Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I don't think many people who regularily browse this site could be unaffected by what they read here. But I don't know that it has fundamentally changed my "thinking about music" or what it means to me. It has been interesting to learn more about what makes other musicians tick - or not, as the case may be.
As for mind altering - an evening at a session in Sydney with Dow and bb
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's certainly informed me about how various kinds if folk view sessions. In some cases it's confirmed my worst fears (!) but I've also been pleasantly surprised to realise that there are some others who see things from a viewpoint similar to mine.
No, I don't think it has altered my basic perspective - I'm still just as grumpy and narrow minded as ever!
It's been a great source of information and anecdotes though, which I really enjoy. I think the best thing it's doing for me at the moment is keeping me thinking about the music, as I have very little time to play just now. This way, I'm itching to get back to it instead of kind of forgetting it exists.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Its influenced my life in many ways, ive met loads of very cool people and I am going to America in July specifically to hang out with some of the gang on this site - Zina, Em, Conan etc.
Musically it hasnt changed anything - except that its a great place to moan and vent.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
it helps me staying in touch, calming down my "german" mentality (which tends to take all about it sometimes too serious..), get an idea of how many different point of views about the music are around the world, helps me check and sometimes change my own... it´s part of my life - if you call that altering my perspective, well... yes, maybe it did.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
it hasn't affected my own basic 'thinking about music', but it has opened my eyes with delight by the enlightened ''breaths of fresh air'' shared between the (sometimes diverse) mindsets
''an informative influence'', i think, will not be denied to anyone mucking into the pot on this golden board _we are all here now
'By the waters of Life we sat together,
Hand in hand, in the golden days
Of the beautiful early summer weather
When skies were purple and breath was praise.'
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
How? Quite rapidly.
about the music - nice to know that I'm not alone with many of my preferences
about the internet - it is actually possible to get to *know* people by just reading their posts for some time
about session members - a lot of friendly, understanding, supportive people. Most of them anyway.
about myself - I'm not all that useless, I know a few things that are helpful to others.
I've also been able to impress my friends with facts from the collective 'session' knowledge. So that's changed their perspective a little as well.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Joined as somone not knowing much about the ITM scene-outside of playing at local sessions, but feel i now know a lot more about the music and its origins/influences(hmm...should perhaps update my profile now i say that!). also, helped me to understand other people and their opinions towards music and the diversity within the genre.
picked up some cracking tunes,and also some iv been after for years.
all in all-its been a great help!
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's made me realize that a lot of folks who seem perfectly well-adjusted and happy at the sessions I go to might later be sneaking off to anonymously whine, bitch, moan and complain to total strangers about the other musicians who were there. The overall impact is that I'm more suspicious and less open with my session mates than I used to be.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I have learned a lot about the music, picked up a lot of specific tunes that I couldn't find elsewhere in the archives, engaged in a lot of fun discussions, and found sessions in other cities during business trips, which wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Good job Jeremy, and all who participate in this little, but worldwide, electronic community.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
As John Martin (the singer song writer, not the scottish fiddle player) once sang,
"`Some people have conclusions like curtains,
Don't they draw them tight, don't they draw them tight."
(That's "drapes" for those on the islands of america)
And as the conversation between the Scarecrow and Dorothy gows:
S "No brains you see. Only straw."
D "But how can you talk if you havn't got a brain?"
S "I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"
D "Well yes. I guess they do."
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
When I left 'mainstream' pop production work in studios in the early '90's, and moved to the country, I found that online communities were something I needed. Professionally and personally.
I'm really grateful for all the sharing and support that I've found here on The Session!
It's hard to separate out how The Session has influenced my growth in the music, it has been such an integral part of what has been a fast and zoomy trip in the last few years.
But enough of this touchy-feely. Who's got a reel?
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It has reafirmed to me that Boston is a good town for sessions and I'm lucky to live here (with the exception of one very openly snobbish closed sesh at a very successful pub in Sommerville).
Oops I slipped.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's made me realise that there are even more tunes that I don't know, than I thought I didn't know.
Also that there are some other darn silly people playing celtic music.
Also that there is a tremendous wealth of technical information out there, if you just ask the right question.
I am also pleased to learn that some people have realised that the US is an island (not the world). Hey, but we all live on islands.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Well done Jim.Your post was totally incomprehensible,as usual.Why do you keep on sending them in? Most of us lack the time and the cryptological skills to decipher them.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I've learned a tremendous amount here, and made some good friends, one of whom I plan to meet and play tunes with this summer.
It's given me a lot of music I didn't have before.
It's altered my perspective somewhat, in that it gave me a window on a world I had had no access to before I joined.
Thanks, Jeremy.
Hey, MG, Americans say curtains too. Only over here, the words aren't always used interchangeably. Often, drapes are the heavy, fancy, formal things that hang in the living room while curtains are the thin, frilly, short things that hang in the kitchen, or are the velvet things that hang in the theatre.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
yes. I have enjoyed talking to people and asking them question. Its nice to have a place where people with common interests can swap stories. Also it has one of the largest and best collections of tunes Ive seen on websites.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Ha! Now you know how I feel every day, Jim Troy, when I step out the door of my flat and peer down the stairs, trembling with fear, expecting a woman to be there waiting for me, saying "Are you Dow? Do you know Jim Troy? He sent me here". I know it could happen any day. So now you've got a taste of your own valium Troy.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I'm still a wild, sarcastic, grumpy, crazy son of a b*tch. However, now I am O*N*L*I*N*E (sprinkle the glitter here).
Michael Gill: The last guy that said that to me was a biker buddy that weighed 400 lbs. His favorite pastime was hot baths and whiskey. I understand from his landlady when she visited to collect rent that when he came to the door steaming drunk naked, he looked like a huge albino raisen with withered tattoos. There are some islands that are on a need to know basis.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Before discovering this site, I knew nothing about Irish music sessions, was only barely even aware that there was such a thing, in spite of having participated in a ceili dance class for a couple of years.
So, it has been fun learning about sessions, the music, the people, etc. Hopefully someday I will live or visit somewhere where I might be able to go and listen to a session.
This site is a lot of fun and a great resource, and very well put together. Thanks, Jeremy, and to all who participate.
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It’s meant quite a lot to me. After being out of commission for way too many years, lurking around the yellow board and then finally joining in has helped motivate me to keep working on regaining my facility before senility takes over. The entertainment value is a bonus.
How has this website altered your perspective?
How has this website altered your perspective?
No preamble. No prejudice. I would like to know if this forum has affected your thinking about music or has had an influence on your life. WB
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by wvwhistler
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I don't think many people who regularily browse this site could be unaffected by what they read here. But I don't know that it has fundamentally changed my "thinking about music" or what it means to me. It has been interesting to learn more about what makes other musicians tick - or not, as the case may be.
As for mind altering - an evening at a session in Sydney with Dow and bb
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Donough
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's certainly informed me about how various kinds if folk view sessions. In some cases it's confirmed my worst fears (!) but I've also been pleasantly surprised to realise that there are some others who see things from a viewpoint similar to mine.
No, I don't think it has altered my basic perspective - I'm still just as grumpy and narrow minded as ever!
It's been a great source of information and anecdotes though, which I really enjoy. I think the best thing it's doing for me at the moment is keeping me thinking about the music, as I have very little time to play just now. This way, I'm itching to get back to it instead of kind of forgetting it exists.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by kris
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It made me realise that the USA is an island.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Its influenced my life in many ways, ive met loads of very cool people and I am going to America in July specifically to hang out with some of the gang on this site - Zina, Em, Conan etc.
Musically it hasnt changed anything - except that its a great place to moan and vent.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by bb
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
it helps me staying in touch, calming down my "german" mentality (which tends to take all about it sometimes too serious..), get an idea of how many different point of views about the music are around the world, helps me check and sometimes change my own... it´s part of my life - if you call that altering my perspective, well... yes, maybe it did.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by crannog
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
it hasn't affected my own basic 'thinking about music', but it has opened my eyes with delight by the enlightened ''breaths of fresh air'' shared between the (sometimes diverse) mindsets
''an informative influence'', i think, will not be denied to anyone mucking into the pot on this golden board _we are all here now
'By the waters of Life we sat together,
Hand in hand, in the golden days
Of the beautiful early summer weather
When skies were purple and breath was praise.'
Thomas Noel b. (this day) 1799
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by lisaniska
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
How? Quite rapidly.
about the music - nice to know that I'm not alone with many of my preferences
about the internet - it is actually possible to get to *know* people by just reading their posts for some time
about session members - a lot of friendly, understanding, supportive people. Most of them anyway.
about myself - I'm not all that useless, I know a few things that are helpful to others.
I've also been able to impress my friends with facts from the collective 'session' knowledge. So that's changed their perspective a little as well.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by kuec
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Joined as somone not knowing much about the ITM scene-outside of playing at local sessions, but feel i now know a lot more about the music and its origins/influences(hmm...should perhaps update my profile now i say that!). also, helped me to understand other people and their opinions towards music and the diversity within the genre.
picked up some cracking tunes,and also some iv been after for years.
all in all-its been a great help!
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by aaron b
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I've learned quite a bit from joining in. Have had a lot of laughs. My perspective hasn't changed though.
Dave, to further clairfy: Since the presidential election, North America has solit into 2 islands:
United States of Canada & United States of GW.
Deb.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Agnes Nutter
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's made me realize that a lot of folks who seem perfectly well-adjusted and happy at the sessions I go to might later be sneaking off to anonymously whine, bitch, moan and complain to total strangers about the other musicians who were there. The overall impact is that I'm more suspicious and less open with my session mates than I used to be.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I have learned a lot about the music, picked up a lot of specific tunes that I couldn't find elsewhere in the archives, engaged in a lot of fun discussions, and found sessions in other cities during business trips, which wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Good job Jeremy, and all who participate in this little, but worldwide, electronic community.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by AlBrown
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
As John Martin (the singer song writer, not the scottish fiddle player) once sang,
"`Some people have conclusions like curtains,
Don't they draw them tight, don't they draw them tight."
(That's "drapes" for those on the islands of america)
And as the conversation between the Scarecrow and Dorothy gows:
S "No brains you see. Only straw."
D "But how can you talk if you havn't got a brain?"
S "I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"
D "Well yes. I guess they do."
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by llig leahcim
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
gwan Jim - gi's a toke.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
When I left 'mainstream' pop production work in studios in the early '90's, and moved to the country, I found that online communities were something I needed. Professionally and personally.
I'm really grateful for all the sharing and support that I've found here on The Session!
It's hard to separate out how The Session has influenced my growth in the music, it has been such an integral part of what has been a fast and zoomy trip in the last few years.
But enough of this touchy-feely. Who's got a reel?
stv
www.cdbaby.com/Culchies
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by stv culchie
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Great!, more confessions, self-righteousness and navel gazing...
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Cath
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It has reafirmed to me that Boston is a good town for sessions and I'm lucky to live here (with the exception of one very openly snobbish closed sesh at a very successful pub in Sommerville).
Oops I slipped.
Saltcast
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by saltcast
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
lol
jim, that's just info, not a real conversation.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Kerri Brown
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It's made me realise that there are even more tunes that I don't know, than I thought I didn't know.
Also that there are some other darn silly people playing celtic music.
Also that there is a tremendous wealth of technical information out there, if you just ask the right question.
I am also pleased to learn that some people have realised that the US is an island (not the world). Hey, but we all live on islands.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by Guernsey Pete
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Well done Jim.Your post was totally incomprehensible,as usual.Why do you keep on sending them in? Most of us lack the time and the cryptological skills to decipher them.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I've learned a tremendous amount here, and made some good friends, one of whom I plan to meet and play tunes with this summer.
It's given me a lot of music I didn't have before.
It's altered my perspective somewhat, in that it gave me a window on a world I had had no access to before I joined.
Thanks, Jeremy.
Hey, MG, Americans say curtains too. Only over here, the words aren't always used interchangeably. Often, drapes are the heavy, fancy, formal things that hang in the living room while curtains are the thin, frilly, short things that hang in the kitchen, or are the velvet things that hang in the theatre.
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by sara g
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
And as Norman Lovett says,
"No man's an island ... except when he's in the bath."
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by llig leahcim
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Especially when "the towel is in the cupboard, and the cupboard is next door".
# Posted on May 11th 2005 by sara g
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
yes. I have enjoyed talking to people and asking them question. Its nice to have a place where people with common interests can swap stories. Also it has one of the largest and best collections of tunes Ive seen on websites.
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by banana512
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Ha! Now you know how I feel every day, Jim Troy, when I step out the door of my flat and peer down the stairs, trembling with fear, expecting a woman to be there waiting for me, saying "Are you Dow? Do you know Jim Troy? He sent me here". I know it could happen any day. So now you've got a taste of your own valium Troy.
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by Dr. Dow
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
I'm still a wild, sarcastic, grumpy, crazy son of a b*tch. However, now I am O*N*L*I*N*E (sprinkle the glitter here).
Michael Gill: The last guy that said that to me was a biker buddy that weighed 400 lbs. His favorite pastime was hot baths and whiskey. I understand from his landlady when she visited to collect rent that when he came to the door steaming drunk naked, he looked like a huge albino raisen with withered tattoos. There are some islands that are on a need to know basis.
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by CeolCairdeas
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
What's that? Norman is in Ireland?
Who's Norman?
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Gosh, is it 1066 already? I think I missed my train...
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by Q
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Before discovering this site, I knew nothing about Irish music sessions, was only barely even aware that there was such a thing, in spite of having participated in a ceili dance class for a couple of years.
So, it has been fun learning about sessions, the music, the people, etc. Hopefully someday I will live or visit somewhere where I might be able to go and listen to a session.
This site is a lot of fun and a great resource, and very well put together. Thanks, Jeremy, and to all who participate.
# Posted on May 12th 2005 by ceciltguitar
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
". . .navel gazing..."
I kinda like navel gazing. Thank God it's spring again and they are starting to reappear.
KFG
# Posted on May 14th 2005 by KFG
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
Lots of "Thank you Jeremy" views with which I say AMEN, and to you all.
WB
# Posted on May 19th 2005 by wvwhistler
Re: How has this website altered your perspective?
It’s meant quite a lot to me. After being out of commission for way too many years, lurking around the yellow board and then finally joining in has helped motivate me to keep working on regaining my facility before senility takes over. The entertainment value is a bonus.
# Posted on May 20th 2005 by Bob himself