Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.** Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.[1][2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )
Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )
Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:
- rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)
- most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!
- the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**
- in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns
- the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while
- hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:
- …Ken Burns…
About clarkscottroger
…(hate to sound like a rube, but) …somebody tell the guy up above that if gets himself 7 or 8 more strings he can just go ahead and invent the piano!
..having had the opportunity to perform in front of an audience, back in the day, it is neither negative nor scottian of me to say, I really wish someone had stuck a cigarette in the headstock of Poindexter’s axe (in today’s music video)… I have it as fact that the Progenitor scott used to do that and he would let the thing burn down to the guitar itself*
* refers to the sound of ‘eeiyeee!! I remember!! the Pain!! oh the Pain‘**
** ‘the Pain’ is the result of an appreciation of the type of guitar that is being used as an ashtray***
*** a Fender Stratocaster….sunburst… 1964 or 1965 ( ‘please god! do not let it come to be remembered that it might have been… a ’57! anything but that…’)
Spot on – rogers and patterns. The “resistance to change” is simply the prerogative to pattern(s). Maintenance of what is – the security of the known (fear of the new and unknowable). Why rock the boat, you might drown as a result. Deviate from the collective and risk becoming a deviant, you know, a clark? Not gonna happen! LOL
Lest it appear I’ve gone negative on my rogerian bretheren, let me just say….Love your: sense of humor, attention to detail, the sense of strength garnered from belonging, your “proprietary ways”.
(Need to ponder more the roger with a secondary scottian aspect (as opposed to a secondary clarklike aspect). A roger is a roger but when you look closer….help me Mr. “Bojangles”, help me)
Any shot at mentioning who the player is, or what’s being played?
…we were kinda hoping you would know, being the Progenitor roger and such
will look at the vid file and scan back the infrastat to congagulate the references….I think his name is Chauncy
Well, halfway at least. It’s Bach, a very widely known bouree, and a gigue. From the Orchestral Suites, based on French court dances of the early baroque era. Everyone plays that bouree. Even me. Every now and then I can get through it without dropping the ball six times.
It’s a portable harpsichord! Someday, I would love to visit a museum of musical instruments, and find out about all the strange creations throughout history. –It would be best if recordings of each instrument were available.
Now please, don’t over analyses that statement. I read books mentioning instruments I can’t even find pictures of online, and my curiosity is piqued.
us over-analyze?? we are cut to the quick! lol (I’m still shaking my head at the Wikipedia statement that birds-in-pies were the Medieval Equivalent of MTV!
the Progenitor roger would be the go-to life form for the taxonomy of these odd music machines.
If you’re in the mood… do a search for ” baryton” in regard to Haydn. This thing was played like a cello, but has another set of strings running underneath the main fingerboard, which also had frets on it. The secondary strings had to be plucked, while you were holding a bow.
Perhaps a little known fact… Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (for those of you who think his name is Jethro Tull, not the band’s name – we won’t mention any names) played Bouree on one of their first albums “Stand Up.” I was listening to it one day and decided that I wanted to be able to play that song. That became the only impetus I needed to learn to play the flute. In fact, Bouree was one of the first Tull songs I learned. After that my years as a floutist focused primarily on the countless songs from the Ian Anderson repertoire.
Bouree with Ian’s stamp on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0
ooops…. only meant for the link to go there…