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Posted by Mountain Fan on 04-27-2004 at12:40:

 

quote:

Originally posted by dorfsmith quote: Originally posted by baxter Cool post! My son would have liked that valley too. i remember when we listened to it as a family for the first time. It was great fun. We lent it to some friends in Fresno, though, and never got it back. Some friends That's why I stopped loaning stuff out

Is that why your other friends came to watch Donnie Darko at YOUR house?

Friends ) or Fiends ? One R sure makes a difference!

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 04-27-2004 at12:43:

 

quote:

Originally posted by audiori Ray Ware told us they had the idea for Randy to perform the songs with different hats to put on....a chef hat for the Pie song, a pirate hat for the pirate song, etc. That seemed like a great idea. I really laughed hard at the "me me me me" song.... "I am learning all kinds of twists and turns and flips, to kiss myself with my own two lips..." Terry said he and Randy wrote those songs while laughing histerically at a Denny's or some place. They were getting some looks from the other people.... I can imagine it plain as day in my head. Rob Watson also had a big hand in the music of it I believe. We wish the site had done better, but it really was cursed with only having one item. It is still going of course, but barely. With very small sales it's difficult to even keep the site up. It was a great idea that kinda fizzled at least on the web for lack of support. I think Randy has performed Uncle Stonehill concerts probably with better success.

PLEASE leave it out there somehow, if possible. Could you move it to a subset of DA or Randy's site and forward all traffic from the original site, or does that not really effectively pass the buck and cost less?

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Posted by bereal on 04-27-2004 at22:07:

 

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Originally posted by Stuart Pedasso Uncle Stonehill's Hat I haven't officially reviewed it, but in a nutshell it's okay, with some interesting moments, but the whole thing suffers from an element of flatness and unrealized potential. As an adult I wouldn't listen to it without good reason. But it's a kid's album - and my kids 7, 5, 3 (my three reasons for listening) - think it's the greatest thing ever. I've had to listen to it over and over and over, and they love it. So if you've got little kids who like silly and lots of songs, you could do much worse that get this. So there.

It's not the least bit flat! We all need some silliness in our lives (we adults are much too serious ~ that's why Jesus told us to come as a child!)

Our children can't get enough of this CD. They asked me over and over to listen to it today!

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Posted by Rabbi John Paul Ringo on 04-27-2004 at22:10:

 

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Originally posted by bereal quote: Originally posted by Stuart Pedasso Uncle Stonehill's Hat I haven't officially reviewed it, but in a nutshell it's okay, with some interesting moments, but the whole thing suffers from an element of flatness and unrealized potential. As an adult I wouldn't listen to it without good reason. But it's a kid's album - and my kids 7, 5, 3 (my three reasons for listening) - think it's the greatest thing ever. I've had to listen to it over and over and over, and they love it. So if you've got little kids who like silly and lots of songs, you could do much worse that get this. So there. It's not the least bit flat! We all need some silliness in our lives (we adults are much too serious ~ that's why Jesus told us to come as a child!) Our children can't get enough of this CD. They asked me over and over to listen to it today!

I was the Rebbe that put ole Randy under the knife, if you know what I mean.

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Posted by bereal on 04-27-2004 at22:14:

 

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Originally posted by audiori Terry said he and Randy wrote those songs while laughing histerically at a Denny's or some place. They were getting some looks from the other people....

LOL!

I can see 2 grown men laughing their asses off in Denny's with all the serious grown ups shooting them looks! That's great!

Musicians

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 04-28-2004 at09:13:

 

quote:

Originally posted by Rabbi John Paul Ringo quote: Originally posted by bereal quote: Originally posted by Stuart Pedasso Uncle Stonehill's Hat I haven't officially reviewed it, but in a nutshell it's okay, with some interesting moments, but the whole thing suffers from an element of flatness and unrealized potential. As an adult I wouldn't listen to it without good reason. But it's a kid's album - and my kids 7, 5, 3 (my three reasons for listening) - think it's the greatest thing ever. I've had to listen to it over and over and over, and they love it. So if you've got little kids who like silly and lots of songs, you could do much worse that get this. So there. It's not the least bit flat! We all need some silliness in our lives (we adults are much too serious ~ that's why Jesus told us to come as a child!) Our children can't get enough of this CD. They asked me over and over to listen to it today! I was the Rebbe that put ole Randy under the knife, if you know what I mean.

Oh, so that's why YOU said you got circumcised 4 times?

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 04-28-2004 at11:35:

  submission to Parents magazine

I got the following automated out-of-office reply when I submitted the story about "Valley of the Backhoes" to Parent's magazine:

Some of you could add some great stories, I'm sure!

I think I might wait a bit first to see if they publish the brief story I sent before sending this person a link to Uncle Stonehill. Maybe I can wait that long?

=======

Hi,

I received your "Out of the Mouths of Babes" entry and am still
reviewing
it. Please know that we get thousands of entries and will write if
yours is
chosen.

Here's another chance to see your name in the magazine: I'm working on
a
story about 2 and 3 year olds and their attention spans. Has your child
recently given up on something after a short period of time? I'd love
to
hear details.
OR
I'm working on a story tentatively called "10 Tricks that Will Astonish
your
kids forever." I'm looking for fun examples. Do you have a cool uncle
in the
family who folds napkins in a fun way? Someone know how to make a coin
disappear? I'm looking for YOUR stories...thanks!

Please email me directly at sfarhat@parentsmagazine.com with stories.

Thanks for writing!
Sincerely,
Kid Quotes editor

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Posted by Stuart Pedasso on 04-28-2004 at17:33:

 

It's not the least bit flat! We all need some silliness in our lives (we adults are much too serious ~ that's why Jesus told us to come as a child!)

Relax! It's flat as a before picture of Britney. I'm not the only one who noticed when I played it. However, my opinion mean absolutley nothing, since it's my kid's current favourite CD.

And I've never not been acused of being silly. Nice to see I'm taken as a really serious person.

Baxter - no pie hole comments from you. You big galloot.

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Posted by audiori on 04-29-2004 at14:57:

 

Yeah we will keep the Unclestonehill.com site up
as long as they tell us to.

We had wanted to link it to the other Randy site or
sell them here on DA.com too. But we were told they
wanted to keep Unclestonehill seperate from the regular
stuff. They didn't want other Randy albums sold there either.

We had intended a lot of games and stuff on there, but
we had a lot of input from them at the begining about
what they wanted on the site. And then it kinda dropped
off.

Originally we had it ask for a password to enter...
lookin for "we don't know anything about a password"
but if you clicked a couple times i would let you in anyway..
they thought it woud be confusing for people...

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 05-03-2004 at09:39:

  play Uncle Stonehill's Hat

Just wanted to encourage any other hack guitar players out there that the songs on this CD really aren't too bad to play for the most part. Stick a capo at the 5th fret and use different rhythyms/combinations of A, D, and E, and you will be playing over half the music right away (I think). Of course there are some F#m and Bm occasionally and other such stuff. Shut De Do starts with F and Bb, I think (and yes, dennis, it is a great song. Do you like Jimmy Buffet or Bob Marley. just curious). Beanies and Franks is a lot higher up, maybe about the 10th or twelfth fret or something.

I got all that with just one listen yesterday afternoon while stopping and having interruptions all the while. I had been planning on doing a little other music quietly while it was playing but the loud protest and angry, wrinkled nose of my 2 1/2 year old boy convinced me otherwise.

My Mom sat in the back of our car last Saturday and sang along with the kids on the way to a "spring fling" carnival-type fundraiser for a local church's school. My dad didn't say much, but I could tell he liked the music, especially on Mouse in the House and Toes. (bereal was at a scrapbook event for a well deserved break).