Okay, *sigh*, someone has to do it. It might as well be me, as I am drunk and have lost all my inhibitions. Two-fold question:
1) Which instrument players do you find sexy? I have noticed that women tend to buzz around backers like flies round a piece of shhhh...weppes tonic water, grrRRRR!! What gets your pulse racing?
2) Tell us some exciting stories about how you went to a session and pulled someone, got incredibly drunk and then took them home and did naughties with your instruments (use euphemisms - remember Zach is only 12).
Haven't we already done this? I think we decided women like fluters and pipers and other players of, er, tube like instruments; which is not to say tubas. Men seem to like players of those nice rounded things like fiddles and harps and, saints preserve us, banjos.
Of course, personally, I find anyone doing anything they do really well quite sexy. Even if they're backers, Mark. *grin*
And if I get incredibly drunk, I go straight to sleep, so no exciting stories from me...
Well, the nice thing about being sleep deprived is that I'm a really easy drunk. Pete gave me half a glass of wine with dinner last night and I really felt it. Amazing.
Yeah and drinking in the afternoon is great as well - it goes straight to your head. But Zina, you're trying to change the subject! I'm sure you have some exciting stories to tell
Ooh, actually, let's make this 3-fold. 3) I have 2 instruments, a mandola called "Basil" (it's rounded like a banjo but definitely male), and "Tina", my concertina. I always wonder what they get up to while I'm asleep... Does anyone else name their instruments? My friends named mine for me.
In fact, come to think of it, a hybrid mandola-concertina would be pretty weird. Mandotina? Concertola? It's definitely bedtime for me I'm starting to talk nonsense...
Ooh, I can join in here. My housemate just came home with a crate of tequila and I had to make sure it was, er, tequila. It is!
Right... I agree with Zina - femme fiddlers, definitely. But I thnk I already said that in an earlier thread. Although she's the only one I've met. Lovley though. Um, and I was practically engaged to a trombonist once, but that wasn't very sexy. As for flute... there was this one time, at band camp... er, oh wait, tthat was someone else.
I think any woman who shares any of my interests is beautiful by association (don't even *start* on the psychology of that!). I've never fallen in love with a model (probably cause I've actually *met* some), but there's been many a crush-at-first-sight when it comes to librarians, comic and computer geeks, musos, journos and maths lecturers.
Pascoe (are you out there Pete? Trevor - do you know him? He's in your neck of the woods) claimed to have once made a Northumbrian concertina out of the ends of a concertina powered by a pipers bellows, but apparently you could only play it if you had three hands.
What I find amazing is my talent to awake slumbering musical ambitions in completely drunk guys. I don't know how many times I had someone begging me to give him fiddle lessons! Yeah, right, "fiddle" lessons!
But it's kind of sobering to think that they all had to get rather drunk before trying to get my phone numer...
So Heike, you're telling us that either (a) you're devastatingly gorgeous and they had to soak up the courage to ask, or, er, well, how do I say this delicately, (b) the vision of your beauty did not become fully clear to them until they'd imbibed sufficiently.
Well this is a really interesting way to debute in the discussion section of the site. But I am amused and must say that I am horribly attracted to drummers. I have seen many. Nothing like a man who truly has a solid rythm. Plus the way they can move is a plus.
... gently her quivering lips kissed the end as she blew across the damp opening; her delicate hands gripped lightly as her finger tips danced along the shaft and once in a while, her tongue would flick out briefly to lick the jet black snake. Out of the end dribbled fluid of the purest form ...
So - I know I'm talking Complete Unreconstructed Thatcherite Sexist load of Pants here, but, what the hell, it's a thread verging on the silly - apologies, Dow, and anyone else, if you think otherwise, but aren't classical flautists classically represented as predominantly girly female delicate sensitive women who can subtly and gracefully charm beautiful notes from their lovingly crafted Gifts from Orpheus, their flutes...
Whereas wouldn't traditional players of the same aforementioned yoke be traditionally regarded as yer macho man the horsheen, forcing the perr beast to do his bidding, yet achieving the desired result through sheer force of will, grit and pure determination. Show the goddam lengtha tube who's boss..
As the German song writer Reinhard Mey put it so well a while ago: The whole world looks completely different when looked at through the bottom of a beer glass!
Show the tube who's boss? The best you can hope for is an amicable truce. ISTM that no matter how well you think you have the beast trained, it has a nasty habit of biting back.
No - i didnt mean it like that - just that its nowhere near bed time Dont worry - its cloudy today, 29deg celicus - and...wait for it....96% humidity - its awful and muggy, not nice at all, there will probably be a thunderstorm later on. They never show you guys *that* kind of stuff in Home and Away!
I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk...
Maybe a sobriety test feature on the "Submit a Discussion" page is the next new feature thesession.org needs... perhaps a random sequence of numbers and letters 157 characters long displayed on the screen in four-point type which must be correctly retyped into a window before the thread will be accepted. Or similar. What would make a good on-line sobriety test?
It's no good, when I'm drunk, my thoughts are magnetically drawn to the gutter, and then somehow find their way to a drain and into the sewer. Nice to happen upon the Aussie shift this morning girls, but can't stop to chat I'm afraid. I'm going sea fishing today off a beautiful paradise island in 2 hours time you see. Apparently the ocean is so clear you can see down about 5 or 6 metres, and there are coral reefs and spectacular rainbow-coloured fish. God I love being a student!
Apparently there are also sharks, and it's 1km away from land where we'll be fishing, so I've told my friends at the hostel that if I get eaten they have to e-mail my parents and tell them what's happened, and maybe like apologise or something. If I end up in the sea, I'll get eaten for sure. The mosquitos here seem to love me, so the sharks'll have a feast. Never mind hey, I'd rather go out in style getting eaten by a shark than dying in an old people's home in Cambridge...
I love this list, it is so damn funny as well as being really informative. This thread does kind of tie in with ditching the dots, one cannot (male here) scope out the chicks if one's eyes are glued to the dots. I would think this alone is adequate impetus to lodge the tunes in the head.
This is not an original thought of mine, an old fiddler shared those wise words with me.
I do believe that 'crank' is a type of drug in the US - I could be wrong tho - I pick up these things when I watch films like 'boyz in da hood' etc etc...hhmmmm
Well now that youve made me comepletely jealous Dow, telling us about you going diving on reefs with colourful fish - I shall get back to eating the lovliest mango Ive ever had and continue surfing the net (hard life!)
ppitussi - that has to be one of the best things Ive heard in ages, if you come across a person (may only work with boys) who really wont learn by ear, its just a matter of saying 'but look how you can just play and perve at the same time!'...bravo"
Crank is definitely a drug here in the US - a.k.a methamphetamine...I should know, I live about 3 miles from the Meth capitol of the world - Indpendence Missouri (making Harry Truman proud into the 21st centure via tub brewed pharmaceuticals). If George Bush truly wanted to find mobile drug labs, he'd send the troops our way - they often make this stuff up in vans parked on the side of rural highways.
Anyway, what instrument is the sexiest for a woman to play? Any instrument as long as she's right next to me, unless it's the wrong end of a flute hanging over my shoulder...
The DOW index is goin strong...funniest thread I've eaten in ages.
Conway - I think I laughed so hard I burst the britches in me stitches.
WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!
"I'd rather go out in style getting eaten by a shark than dying in an old people's home in Cambridge..." - we all say things like that at some time or other, Dow.
Funny how when it really comes to the crunch (no pun intended), we find that the nursing home in cambridge is not so unattractive after all.
Not that I've ever been attacked by a shark, but there's been several occasions in my life where I really thought my number was up, and I thought about the nursing home. (strange as it seems, you really do think about a lot of things in the split second between life and unconsciousness - between leaving the bike and coming head down on the tarmac).
On a brighter note, Mad Tom's home from uni tonite and coming to our sesh. (I haven't fixed his mandolin yet. Oh dear - end of brighter note)
So when you're 'playing on your own' Martin, you still collect the discharge in a beer glass?
Remind me to decline any offer of a drink if I ever find myself round your place...
Damnation! It's only been, what, a day since I've checked this?
A. I was looking more for something along the line of, 'Hey lasses, when faced with a steely-eyed bunch of blokes cranking out the tunes, how do you find the courage to wade in, if at all?' Obviously the lot of you are in actuality a school of sharks, not unlike Dow's swimming companions, despite all innocent appearances to the contrary! Note to self: pack PFD to next pub session, except in Montana or Colorado.....
B. 50 lashes with a tipper for Dubg for this post. Obviously if a notorious heart-breaking male piper, say, or flute player, say, were to publicly account for his lotharious activities, even and/or including visualization of certain tattoos, he shall be revered! Any sensible woman engaging in similar antics would be a fool to share it with anyone else, lest she be labelled a harlot, & thusly not taken seriously as a muso. Time for more flu meds!
No Beebs, I'm 12, but make sure you don't tell anyone on any of the other threads as I like people to think I've got a brain. 50 lashes Em, bring it on! It was worth starting this thread just for Conway's shocking posts
I'm told it's very Irish to respond to a question with a question 8>)
Emily, would *you* need "courage" to join in at a session consisting of steely-eyed blokes cranking out the tunes? Would you feel differently if steely-eyed sheilas were cranking out the same tunes at the same level?
The reason I ask is that I've been trying to word a (semi) serious answer to your question but I can't quite get it right and I'm kinda interested in what's behind your question.
Hi Tish! They don't call it la grippe for nothing, but thanks for asking, the vice is loosening slightly.
OK well here's how I see it. In some of the recent sessions I've attended, I've felt a bit like an interloper. I don't think it has to do with gender necessarily.... OK like I was recently at a house session, mighty players, about 9-10 musos including a charming older box player from Connemara who was in London during the 50s & 60s, great stories about Bobby Casey & the like! Another player was from Belfast, & all I wanted to do was listen to them talk & play, hear the stories, the craic, the tunes. Yes I was the only female, & would politely start a set when asked, but I was mostly keen to just LISTEN, even when tunes came around that I knew, & also I recorded most of it, & I think the conversations are my favorite part. It was FABULOUS. When I think of those 'golden age sessions,' there simply aren't that many women, say Julia Clifford (somebody please correct me), but it seems like such a, dare I say it, sacred thing, just watching the menfolk mix it up as a fly on the wall....
But at a few other sessions, pub sessions, with all men too, I guess I'm just amazed at the p!ssing contest factor. To me there seems to be a real struggle for dominance in a lot of sessions, the ones primarily populated with men. The speed demons, the showoffs, etc, whereas women tend to be the peacemakers or negotiators, unless of course they're defending their turf, which is equally as bizarre. Whereas the men might welcome you in (for reasons we can only guess at), the woman/women, depending on her b!tch factor, might be just as likely to freeze you out, as to say, 'Yes dear, we do play that tune, but usually a bit slowly.'
Ah well I'm rambling now, the Theraflu is kicking in & my bed is calling. Interested in your thoughts Tish. A demain!
Glad you're feeling a bit better Emily and thanks for the background - I do have thoughts but I also have a concert tomorrow so I really ought to psyche up for some practice - will get back to you, promise!
Emily, I'd be nervous as heck to approach either the all-male or all-female group if they were both full speed ahead! Unfortunately, in this day and age (any day and age, probably) if you are blessed with a sweet nature, youth (or near-youth), and are reasonably attractive, you have an advantage. May as well use it. Please, everyone, I am not saying that if you are old, or obese, or very plain that you won't be welcomed at an all-male session, it's just that if you were born with good genes, it can be easier, and I don't take that for granted. I hope you all don't hate me now or think I sound like Tanya Lee. I don't think I'm gorgeous or anything....
Ok, I think that male pipers are incredibly sexy. Maybe the sexiest men alive. As long as their young. Like under 25 preferrably because you see, I still under 20. I think that John(the piper from Slainte Mhath) is incredibly sexy.... Well anyways guys seem to be attracted to the fiddler types. I dunno, I guess we're just the sexiest ones.
I met my ex-wife, my present wife and my girlfriend all solely as a result of playing my fiddle in the right place at the right time. I have to say that in this respect the fiddle is a real sexy instrument with great pulling power!
By the way, the music is ever-changing, but the sex stays the same. ooo er, missus!!!
Music & Sex Part 3
Music & Sex Part 3
Okay, *sigh*, someone has to do it. It might as well be me, as I am drunk and have lost all my inhibitions. Two-fold question:
1) Which instrument players do you find sexy? I have noticed that women tend to buzz around backers like flies round a piece of shhhh...weppes tonic water, grrRRRR!! What gets your pulse racing?
2) Tell us some exciting stories about how you went to a session and pulled someone, got incredibly drunk and then took them home and did naughties with your instruments (use euphemisms - remember Zach is only 12).
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Haven't we already done this? I think we decided women like fluters and pipers and other players of, er, tube like instruments; which is not to say tubas. Men seem to like players of those nice rounded things like fiddles and harps and, saints preserve us, banjos.
Of course, personally, I find anyone doing anything they do really well quite sexy. Even if they're backers, Mark. *grin*
And if I get incredibly drunk, I go straight to sleep, so no exciting stories from me...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Zina Lee
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Maybe tomorrow morning then eh?
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
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Well, the nice thing about being sleep deprived is that I'm a really easy drunk. Pete gave me half a glass of wine with dinner last night and I really felt it. Amazing.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Zina Lee
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Yeah and drinking in the afternoon is great as well - it goes straight to your head. But Zina, you're trying to change the subject! I'm sure you have some exciting stories to tell
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Ooh, actually, let's make this 3-fold. 3) I have 2 instruments, a mandola called "Basil" (it's rounded like a banjo but definitely male), and "Tina", my concertina. I always wonder what they get up to while I'm asleep... Does anyone else name their instruments? My friends named mine for me.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
In fact, come to think of it, a hybrid mandola-concertina would be pretty weird. Mandotina? Concertola? It's definitely bedtime for me I'm starting to talk nonsense...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Ooh, I can join in here. My housemate just came home with a crate of tequila and I had to make sure it was, er, tequila. It is!
Right... I agree with Zina - femme fiddlers, definitely. But I thnk I already said that in an earlier thread. Although she's the only one I've met. Lovley though. Um, and I was practically engaged to a trombonist once, but that wasn't very sexy. As for flute... there was this one time, at band camp... er, oh wait, tthat was someone else.
I think any woman who shares any of my interests is beautiful by association (don't even *start* on the psychology of that!). I've never fallen in love with a model (probably cause I've actually *met* some), but there's been many a crush-at-first-sight when it comes to librarians, comic and computer geeks, musos, journos and maths lecturers.
1tequila2tequila3tequila floor
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Q
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
...... Sex has a Part 3?
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by showaddydadito
Dow
Pascoe (are you out there Pete? Trevor - do you know him? He's in your neck of the woods) claimed to have once made a Northumbrian concertina out of the ends of a concertina powered by a pipers bellows, but apparently you could only play it if you had three hands.
Dave
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
i think male pipers and male box players (excuse the pun) are the sexiest!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Hook
Re:Naming instruments
I always have names for my instruments...
Silver Flute #1- James
Piccolo #1- Broncho
Silver Flute #2 (with barcus berry flute pickup)- Mustang Sally
Piccolo #2- Ewan
Saxophone- Gideon
A little silly but hey....
~Autumn
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by autumn
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
What I find amazing is my talent to awake slumbering musical ambitions in completely drunk guys. I don't know how many times I had someone begging me to give him fiddle lessons! Yeah, right, "fiddle" lessons!
But it's kind of sobering to think that they all had to get rather drunk before trying to get my phone numer...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by heike
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
So Heike, you're telling us that either (a) you're devastatingly gorgeous and they had to soak up the courage to ask, or, er, well, how do I say this delicately, (b) the vision of your beauty did not become fully clear to them until they'd imbibed sufficiently.
So which is it?
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Will CPT
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Well this is a really interesting way to debute in the discussion section of the site. But I am amused and must say that I am horribly attracted to drummers. I have seen many. Nothing like a man who truly has a solid rythm. Plus the way they can move is a plus.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by fiddlingcat
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
... gently her quivering lips kissed the end as she blew across the damp opening; her delicate hands gripped lightly as her finger tips danced along the shaft and once in a while, her tongue would flick out briefly to lick the jet black snake. Out of the end dribbled fluid of the purest form ...
Yep, does it for me every time!
Martin
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Arrggghhhh - I cant believe you just wrote that martin!!!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Must be chucking out time in Cardiff...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Ottery
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...should be chucking out time here as well...or chucking up time...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Yep, time to slip the head piece back into its velvet lined box ...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
By the way, there are no minors watching, are there? After all, it is after 9 PM.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
PPAANNTTSS
So - I know I'm talking Complete Unreconstructed Thatcherite Sexist load of Pants here, but, what the hell, it's a thread verging on the silly - apologies, Dow, and anyone else, if you think otherwise, but aren't classical flautists classically represented as predominantly girly female delicate sensitive women who can subtly and gracefully charm beautiful notes from their lovingly crafted Gifts from Orpheus, their flutes...
Whereas wouldn't traditional players of the same aforementioned yoke be traditionally regarded as yer macho man the horsheen, forcing the perr beast to do his bidding, yet achieving the desired result through sheer force of will, grit and pure determination. Show the goddam lengtha tube who's boss..
Mere speculation...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Key Maniac Lad
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Hey conway - its 12:30pm over here
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
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Well, Will, since I don't think it's a)...
As the German song writer Reinhard Mey put it so well a while ago: The whole world looks completely different when looked at through the bottom of a beer glass!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by heike
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Show the tube who's boss? The best you can hope for is an amicable truce. ISTM that no matter how well you think you have the beast trained, it has a nasty habit of biting back.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
bb - OK its midday where you are, sunny, nearly mid summer, nice sandy beach, and it isn't dark, wet, cold and windy Wales. Don't rub it in.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
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No - i didnt mean it like that - just that its nowhere near bed time
Dont worry - its cloudy today, 29deg celicus - and...wait for it....96% humidity - its awful and muggy, not nice at all, there will probably be a thunderstorm later on. They never show you guys *that* kind of stuff in Home and Away!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
You mean you *do* have a 'watershed' down under?
I do like the idea of weather reports from list members. Something very British about it.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
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I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk, I must not submit threads when I'm drunk...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
Sobriety Button
Maybe a sobriety test feature on the "Submit a Discussion" page is the next new feature thesession.org needs... perhaps a random sequence of numbers and letters 157 characters long displayed on the screen in four-point type which must be correctly retyped into a window before the thread will be accepted. Or similar. What would make a good on-line sobriety test?
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Tish
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You crank me up Dow! You always submit threads when you are drunk -its part of your charm
Soooo - I guess its not *just* me being a bad influence on you then Dow :P
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
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Obviously mean 'Crack me up' - maybe I'm drunk too - tho I dont think so..as Ive been at work for 6 hours
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
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It's no good, when I'm drunk, my thoughts are magnetically drawn to the gutter, and then somehow find their way to a drain and into the sewer. Nice to happen upon the Aussie shift this morning girls, but can't stop to chat I'm afraid. I'm going sea fishing today off a beautiful paradise island in 2 hours time you see. Apparently the ocean is so clear you can see down about 5 or 6 metres, and there are coral reefs and spectacular rainbow-coloured fish. God I love being a student!
Apparently there are also sharks, and it's 1km away from land where we'll be fishing, so I've told my friends at the hostel that if I get eaten they have to e-mail my parents and tell them what's happened, and maybe like apologise or something. If I end up in the sea, I'll get eaten for sure. The mosquitos here seem to love me, so the sharks'll have a feast. Never mind hey, I'd rather go out in style getting eaten by a shark than dying in an old people's home in Cambridge...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
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Don't I also crank you up Beebs?
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
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I love this list, it is so damn funny as well as being really informative. This thread does kind of tie in with ditching the dots, one cannot (male here) scope out the chicks if one's eyes are glued to the dots. I would think this alone is adequate impetus to lodge the tunes in the head.
This is not an original thought of mine, an old fiddler shared those wise words with me.
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by ppitussi
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Dow, just strap a bodhran to your back - if you go over, the sharks'll flee in panic.
(I'd get me coat but it's too sunny and warm for one here on Sydney Harbour. 8>)
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Tish
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Dont joke about sharks Dow!
I do believe that 'crank' is a type of drug in the US - I could be wrong tho - I pick up these things when I watch films like 'boyz in da hood' etc etc...hhmmmm
Well now that youve made me comepletely jealous Dow, telling us about you going diving on reefs with colourful fish - I shall get back to eating the lovliest mango Ive ever had and continue surfing the net
(hard life!)
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
ppitussi - that has to be one of the best things Ive heard in ages, if you come across a person (may only work with boys) who really wont learn by ear, its just a matter of saying 'but look how you can just play and perve at the same time!'...bravo"
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by bb
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Crank is definitely a drug here in the US - a.k.a methamphetamine...I should know, I live about 3 miles from the Meth capitol of the world - Indpendence Missouri (making Harry Truman proud into the 21st centure via tub brewed pharmaceuticals). If George Bush truly wanted to find mobile drug labs, he'd send the troops our way - they often make this stuff up in vans parked on the side of rural highways.
Anyway, what instrument is the sexiest for a woman to play? Any instrument as long as she's right next to me, unless it's the wrong end of a flute hanging over my shoulder...
Eric
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Jayhawk
Hey, like Zina, I'm an overtired (aka cheap) drunk. Only one beer after session tonight, and I can't spell century right!
Eric
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Jayhawk
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
The DOW index is goin strong...funniest thread I've eaten in ages.
Conway - I think I laughed so hard I burst the britches in me stitches.
WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Greenwiggle
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Drunk? Moi? No, just forced to stay home last night and play on my own. As someone else said, sex is OK, but you can't beat the real thing ...
Hope the fishing/sunbathing went OK down under. 10 AM and still dark, damp and cold up here.
Oh, and there is no 'wrong end of a flute', right? Real aficionados hold there beer glasses out to collect the discharge.
Martin
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
Oops, swop "their" for "there".
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Conway
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
"I'd rather go out in style getting eaten by a shark than dying in an old people's home in Cambridge..." - we all say things like that at some time or other, Dow.
Funny how when it really comes to the crunch (no pun intended), we find that the nursing home in cambridge is not so unattractive after all.
Not that I've ever been attacked by a shark, but there's been several occasions in my life where I really thought my number was up, and I thought about the nursing home. (strange as it seems, you really do think about a lot of things in the split second between life and unconsciousness - between leaving the bike and coming head down on the tarmac).
On a brighter note, Mad Tom's home from uni tonite and coming to our sesh. (I haven't fixed his mandolin yet. Oh dear - end of brighter note)
Dave
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by showaddydadito
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
So when you're 'playing on your own' Martin, you still collect the discharge in a beer glass?
Remind me to decline any offer of a drink if I ever find myself round your place...
# Posted on November 20th 2003 by Ottery
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LOL -- ewwwwwwww, gross, dudes.
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Zina Lee
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Not even a Guiness with a big, creamy head?
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Conway
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Damnation! It's only been, what, a day since I've checked this?
A. I was looking more for something along the line of, 'Hey lasses, when faced with a steely-eyed bunch of blokes cranking out the tunes, how do you find the courage to wade in, if at all?' Obviously the lot of you are in actuality a school of sharks, not unlike Dow's swimming companions, despite all innocent appearances to the contrary! Note to self: pack PFD to next pub session, except in Montana or Colorado.....
B. 50 lashes with a tipper for Dubg for this post. Obviously if a notorious heart-breaking male piper, say, or flute player, say, were to publicly account for his lotharious activities, even and/or including visualization of certain tattoos, he shall be revered! Any sensible woman engaging in similar antics would be a fool to share it with anyone else, lest she be labelled a harlot, & thusly not taken seriously as a muso. Time for more flu meds!
xo E.
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by emily_bmore
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I think its a bit too soon for you to be talking sharks and nursing homes Dow - youre only...what...26!
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by bb
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No Beebs, I'm 12, but make sure you don't tell anyone on any of the other threads as I like people to think I've got a brain. 50 lashes Em, bring it on! It was worth starting this thread just for Conway's shocking posts
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Dow
BTW Em, this wasn't supposed to hijack your part 2, it was meant to be an offshoot of it, but maybe it was premature. I don't usually do that - sorry!
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Premature? Hmm, that's what they all say. Especially the backers. ;)
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by emily_bmore
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
See I could read allsorts into that Em, but I'm not calling you a harlot. I don't think there's anyone like that on this site!
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Dow
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Make that student backers.
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by emily_bmore
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
I'm told it's very Irish to respond to a question with a question 8>)
Emily, would *you* need "courage" to join in at a session consisting of steely-eyed blokes cranking out the tunes? Would you feel differently if steely-eyed sheilas were cranking out the same tunes at the same level?
The reason I ask is that I've been trying to word a (semi) serious answer to your question but I can't quite get it right and I'm kinda interested in what's behind your question.
Is your flu improving?
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Tish
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
Hi Tish!
They don't call it la grippe for nothing, but thanks for asking, the vice is loosening slightly.
OK well here's how I see it. In some of the recent sessions I've attended, I've felt a bit like an interloper. I don't think it has to do with gender necessarily.... OK like I was recently at a house session, mighty players, about 9-10 musos including a charming older box player from Connemara who was in London during the 50s & 60s, great stories about Bobby Casey & the like! Another player was from Belfast, & all I wanted to do was listen to them talk & play, hear the stories, the craic, the tunes. Yes I was the only female, & would politely start a set when asked, but I was mostly keen to just LISTEN, even when tunes came around that I knew, & also I recorded most of it, & I think the conversations are my favorite part. It was FABULOUS. When I think of those 'golden age sessions,' there simply aren't that many women, say Julia Clifford (somebody please correct me), but it seems like such a, dare I say it, sacred thing, just watching the menfolk mix it up as a fly on the wall....
But at a few other sessions, pub sessions, with all men too, I guess I'm just amazed at the p!ssing contest factor. To me there seems to be a real struggle for dominance in a lot of sessions, the ones primarily populated with men. The speed demons, the showoffs, etc, whereas women tend to be the peacemakers or negotiators, unless of course they're defending their turf, which is equally as bizarre. Whereas the men might welcome you in (for reasons we can only guess at), the woman/women, depending on her b!tch factor, might be just as likely to freeze you out, as to say, 'Yes dear, we do play that tune, but usually a bit slowly.'
Ah well I'm rambling now, the Theraflu is kicking in & my bed is calling. Interested in your thoughts Tish. A demain!
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by emily_bmore
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Glad you're feeling a bit better Emily and thanks for the background - I do have thoughts but I also have a concert tomorrow so I really ought to psyche up for some practice - will get back to you, promise!
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Tish
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Emily, I'd be nervous as heck to approach either the all-male or all-female group if they were both full speed ahead! Unfortunately, in this day and age (any day and age, probably) if you are blessed with a sweet nature, youth (or near-youth), and are reasonably attractive, you have an advantage. May as well use it. Please, everyone, I am not saying that if you are old, or obese, or very plain that you won't be welcomed at an all-male session, it's just that if you were born with good genes, it can be easier, and I don't take that for granted. I hope you all don't hate me now or think I sound like Tanya Lee. I don't think I'm gorgeous or anything....
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Andee
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Ah, had we but world enough, and time...
# Posted on November 21st 2003 by Q
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Ok, I think that male pipers are incredibly sexy. Maybe the sexiest men alive. As long as their young. Like under 25 preferrably because you see, I still under 20. I think that John(the piper from Slainte Mhath) is incredibly sexy.... Well anyways guys seem to be attracted to the fiddler types. I dunno, I guess we're just the sexiest ones.
# Posted on November 22nd 2003 by Sarah_MadPlaid
Re: Music & Sex Part 3
I met my ex-wife, my present wife and my girlfriend all solely as a result of playing my fiddle in the right place at the right time. I have to say that in this respect the fiddle is a real sexy instrument with great pulling power!
By the way, the music is ever-changing, but the sex stays the same.
ooo er, missus!!!
Jim
# Posted on November 23rd 2003 by Worldfiddler