"From: Jack Campin - PM
Date: 19 May 12 - 11:46 AM

What will persuade me more than anything to never come back to a session/singaround is people NOT accompanying me.

Mostly I play Scottish traditional music, which is mostly dance music that was always intended to have an accompaniment. If you don't have a cello like Niel Gow expected, a guitar will do. But sitting there like a dumpling with a guitar propped up beside you and not even trying to figure out something to do with it while I'm playing a straightforward reel is just plain insulting. I get this from virtually all the local Americana fanboys, who have the whole chord sequences for American Pie and the complete works of Neil Young in their heads. And they can't even do Mrs Macleod? What's WRONG with you?"
jesus christ, this post beats everything, Jack would you prefer they joined in in the wrong key, or with the wrong chords, personally I am eternally grateful , if people who have never heard a tune before, do not join in, there is nothing worse than trying to play a tune and have some tone deaf idiot playing all the wrong chords