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Thread #128898 Message #2889573
Posted By: SteveMansfield
19-Apr-10 - 03:18 AM
Thread Name: Do folk people like the Bodhran?
Subject: RE: Do folk people like the Bodhran?
John Jo Kelly playing bodhran in Flook or the Michael McGoldrick band, a brilliant and appropriate contribution.
Acutely dysrhythmic egomaniac, over-enthusiastically belabouring a £99 bodhran in a variable-speed approximation of the off-beat whilst someone's trying to play a slow air .... not so good.
There isn't a musical instrument in the world that can't be played extraordinarily badly and/or in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's just that a noticeable proportion of bodhran owners seem to think that the previous statement doesn't apply to them.