This snobbery seems to be taken as the rights of good to great players in their quest to play with those on their own level, BULLSHIT. If it's an open session then everyone plays & all are welcome. I started off playing drum maybe 25 years ago in sessions around Boston one of the few Irish hot beds at the time along with NYC, San Francisco, Philly & the Windy City. Alot of the players were from the old Dudley ST sessions, Joe Durane, Larry Reynolds, Seamus Connelly, Paddy Cronion. When these sessions later went to the old Village Coach House in Brookline Village many of the younger players continued as regulars & brought in the likes of (while touring) the Bothy Band, Silly Wizard, Ossian & what could go on to be a very long list. While all these great players jammed they ALWAYS got those of lesser talent to pull up & not hold back, I was one of those. Seamus Connelly (the great Clare Fiddler) used to call over to take the drum out from under the tabe & let's hear it. These same players still play at the Green Briar in Brighton & still pull those not quite as good out into the light and to find Joe Darane, Seamus Connelly, Johnny Cunningham & Paddy Cronion playing in the same session with the rest would not be far from unusual. If these world class musicians find playing with the not so classy to be the only style then how could one as myself be a snob about it, much less if I did anything but to encourage someone, then I feel as if I would never be worthy of sitting in on a session, EVER, after what I'd gotten from those before me. Barry