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Ask A Musically Inclined Irish Ex-pat Kiwi With A Farming Background
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RE: Ask A Musically Inclined Irish Ex-pat Kiwi With A Farming Background
(May 16, 2015 at 11:11 pm)c172 Wrote: You a rugby supporter?

All Blacks, baby!!  And yes - I have been known to haka.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Ask A Musically Inclined Irish Ex-pat Kiwi With A Farming Background
Super Rugby at all?
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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(May 16, 2015 at 11:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 16, 2015 at 11:02 pm)Exian Wrote: Have you ever attempted American folk/folk blues, and if so, how different are they? Guitar wise?

Fuck it, make me a video.

I quite like American folk - there are some surprising similarities between it and Irish folk.  I never played it much professionally - my paying customers were USian tourists who wanted to hear Irish music (I don't perform much these days).

I don't put images of myself online, sorry.

Boru

Awww! That's disappointing. My buddy (who is surprisingly inept at guitar) was pretty good at Irish folk, and I wanted to hear some genuine shit.

What's the deal with an Irish dude playing an American instrument like the banjo? Is there an Irish/kiwi version of banjo playing? Also, 4 or 5 string?
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(May 16, 2015 at 11:18 pm)c172 Wrote: Super Rugby at all?

Sure.  Also Six Nations, Celtic Nations, Group 16, some others.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Go Highlanders.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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(May 16, 2015 at 11:20 pm)Exian Wrote:
(May 16, 2015 at 11:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I quite like American folk - there are some surprising similarities between it and Irish folk.  I never played it much professionally - my paying customers were USian tourists who wanted to hear Irish music (I don't perform much these days).

I don't put images of myself online, sorry.

Boru

Awww! That's disappointing. My buddy (who is surprisingly inept at guitar) was pretty good at Irish folk, and I wanted to hear some genuine shit.

What's the deal with an Irish dude playing an American instrument like the banjo? Is there an Irish/kiwi version of banjo playing? Also, 4 or 5 string?

 Banjo is very, VERY big in Irish traddy music (eg, Tommy Makem).  I play mostly 5 string long necks, but I also play 4 string.  Can't abide short necks, though.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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I got me a 5 string hollow back. So backwards. I thought I'd never get used to my thumb riding the treble. Lol
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RE: Ask A Musically Inclined Irish Ex-pat Kiwi With A Farming Background
Does Kiwi Guinness taste differently than domestic Guinness?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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(May 17, 2015 at 3:24 am)Alex K Wrote: Does Kiwi Guinness taste differently than domestic Guinness?

Dunno.  I stopped drinking before I left NI.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Ask A Musically Inclined Irish Ex-pat Kiwi With A Farming Background
You stopped drinking!
Is that when you came to your senses and became an atheist?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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