Jam Report #19: 8/5/01
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annathepiperAs originally posted to the OKP. Transcribed to Livejournal 10/4/05.
No Tewsons, no Fred, no Monica; Paul is lead guitar again, and I play mandolin. Songs: "The Old Woman of Wexford" (new!), "Consequence Free".
A very small session this time -- we were down a full four of us, both Tewsons, Monica, and Fred. This meant that the attendees this time were pretty much all native denizens of the Murkworks, or in the case of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ssha (Cyn), residing close enough nearby for government work. ;) Our attendees therefore this time around were myself, solarbird (Dara), spazzkat (Paul), mamishka (Mimi), and Cyn.
The session was a short one compared to recent jams, but with many of us missing and Paul acting as lead (well, okay, ONLY) guitar for the first time in a while, we had to pretty much go by his playing stamina. And moreover, we couldn't really do serious takes of our biggest songs with half the group gone, so it was all good regardless.
This time around we tried another new song, "The Old Woman of Wexford". This one appears on a tape recently sent to me by Joey Payeur (thank you Joey!) of songs by the Irish Descendants and the Fables, and I was most delighted to discover that it was in fact in the songbooks I received for my last birthday. So for that matter were two other songs, "Rocky Road to Dublin" and "As I Roved Out", but we picked "The Old Woman of Wexford" on the grounds that it was in a key Paul could play and Mimi and Cyn liked the melody of it (or at least, as sung by the Fables on the aforementioned tape).
I was also most delighted that I actually knew ALL OF THE CHORDS for this ditty, so out came the mandolin! I tried to keep myself to playing very simply as Paul was being Alpha Instrument With Strings, but G, D, and A7 are all very simple chords on the mandolin so I was able to hit them with gusto and provide some accents here and there. That I actually managed to make a strum pattern was extremely satisfying!
We had a considerable amount of debate about various portions of the lyrics. Cyn had known this particular ditty already, and knew a different chorus from the one in the book AND from the one that the Fables sing on the tape. And multiple spots in the lyrics gave our singers a bit of consternation as they tried to figure out how to fit them into the rhythm of the song.
After we got done playing with this one, Mimi put in a request for us to do something that was somewhat familiar but not too familiar -- so back into Great Big Sea land we went. As I have not traditionally been a Keeper of the Chords in our group, we had to hunt around some to find some tabs for some of the GBS songs we hadn't done very often, and we wound up having to go onto the web in search of tabs for "Paddy Murphy". We found some (for the Road Rage version thereof, specifically), but wound up opting to do "Consequence Free" instead as, again, it was deemed easier to play (at least, once Paul realized he had his capo on the wrong fret and could in fact play the chords in the right key after all).
Since I don't know the mandolin bits of "Consequence Free" well enough yet, I punted back to the piccolo for this one -- and I have twiddles for this song anyway on the piccolo, so that was all very well and good. Over all we had some shakiness on the bridge, but Mimi put out some lovely rhythm on her doumbek (puts a different flavor into this ditty when you have a doumbek as your percussion), and some lovely warblings on "worry 'bout the fall" towards the end as well.
The pie: French silk. (Chocolate, for those of you who are unfamiliar with what French silk pie is.) Deemed nummy, though this Jam Reporter personally prefers a good key lime. ;)
Till next time,
Anna the Piper
No Tewsons, no Fred, no Monica; Paul is lead guitar again, and I play mandolin. Songs: "The Old Woman of Wexford" (new!), "Consequence Free".
A very small session this time -- we were down a full four of us, both Tewsons, Monica, and Fred. This meant that the attendees this time were pretty much all native denizens of the Murkworks, or in the case of
ssha (Cyn), residing close enough nearby for government work. ;) Our attendees therefore this time around were myself, solarbird (Dara), spazzkat (Paul), mamishka (Mimi), and Cyn.The session was a short one compared to recent jams, but with many of us missing and Paul acting as lead (well, okay, ONLY) guitar for the first time in a while, we had to pretty much go by his playing stamina. And moreover, we couldn't really do serious takes of our biggest songs with half the group gone, so it was all good regardless.
This time around we tried another new song, "The Old Woman of Wexford". This one appears on a tape recently sent to me by Joey Payeur (thank you Joey!) of songs by the Irish Descendants and the Fables, and I was most delighted to discover that it was in fact in the songbooks I received for my last birthday. So for that matter were two other songs, "Rocky Road to Dublin" and "As I Roved Out", but we picked "The Old Woman of Wexford" on the grounds that it was in a key Paul could play and Mimi and Cyn liked the melody of it (or at least, as sung by the Fables on the aforementioned tape).
I was also most delighted that I actually knew ALL OF THE CHORDS for this ditty, so out came the mandolin! I tried to keep myself to playing very simply as Paul was being Alpha Instrument With Strings, but G, D, and A7 are all very simple chords on the mandolin so I was able to hit them with gusto and provide some accents here and there. That I actually managed to make a strum pattern was extremely satisfying!
We had a considerable amount of debate about various portions of the lyrics. Cyn had known this particular ditty already, and knew a different chorus from the one in the book AND from the one that the Fables sing on the tape. And multiple spots in the lyrics gave our singers a bit of consternation as they tried to figure out how to fit them into the rhythm of the song.
After we got done playing with this one, Mimi put in a request for us to do something that was somewhat familiar but not too familiar -- so back into Great Big Sea land we went. As I have not traditionally been a Keeper of the Chords in our group, we had to hunt around some to find some tabs for some of the GBS songs we hadn't done very often, and we wound up having to go onto the web in search of tabs for "Paddy Murphy". We found some (for the Road Rage version thereof, specifically), but wound up opting to do "Consequence Free" instead as, again, it was deemed easier to play (at least, once Paul realized he had his capo on the wrong fret and could in fact play the chords in the right key after all).
Since I don't know the mandolin bits of "Consequence Free" well enough yet, I punted back to the piccolo for this one -- and I have twiddles for this song anyway on the piccolo, so that was all very well and good. Over all we had some shakiness on the bridge, but Mimi put out some lovely rhythm on her doumbek (puts a different flavor into this ditty when you have a doumbek as your percussion), and some lovely warblings on "worry 'bout the fall" towards the end as well.
The pie: French silk. (Chocolate, for those of you who are unfamiliar with what French silk pie is.) Deemed nummy, though this Jam Reporter personally prefers a good key lime. ;)
Till next time,
Anna the Piper