be one turn per round. However the last time I saw that done, chips were handed to everyone who drifted in, which was very frustrating. We had one chip out, and I was about to get a chance to collect a new chip and request a song, when in walked five more people.... So pokerchip has its drawbacks too.

reply        I kind of like the idea of theme hours, though. It would have to be worked out and published beforehand, so people who wanted to hear/sing particular themes would know when to show up.

        Yours---Cat Faber Received on 05/30/96