No, probably not, but soon, when there are enough Members, Phase 2 begins, which we be launched from Jeremy's secret island hideout. Soon we take over the world! MOO HOO HA HA HA!
It's interesting that at 60000+ members, the number of active members in the discussions doesn't seem any different than when it had 10000 members, although, the turnover has been dramatic. Probably 95%.
It's still fewer than the number of people who live in Hartlepool, where they elected the football team's monkey-impersonating mascot as Mayor. Acquittal on charges of simulating lewd acts in his monkey-suit rendered him eligible.
Actually, by the standards of NE local politicians he was one of the more sensible ones. I mean, really.
Not that this has anything to do with anything - BUT: If The Session became a city state, I wonder who its prominent officers and other people might be...
"Here's what I've been able to ascertain:
The total number of members is: 38144
The number of members who have not posted a comment is: 31734
So the number of members actively contributing (if you count any kind of comment as a contribution) is: 6410
If my calculations are correct, that puts the percentage of active contributors at 16.8%
That sounds about right and is par for the course for most membership-based sites."
Llig...kids keep you young. cliche, but true.On the other hand, they also allow you to be old gracefully. The choice is yours. They like both, at different times, and different stages. Which is the magic of children in allowing us to find out those amazing parts of ourselves which perhaps we've forgot in the silliness of being an adult.
I wonder if The Session can muster 1 Ambassador to the Real World, not counting Jeremy, who may have Real World skills, but might demand as of right a more august position.
When someone reminisces about an earlier ts.org I think of Bernie Mac in the episode,
'Back In the Day'
"You just can't stop it. I'm talking about the aging process, didn't even start 'til these kids came around." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdS4mY4eBI&feature
"The number of members who have not posted a comment is: 31734" August 12th 2007
are they (we) simply copying tunes from the db? or just munching on popcorn.
I think of the assigned membership numbers here as exactly like those on "The Prisoner" (the Patrick McGoohan version). I await a similar psychedelic finale for this site, where #6 sees #2 in the gorilla costume (through a woozy, warping fish-eye lens, lit by strobe lights).
I, as #35542, will probably see this in the finale: jack squat.
If you do a blank search in the Members section it will tell you (as of this moment) that the number of members is 59482. Why is it less than the quoted 60131 or so mentioned in Random's last comment? The reason must be because some people have voluntarily left The Session permanently, and others have been ejected (not suspended) summarily for good reason. I think that in both cases the relevant membership number must henceforth be left unused otherwise almighty confusion would ensue on the database.
Trevor, I don't think there is any leaving of thesess voluntarily. Once you're in the database, yer in, unless Jeremy removes you ... and 60,000 is twice the population of the centre of Oz ... so is pretty darn impressive to me. Yay thesession!
According to a song by Emily Kaitz, it is the bass players who are going to take over the world instead of the members of this web site despite what SWFL Fiddler said.
They put drugs in the drummer's drink,
And they tied up all the guitar players
With their big ol' flat-wound strings.
And on that day the world it was finally set free,
All the creatures they hung out together and interacted fretlessly,
And the air began to vibrate with such a deep tonality,
The day the bass players took over the world.
You're welcome, Random_notes.
I got to hear Emily Kaitz perform this song in person approximately fifteen years ago at a local folk music venue when I went to hear Ray Wylie Hubbard perform. She was one of the musicians in Hubbard's band. He took a break during his show to let her perform her song about the bass players taking over the world.
Welcome back Geoff. I always enjoy a good excuse for checking out the Tunes stacks. Especially something recorded by Gordon Duncan;
"John Morrison Of Assynt House"
Submitted on May 7th 2007 by Kenny. http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7152
I too know someone who left a couple of years ago of his own wish (probably not the same member mentioned by Random). His membership number is no longer in use so you won't find any of his posts.
Yes, some "members" who have joined apparently with the sole purpose of advertising or spamming usually disappear within a couple of days, along with all evidence of their brief sojourn here. An example of a good and well-controlled website.
I didn't bother to check - too lazy - but wonder if member 60k bothered to post something here.
Hang on its Stephanie Fote with one tune in her tunebook and no submissions. Calling Steph........
Love that word "rebarbative" = irritating/repellent
60,000 members, and 59,990 can't get a word in edgewise.
Same 10 people talking about the same 4 stagnant topics over and over again, with the occasional troll trying to rile everybody up. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam.
John Morrison of Assynt House IS a great reel. I first heard it done by Alain Stivell and fiddler Rene Werneer.
I agree with awildman; one of the reasons I stopped coming here regularly was the sense of deja vu in all the threads.
I hate to sound like an old git (but I will anyway); when I first joined many of the threads stayed around for days with many postings. Nowadays with one or two exceptions (usually about notation v. playing by ear ....yawn!) many of the threads are gone within minutes. This is either because everything that could be said, has already been said about this topic or the thread does not raise that much interest in the first place. Either way it is the law of diminishing returns for all the old lags who remember the good old days of Tanya Lee Teraoshi. Who was she and where DID she go?
I looked through some of my old threads and the names of most of the posters there are seldom seen now so I suppose their enthusiasm has gone the same way as mine, but it would be good to hear from them all again.
I miss Tanya, too Geoff. One of the better "wind-ups". I believe Tanya was "Mullingarred", as they say.[ Rhyming slang for "barred" , before someone asks].
Whew, bass players eh? I always knew they were dangerous.
With this place, like anything else, it's what you make of it. If you think it's useless and is all garbage now, it will be that for you. If you think it's amusing to bump brains with witty, like-minded folk and rehash stale topics for newbies in the hope they'll cause less damage to the world at large, then it will be that too.
Now the real plan comes into view. We use the membership bass to round up the bass players in a preventative strike...
Thank you for posting that link, Shanty--although I think there is something "Fishy" in it.
In my alter ego (when I am not pretending to be a piano player), I am a bass player.
Since I play for two different churches every Sunday, maybe I should say "altar" ego instead.
Yes, Ian (otherwise known as SWFL Fiddler), us bass players are much more dangerous than anyone realizes because we are such expert "Fish"ermen.
However, we are waiting for Emily Kaitz to give us the word and lead us in our takeover of the world because she is the guilty party who started this by writing a certain song.
With a last name like "Kaitz", her ancestors were probably German which means that she is our "Lieder". Why? Because she writes songs.
As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Where will it all end?
Does it matter?
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
No, probably not, but soon, when there are enough Members, Phase 2 begins, which we be launched from Jeremy's secret island hideout. Soon we take over the world! MOO HOO HA HA HA!
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
It circles the world in a grip of vice, round and round and round and round and round and round and round for ever and ever and ever.
None of us can ever get out now, whether we go with the direction of The Session / the music or against it...
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by nicholas
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
there must be a threshold of total pointlessness...75,000, 95,000, 200,000?
or maybe we reached it after 2,000
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
but how many of these are jig/tradpiper/ionannas?
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by bazouki dave
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# Posted on October 29th 2009 by bazouki dave
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You have just made me feel ancient. I joined when the site was just a pup.
Mary
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Antikhntr
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
mary,
I too.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
that's nice off you, ta.
Now I feel like young and sprightly once more
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
It's interesting that at 60000+ members, the number of active members in the discussions doesn't seem any different than when it had 10000 members, although, the turnover has been dramatic. Probably 95%.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Reverend
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
"or maybe we reached it after 2,000"
Or maybe after 0
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Whiddler
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Probably after 21942.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by strayaway
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
"Or maybe after 0"
Whiddler - I'd change that to "Or maybe after 1" or you'll get barred
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by domnull
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Definitely 314159 (if we're talking pointless).
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Batlady
http://www.thesession.org/members/index/search?name
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
sticks on page 1
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
It's still fewer than the number of people who live in Hartlepool, where they elected the football team's monkey-impersonating mascot as Mayor. Acquittal on charges of simulating lewd acts in his monkey-suit rendered him eligible.
Actually, by the standards of NE local politicians he was one of the more sensible ones. I mean, really.
Not that this has anything to do with anything - BUT: If The Session became a city state, I wonder who its prominent officers and other people might be...
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by nicholas
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
They'd be elderly and wise!
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Backer
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Be careful Nic some of us were born in Hartlepool
the monkey has just won his third term in office
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by bazouki dave
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/19108/
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Floss the Tethers
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Floss...again, I ask the existenial question:
50/50,000/500,000 where will it end?
my feeling is, anything pretty much over 30 people and it's hopeless.
what's the biggest lecture hall in university? maybe 500? beyond that it's hopeless surely. and even then 500 hundred is pretty hopeless.
jeremy should have capped it at 30 perhaps.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
As the session passed the 38,000 member mark
"Here's what I've been able to ascertain:
The total number of members is: 38144
The number of members who have not posted a comment is: 31734
So the number of members actively contributing (if you count any kind of comment as a contribution) is: 6410
If my calculations are correct, that puts the percentage of active contributors at 16.8%
That sounds about right and is par for the course for most membership-based sites."
Posted on August 12th 2007 by J_____
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Llig...kids keep you young. cliche, but true.On the other hand, they also allow you to be old gracefully. The choice is yours. They like both, at different times, and different stages. Which is the magic of children in allowing us to find out those amazing parts of ourselves which perhaps we've forgot in the silliness of being an adult.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Random
So how do we compare now? I'm math challenged so I rely on the expertise of you algorithmic geniuses out there.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
we wait for J_____ ;)
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
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mtodd, it's not an existential question at all - well, certainly not from a Sartrean viewpoint.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Floss the Tethers
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
;)
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
60,000 = 5,000 sessions of 12 people apiece...
I wonder if The Session can muster 1 Ambassador to the Real World, not counting Jeremy, who may have Real World skills, but might demand as of right a more august position.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by nicholas
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I used to build model airplanes and hang them on the ceiling. They're still on the ceiling in my room in my parents' house.
Imagine, banjos with wings!
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by TheSilverSpear
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
When someone reminisces about an earlier ts.org I think of Bernie Mac in the episode,
'Back In the Day'
"You just can't stop it. I'm talking about the aging process, didn't even start 'til these kids came around."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdS4mY4eBI&feature
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Wow. I am amazing and totally posted that in the wrong thread. Whoops. Now it looks really trippy.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by TheSilverSpear
The giant which is t__s_ss___.org
"The number of members who have not posted a comment is: 31734" August 12th 2007
are they (we) simply copying tunes from the db? or just munching on popcorn.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Silver spear...you should watch that Bernie Mac episode. lol.
thanks random. that's funny. never watched it...don't have cable.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by mtodd
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I think of the assigned membership numbers here as exactly like those on "The Prisoner" (the Patrick McGoohan version). I await a similar psychedelic finale for this site, where #6 sees #2 in the gorilla costume (through a woozy, warping fish-eye lens, lit by strobe lights).
I, as #35542, will probably see this in the finale: jack squat.
Fear the giant beach ball.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
. . . 60,131 & counting . . .
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
If you do a blank search in the Members section it will tell you (as of this moment) that the number of members is 59482. Why is it less than the quoted 60131 or so mentioned in Random's last comment? The reason must be because some people have voluntarily left The Session permanently, and others have been ejected (not suspended) summarily for good reason. I think that in both cases the relevant membership number must henceforth be left unused otherwise almighty confusion would ensue on the database.
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by lazyhound
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
ejected spam members?
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Trevor, I don't think there is any leaving of thesess voluntarily. Once you're in the database, yer in, unless Jeremy removes you ... and 60,000 is twice the population of the centre of Oz ... so is pretty darn impressive to me. Yay thesession!
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Clear Drops
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I know someone who left
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
According to a song by Emily Kaitz, it is the bass players who are going to take over the world instead of the members of this web site despite what SWFL Fiddler said.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fauxcelt
Emily Kaitz
They put drugs in the drummer's drink,
And they tied up all the guitar players
With their big ol' flat-wound strings.
And on that day the world it was finally set free,
All the creatures they hung out together and interacted fretlessly,
And the air began to vibrate with such a deep tonality,
The day the bass players took over the world.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Thank you for posting some of the words to the song, Random_notes.
Did you know that Kaitz has her own web site?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I thought I had left but as I've just seen this comment apparently I haven't.
Number 2918
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Geoff Pollitt
In many ways I miss my old stomping grounds.
thanks fauxcelt
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
You're welcome, Random_notes.
I got to hear Emily Kaitz perform this song in person approximately fifteen years ago at a local folk music venue when I went to hear Ray Wylie Hubbard perform. She was one of the musicians in Hubbard's band. He took a break during his show to let her perform her song about the bass players taking over the world.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Welcome back Geoff. I always enjoy a good excuse for checking out the Tunes stacks. Especially something recorded by Gordon Duncan;
"John Morrison Of Assynt House"
Submitted on May 7th 2007 by Kenny.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7152
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I too know someone who left a couple of years ago of his own wish (probably not the same member mentioned by Random). His membership number is no longer in use so you won't find any of his posts.
Yes, some "members" who have joined apparently with the sole purpose of advertising or spamming usually disappear within a couple of days, along with all evidence of their brief sojourn here. An example of a good and well-controlled website.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by lazyhound
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I knew the centre of Oz was pretty bad but I didn't realise it was *quite* so rebarbative to the human race.
How far does "the centre" stretch? Sidney to Perth?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by nicholas
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Should we sing happy birthday or something?
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by AlBrown
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I didn't bother to check - too lazy - but wonder if member 60k bothered to post something here.
Hang on its Stephanie Fote with one tune in her tunebook and no submissions. Calling Steph........
Love that word "rebarbative" = irritating/repellent
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Donough
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
60,000 members, and 59,990 can't get a word in edgewise.
Same 10 people talking about the same 4 stagnant topics over and over again, with the occasional troll trying to rile everybody up. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by awildman
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Thank you for the welcome back Random.
John Morrison of Assynt House IS a great reel. I first heard it done by Alain Stivell and fiddler Rene Werneer.
I agree with awildman; one of the reasons I stopped coming here regularly was the sense of deja vu in all the threads.
I hate to sound like an old git (but I will anyway); when I first joined many of the threads stayed around for days with many postings. Nowadays with one or two exceptions (usually about notation v. playing by ear ....yawn!) many of the threads are gone within minutes. This is either because everything that could be said, has already been said about this topic or the thread does not raise that much interest in the first place. Either way it is the law of diminishing returns for all the old lags who remember the good old days of Tanya Lee Teraoshi. Who was she and where DID she go?
I looked through some of my old threads and the names of most of the posters there are seldom seen now so I suppose their enthusiasm has gone the same way as mine, but it would be good to hear from them all again.
Happy 60,000th anyway
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Geoff Pollitt
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I miss Tanya, too Geoff. One of the better "wind-ups". I believe Tanya was "Mullingarred", as they say.[ Rhyming slang for "barred" , before someone asks].
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Kenny
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Whew, bass players eh? I always knew they were dangerous.
With this place, like anything else, it's what you make of it. If you think it's useless and is all garbage now, it will be that for you. If you think it's amusing to bump brains with witty, like-minded folk and rehash stale topics for newbies in the hope they'll cause less damage to the world at large, then it will be that too.
Now the real plan comes into view. We use the membership bass to round up the bass players in a preventative strike...
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Ha ha! Membership 'bass'! AAA! It's happening already! Send backup!
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
About time we had someone else to take a pop at, to give the bodhran players some brief respite.
http://website.lineone.net/~dr.bass/basssolo.html
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by johndsamuels
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
I've just been reading 'Outliers' by M Gladwell. 10,000 hours to get good at something like an instrument so The Session must be dead good
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Michael Sam Wild
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Geoff, some of us early posters have simply gone incognito....
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Miss Lonelyhearts
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
For bass players....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAYUUJ28UU
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by shanty
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Thank you for posting that link, Shanty--although I think there is something "Fishy" in it.
In my alter ego (when I am not pretending to be a piano player), I am a bass player.
Since I play for two different churches every Sunday, maybe I should say "altar" ego instead.
Yes, Ian (otherwise known as SWFL Fiddler), us bass players are much more dangerous than anyone realizes because we are such expert "Fish"ermen.
However, we are waiting for Emily Kaitz to give us the word and lead us in our takeover of the world because she is the guilty party who started this by writing a certain song.
With a last name like "Kaitz", her ancestors were probably German which means that she is our "Lieder". Why? Because she writes songs.
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Hello Will
I can't understand why I didn't see it earlier!
I hope things work out for you soon
# Posted on October 31st 2009 by Geoff Pollitt
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
Quite so, quite so.
# Posted on November 3rd 2009 by mcknowall
Re: As the session passes the 60,000 member mark
i am just glad that nobody has succumbed to the urge to sell ads on the site...
gah, forget that i mentioned it!!!
# Posted on November 11th 2009 by greentree