Well a long time ago I was warned about yer man with the short fuse. So I never did get involved with the thing. My sourcing of session data is all on the native grapevine, not on the internet, although that might work for off folks into the art.Conical bore wrote:I haven't had that experience on thesession.org. It's true that the flavor of the site has changed in recent years, due mainly to Jeremy's heavierFildafluter wrote:Thank you Terry. The mostly non-Irish membership will appreciate the notice when any have an order with Mike (RIP).Terry McGee wrote:I've placed a mention on The Session. Are there other places we should let people know?
But I keep off of it as I heard that the site has a reputation of abusing natives who annoy the owner Jeremy Keith. Quite the 'bully' I understand.
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Too, again pre-warned about the stuff on this session site, any odd tunes that need notes are got at http://abcnotation.com/learn.
Reports of hacking and personal abuse is what i heard about it; although, as you say the culprits are now all quieted down. But a bad name among the natives is hard to lose! As the saying goes you can take the man out of the bog, but you cannot take the bog out of the man. Or in the eloquent words of Winston Churchill speaking of a woman with a bad reputation.' once a whatever, always a whatever'.
A website genius maybe, but a good host most certainly not.
I'll get me hat.