The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59282   Message #943771
Posted By: Ebbie
30-Apr-03 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: Bad Manners at Sessions, Singarounds
Subject: RE: Bad Manners at Sessions, Singarounds
Bee-dubya-ell,what kind was it? :)

Assuming that when someone suggests a song, they want you to lead it. On occasion I play with an older man with a LOUD voice and a large repertoire; I also play with a fairly diffident man with a lovely but QUIET voice and a tremendous store of songs and remembered lyrics- when the quiet man begins a song and most of us back off our instruments so we can hear him, the loud man barrels in- worse yet, if he doesn't remember the lyrics he makes up his own...

Some other types of behavior one hopes that time and age will improve. Recently, a couple of young girls (16 and 18) have joined us- which is very nice- but the 16 year old hasn't quite grasped the etiquette. One night she said to a banjo player, 'For this next song, I'll have to use your banjo.' BP said, startled, Wha...? She said, 'You don't mind, do you? I always play banjo on this song.' He said, 'Oh. Oh. No, of course not', and handed it over while the rest of us looked on a bit flabbergasted.


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