mg: I am now announcing where I will be and that I want no group books and we will not take turns and we will not pontificate between songs and if anyone wants to join lme that is where I will be

What's wrong with taking turns? I much prefer it to the "jump in when you're ready" approach - being an unaccompanied singer I don't have the luxury of strumming an intro.

Much of the discussion here seems premised on the idea that our songs are short, simple, and/or repetitive.

Does it? I never use a crib, whether I'm singing four verses of Thousands Or More or twenty-four of Little Musgrave.