Eggs and Sessions

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 08:50 PM

I favour returning the said egg to the place from whence it came, but seeing as how we don't have a plastic chicken, your orifices will have to do.

LTS

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 08:39 PM

How about just taking him aside and diplomatically explaining the problem to him? Ask him to lower the volume and listen carefully for the beat.

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: Dead Horse
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 02:20 PM

Arrange for a cooking pot atop a primus stove to be placed prominently within the music circle.
Attach a sign reading *Eggs to be placed in here*.
If said percussionist doesn't get the message, THEN use violence.

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: WyoWoman
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:40 PM

You think YOU got troubles? We have a guy who persists in bringing an entire CONGA drum to our community jams. This wouldn't be terribly awful, on certain songs and in certain ways, if he could actually, like, find the beat.

HowEVer, this is a community jam and the purpose is to encourage people to participate in music, so ... nobody tells him not to bring the damned drum. I have, however, motioned for him to be quiet a few times, or slapped loudly on my thigh (resisted urge to slap loudly on his very head) to get him to hear the beat.

I agree with Chip though that subtle egg-playing or various other rhythm instruments can be nice -- depending on the sort of music the jam is doing. And this truly is a matter of education. Hell, I took a tambourine to MY first jam a few years back -- my only previous experience with group music was rock jams and bands many years back and that was perfectly appropriate. I took a clue, however, from the group and didn't make that mistake again. Unfortunately, some people don't seem to be able to take cues from their surroundings and eliminate behaviors that don't work, don't fit or are just completely frickin' annoying.

The Lord puts these people in our jams to teach us patience, generosity and humility.

Thank you,
Sister Wyo

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:39 PM

AND - another thing.....
did you know that you can buy a set of THREE shaky eggs in a tube - which gives you triple the volume!!!!!!!!!!

:@)

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:36 PM

Its christmas - perhaps you could buy the owner a new (quieter) egg?? (this may not sound like it, but it is a serious thought).

Kris

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: Noreen
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:33 PM

'Listener' in a session with a fried egg on his head.
ced2:       "Why have you got a fried egg on your head?"
'Listener': "I tried it with my shaky egg but it kept rolling off"
(Well, it is the season for cracker humour?)

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: chip a
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:30 PM

Sometimes they keep the beat just fine. If not overly loud, I don't mind at all. A young spoons (wooden) player shows up at a couple of local jams. I'm always happy to see him. He's very good and tends to pull stragglers back onto the beat. I heard a clawhammer banjo picker with an egg in his right hand as he played. This guy was a good banjo picker and he made the egg work just fine.
If the egg person is off the beat though, I think the best remedy is to kill him/her and hang the body outside as a subtle warning to others.

:-),
Chip

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 12:13 PM

I was once accompanied on "Aunt Clara" by a female chorus (the Claranettes?) with Slinkies.

Sigh.

Eggs are no worse than out-of-rhythm handclappers (by far the most common), "listeners" who bring tambourines (fer-pete's-sake) to a session, and the occasional clue-less bodhran player who thumps along merrily to a different beat.

My image is of Tom stomping over, grabbing the tambourine and breaking it across his knee, but I don't think he actually DID that. (Wanted to.)

Is education an option?

Linn

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 11:42 AM

LOL

:@)

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: Declan
Date: 23 Dec 02 - 11:19 AM

The traditional method is to hit the egg on the top hard with a tea-spoon until the shell breaks into small fragments and then use a knife to remove the top.

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 06:18 PM

Hammers are nice, but how much more satisfying would it be if you just put on a pair of heavy boots, military or engineer, and stomped on it?

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: banjomad (inactive)
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 05:07 PM

Yeah John but on the player not the egg.
Peace and goodwill to all, Dave

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 03:16 PM

I have been "accompanied" by egg on a rousing version I did of James Taylor's "Close Your Eyes".

I sympathize.

The 4lb hammer sounds about right.

Subject: RE: Eggs and Sessions
From: banjomad (inactive)
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 03:09 PM

nameless good friend now recommends, 1. scrammbling, 2. superglueing to the table or possibly making the unnamed egg shaker an offer he can't refuse ie. death by banjo.
many blessings on you ced2.

Subject: Eggs and Sessions
From: ced2
Date: 22 Dec 02 - 02:42 PM

Advice required please. How does one deal with an egg in a session? Not the useful sort of egg that can be fried, boiled or poached. This type is the sort that gets shaken, most frequently out of time, and at a volume that is just sufficient to put musicians off their timing. I had thought that a 4lb lump hammer was an idea, but my good friend (who shall remain nameless) advises this is a touch on the crude side. He thought that a 1.5lb engineers ball pein hammer would suffice. Any better ideas?