Joerg Froese’s eighty-six comments
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Re: Bodhrans: There oughta be a law
The only law (better: rule) for bodhr more…
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Re: What is a musician?
A definition of music by one of my professors back from my studying days was: "Music is organized noise!" He was quite well-known as a composer in the scene of "Modern Music", electronic stuff and things like that. The university was very proud to have hi... more…
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Re: Practice makes perfect. How do you do it?
No need to apologize, Barney. Actually I was thankful you mentioned it. Being a teacher myself -- free lance though, to make some pocket money for when times get rough, it just reminded me of one of my faults: forgetting to mention things because they are... more…
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Re: Practice makes perfect. How do you do it?
Update on my former post: more…
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Re: Practice makes perfect. How do you do it?
Tiny more…
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An Incident During a Session
Place: The Sidmouth Folk Festival more…
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Re: Can blue men sing the whites, or: Can cloggies play ITM?
After all I know about the wanderings of some of the tunes, starting out in Sweden, Norway, Chechoslovakia, Brittany, from all over Europe, ending up as Irish tunes, sometimes even taking the long detour through the U.S.A., I more…
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Re: Session etiquette: what to do when a guitar-player just won’t keep quiet?
Point taken, Will. And I (hopefully not surprisingly) agree with you. If at our session somebody started ordering people when to join in and where to leave out, I more…
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Re: Wading into the shark-infested waters
Hi Thomas, more…
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Re: Session etiquette: what to do when a guitar-player just won’t keep quiet?
Can somebody please tell me where this strange idea that one has to play all the time comes from? What is it? Kind of a status symbol? Do you need it for your ego? "I know 99.9 % of all the tunes played in my session and you know only 75. I am the better ... more…