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« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2007, 12:30:31 PM » |
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Interesting question! It deserves an answer so I rang Ric.
He has sung. Once.
It's on a backing vocal for June Tabor and Martin Simpson on their album "A Cut Above".
Other than that he says, "I was classically trained as a child but as I grew up I returned to the wild."
In fact, he never sings because he just isn't confident about it. That's what he says anyway. Although he has been known to scat in a Louis Armstrong style. But not in public.
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« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2007, 12:59:46 PM » |
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Other than that he says, "I was classically trained as a child but as I grew up I returned to the wild."That HAS to be a classic Ric comment.. I love it!! 
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« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2007, 01:34:24 PM » |
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It was just that I saw it used by two different boardsters & wondered whether I was wrong....
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« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2007, 01:38:03 PM » |
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Frightened to post now in case I make another faux pas with my speelling ....  Yes I meant the pedal he uses to create special affects with his violin. Is it not called a pedal these days? It's not good (IMHO). Well, sometimes anyway. I quite like it in Waiting for the Tide to Come In. Ric doing scat! Sounds very interesting. Thanks to Mr David Hughes for obtaining that information for us - you should post more, Mr Hughes! |
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« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2007, 01:44:26 PM » |
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A top tip for Mr. Ric Sanders.
As your oppponent is about to serve, start whistling 'It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it'.
Raise the volume and starting humming the tune as you return the serve. Your opponent will be wrong-footed and now's your chance to move towards the net. '....and that's what gets results', you sing loudly, as you press forward with a forehanded smash.
Table Tenis and Singing - a winning combination, dear Ric.
No thanks necessary - I am full of these top tips.
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« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2007, 01:46:15 PM » |
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Ric does make a good (if funny) attempt at peddling though at the gigs... but he says himself that he's no salesman!!
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« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2007, 01:51:56 PM » |
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Ric does make a good (if funny) attempt at peddling though at the gigs... but he says himself that he's no salesman!!
ROTFLOL Nice one Jen |
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« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2007, 01:59:58 PM » |
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We can't all be good at everything. At least I'm in good company in not being confident about singing then  For the record, I like the pedal (one day I'll figure out a decent overdrive for the flute that doesn't just create feedback) and the peddle. So there. |
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« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2007, 04:29:43 PM » |
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Frightened to post now in case I make another faux pas with my speelling .... At least you didn't spell it "fopar"  |
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« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2007, 06:12:57 PM » |
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« Reply #30 on: March 05, 2007, 06:25:16 PM » |
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A top tip for Mr. Ric Sanders.
As your oppponent is about to serve, start whistling 'It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it'.
Raise the volume and starting humming the tune as you return the serve. Your opponent will be wrong-footed and now's your chance to move towards the net. '....and that's what gets results', you sing loudly, as you press forward with a forehanded smash.
Table Tenis and Singing - a winning combination, dear Ric.
No thanks necessary - I am full of these top tips.
Peel
Or indeed, take a leaf out of the Desmond Douglas book (a childhood hero of mine). Wiki says of him; "He was an attacking player notable for his scissor jump smash". I really feel, however, that whistling whilst performing such a manoeuvre would be rubbing it in too much, a bit like Terry Thomas saying 'Hard cheese' after each point |
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« Reply #31 on: March 05, 2007, 07:10:50 PM » |
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I quite like it in Waiting for the Tide to Come In. Don't you mean Wait for the Tide to Come In  Also, you can do a spell check at the bottom of the post reply screen. |
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« Reply #32 on: March 05, 2007, 08:19:06 PM » |
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A top tip for Mr. Ric Sanders.
As your oppponent is about to serve, start whistling 'It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it'.
Raise the volume and starting humming the tune as you return the serve. Your opponent will be wrong-footed and now's your chance to move towards the net. '....and that's what gets results', you sing loudly, as you press forward with a forehanded smash.
Table Tenis and Singing - a winning combination, dear Ric.
No thanks necessary - I am full of these top tips.
Peel
Or indeed, take a leaf out of the Desmond Douglas book (a childhood hero of mine). Wiki says of him; "He was an attacking player notable for his scissor jump smash". I really feel, however, that whistling whilst performing such a manoeuvre would be rubbing it in too much, a bit like Terry Thomas saying 'Hard c****e' after each point I always felt that Desmond was gilding the lily a bit there, Rory, didn't you? |
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« Reply #33 on: March 05, 2007, 08:24:01 PM » |
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Also, you can do a spell check at the bottom of the post reply screen.
Wouldn't have worked for 'peddle' as it is actually a word with different meaning. |
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« Reply #34 on: March 05, 2007, 08:25:38 PM » |
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I quite like it in Waiting for the Tide to Come In. Don't you mean Wait for the Tide to Come In Also, you can do a spell check at the bottom of the post reply screen. la la la la la la not listening la la la la (adopts fingers in ears pose)  |
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« Reply #35 on: March 05, 2007, 08:33:21 PM » |
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Here's another Top Tip to improve Mr. Sanders' Table Tennis:
Give over wearing horrible plastic shoes. Get some plimsolls. Squeaky ones.
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« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2007, 03:39:15 AM » |
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To summarize: Ric Sanders is a horrible plastic shoe wearing fiddler who is peddling his masterly use of pedals in the guise of a table tennis champion of the folk rock fraternity. Nobody has really heard him sing although there is rumor of it happening and some have even seen him scat at times which in hunting terminology is poo. So in conclusion he is either a sh*t singer or very shy. Have a great day though and you should all be ashamed of yourselves |
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« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2007, 08:21:49 AM » |
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Or indeed, take a leaf out of the Desmond Douglas book (a childhood hero of mine). Wiki says of him; "He was an attacking player notable for his scissor jump smash". I really feel, however, that whistling whilst performing such a manoeuvre would be rubbing it in too much, a bit like Terry Thomas saying 'Hard c****e' after each point
I always felt that Desmond was gilding the lily a bit there, Rory, didn't you? Mmmm, difficult one this, how could one over do a scissor jump smash? On the other hand you may be right, there no need to show off whilst playing ping pong, is there? Not very sporting at all, really. |
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« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2007, 09:33:58 AM » |
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I'm sure Desmond would have justified it by saying he needed the scissor jump to achieve the rotation to deliver the top spin but, even so...
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« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2007, 10:02:01 AM » |
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Blimey, I can't believe no-one's mentioned this already...
Ric has sung in public on a few occasions, and on CD/cassette. I have the album he made with Gordon Giltrap, and on the violin/effects showcase piece (PDC??), he distinctly sings into (the contact mic? on) his violin. And I saw him do exactly that at Croppers - and at other gigs.
OK - no lyrics, but a definite singing voice. And in tune!
Never seen him play table-tennis though.
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