GUEST,Dave
>the demolition of a number of beautiful songs by over-bearing metronomically-perfect playing by the sessionists, over the top (round, through and underneath) of the singers.<

Speaking as an instrumentalist and (I hope) musician, where does this happen? I want to be able to avoid it. It would never occur to me to join in uninvited instrumentally with a singer. I've never heard it happen around here (Sussex).

weelittledrummer
>there are positives - you can have a chat, while they are diddly dee-ing, which isn't so easy when someone is singing.<

And don't they just. Singers will listen with rapt attention to the most mediocre vocalist but will cheerfully talk over any instrumentalist no matter how good generally talking louder to be heard over the "noise". Show US a little respect too please.