Back when I was a regular at the Saturday afternoon blues jam sessions at Archie Edwards Barber Shop there would usually be anywhere from 20 to 30 musicians playing all kinds of instruments... One any given Saturday there would be 5 or so folks who were just passing thru Washington, D.C. who had heard of the jam session and wanted to see what it was all about... Now jam sessions, like life in general, can be kinda tricky and the goal was for everyone to feel welcome and to feel they had had an opportunity to lead a song or have a solo or something to take away from the experience...

Now some folks would show thinking that they were the very best blues player in the world when in reality they were quite average... Kinda like the small pond/big pond concept... The barbershop was the big pond... It was all but impossible to stop the jam every Saturday and point out the concepts of "blending", "sharing", "tuning", etc to new comers so what we did when we had someone come in thinking that they were the biggest fish in a big pond was do a song entitled "It Ain't All About You"... I mean, just the sound of 20 folks playing and singing those words usually took care of that situation without actually confronting the player who needed to realize that he or she was now playing in the big pond...

'Nuff said...

B~