Re: How can we get our session to sound like this?
You know i read these comments before i clicked on the link and thought this video must be weird. Now i've watched the clip they make good sense especially the one about the laptops. This was probably 3 or 4 sessions digitally spliced into one. Sounds great but it's virtual just remember that.
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You're all kidding, right? It's from some big-production burlesque of Irish dance... something with a guy in a headband and a puffy shirt with no buttons.... Liverdance? Riverdunce?
Re: How can we get our session to sound like this?
Sorry, I don't mean to be cranky, it was a long night. Played a gig for the local Irish American Club, seniors waltzing and dancing a set or two, some Vaudeville ballads, sang by a hall full of folks in unison, many complementary pitchers of brew, etc.
Re: How can we get our session to sound like this?
Who decides what instruments should be part of a session. I, for instance, play the box mostly but I started life as a ceili drummer long before bodhrans appeared on the scene and as such often played the snare drum at sessions as far back as the fifties.
How can we get our session to sound like this?
How can we get our session to sound like this?
This is very disconcerting. Try as we might, we can't get our session sounding like this authentic one in Galway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6m3kG0uT68&feature=related
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by grego
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Fo shizzo.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by timmy!
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RAWWWWWKKKKK!!!!!!!!
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by timmy!
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Get more fiddlers.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by Bredna
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FInd some feckin idiot to bang a few drums when ye play and you should have it nailed!
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by csparpd
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More bongos. And djembes!!
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by Mark Harmer
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more laptops
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by airport
Re: How can we get our session to sound like this?
You know i read these comments before i clicked on the link and thought this video must be weird. Now i've watched the clip they make good sense especially the one about the laptops. This was probably 3 or 4 sessions digitally spliced into one. Sounds great but it's virtual just remember that.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by upmine3
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"Sounds great" -- actually this was tongue-firmly-in-cheek. I would hate to be anywhere near a session that sounded like that.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by grego
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oh thank god, like i thought ye were all serious, and i was concidering all kinds things!
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by steveluachra
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Ok point taken didn't mean to imply anything.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by upmine3
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Studio recording... of some "Celtic-inspired" Review... maybe the Medly Masters or the Paddy-Go-Lightly's...
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by drone
Re: How can we get our session to sound like this?
You're all kidding, right? It's from some big-production burlesque of Irish dance... something with a guy in a headband and a puffy shirt with no buttons.... Liverdance? Riverdunce?
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by tuckered out
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Wonderful. Especially the slow air at the start.
That is real Irish music, maudlin and thoughtful, just like the people.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by bodhran bliss
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I imagine this is what sessions sound like in the states..
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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Imagine again.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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I wasn't reminded of a session when hearing this clip.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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hey Trucks--no need to imagine. Check out YouTube, lots of Irish session clips from the States on there.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by tuckered out
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that was an anti american joke - i apologise
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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il try to be less subtle next time..mention Iraq possibly
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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You're about as subtle as the Dance Hall Act.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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http://www.setdance.com/pdha/pdha.html
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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Sorry, I don't mean to be cranky, it was a long night. Played a gig for the local Irish American Club, seniors waltzing and dancing a set or two, some Vaudeville ballads, sang by a hall full of folks in unison, many complementary pitchers of brew, etc.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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You're about as subtle as the Dance Hall Act..
hahahahahahahahaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa..
cracker
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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Yep, it's a well-known fact that Americans who play Irish tunes are responsible for U.S. foreign policy decisions.... especially the really bad ones.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by tuckered out
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Its the link to the Dance Halls Act of 1935 that provided the punchline..hohoho..still laughing
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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Which part? Junior Crehan or Breandan Breathnach?
Why I am feeding the trolls? No clue. I'm out.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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King of the Trolls :p
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Trucks_Mulligan
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Ha, 10 seconds in is a snap of O'neills here in NYC on a saturday night..
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by chrysophylax
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That's what our session sounds like.
And when the strobe lights start flashing, that's when the punters really come to life......
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by AlBrown
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The sound track on this youtube has a snare drummer. Not exactly a session instrument.
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Micheál
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Since when?????????
# Posted on May 8th 2009 by Free Reed
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Not as bad as some stuff I've heard on Youtube. I'm quite a fan of the drums myself and like this clip actually. Great tunes too.
# Posted on May 10th 2009 by 52Paddy
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Who decides what instruments should be part of a session. I, for instance, play the box mostly but I started life as a ceili drummer long before bodhrans appeared on the scene and as such often played the snare drum at sessions as far back as the fifties.
# Posted on May 10th 2009 by Free Reed