Re: Thoughts from a Newbie: My .02 on Quarong's $4

>On Wed, 29 May 1996, c4winds at teleport.com (Clan of the Four Winds) wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Hmmm. I must say, having written a few filks myself, that I'm so
>absolutely positively thrilled that someone's gone to the trouble of
>actually *learning* one of my songs, I don't care if they sing it in the key
>of R Flat Minor Diminished with a Dominant 9! At least they're singing it!
> :-)

Or, as a one of my singing partners put it "If the Fish can sing it, anyone can!" It's just my own sensitivities and shyness here, I'll get over it eventually. It took 3 years before I'd sing in the SCA, and I'd been doing musical theater for years, but then, it wasn't really me. I'm just way to sensitive... :)

>
>Um...not to express irremediable ignorance or anything, but what is this
>"Great Conflict", and how could it possibly be wrong to sing a Mercedes
>Lackey song? For that matter, how can it be "wrong" to sing *any* song?
>
>
I don't reall know what it was myself. All I was told was that songs of hers were sung at a Con that she was at, and she didn't like that and there were lawsuits involved and it carried onto the internet. I really didn't feel comfortable asking much about it because it obviously upset some people on alt.music.filk. Calling it the Great Conflict was just my own name for it. Received on 05/30/96