Why do some singers resent tunes?

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 01:04 PM

Haven't we beaten this to death ad nauseum. Some do, some don't, support what suits you.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 01:01 PM

I am a singer, I am also incapable of playing an instrument (well except precussion, which most people don't think counts!) I enjoy tunes but some non playing singers resent the fact that some people can play an instrument.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 01:00 PM

Ach, Ivor, its a plague, innit? Wod'll we ever do wid all them over-anxious musicians!!??

A

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: GUEST,ivor bigginin
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:57 PM

Speaking as a singer I find that most singers are sensitive, unbiased and have a wide, varied and catholic taste in music.Unlike some musicians, especially those who try to be Irish.They fly of at a million miles an hour and that is just the slow airs !!!! having been in loads of sessions I find that musicians are by and large egocentric,selfish, ignorant and unsensitive to other people, and if they are not talking through some one who is trying to sing unnacompanied they sit with poised plectrum, bow, stick - oh those fucking bowran players - sqeezy things et-al and soon as you have finished of they go again.

A pox on them all I say.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:44 PM

" I've seen more than one session when a singer was interrupted by someone starting another tune as if the singer was not there."

That's because there are dick-holes on both 'sides'

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:44 PM

Them's fightin' words Amos, and I'll be over there to sort you out as soon as I figure out what they mean. ¦¬]>
John

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:24 PM

I don't understand. I've never even heard of such a thing. It's all music after all.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: John Robinson (aka Cittern)
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:24 PM

For the same reason that tune sessions often get grumpy when someone sings.

I've seen more than one session when a singer was interrupted by someone starting another tune as if the singer was not there.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:23 PM

under most conditions I enjoy both tunes and songs - occasionally will have a day when I *need* to sing though -and no singable tunes are being played. under such circumstances I have been known to go out into the parking lot and sing a song or two before going back and resuming listening to the tunes.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:22 PM

Mebbe we need to get used to the idea that the capacity for aberration and idiosyncracy is unlimited in any one individual.

A

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:18 PM

I like both.

Subject: RE: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:09 PM

Good question... seems to me the best show is some of both

:-)

Subject: Why do some singers resent tunes?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 15 Mar 04 - 12:07 PM

By that I mean instrumental tunes.
I like songs a lot and spend much time listening to, and occasionally performing them. I also play regularly at sessions and enjoy listening to purely instrumental music.
So why do some here seem incapable of appreciating both?

TTFN
PP