Wagon Wheel. 'Nuff said.
(I'll admit I actually like the Old Crow version).
Wagon Wheel. 'Nuff said.
(I'll admit I actually like the Old Crow version).
Chuck
Which reminds me:
They only play these extremely obscure old timey tunes, in arcane versions with secret additional "C" parts only played by one or two long dead fiddlers from the lost provinces of North Carolina.
They only play the common dorky tunes you hear everywhere. They never want to try anything new.
They only play tunes from the Portland Tune books. And it has to be as written.
They tell you which tune books and websites to find what they play, but they play almost nothing as written. Why bother, if they are only going to make it up anyway?
I need more practice.
I'm only practicing those classical tunes.
Not all the clams are at the beach
Arrow Manouche
Arrow Jazzbo
Arrow G
Clark 2 point
Gibson F5L
Gibson A-4
Ratliff CountryBoy A
I'm too busy looking for reasons not to practice.
Jes Woodland
Ozark 2001Mandolin
Ozark 2223 Octave Mandolin
I only jam with people who are better than me,
and its very hard to find those folks...
Well, I guess I'm out of excuses, so I'll be going to the jam this evening. Now I just need to start working on my excuses for why my playing is so terrible. I have quite a repertoire of them!
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
+1 on the gas-bag fiddlers! It can be really bad in old-time. Every tune a teaching moment!
f-d
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Its snowing, nobody will go.
Its raining, nobody will go.
Its a nice evening, nobody will go.
Its a school night, nobody will go.
Its St. Swithin's day, nobody will go.
Suppose they gave a jam and nobody came?
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
More to the point, (my point anyway) is that if anyone did go, it would not be for lack of reasons to avoid it, it would be because the person overcame all the reasons. There is and always will be reasons to avoid it. Letting those reasons be enough to stop us is the problem.
Don't remember if we've covered this one, but for me today it's real: it's been a few weeks since I've gone, and I'll probably stink it up. Jeff's exhortations are getting me out the door, for which I'm grateful.
My ultimate plan is to number all of the reasons we compile. Then we can stay home and complain by the numbers. "I don't jam because #5. I'm not going tonight because #43."
I'm not good enough.
I'm too good.
I don't know enough of their repertoire.
They don't know my repertoire.
They don't play enough obscure tunes.
They play too many obscure tunes.
The acoustics suck.
It's too far to drive.
I'm too nervous.
They'll laugh at my mistakes.
They'll laugh at me.
Okay, ten years later all of the above has become something I laugh about. I now am involved in several different sessions and have made many musical friends. I don't care anymore if I flub a note or a passage - who really cares anyway, it all about playing together. In the end it's all about having fun and playing whatever music that brought you to playing with friends.
Isn't that what it's about?
Hard ringing room full of Sight reading fiddlers.. And hard to hear myself.
American ITM sessions are fussier about 'Accuracy'...
(they are , really , in comparison to the rural Irish Pub )
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
My mandolin can kill one banjo but there is always more than one.
Bodhran
Bodhrans (plural)
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
My '24 Gibson Loar is in the shop
Lol. Seems there's actually even such a thing as a bodhran drum circle with, y'know, bunches and bunches of bodhrans all playing at the same time. I haven't personally heard such playing, although I did see one video.
Erm, so to keep this on topic, how's this for a reason to avoid jamming with mandolin:
"I have to go play at the bodhran drum circle tonight."
No one appreciates my kazoo solos.
They're pagans jamming "skyclad" and sounds cool I guess but I'm not sure I want to see some of them nude.
I prefer jelly.
I'm too busy coming up with weird reasons not to jam and decided to go to the stand-up comedy open mic instead.
Screw it. I'm a bard now.
I'm a snowflake and I'm afraid to leave my safe space. Lp
J.Lane Pryce
If I go to the jam, I'll be the worst player in the room. If I stay home and play alone, I'll be the best player in the room.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
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