Statins and Hep C

[domusic]

Hi All, I haven't posted in a while while recovering from my heart attack. But I do have one question for y'all.

Anyone here on heart meds, specifically statins, and who has never Tx'd, experienced an improvement in their liver panels, or hep C in general. I have heard that statins slow or stop the replication of the Hep C virus.

Thanks,
Doug

[wyntre9]

Amazing Grace - http://tinyurl.com/scw75

Is that you playing guitar?

Beautiful!  

Wyntre

[wyntre9]

Missed this comment;

"I've seen Some great poetry/song writing on this forum (ie.Friday night fight songs). We should collaborate and publish/record some tunes."

Hey, great idea!

Maybe we can get one of the techhies around here to set us up for a cyber jam?  

Now that would be fun.

And Kim, from the other side, has quite a repertoire.  150+ and counting, I believe.

CHCNME,

It's so good to see you back!  Hope everything's going well and your new grand (son?) is fine and you'll visit more often.

[wyntre9]

Ok.  I just listened to the whole track.

Tin whistle?

Acoustic 12 string?

I'd only heard the first verse before so didn't hear the fiddle.

it's so hard to do a fresh effective arrangement of such a famous old standard but you guys did it!

I've gone to the Durham (in the Catskills) irish festival a couple of times. musicians come in from all over the world and after master classes on all aspects of traditional Celtic music and instruments and dance and storytelling, at night everyone gathers at one of a dozen pubs in the area and you get to hear jam sessions with a hundred plus fiddles all playing the same tune - soooo cooooool.

(I'm a woodwind player, myself - flute, soprano sax, picked up tin whistle a couple of years ago, bodhran - a little - would LOOOVE to learn concertina but guess that's gonna have to wait for another life.

And mandolin is gorgeous.  Ever hear the Vivaldi concerto for two mandolins and orchestra?

So glad you're doing well and you got your lovely daughter helping you out.

Keep DOING music.  :)

Wyntre

[domusic]

Actually 6 string guitar, whistle and fiddle. You're right about fresh old standards. It's a great song and the way we sing it in church is very flat! Without feeling. Oh Well . . .

Irish/Celtic festivals and plain old folk festivals are alway a lot of fun. There's a local non profit here called Folk Net, who have three or four folk festivals down in the metro parks every spring and summer and they're great. Lots of parking lot jams going on and it's a great place for new and talented artists to break onto the scene.

Flute is so nice. Beautiful. Joanne Maden of Cherish The Ladies (a friend) is so great on flute and whistle. Franky Kennedy (of late) from Altan was another great flute player. I play whistle a little as well as Bag Pipe. Not real good on either because I run out of breath easily. I hooked my bag pipes up to a compressor once and could play the hell out of them and didn't even get winded. I couldn't figure out how to march dragging a compressor behind me though so I just gave up.

I have a number of Mandolins floating around Europe including this band in France:   http://preview.tinyurl.com/338fjk.

I've seen Some great poetry/song writing on this forum (ie.Friday night fight songs). We should collaborate and publish/record some tunes.

Take care,
doug

[wyntre9]

"I hooked my bag pipes up to a compressor once and could play the hell out of them and didn't even get winded.'

Hahahahahaha.  

I like Ullean pipes.  And ya don't gotta be alive to play it (no breath).  *LOL*

Yes, Joanie Madden did a couple of master classes at the last festival I went to.

I found it interesting that (anecdotally) she really doesn't think the tin whistle is needed to get that authentic sound - but I took some classes with Mike McHale and he and most of the players in the class disagreed.

Actually, what I'd like to have is one of the traditional wood transverse flutes - but they're so darned expensive.  Last year I was nosing around antique shops up near Durham and I found the body and foot joints to what I think is a military fife and a regular C flute and I searched the darn place for the head joints and even got the owner to help and we couldn't find them.  I bought the parts anyway, (got him down to $35, thinking maybe i could find someone to make head joints at a price i can afford but that's just another one of the many projects that got sidetracked after starting TX.)

I bought a Sindt tin whistle last year - had to wait almost nine months for it - it plays great.

I'd love to play fiddle - it looks like so much fun to play in the Cailli bands.

Where's the festival you mentioned?

Keep us posted and send more music!  :)

[domusic]

Fiddle . . . One of those "silent fiddles" that require an amp to be heard. Sort of sounds like a trumpet though.

DO