I was at a session last night and for once I had a lift, so I could enjoy a few pints of nice creamy guinness as I played. I dont know if its my imagination, or a pure coincidence, but it was the best session I was at in a long time, I played really well (for my level that is) and seemed to know more tunes than I would usually. ( No, I wasnt drunk, 4 pints was it over the course of the evening). Hopefully its becuase I am improving, learning more tunes etc, but I wander did having the few pints relax me and help me to play better? - do any of ye notice weather you play better after a few drinks?
For a while now I've been driving and sticking to water. But I was out the other week sans car and had a few. I think I did enjoy myself more. Maybe it was 'cause it was a special occasion of merely not having the car. But one thing my mates remarked upon was that there was no difference at all in my playing.
I think a session without a pint is like sex with the lights off..its great but its that little bit better with the light on isn't it??
seriously though, I often drink fanta etc at a session cause I would be driving but when I do have a pint of Genius I think I do enjoy the session a little bit more even if it means i start playing like a banshee. My playing is definitely affected by alcohol... in a bad way.
A very thin line though really isnt there.Between, " I'm really loosened up here and am definitely playing better, to,"I really dont have the energy to moce my hand anymore.Ill just play bits and pieces
Thank the gods, I never got involved in motor car ownership or operating (it is not necc if you live in London), so I can drink as much Stella as I like! On top of that my local pub which is five minutes walk from my home is also where my regular session is.
I find I can't play in a relaxed and confident way until I've had at least one pint (dipsomania roolz!). I assume everyone has an optimum amount of alcohol at which they perform best.
Plot "performance" against "alcohol ingestion" and the peak will move further along to the right depending on your personal alcohol addiction level.
And why do so many people at sessions drink Guinness? Is it because of the image is ? Do peole at mariachi sessions drink Sol. Tiger beer at an Indian session, Miller Lite at a bluegrass session or English sessions drink bitter? (C'mon! You can come up with suitable drinks for suitable musical cultures yourselves!)I expect the answer to the last one is; YES!
Actually, we've had a new friend come out to session who usually drinks lagers and had a few Guinness with us. He's an older fella, got some mobility issues with joints in one leg, and he said after the Guinness, his leg didn't bother him at all. I'm guessing it was the iron in there, but I have no idea. "Damn it Jim, I'm a fiddler, not a nutritionist!"
I quit drinking alcoholic beverages at jam sessions many years ago when I accidentally discovered that I enjoy playing music more when I am sober than when I am drunk. I learned this one evening when I went to a jam session and couldn't drink anything except water all evening because I was broke and had almost no money to spend on drinks.
I usually wait until after I get home to unwind with a bottle or two of Shiner Bock. Since the authorities are really cracking down on drunk driving, waiting until I get home to drink is safer and better for me.
To continue with Yhaalhouse's question, at what type of jam session should we drink Shiner Bock? A German session? A Czech session?
I do like to drink Guiness also.
As for whether or not to have sex with the lights on or off, since I am a respectable(?) married man, I have no comment on this.
Let's face it. How many photos of sessions have you seen where there are cups of tea or coffee in the background, and has anyone ever played in, or heard of, a session in a Wine Bar??
The recipe for a good session is sometimes a difficult one to repeat, you can put in the same ingredients, and the outcome can be different. But I would say that every single one of what I would consider to be the top 20 sessions I have played in has had alcohol as an ingredient.
Conversely, a few of the worst sessions I have played in have had alcohol as a contributing factor (at least in the case of my playing).
But the better I get at playing, the better I am at playing while intoxicated. And alcohol definitely has a positive impact on my playing up to a certain point (pint?), and then it's a couple more before it starts having a negative effect. (And then it's sharply down hill from there).
Playing music loosens you up so you can enjoy your night of drinking. Play too much music and your drinking will be impaired.
So—it's best to limit the music. Livers are tougher than fingertips, embouchure muscles, lungs, tapping toes, and all other nasty body parts involved in playing.
Yes, people at English sessions normally drink bitter, or some other cask beer. The Guinness drinkers may hark back to the time of the Beer Wars aeons ago, when most other beer in England was nasty chemical bladderwash, or else they might drink it because it goes down slower and actually costs them less in money and brain-cells over a night; they might be trying to relive torrid nights of revelry in Miltown Malbay; they might - who knows - even be Irish.
We get free beer at our bash. No-one is particularly adept at holding back. As for whether we get better or worse for the booze, no-one's taking notes as everyone in the pub is at it as well. Just relax and enjoy. Do what you like.
Two 25 oz mugs of Monster Brown Ale, 7.2 ABV, is my limit. After that I can't hit a note.
And forget about herb. I went to a private session about 4 months ago and indulged. I couldn't even play my bodhran afterwards, let alone the guitar. It was the last time I have or ever will smoke that stuff.
Now at least I can remember names and what tunes were played! What a concept, eh?
Free beer at your local session? I wish we could be so lucky but the liquor laws are too strict here in Arkansas. I might even drink one beer if it was free. But then my wife would insist on driving us home.
Beer is good!! Playing music is good!! A couple of pints and playing music... GOOD! But, same here Chris, the local herb makes me catatonic. It's only good for floating lazily down the Russian River in a canoe
We get free beer at our regular gig and when it's free, one tends to drink a lot of it. Also sometimes the regulars will buy a few whiskeys for the band. (some German tourists once bought a round of Jagermeister for the band, that stuff is nasty)
For me I think my playing slowy improves with the drink, but then reaches a point and I forget what the strings are for. It's kinda like walking up a gentle hill then falling off a cliff.
Once, after a couple of shots and several Guinness, I noticed our fiddler staring intently at his hand. After the tune I asked him what he was doing. He said, "I was looking at my fingers and they were moving really fast, I thought, wow, my fingers are moving really fast, am I making them move that fast, wow, they are really moving fast."
For the record, I thought he played the tune well, but then again I'd drunk just as much as him.
Guinness is really good for Diageo, because the profits from selling all the Guiness in Ireland goes back to that company - which is a global grog conglomerate chaired by Lord Hollick of Notting Hill, who is also chairman of the company's remuneration committee.
How much is a glass of it in Ireland now? What a joke! The workingman's drop now making wealthy people wealthier!
Don't drink the stuff, it isn't good for you, and it isn't good for your wallet.
Anyway, they'll only use the profits to buy your real estate in Ireland and rent it back to you at exorbitant prices. That will drive you to despair and to drink, and straight down to their pub to buy another Guiness. Take your credit card with you.
I play worse the more I drink, then I either puke or fall asleep - haven't
got the drinkin' genes I guess. I'd be useless after 4 pints unless it was
a 5 hour session I guess
I think it's rather like playing pool. After a couple drinks you're on fire... couple more ya begin to curse a little at those shots that ya knew shoulda gone in but ya hit too hard... couple more drinks and ya just curse the game period.
The thing about alcohol is just understanding how it affects you. Keeping the drinks spaced out throughout the evening has a tendency to keep confidence levels high (an undeniable side affect for drinking in anyone), but too many too quickly can get ya sloppy and overconfident. Heck, I try to inject our fiddle players drinks... they're always more fun when they're looser and fiery. Of course never at the expense of the tune's dignity
Just keep drinkin' til someone tells ya ta shut up... then stop playing... but you can still keep drinkin'
Yes! guinness is good for - and it makes me play better ,that
that any other Tipple,,But more Important- I am going down
to Co,Cavan To-day to Play,, As Gunniess dose NOT Travel
well it will be even better that the Co,Antrim brew,,
So I may pertake in 2 0r 3 Pints along with the music.
I'll let you know now I got on - Hic! Hic!- lol...
jim,,,,
~ has destroyed an unbelievable number of fine flutes... Yes, and I have seen the results of 'wetting one's whistle' so to speak... I shed tears from that knowledge...flutes in pieces... And, that sticky residue that builds up ~ YUCK!!! I'm not even going to the bit about drunks sitting or falling on or with their instruments, and the damage that can inflict of both... Worse when they're slipping on their own vomit...
Is Guinness in Ireland still different from / stiffer than / better than Guinness in England? I hope the Irish Guinness of the 80s (when I was last there) still exists in the same form.
It's still different... Worse yet is the stuff in green bottles produced in Canada...
The best, my personal best, was a little pug in WIcklow we used to frequent, who kept bottled Guiness to 'bottle age', and yes, it does improve with that neglect. There I would never order it on tap. I also hate this ~ something further to blame on 'Yanks' ~ this cr*p about serving it cold... YUCK!!! How guppie is that? They even produced a Guiness for women!? What is happening to the world? The next thing you know it will be alco-pops and vodka jellies in all kinds of flourescent colours. I hope I never see that happening...
Gotta go now. I need to do something about these dreadlocks. Hand me my cane and dark glasses dear. Here boy, that's it, you won't walk me out into traffic will you lad. Sorry folks, it was some of that bad poteen I got ahold of... Now to go do my Stevie Wonder imitation at the local session...
I'm a big boy now, she's a strong girl
Remember only the strong can survive
Living in the land of la la
I'm a big boy now, she's a strong girl
Remember only the strong can survive
Living in the land of la la
L.A., L.A., la la, la la, L.A., hey hey, land of la la
L.A., L.A., la la, la la, L.A., hey hey, the land of la la
I just have a personal rule to not play and drink....or drink and play.
A bit too much and one is oblivious to the a** one is making oneself into. I become absolutely fearless playing...a very bad trait under the influence.
I can neither spell nor type well. First, I was trained as an engineer...You have hear the old joke about the graduate from an engineering school who said "Four years ago I couldn't spell 'engineer'...now I are one!'"
I also play the button accordion. As I have learned, it is not organized in 'qwerty' format and has no 'black keys' that make life so easy for pianists, organists and Piano accordion players.
Next time I will us 'Smithwick" instead. I prefer the stout though
Sooo, you are trained as an engineer, zippydw?
Has anyone ever jokingly asked you what type of train and/or locomotive you drive?
Sometimes, I think of the keyboard on my piano as resembling teeth. When I finish playing, I pat the piano gently and say, "There, there, you poor thing. I will quit beating on your teeth now."
When I was learning how to type, sometimes I had to remind myself that I could hit only one key at a time on the typewriter--unlike the piano where I could hit as many keys as my hands could reach at once.
Guinness is good for you
Guinness is good for you
I was at a session last night and for once I had a lift, so I could enjoy a few pints of nice creamy guinness as I played. I dont know if its my imagination, or a pure coincidence, but it was the best session I was at in a long time, I played really well (for my level that is) and seemed to know more tunes than I would usually. ( No, I wasnt drunk, 4 pints was it over the course of the evening). Hopefully its becuase I am improving, learning more tunes etc, but I wander did having the few pints relax me and help me to play better? - do any of ye notice weather you play better after a few drinks?
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by BanjoBongo
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For a while now I've been driving and sticking to water. But I was out the other week sans car and had a few. I think I did enjoy myself more. Maybe it was 'cause it was a special occasion of merely not having the car. But one thing my mates remarked upon was that there was no difference at all in my playing.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by ...
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I think a session without a pint is like sex with the lights off..its great but its that little bit better with the light on isn't it??
seriously though, I often drink fanta etc at a session cause I would be driving but when I do have a pint of Genius I think I do enjoy the session a little bit more even if it means i start playing like a banshee. My playing is definitely affected by alcohol... in a bad way.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by session savage
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A very thin line though really isnt there.Between, " I'm really loosened up here and am definitely playing better, to,"I really dont have the energy to moce my hand anymore.Ill just play bits and pieces
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by bozoukipukey
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Thank the gods, I never got involved in motor car ownership or operating (it is not necc if you live in London), so I can drink as much Stella as I like! On top of that my local pub which is five minutes walk from my home is also where my regular session is.
I find I can't play in a relaxed and confident way until I've had at least one pint (dipsomania roolz!). I assume everyone has an optimum amount of alcohol at which they perform best.
Plot "performance" against "alcohol ingestion" and the peak will move further along to the right depending on your personal alcohol addiction level.
And why do so many people at sessions drink Guinness? Is it because of the image is ? Do peole at mariachi sessions drink Sol. Tiger beer at an Indian session, Miller Lite at a bluegrass session or English sessions drink bitter? (C'mon! You can come up with suitable drinks for suitable musical cultures yourselves!)I expect the answer to the last one is; YES!
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by yhaalhouse
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If I had 6 pints of stella I'd feel like that girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory who turns into an enormous blueberry
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by ...
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I grink Guinness because if the taste and the way it goes down.. all smooth and creamy.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by session savage
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Nothing wrong with a guinness or two, but I've been to a few sessions that would have been better with the lights off.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by mcknowall
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What sort of sessions are we talking about here?
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Mark Harmer
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I love a pint of stout but Guinness doesn't do it for me these days. If anyone's getting them in I'll have a pint of Murphy's.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by d0tter
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Actually, we've had a new friend come out to session who usually drinks lagers and had a few Guinness with us. He's an older fella, got some mobility issues with joints in one leg, and he said after the Guinness, his leg didn't bother him at all. I'm guessing it was the iron in there, but I have no idea. "Damn it Jim, I'm a fiddler, not a nutritionist!"
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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I quit drinking alcoholic beverages at jam sessions many years ago when I accidentally discovered that I enjoy playing music more when I am sober than when I am drunk. I learned this one evening when I went to a jam session and couldn't drink anything except water all evening because I was broke and had almost no money to spend on drinks.
I usually wait until after I get home to unwind with a bottle or two of Shiner Bock. Since the authorities are really cracking down on drunk driving, waiting until I get home to drink is safer and better for me.
To continue with Yhaalhouse's question, at what type of jam session should we drink Shiner Bock? A German session? A Czech session?
I do like to drink Guiness also.
As for whether or not to have sex with the lights on or off, since I am a respectable(?) married man, I have no comment on this.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by fauxcelt
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Let's face it. How many photos of sessions have you seen where there are cups of tea or coffee in the background, and has anyone ever played in, or heard of, a session in a Wine Bar??
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Free Reed
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Anyone else find it a bit annoying when people refer to drinking as being either drunk or sober?
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by ...
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Just think of it from a legal standpoint
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by waraf
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Feh, I'd rather think of it from a standpoint based in reality.
Yes, it is possible to have a few drinks and not make yourself drunk! Mind-boggling, I know.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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The recipe for a good session is sometimes a difficult one to repeat, you can put in the same ingredients, and the outcome can be different. But I would say that every single one of what I would consider to be the top 20 sessions I have played in has had alcohol as an ingredient.
Conversely, a few of the worst sessions I have played in have had alcohol as a contributing factor (at least in the case of my playing).
But the better I get at playing, the better I am at playing while intoxicated. And alcohol definitely has a positive impact on my playing up to a certain point (pint?), and then it's a couple more before it starts having a negative effect. (And then it's sharply down hill from there).
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Reverend
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Playing music loosens you up so you can enjoy your night of drinking. Play too much music and your drinking will be impaired.
So—it's best to limit the music. Livers are tougher than fingertips, embouchure muscles, lungs, tapping toes, and all other nasty body parts involved in playing.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
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more than a couple of bottles of beer and my box starts to play its own tunes so if I get the chance to drink more I heaad for the bar
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by millionyears_bc
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I enjoy drinking beer, but I don't like being drunk. Ah, it's a fine line.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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Yes, people at English sessions normally drink bitter, or some other cask beer. The Guinness drinkers may hark back to the time of the Beer Wars aeons ago, when most other beer in England was nasty chemical bladderwash, or else they might drink it because it goes down slower and actually costs them less in money and brain-cells over a night; they might be trying to relive torrid nights of revelry in Miltown Malbay; they might - who knows - even be Irish.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by nicholas
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We get free beer at our bash. No-one is particularly adept at holding back. As for whether we get better or worse for the booze, no-one's taking notes as everyone in the pub is at it as well. Just relax and enjoy. Do what you like.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Steve Shaw
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Two 25 oz mugs of Monster Brown Ale, 7.2 ABV, is my limit. After that I can't hit a note.
And forget about herb. I went to a private session about 4 months ago and indulged. I couldn't even play my bodhran afterwards, let alone the guitar. It was the last time I have or ever will smoke that stuff.
Now at least I can remember names and what tunes were played! What a concept, eh?
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by Fishmonger
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Free beer at your local session? I wish we could be so lucky but the liquor laws are too strict here in Arkansas. I might even drink one beer if it was free. But then my wife would insist on driving us home.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by fauxcelt
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If Guiness is supposed to be good for you, I will drink to that with a bottle of Shiner Bock.
# Posted on July 17th 2008 by fauxcelt
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Beer is good!! Playing music is good!! A couple of pints and playing music... GOOD! But, same here Chris, the local herb makes me catatonic. It's only good for floating lazily down the Russian River in a canoe
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by GDub
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We get free beer at our regular gig and when it's free, one tends to drink a lot of it. Also sometimes the regulars will buy a few whiskeys for the band. (some German tourists once bought a round of Jagermeister for the band, that stuff is nasty)
For me I think my playing slowy improves with the drink, but then reaches a point and I forget what the strings are for. It's kinda like walking up a gentle hill then falling off a cliff.
Once, after a couple of shots and several Guinness, I noticed our fiddler staring intently at his hand. After the tune I asked him what he was doing. He said, "I was looking at my fingers and they were moving really fast, I thought, wow, my fingers are moving really fast, am I making them move that fast, wow, they are really moving fast."
For the record, I thought he played the tune well, but then again I'd drunk just as much as him.
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by CleverName
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Guinness is really good for Diageo, because the profits from selling all the Guiness in Ireland goes back to that company - which is a global grog conglomerate chaired by Lord Hollick of Notting Hill, who is also chairman of the company's remuneration committee.
How much is a glass of it in Ireland now? What a joke! The workingman's drop now making wealthy people wealthier!
Don't drink the stuff, it isn't good for you, and it isn't good for your wallet.
Anyway, they'll only use the profits to buy your real estate in Ireland and rent it back to you at exorbitant prices. That will drive you to despair and to drink, and straight down to their pub to buy another Guiness. Take your credit card with you.
Cheers.
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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http://www.diageo.com/en-row/AboutDiageo/OurManagement/BoardofDirectors/
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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I play worse the more I drink, then I either puke or fall asleep - haven't
got the drinkin' genes I guess. I'd be useless after 4 pints unless it was
a 5 hour session I guess
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Hup
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I haven't got the drinking genes either. I consider myself very fortunate.
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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I can change the things I cannot accept.
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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I think it's rather like playing pool. After a couple drinks you're on fire... couple more ya begin to curse a little at those shots that ya knew shoulda gone in but ya hit too hard... couple more drinks and ya just curse the game period.
The thing about alcohol is just understanding how it affects you. Keeping the drinks spaced out throughout the evening has a tendency to keep confidence levels high (an undeniable side affect for drinking in anyone), but too many too quickly can get ya sloppy and overconfident. Heck, I try to inject our fiddle players drinks... they're always more fun when they're looser and fiery. Of course never at the expense of the tune's dignity
Just keep drinkin' til someone tells ya ta shut up... then stop playing... but you can still keep drinkin'
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by JohnnyVillain
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I am trying to imagine a pipe band in the early stages of the administration of a rape drug...
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by nicholas
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Is the black stuff a rape drug now? The mind truly boggleth ........
# Posted on July 18th 2008 by Ebor_fiddler
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Yes! guinness is good for - and it makes me play better ,that
that any other Tipple,,But more Important- I am going down
to Co,Cavan To-day to Play,, As Gunniess dose NOT Travel
well it will be even better that the Co,Antrim brew,,
So I may pertake in 2 0r 3 Pints along with the music.
I'll let you know now I got on - Hic! Hic!- lol...
jim,,,,
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: Guinness is bad for your instrument ~
~ has destroyed an unbelievable number of fine flutes... Yes, and I have seen the results of 'wetting one's whistle' so to speak... I shed tears from that knowledge...flutes in pieces... And, that sticky residue that builds up ~ YUCK!!! I'm not even going to the bit about drunks sitting or falling on or with their instruments, and the damage that can inflict of both... Worse when they're slipping on their own vomit...
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by ceolachan
or someone else's...
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by ceolachan
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Is Guinness in Ireland still different from / stiffer than / better than Guinness in England? I hope the Irish Guinness of the 80s (when I was last there) still exists in the same form.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by nicholas
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So you live in England, play Irish traditional music, and haven't been to Ireland for over 20 years?
That's amazing to me living in Australia.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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That's 'cos I'm a chronically lazy s*d.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by nicholas
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You could almost catch a bus there couldn't you? You wouldn't even have to lift a finger.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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Unless you were giving someone the finger that is.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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It's still different... Worse yet is the stuff in green bottles produced in Canada...
~ this cr*p about serving it cold... YUCK!!! How guppie is that? They even produced a Guiness for women!? What is happening to the world? The next thing you know it will be alco-pops and vodka jellies in all kinds of flourescent colours. I hope I never see that happening... 
The best, my personal best, was a little pug in WIcklow we used to frequent, who kept bottled Guiness to 'bottle age', and yes, it does improve with that neglect. There I would never order it on tap. I also hate this ~ something further to blame on 'Yanks'
Gotta go now. I need to do something about these dreadlocks. Hand me my cane and dark glasses dear. Here boy, that's it, you won't walk me out into traffic will you lad. Sorry folks, it was some of that bad poteen I got ahold of... Now to go do my Stevie Wonder imitation at the local session...
I'm a big boy now, she's a strong girl
Remember only the strong can survive
Living in the land of la la
I'm a big boy now, she's a strong girl
Remember only the strong can survive
Living in the land of la la
L.A., L.A., la la, la la, L.A., hey hey, land of la la
L.A., L.A., la la, la la, L.A., hey hey, the land of la la
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by ceolachan
'little pug' should read 'little pub'...
Back to my Guiness lunch, a sandwich of Guiness, Guiness between two Guinesses..
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by ceolachan
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I remember that pug in Wicklow too - Pug Mahone's wasn't it?
Tough pug that one. Good Guinness though.
# Posted on July 19th 2008 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh
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Guiness good for you....goes without saying
I just have a personal rule to not play and drink....or drink and play.
A bit too much and one is oblivious to the a** one is making oneself into. I become absolutely fearless playing...a very bad trait under the influence.
# Posted on July 21st 2008 by zippydw
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What the feck is a 'Guiness'? Some of you should drink less and spell more!
# Posted on July 21st 2008 by MacCruiskeen
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FLoss
I can neither spell nor type well. First, I was trained as an engineer...You have hear the old joke about the graduate from an engineering school who said "Four years ago I couldn't spell 'engineer'...now I are one!'"
I also play the button accordion. As I have learned, it is not organized in 'qwerty' format and has no 'black keys' that make life so easy for pianists, organists and Piano accordion players.
Next time I will us 'Smithwick" instead. I prefer the stout though
# Posted on July 21st 2008 by zippydw
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A grand demonstration of my lack of spelling and typing abilities!!!!
The Mustard Board needs a spell-check utility!
# Posted on July 21st 2008 by zippydw
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Sooo, you are trained as an engineer, zippydw?
Has anyone ever jokingly asked you what type of train and/or locomotive you drive?
Sometimes, I think of the keyboard on my piano as resembling teeth. When I finish playing, I pat the piano gently and say, "There, there, you poor thing. I will quit beating on your teeth now."
When I was learning how to type, sometimes I had to remind myself that I could hit only one key at a time on the typewriter--unlike the piano where I could hit as many keys as my hands could reach at once.
# Posted on July 22nd 2008 by fauxcelt