[GTALUG] interesting new approach to forking

[Stewart Russell]

On Feb 20, 2015 11:03 AM, "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1st FRET VESTPOL

I approve of this reference, though of course the *true* conspiracy
theorist will immediately see the link between:

1) Vestpol, or Vestapol, guitar tuning (D A D F# A D, or Open D) much used
in southern acoustic blues;

2) Vestapol March, one of those blues numbers played in Open D.  Also known
variously as the Sylvester Poole March, Sevastopol March, or The March on
Sebastopol - a particularly delicate piece of parlour music popular in the
later 19th century, commemorating some event or other in the Crimean War;

3) Sevastopol, location of current unpleasantness between Ukraine and
Russia.

So those refined society ladies plucking their gut-string banjos and the
bluesmen with names composed of $AFFLICTION $FRUIT $DEAD_PRESIDENT all knew
that Putin's actions were long foretold ...

I am folk, hear me process.*

Stewart

*: not mine, alas; one of Peter Stampfel's.
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