I've been reading, and my considered opinion is that, if I ever got VERY rich, I would build a pub/bar with a glassed in, soundproof room in the rear, with the music piped in, so those who cannot restrain themselves could go chatter to their hearts content...but WOE be to those who could not keep talk to the necessary minimum in the (smoke free) music area! No, this would not solve any of the problems for those who can't get to my fine establishment, but it would solve it for ME...sort of...maybe....

I guess this is a problem that never goes away. Getting together for music, whether session, singaround or concert is a social thing as well as a music thing, and there are as many notions of how to conduct things as there are people. The answer is to think and be aware of the rights and needs of others, but when emotions, often fueled by alcohol, run high, reasoned thinking is often in short supply.

We do the best we can.......