Just thought this was interesting!!! Things that are never said at a session
By the musicians:
Thank goodness, another guitar player!
Everybody needs to try harder to speed up.
You can hardly hear the bagpipes.
Don't you just love it when Martin plays tunes in F?
Welcome to the session my name is...
Sorry we are saving that seat just in case a bodhran player comes in
Lets play the Lonesome Boatman
Put the fiddle on the ground it will be ok there
It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air
Since it seems like nobody knew the last 5 obscure tunes I played, I will start playing some more well known ones
Keep tapping that glass with the coin its lovely
Let's have another lovely sean nos song, Pat. We've only had five ...
C'mon chaps. Let's all shove up and give the bodhran player some room.
It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air
Every Sunday we finish like that. Last Sunday it was "Mna na HEireann". Quietens the boisterous crowd down and makes it easier for the staff to throw them out.
Lets play the Lonesome Boatman
Every session, a crowd favourite. In N.Ireland you would not get out alive without playing this.
No more drinks! I have had enough.
Everyone has such pleasent smiles!
I love all that ad libing! It adds so much to the fullness of the tune.
Am I strumming too loud?
Thanks again for telling me what key we're in.
May I have that chair between the bodhrans?
Where can I get a carpeted box for MY livingroom?
Its amazing how you can play along even when you never heard the tune before in your life!
Its nine o'clock. We should start wrapping it up.
Everyone! Pass your instrument to your right! Now let's to play Banish Misfortune. That sounds GREAT!
Wow! Everyone played on that slow air! That should be on YouTube!
Its wonderful to see our wives coming tonight and enjoying themselves so much!
I really miss Jig. Things just aren't the same around here.
Can you turn your music stand so we all can peek?
My kid wants us to play for their high school class. Who's in?
-People have already started Harvest Home six times tonight, but let's have another go!
-You can never have too many whistles!
-Thanks so much for speeding that tune up for me! I didn't mean to start it at that speed.
-Don't worry about it, it's time I got a new one anyway. (After some drunkard vomits on or otherwise destroys your favorite instrument)
-It sounds great when you mix the parts up on that tune!
-Those ear-piercing shrieks your whistle makes every few notes really add a genuine feel to the tune.
-Why the hell haven't electric guitars become standard session instruments?
"Won't you please sing another verse of "And the Band played Waltzing Matilda? Seventy five just isn't enough..."
"I think it's wonderful you continue to play along loudly on every tune you don't know - it's the only way to learn and you're really adding to the music!"
"It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air"
Actually, at the last (Irish) session I went to, the last tune played *was* a slow air - and the flute player who played it (an Irish-American who lectures in Irish and has spent time in the Connemara Gaeltacht) followed it up with a beautiful sean-nos rendition of part of the song from which the air comes.
I was actually a bit perturbed that the session ended there - not because of the slow air, just because I was halfway through tuning my mandolin when he started playing. After he finished, I completed the task in hand, ready for the next tune, when everyone started putting away their instruments.
Go ahead, noodle away--that's a great way to learn the tune.
Accordians, accordians, we need more accordians.
This session is for guitars, mandolins and bodhrans only.
Have any of this group of mixed nuts ever heard of the recipe for "Better Than Sex" cake? (especially grego)
A few years ago, this recipe was published in the weekly Food Section of the local newpaper.
I didn't know "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had that many verses. Does it have as many verses as Matty Groves?
And, to quote a line from the song, "Leadfingers" (which is sung to the tune of "The Boxer" by Paul Simon),
"On Matty Groves, I clean forgot the forty-second verse, so I sang the twenty-seventh, twice as loud and in reverse and no one noticed."
Songs or tunes...either is fine...They are known by both.
Thanks for raising your voice in your conversation while we were playing. I could hear you just fine over those noisey banjos, fiddles, concertinas, harmonicas, piano, whistles, guitars and punters!
"I brought shaky eggs for all the punters!"
"You know, I really wish we had a djembe player..."
"Could you play that banjo a bit louder, please?"
"I was just thinking the other day that we need to play Music For A Found Harmonium more..."
"A session just isn't a session without a good rendition of Danny Boy..."
"Do you play that tune in equal temperament or in just intonation?"
"I've added quarter-tone frets to my 12-string, so now I can play perfectly in tune with the fiddles"
"You know, that didge goes so well with Irish music, I think it must have been introduced to Australia by Irish prison warders. Such a shame its use died out in Ireland."
Sorry feardog- its like 7:30am an my brain wont be functioning for at least another 3 hours
"We need to play music for a found harmonium more and keep going up a key and keep getting faster and faster. I love it when that happens - its my favourite"
By the listeners:
Timmy and Molly, you see those musicians that keep falling out of their chairs? Your mother and I want you to grow up to be just like them!
"the landlord's agreed to pay us all at the standard Musician's Union hourly rate, so if you can all write on this sheet how long you've played tonight I'll prepare an invoice for him"
"Oh great you've brought your laptop. Here's tonight's set list could you program it to play a midi file of each tune, each tune 3 times with a 15 second pause between each one, then we can be sure of finishing on time"
Thank you for sharing the recipe for Better Than Sex cake, wyogal. I would make it but I am afraid my wife might like the cake too much.
"Her skirt is much too short".....I disagree, her skirt needs to be about an inch or two shorter so she can almost, but not quite, be charged with Decent Exposure.
"Do you play that tune in Equal Temperament or in just intonation?" No, I "just" play it.
And, last but not least, if I am playing my acoustic bass fiddle and somebody wants to sing or play in a flat key, "Why, suuure, you just go right ahead and play that tune in a flat key. I will be glad to accompany you (he said sarcastically)."
I wish Laurence was here with his genuine imitation piano because we sound so thin without his electronic keyboard here to fill out the general cacophony of the session.
interesting!
interesting!
Just thought this was interesting!!! Things that are never said at a session
By the musicians:
Thank goodness, another guitar player!
Everybody needs to try harder to speed up.
You can hardly hear the bagpipes.
Don't you just love it when Martin plays tunes in F?
Welcome to the session my name is...
Sorry we are saving that seat just in case a bodhran player comes in
Lets play the Lonesome Boatman
Put the fiddle on the ground it will be ok there
It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air
Since it seems like nobody knew the last 5 obscure tunes I played, I will start playing some more well known ones
Keep tapping that glass with the coin its lovely
Let's have another lovely sean nos song, Pat. We've only had five ...
C'mon chaps. Let's all shove up and give the bodhran player some room.
By the listeners:
All these tunes sound nothing like each other
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by armadatimes
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It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air
Every Sunday we finish like that. Last Sunday it was "Mna na HEireann". Quietens the boisterous crowd down and makes it easier for the staff to throw them out.
Lets play the Lonesome Boatman
Every session, a crowd favourite. In N.Ireland you would not get out alive without playing this.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bodhran bliss
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No more drinks! I have had enough.
Everyone has such pleasent smiles!
I love all that ad libing! It adds so much to the fullness of the tune.
Am I strumming too loud?
Thanks again for telling me what key we're in.
May I have that chair between the bodhrans?
Where can I get a carpeted box for MY livingroom?
Its amazing how you can play along even when you never heard the tune before in your life!
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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Its nine o'clock. We should start wrapping it up.
Everyone! Pass your instrument to your right! Now let's to play Banish Misfortune. That sounds GREAT!
Wow! Everyone played on that slow air! That should be on YouTube!
Its wonderful to see our wives coming tonight and enjoying themselves so much!
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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OR:
"Come on, let's sign that petition for closing time to be 10.30 like in the good old days..."
"We'll stop playing quarter of an hour early and buy drinks for all the punters..."
"My laptop came up with a different set of dots to yours just then..."
(Though this last is a perfectly possible scenario.)
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by nicholas
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"I don't know" - Bodhran Bliss
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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Its ok Lads and Lassies - Its my Round
jim,,,
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by FIDDLE4
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Hang on, I need to adjust my tiara.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by fliedermaus
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I really miss Jig. Things just aren't the same around here.
Can you turn your music stand so we all can peek?
My kid wants us to play for their high school class. Who's in?
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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"I've only been playing this cello for like 2 weeks so you'll have to bear with me." (this actually happened)
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by crazy_fingerz
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"That was better than sex!"
(I lie: I did hear someone say that after a set of reels once.)
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by grego
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-People have already started Harvest Home six times tonight, but let's have another go!
-You can never have too many whistles!
-Thanks so much for speeding that tune up for me! I didn't mean to start it at that speed.
-Don't worry about it, it's time I got a new one anyway. (After some drunkard vomits on or otherwise destroys your favorite instrument)
-It sounds great when you mix the parts up on that tune!
-Those ear-piercing shrieks your whistle makes every few notes really add a genuine feel to the tune.
-Why the hell haven't electric guitars become standard session instruments?
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Whiddler
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"Won't you please sing another verse of "And the Band played Waltzing Matilda? Seventy five just isn't enough..."
"I think it's wonderful you continue to play along loudly on every tune you don't know - it's the only way to learn and you're really adding to the music!"
"Is my banjo out of tune?"
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
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"It's time for the last tune will we play a slow air"
Actually, at the last (Irish) session I went to, the last tune played *was* a slow air - and the flute player who played it (an Irish-American who lectures in Irish and has spent time in the Connemara Gaeltacht) followed it up with a beautiful sean-nos rendition of part of the song from which the air comes.
I was actually a bit perturbed that the session ended there - not because of the slow air, just because I was halfway through tuning my mandolin when he started playing. After he finished, I completed the task in hand, ready for the next tune, when everyone started putting away their instruments.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by ragaman
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"More cowbell."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by MTGuru
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Go ahead, noodle away--that's a great way to learn the tune.
Accordians, accordians, we need more accordians.
This session is for guitars, mandolins and bodhrans only.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by InSearchofCraic
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"I don't know" - Bodhran Bliss
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
Love it, and so true.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bodhran bliss
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Hilarious, but this one in particular:
"Since it seems like nobody knew the last 5 obscure tunes I played, I will start playing some more well known ones"
What is the deal with that anyway? It's like these people are having a contest to see how long they can play with themselves in a room full of people.
"Congratulations, you win! Yes, you've been playing by yourself for 15 minutes now, well done! You mind if the rest of us play some tunes now? Great!"
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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^Yeah, gotta love attention wh*res.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Whiddler
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"You should take up piano accordion - it's so much more versatile than the 2-row button box."
"Let's only play tunes with words to them, so that everyone can sing along."
"That bloke over there can hardly stand up and he's looking a bit green. Let's offer him a seat."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by ragaman
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Have any of this group of mixed nuts ever heard of the recipe for "Better Than Sex" cake? (especially grego)
A few years ago, this recipe was published in the weekly Food Section of the local newpaper.
I didn't know "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" had that many verses. Does it have as many verses as Matty Groves?
And, to quote a line from the song, "Leadfingers" (which is sung to the tune of "The Boxer" by Paul Simon),
"On Matty Groves, I clean forgot the forty-second verse, so I sang the twenty-seventh, twice as loud and in reverse and no one noticed."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by fauxcelt
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Why don't we just all go home early and have fun on the mustard board.
Does anyone know this well known obscure tune? No? Ok, lets play something else.
Let's take ten minutes to share what we learned this week from Dow and Llig. I brought my notes! This first PowerPoint slide diagrams how.........
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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You play the spoons, come play with us.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Unseen122
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Yes! better than sex cake is delicious!!
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/163/0.shtml
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by wyogal
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"You should have brought sheet music for the rest of us too."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Whiddler
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Songs or tunes...either is fine...They are known by both.
Thanks for raising your voice in your conversation while we were playing. I could hear you just fine over those noisey banjos, fiddles, concertinas, harmonicas, piano, whistles, guitars and punters!
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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"Why dont we play boring hack tunes all night long - hhmmm, not sure about that Sweeny's Buttermilk - that might be too modern"
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bb
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I have never ever in all my time playing and living in the traditional music scene EVER heard tunes referred to as Songs. it is always always tunes.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bb
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"I brought shaky eggs for all the punters!"
"You know, I really wish we had a djembe player..."
"Could you play that banjo a bit louder, please?"
"I was just thinking the other day that we need to play Music For A Found Harmonium more..."
"A session just isn't a session without a good rendition of Danny Boy..."
>> Yes! better than sex cake is delicious!!
But is it actually better?
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Reverend
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Cool.... you brought a tuba!
Her skirt is much too short.
Sure, we can make room for a music stand.
I love the way you miss my nose by an inch with your bow. It really helps me relax.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by nofrets
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"Do you play that tune in equal temperament or in just intonation?"
"I've added quarter-tone frets to my 12-string, so now I can play perfectly in tune with the fiddles"
"You know, that didge goes so well with Irish music, I think it must have been introduced to Australia by Irish prison warders. Such a shame its use died out in Ireland."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by ragaman
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"Songs or tunes...either is fine...They are known by both."
BB, I was playing the game!
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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Sorry feardog- its like 7:30am an my brain wont be functioning for at least another 3 hours
"We need to play music for a found harmonium more and keep going up a key and keep getting faster and faster. I love it when that happens - its my favourite"
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bb
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">> Yes! better than sex cake is delicious!!
But is it actually better? "
Sometimes...
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by wyogal
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"Maybe we should dress alike. How about green derbies?"
it's fearDEARG. Sheeeesh. Is that cake keeping you up all night again? : )
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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Hey old men, give up playing! all you do is moan!
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by lilyot
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must be the cake...
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by wyogal
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"It's great when the youngsters join in. They are always so respectful of their elders."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by feardearg
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Sorry feardearg - but in fairness you called me BB and everyone knows that is Bodhran Bliss' handle. I am bb
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by bb
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Listen to this great hornipe I learnt recently, anybody know what it's called???....then play a few bars of 'The Boys of Bluehill'
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Free Reed
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"OK Can everyone set their metronome to 114bpm for the next tune please?"
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Mike Floorstand
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"If you wire up that banjo to the mains we'll shop you..."
"A beginner? Just play the notes you know, and hold them till the next note you can do comes round..."
"I'll tell you exactly what goes in those pies..."
"My project is to compel all sessions to play in C# and F# in the name of authenticity. You'd better enjoy your boxes now, they'll soon be useless!.."
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by nicholas
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"Ah, it's just an old flute/fiddle/set of pipes -- not much I can say about it."
"Sorry - am I a bit loud on the drum?"
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Rook
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Oh, you already have one guitar player. I'll just sit and listen tonight.
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by ayedbl
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By the listeners:
Timmy and Molly, you see those musicians that keep falling out of their chairs? Your mother and I want you to grow up to be just like them!
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by ayedbl
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I know the story behind this song. Ask me about it later if you're interested.
I skipped a few of the less important verses in that song. Sorry.
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by feardearg
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"I love friendly Great Danes - the one that pulled my whistle out of the back of my throat is just SO clever!.."
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by nicholas
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That fake Irish accent was really good - let's hear some more of it, but
a bit louder this time
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Hup
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"the landlord's agreed to pay us all at the standard Musician's Union hourly rate, so if you can all write on this sheet how long you've played tonight I'll prepare an invoice for him"
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Mike Floorstand
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"Oh great you've brought your laptop. Here's tonight's set list could you program it to play a midi file of each tune, each tune 3 times with a 15 second pause between each one, then we can be sure of finishing on time"
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Mike Floorstand
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Michael, may I have a peek at your O'Neills for the next tune?
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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"I made a better one than that in woodwork when I was seven..."
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by nicholas
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Ben: "Can I borrow your tuner?"
Grrrrr ...
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by benhall.1
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"Could you give me a few A's on your guitar?.."
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by nicholas
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"Its wonderful to see our wives coming tonight and enjoying themselves so much!"
Chance would be a fine thing feardearg !
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by stripthewillow
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"I love the challenge of playing along to singers who pitch themselves a quarter tone sharp. Can you do another one?"
"OK everybody! Your homework for next week's session is to learn Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill's new album."
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by ragaman
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"I really miss the smell of cigarette smoke"
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by bowburner
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Thank you for sharing the recipe for Better Than Sex cake, wyogal. I would make it but I am afraid my wife might like the cake too much.
"Her skirt is much too short".....I disagree, her skirt needs to be about an inch or two shorter so she can almost, but not quite, be charged with Decent Exposure.
"Do you play that tune in Equal Temperament or in just intonation?" No, I "just" play it.
And, last but not least, if I am playing my acoustic bass fiddle and somebody wants to sing or play in a flat key, "Why, suuure, you just go right ahead and play that tune in a flat key. I will be glad to accompany you (he said sarcastically)."
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by fauxcelt
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It's about time you got up and offered to get me a pint!
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Imnotirish
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While you are getting a pint for Imnotirish, I will take a bottle of Shiner Bock.
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by fauxcelt
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a Sam Adams for me, please, thank you very much, and it's my turn next week.
# Posted on July 9th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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"Pat, you should really use the basses on your box a LOT more."
"I've lost track, are we on the second or third time through the tune?"
"Is that Dorian or Aeolian mode?"
"I couldn't possibly accept another pint!"
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by PatrickJWK
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If they don't have Shiner Bock, I will take a Sam Adams also.
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by fauxcelt
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"i wish mehitabel was here"
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by mehitabel23
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"Oh stewardess, I speak jive."
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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Awww! mehitabel!
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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I wish Laurence was here with his genuine imitation piano because we sound so thin without his electronic keyboard here to fill out the general cacophony of the session.
# Posted on July 10th 2008 by fauxcelt
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They say they skin them alive to make one of those.
What's your real instrument, then?
If you stand me a couple more drinks, I'll treat you to the Mitsubishi Company Song.
I want to pinch one of your tunes for a promotional - do you have to play them at the speed of light?
Why are none of you Irish, you pretentious prats?
# Posted on July 12th 2008 by nicholas
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The music could be worse, shame about the people.
The people are quite nice really, shame about the music.
The choice is yours - my drinks bill or your hospital bill.
Is this an instrument of music or an implement of colonic irrigation?
Your playing of that tune was the musical equivalent of a technical drawing by Van Gogh in his late period.
I've just put a rat in that bloke's accordion.
Can you hold that violin just so while I draw you?
# Posted on July 14th 2008 by nicholas