It isn't no-brainers, bullshit or generalising. There are those of us, existing in droves, who have played traditional music for decades, been blighted by enthusiastic but completely bloody useless bodhranistas who think they're the dog's danglies and who, in all that time, have not once come upon one who is even half competent, let alone an asset. Bodhran players who claim to be good at it are like dog owners who claim that their dogs never shit.