Comments on: Celtic Thunder: Ireland's Version of Branson, Only Worse http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/ Quality Workday Distractions Tue, 15 May 2012 11:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeff Lyons http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Jeff Lyons Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:36:04 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-619 Georgia, I prefer "Time Wasters" to "Waste of Time"... either way, this site is probably not for you, we like to have a bit of fun. Georgia, I prefer “Time Wasters” to “Waste of Time”… either way, this site is probably not for you, we like to have a bit of fun.

]]> By: Jeff Lyons http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 Jeff Lyons Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:36:00 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-2500 Georgia, I prefer "Time Wasters" to "Waste of Time"... either way, this site is probably not for you, we like to have a bit of fun. Georgia, I prefer “Time Wasters” to “Waste of Time”… either way, this site is probably not for you, we like to have a bit of fun.

]]> By: georgia price http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-618 georgia price Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:15:26 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-618 Jeff, I don't know your motive in posting this drivel other than to waste the time of people who obviously appreciate good music and good performers. Norm and Pat were right-on in their comments. You do need to take your bad attitude somewhere else and stop the bashing altogether. It is terribly unsportsmanlike. Georgia Jeff, I don’t know your motive in posting this drivel other than to waste the time of people who obviously appreciate good music and good performers. Norm and Pat were right-on in their comments. You do need to take your bad attitude somewhere else and stop the bashing altogether. It is terribly unsportsmanlike.

Georgia

]]> By: georgia price http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-2499 georgia price Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:15:00 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-2499 Jeff, I don't know your motive in posting this drivel other than to waste the time of people who obviously appreciate good music and good performers. Norm and Pat were right-on in their comments. You do need to take your bad attitude somewhere else and stop the bashing altogether. It is terribly unsportsmanlike. Georgia Jeff, I don’t know your motive in posting this drivel other than to waste the time of people who obviously appreciate good music and good performers. Norm and Pat were right-on in their comments. You do need to take your bad attitude somewhere else and stop the bashing altogether. It is terribly unsportsmanlike.

Georgia

]]> By: Jeff Lyons http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Jeff Lyons Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:34:57 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-617 Mary Pat, fine points all around, well put, but I cannot give a second listen. I've listened enough and it's hard on my soul. I realize every country needs their highly polished Broadwayesque fanfare, it makes for a very marketable production that appeals to the masses, just not me and a few other music snobs. PMcL, Thanks! Welcome to the minority. Mary Pat, fine points all around, well put, but I cannot give a second listen. I’ve listened enough and it’s hard on my soul. I realize every country needs their highly polished Broadwayesque fanfare, it makes for a very marketable production that appeals to the masses, just not me and a few other music snobs.

PMcL, Thanks! Welcome to the minority.

]]> By: Jeff Lyons http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-2498 Jeff Lyons Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-2498 Mary Pat, fine points all around, well put, but I cannot give a second listen. I've listened enough and it's hard on my soul. I realize every country needs their highly polished Broadwayesque fanfare, it makes for a very marketable production that appeals to the masses, just not me and a few other music snobs. PMcL, Thanks! Welcome to the minority. Mary Pat, fine points all around, well put, but I cannot give a second listen. I’ve listened enough and it’s hard on my soul. I realize every country needs their highly polished Broadwayesque fanfare, it makes for a very marketable production that appeals to the masses, just not me and a few other music snobs.

PMcL, Thanks! Welcome to the minority.

]]> By: PMcL http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-616 PMcL Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:19:24 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-616 Thanks for the laugh and the honest-to-goodness humorous and well-deserved slamming of purveyors of this inauthentic junk-masquerading-as-music. Your blog really cracks me up and is usually, as in this case, right on target! Thanks for the laugh and the honest-to-goodness humorous and well-deserved slamming of purveyors of this inauthentic junk-masquerading-as-music. Your blog really cracks me up and is usually, as in this case, right on target!

]]> By: PMcL http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-2497 PMcL Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:19:00 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-2497 Thanks for the laugh and the honest-to-goodness humorous and well-deserved slamming of purveyors of this inauthentic junk-masquerading-as-music. Your blog really cracks me up and is usually, as in this case, right on target! Thanks for the laugh and the honest-to-goodness humorous and well-deserved slamming of purveyors of this inauthentic junk-masquerading-as-music. Your blog really cracks me up and is usually, as in this case, right on target!

]]> By: Mary Pat http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Mary Pat Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:45:52 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-615 Jeff, Please do not confuse your own musical narrow-mindedness with expertise on Irish music. Ireland has not remained limited to the bodran and the pipe whistle but is a thriving culture, evolving and offereing new things all the time to our world, as well as bringing us the artistic forms of its past. While I too love the pub corner music it is more for the comradderie of the pubmates and the ambiance than for its captive and enthralling qualities. Irish lyrical music (of which some traditional music and some newer compositions are included in the Celtic Thunder show) has always included intensity, pathos and melody as I find so readily throughout the Celtic Thunder performance. It is above all a singers' concert with stage blocking and other physical performance aspects providing a frame for the soloists and organizing the group number deliveries. Contrary to your impressions I found the variety of voices, set lists and themes of each of the Celtic Thunder soloists highly entertaining and full of feeling. I encourage you to suspend your expectations and have another look and listen. If you watch without feeling determined to be offended you may be able to find the wonderfully diverse voices, beautiful harmonies, energizing drum beats and heartfelt performances something unlike what you've seen before. Certainly the themes of love, conflict, life experiences, loss, love and lust are all characteristic of the Irish experience - and there's plenty of our special sense of humor in there too as it naturally occurs within the group. Glad you wrote your critique since it has stimulated so much positive commentary on this show. Mary Pat Jeff,

Please do not confuse your own musical narrow-mindedness with expertise on Irish music. Ireland has not remained limited to the bodran and the pipe whistle but is a thriving culture, evolving and offereing new things all the time to our world, as well as bringing us the artistic forms of its past. While I too love the pub corner music it is more for the comradderie of the pubmates and the ambiance than for its captive and enthralling qualities.

Irish lyrical music (of which some traditional music and some newer compositions are included in the Celtic Thunder show) has always included intensity, pathos and melody as I find so readily throughout the Celtic Thunder performance. It is above all a singers’ concert with stage blocking and other physical performance aspects providing a frame for the soloists and organizing the group number deliveries. Contrary to your impressions I found the variety of voices, set lists and themes of each of the Celtic Thunder soloists highly entertaining and full of feeling.

I encourage you to suspend your expectations and have another look and listen. If you watch without feeling determined to be offended you may be able to find the wonderfully diverse voices, beautiful harmonies, energizing drum beats and heartfelt performances something unlike what you’ve seen before. Certainly the themes of love, conflict, life experiences, loss, love and lust are all characteristic of the Irish experience – and there’s plenty of our special sense of humor in there too as it naturally occurs within the group.

Glad you wrote your critique since it has stimulated so much positive commentary on this show.

Mary Pat

]]> By: Mary Pat http://usedwigs.com/celtic-thunder-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-2496 Mary Pat Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:45:00 +0000 http://usedwigs.com/?p=381#comment-2496 Jeff, Please do not confuse your own musical narrow-mindedness with expertise on Irish music. Ireland has not remained limited to the bodran and the pipe whistle but is a thriving culture, evolving and offereing new things all the time to our world, as well as bringing us the artistic forms of its past. While I too love the pub corner music it is more for the comradderie of the pubmates and the ambiance than for its captive and enthralling qualities. Irish lyrical music (of which some traditional music and some newer compositions are included in the Celtic Thunder show) has always included intensity, pathos and melody as I find so readily throughout the Celtic Thunder performance. It is above all a singers' concert with stage blocking and other physical performance aspects providing a frame for the soloists and organizing the group number deliveries. Contrary to your impressions I found the variety of voices, set lists and themes of each of the Celtic Thunder soloists highly entertaining and full of feeling. I encourage you to suspend your expectations and have another look and listen. If you watch without feeling determined to be offended you may be able to find the wonderfully diverse voices, beautiful harmonies, energizing drum beats and heartfelt performances something unlike what you've seen before. Certainly the themes of love, conflict, life experiences, loss, love and lust are all characteristic of the Irish experience - and there's plenty of our special sense of humor in there too as it naturally occurs within the group. Glad you wrote your critique since it has stimulated so much positive commentary on this show. Mary Pat Jeff,

Please do not confuse your own musical narrow-mindedness with expertise on Irish music. Ireland has not remained limited to the bodran and the pipe whistle but is a thriving culture, evolving and offereing new things all the time to our world, as well as bringing us the artistic forms of its past. While I too love the pub corner music it is more for the comradderie of the pubmates and the ambiance than for its captive and enthralling qualities.

Irish lyrical music (of which some traditional music and some newer compositions are included in the Celtic Thunder show) has always included intensity, pathos and melody as I find so readily throughout the Celtic Thunder performance. It is above all a singers’ concert with stage blocking and other physical performance aspects providing a frame for the soloists and organizing the group number deliveries. Contrary to your impressions I found the variety of voices, set lists and themes of each of the Celtic Thunder soloists highly entertaining and full of feeling.

I encourage you to suspend your expectations and have another look and listen. If you watch without feeling determined to be offended you may be able to find the wonderfully diverse voices, beautiful harmonies, energizing drum beats and heartfelt performances something unlike what you’ve seen before. Certainly the themes of love, conflict, life experiences, loss, love and lust are all characteristic of the Irish experience – and there’s plenty of our special sense of humor in there too as it naturally occurs within the group.

Glad you wrote your critique since it has stimulated so much positive commentary on this show.

Mary Pat

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