I am having joe (uglyboyjoe) a competition as to who can clock up the most responses on the session. Please reply so i can thrash him and be all smug about it! Jim (your new best friend)
LOL -- the thing to do is post some kind of purposefully provocative thread, and see if you can't get people to start arguing. It's useful if it looks like a thread that actually has a purpose. Try asking a question that you really want to know about, why not learn something while you're at it? (we've had several of this sort of thing in the past, my favorite was the one where the goal was to hijack the thread with each and every single response.)
Should Sessions be:
A) Democratic
B) A Meritocracy
C) Feudal
D) Feuding
C) Fascist Dictatorship
B) Bunfight
X) Bumfight
A) Sort of Pondlife
B) Anarco-Syndicalist
C) Vegetarian
D) All Of The Above
M) None Of The Above
Answers on a postcard. You do not have to have made a purchase to enter.
I'm all with and against Bannerman now. I agrea there should be just ONE bodrhan player per session (let's not start talking about the max amount of guiter players yet), but a banjo is more than a bodhran with strings... I should know...I tried beating it like one...didn't sound anything like is.
I was only being provocative - Brian Fitzgerald, John Carty, Brian McGrath not to mention Barney McKenna (you know where I really stand on banjo players). However, with regard to sessions (democracy, feudalism, meritocracy, dictatorship, etc)we could be here all night arguing the pros and cons of which is the ideal situation.
We've been discussing that much longer than one night, bannerman... where've you been?
I was at a session last night where a guitar player showed up and sat behind the designated back-up player, but on a ledge so that his guitar was directly behind the back-up player's head. Talk about disconnect.
Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?!
or
[You] live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love ove the nasty sty!
or
Draw thy tool. My naked weapon is out (for keyless flute players)
Then stand upan thy effeteness, and mark it well how the singing sword of my tongue will cut thee into ribbons, shewing the ghastly colour of thy innards to all who wouldst look to thee in adoration.
This thread makes me mad. Don't you all know that this is serious business? Have you no respect for The Music?
Personally I think that anyone who hasn't spent at least fifty years locked in a room practising has no right to be in any session as they ruin it for everyone else.
After that you have to also be prepared to spend the next fifty years as a newbie in the session. This means severe paranoia about whether you are overstepping your mark as a beginner and posting anguished questions about this on messageboards. To which seasoned veterans will respond with long helpful lists of what NOT to do in sessions.
And while I am at it. Please do NOT bring in any non-trad instrument into a session. Unless a Big Name plays said instrument on an album first, in which case it is just about okay. But prepare to face some amount of frowning anyway.
You can't just make joke threads like these about serious issues like these. If we continue to make light of it the puredrop of the music will disolve into rivers of drivel.
Surely you'd agree though that not all guitarists are session wreckers? Mollyb, you can't be serious about banjo players - what about Cathal Hayden, Keiran Hanrahan, Gerry O'Connor plus others already mentioned earlier and all the banjo players who play in Monkstown (you know who you are!!).
Somebody ought to incite me, Jack and Will to debate session etiquette again. It would save us a lot of work - we can just paste our responses from previous threads into this one.
I am thrashing joe at the end of day 1. woohoo. Please note that you can add comments to mine and not to joe's because he is a bodhran player. Of course I could be a cheating litte *$$@**^%& and add comments to my own. But i am a sporting kinda guy so please add loads of replies! Your new best friend jimbob
No, I think Cathal Hayden, Gerry O'Connor, kieran Hanrahan and especially the mOnkstown banjos should all be destringed and turned into bodhrans and then we'd have some real music! Oops, is this a serious thread?
Just got an idea from another thread! All trad musicians should learn the melody for drinking songs such as Jug of Punch, Seven Drunken Nights, Wild Rover, etc and provide song sheets for session patrons so that these can be performed during every session - what do ye think?
SL* is talking rivers drivel not me. Music is not necessarily a serious business, and some people take it far too seriously. I go to a music school and this is my opinion
Here here!! enough of the ould diddly aye; lets play some real Oirish stuff and don't forget "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" or "All For Me Grog" - now there's a drinking song! Be careful though with the Driving to drink bit as you might become a victim of Jimmy Crowley's "Bandon Car" a definite no-drinking song!
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I am having joe (uglyboyjoe) a competition as to who can clock up the most responses on the session. Please reply so i can thrash him and be all smug about it! Jim (your new best friend)
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by jimbob
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LOL -- the thing to do is post some kind of purposefully provocative thread, and see if you can't get people to start arguing. It's useful if it looks like a thread that actually has a purpose. Try asking a question that you really want to know about, why not learn something while you're at it? (we've had several of this sort of thing in the past, my favorite was the one where the goal was to hijack the thread with each and every single response.)
Good luck! ;)
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Zina Lee
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Should the rule of "one bodhran per session" be rigidly enforced?
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Bannerman
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Ten minutes and no response - how provocative do you have to be? Ok then, who was it who said that "a banjo is just a bodhran with strings"?
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Bannerman
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Should Sessions be:
A) Democratic
B) A Meritocracy
C) Feudal
D) Feuding
C) Fascist Dictatorship
B) Bunfight
X) Bumfight
A) Sort of Pondlife
B) Anarco-Syndicalist
C) Vegetarian
D) All Of The Above
M) None Of The Above
Answers on a postcard. You do not have to have made a purchase to enter.
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Ottery
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As being the current holder of the title, (401 responses,) you might think I would have something useful to say about this...
sorry
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Phantom Button
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I'm all with and against Bannerman now. I agrea there should be just ONE bodrhan player per session (let's not start talking about the max amount of guiter players yet), but a banjo is more than a bodhran with strings... I should know...I tried beating it like one...didn't sound anything like is.
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Dark Raven
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I was only being provocative - Brian Fitzgerald, John Carty, Brian McGrath not to mention Barney McKenna (you know where I really stand on banjo players). However, with regard to sessions (democracy, feudalism, meritocracy, dictatorship, etc)we could be here all night arguing the pros and cons of which is the ideal situation.
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Bannerman
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We've been discussing that much longer than one night, bannerman... where've you been?
I was at a session last night where a guitar player showed up and sat behind the designated back-up player, but on a ledge so that his guitar was directly behind the back-up player's head. Talk about disconnect.
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by Phantom Button
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Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?!
or
[You] live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love ove the nasty sty!
or
Draw thy tool. My naked weapon is out (for keyless flute players)
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Ottery
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Are you sure that last one isn't for clueless key players?
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Phantom Button
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The 16th/17th centuries certainly had a marvellous way with words. We're too bland and effete today.
Trevor
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
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Then stand upan thy effeteness, and mark it well how the singing sword of my tongue will cut thee into ribbons, shewing the ghastly colour of thy innards to all who wouldst look to thee in adoration.
!
oooh.... this is fun. :D
-Pádraig
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Pádraig
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I think all banjos should be banned from sessions as they add nothing to the music!
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by MollyB
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This thread makes me mad. Don't you all know that this is serious business? Have you no respect for The Music?
Personally I think that anyone who hasn't spent at least fifty years locked in a room practising has no right to be in any session as they ruin it for everyone else.
After that you have to also be prepared to spend the next fifty years as a newbie in the session. This means severe paranoia about whether you are overstepping your mark as a beginner and posting anguished questions about this on messageboards. To which seasoned veterans will respond with long helpful lists of what NOT to do in sessions.
And while I am at it. Please do NOT bring in any non-trad instrument into a session. Unless a Big Name plays said instrument on an album first, in which case it is just about okay. But prepare to face some amount of frowning anyway.
You can't just make joke threads like these about serious issues like these. If we continue to make light of it the puredrop of the music will disolve into rivers of drivel.
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by SL*
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Surely you'd agree though that not all guitarists are session wreckers? Mollyb, you can't be serious about banjo players - what about Cathal Hayden, Keiran Hanrahan, Gerry O'Connor plus others already mentioned earlier and all the banjo players who play in Monkstown (you know who you are!!).
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Bannerman
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What about a paid session led by a bodhran?
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Jode
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Been there, done that. It was nice while it lasted, but eventually he got drunk and fell over. Then we played some music.
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Gzeg
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sounds like SL* got up on the wrong side of the bed! anyone agree with what he has to say?
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by UglyBoyJoe
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Not very smart to try to generate controversy in the rival thread, Joe.
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by SL*
Bodhran players make the best session leaders because:
Great subject title!
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Phantom Button
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Oh my God. Why is everyone being so grumpy?
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, so let's just leave it at that.
Oh, and Uglyboy, you're not gonna beat Jimbob if you add responses to his thread!
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Folkie Junkie
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Somebody ought to incite me, Jack and Will to debate session etiquette again. It would save us a lot of work - we can just paste our responses from previous threads into this one.
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Kerri Brown
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lol
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Folkie Junkie
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I am thrashing joe at the end of day 1. woohoo. Please note that you can add comments to mine and not to joe's because he is a bodhran player. Of course I could be a cheating litte *$$@**^%& and add comments to my own. But i am a sporting kinda guy so please add loads of replies! Your new best friend jimbob
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by jimbob
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LOL-what's wrong with bodhran players? Some of them are ok, just not in Joes case.
(just kiddin Joe! You're alright really! :D )
# Posted on October 5th 2004 by Folkie Junkie
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No, I think Cathal Hayden, Gerry O'Connor, kieran Hanrahan and especially the mOnkstown banjos should all be destringed and turned into bodhrans and then we'd have some real music! Oops, is this a serious thread?
# Posted on October 6th 2004 by MollyB
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say that in a session and I think you'd get a closer look at a banjo than you'd like...
# Posted on October 6th 2004 by anniejryan
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Most of my best friends are banjo players so only jokingj!
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by MollyB
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Just got an idea from another thread! All trad musicians should learn the melody for drinking songs such as Jug of Punch, Seven Drunken Nights, Wild Rover, etc and provide song sheets for session patrons so that these can be performed during every session - what do ye think?
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by Bannerman
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brilliant and of course Fields of Athenry should be on that list and it drives me to drink!
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by MollyB
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SL* is talking rivers drivel not me. Music is not necessarily a serious business, and some people take it far too seriously. I go to a music school and this is my opinion
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by jimbob
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Here here!! enough of the ould diddly aye; lets play some real Oirish stuff and don't forget "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" or "All For Me Grog" - now there's a drinking song! Be careful though with the Driving to drink bit as you might become a victim of Jimmy Crowley's "Bandon Car" a definite no-drinking song!
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by Bannerman
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For the full story on the poor unfortunate victim of the Bandon Car see http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/b/bandonca.html
# Posted on October 7th 2004 by Bannerman