2003 Chicago Maritime Festival - The 97th Regimental String Band - Rolling Down to Old Maui

The 97th Regimental String Band (Rick Moock, Mark Luce and Craig Wolford) performing at the 2003 Chicago Maritime Festival held February 22, 2003 at The Chicago Historical Society

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Music

Tags:

• Chicago
• Maritime
• Festival
• All
• hands
• The
• 97th
• Regimental
• String
• Band
• Rolling
• Down
• to
• Old
• Maui
• sea
• music
• shanties
• Rick
• Moock
• Mark
• Luce
• Craig
• Wolford

[reingardl]

The last few comments on here suck balls.

[hultonclint]

cont.. I am saying that I find the style of humour, which involves a clueless schtick (joking about the profession in an uninformed way), does not work for me in this context. Please don't let this be construed as disrespect for the group. My observation was solely about context, not quality.

[hultonclint]

Just explaining (since you asked) why I (an audience member, with an opinion of the experience) didn't vibe with it. The key things in my statement are 1) context 2) method (i.e. more or less subtle, informed, etc). So the humor and self-deprecation are not my issue. I've not advocated anything humorless, nor do I assert that anyone involved is necessarily clueless. cont

[EMesaros]

@hultonclint Anyway, I don't really think these guys are "clueless." They are far, far too clever for that, and their audience may not be as dumb as you think, either. Huh.

[EMesaros]

@EMesaros Sorry! I always get an enormous laugh out of jokes about my profession, which is singing/dance/entertainment. It is does not always amount to "Making fun" of something. But the truth is that there are some of us who will laugh at anything, even that which may be a little innappropriate. On the other hand, if we insist upon being totally solemn and utterly humorless about everything we do, where will we end up? "Homeward bound with a joyful sound!"

[hultonclint]

@hultonclint cont.

Let me go to a Mexican music festival and start singing about tacos and burritos and cucarachas and "andale arriba" and the audience would wonder what the deal was. Great group but lame gesture to glorify ignorance among aficionados. There are more sophisticated ways to make fun of the peculiarities of the genre, in which one reveals the actual cliches without making fun of legitimate "language" just because you don't get it.

[hultonclint]

@EMesaros Meaning --and just an opinion, or course-- that the joking ignorance of nautical language, while maybe fun for people who are clueless, would not go over well with many people at a *maritime music gathering* where people actually do know what they are talking about and to whom therefore nautical 'jargon' is neither mysterious or ridiculous. The self-deprecating humour *IS* appreciated, but IMO not right here.

[EMesaros]

@hultonclint I don't get it! What do you mean? Sometimes this goes right past me!

[chengloki]

Can we spliice the mainbrace now?? I'll have a bourbon with a lemon wedge. (Well, that's what it means. Time to drink). =Stefan=

[reingardl]

GOOD AS EFF!!!!!!