If you're a bodhram player & you want to play at sessions make sure that the musicians around have a decent sense of timing. It's a pain when the guy playing guitar on one side of you thinks that everyone's playing a march & the gal to the other side of you is playing a polka & the rest of the group is actually a slide. Then there's your one on the long neck mandolin who doesn't know that the strings need to be streched in order to get something close to what sounds similar to a cord. One fiddle is really nice but really 12 of them with four trying to bounce harmony off each other & two of the others on speed, spare me, please. Then you got the yobos on the accordians doing ommpaa all nite & what's really bothersome is the concertina players all competing with the accordians for volume & they're can't find seats so they look like they're playing horizontal yoyo's, while the 2 pipers act as if they're playing pigs, tune up why don't you & then you got some flute player drooling on your drum & god I hate that cause I have to stop, clean off the drum head, retune, geeze get a grip.

Us bodhran players are getting sick & tired of getting the piss taken out of us. So to the rest of you musicians who feel as if you've got the high almighty job of telling us drummers what to play & how to play it, tend to your own instruments. You don't see us trying to tell you how & when to play an instrument that we don't play ourselves, you don't hear us trying to jump in & lead off the session every other tune or two or three & you won't catch us trying to speed up the rest of you, no, we're the one trying to hold to all toghter for you when that happens. Is it our fault that no one can hear the singers, we usually will hold back while the rest of the group drowns them out but do tell you guys to stop playing & get in your face, no. And aren't we the only musicians that take turns with each other, knowing that to many bodhrans can spoil the soup but you think it's ok to play 6 guitars, 12 fiddles, 3 flutes, 4 penny, whistles, 2 pipes, 7 accordians & 3 concertias.
All that being said, we really do enjoy playing with the rest of you & we like the fact that you all enjoy the puch & drive that we add to the music. But don't diss us, look what we've done to those African sessions, they're now known as drumming circles & those Native American sessions, drummers & singers only, maybe 1 or 2 flutes.

Thank you all for the kind remarks & the well needed words of advice, we so greatful for your guidence & informative instructions
& if you happen to see us at a session please feel free to buy us a drink or show us how hold a beater or apply pressure to the back side of the skin. Now go back to playing on your own & blow your nose or pick your teeth or kindly scratch your ass or squeeze, squeak or squeal whatever it is that you play so divinely.

With tounge in cheek (flutists you can fire now)

Barry