I remember hearing (I think from Blayne) that we were going to try and see if we could put the GORT sessions in some kind of digitized format so we could pass them around for learning purposes etc? Any word on getting this done? Anyone spoken with any of the attendees? Kevin Crawford et. all?
Bump?
I assume this is the 1991 session tape from Kelly’s Bar in Gort, Co. Galway, with Conor Tully, Tonny Linnane, Kevin Crawford, Padraic McDonacha, Terence O’Reilly, and Frank McGann?
If so, one great benefit of getting this more widely distributed would be to have more people playing The Green Mountain the way it used to be played 
Everyone nowadays seems to play the Matt Molloy version, in which the turn is very similar to that of the Vincent Broderick tune, The Tinker’s Daughter. I even play it that way myself, caving in to peer pressure, but prefer the old way…and that’s the way they play it on this recording.
Well, I learned my version from Mike McHale, which in turn learned it from… I don’t know! I doubt it’s Matt M. though 
Hmmm, I play both Tinker’s dtr and the green mountain (I didn’t know I played the green mountain but I found out I can play it). The two A parts are quite different but the B’s are very similiar. Perhaps Brad could record the old green mountain to clear up any confusion!
Hi,
style and arange the tune to your own liking, but make sure to keep it within tha traditional realm, if we all were told that we had to play a tune exactly as it was played on a recording, i would put my flute away and never play againn, i get a great kick out of arranging and styling a tune to suit my liking,
Happy to oblige! Actually I already had a rather amusing recording from a few years back, playing this tune on my Bb Wilkes on the day I received my minidisc recorder in the mail…I was testing it out with my sound system and playing around with some way-out reverb effects just for fun. And then after the Green Mountain I went into Swinging on a Gate but stumbled and, well, the ending is just too silly.
The B parts of Green Mountain and Tinker’s Daughter are indeed very similar, but in the “old way” of playing the Green Mountain there’s a place in the first few bars of the B part where it goes down…that doesn’t happen in the Tinker’s Daughter. You’ll hear it here on the MP3.
Better yet (much, much better, in fact), I’ve posted a clip from the above-mentioned Gort session with the Green Mountain in full swing. I love the sound of Kevin’s flute here.
Woof!
Listening to that just made me very happy! It would be great to be able to hear the rest of it.
-Kelly
Great playing Brad! What a lovely flute should it be.
Victor.
So… Why don’t I do this… I’ll post it (and divide all the sets into separate tracks) and put it on our media player… that way you can listen, rewind, etc… If Kevin emails and tells me to take it off then I’ll gladly oblige! It is a great resource… A fiddler friend of mine and I are learning the whole session… Dminor tunes and all (yuck…) 
Is that your Bb Wilkes, Brad?
It’s a nice flute (if that’s the one it is) . . . I’ve tooted on it myself.
Stuart
The very same. Boxwood with an unlined headjoint.
I recorded that bit about five years ago and I suppose I would play it a bit differently now, less “smooth” and more articulated, since my playing style has been heading in that direction.
But I’d still say “yeah” at the end.
Well Brad, I’m sorry to say I do/did not play it the old way but don’t hold it against me cause I never sat down to actually learn that tune. I just played it from memory and what was in my head so blame my subconsious hehe. Nice clips, you do some jazzy McGoldrick stuff in there towards the end of the A part that don’t do either (thankfully ). Thanks for the clips.
PS. remind me to have you lilt me some tunes like that next time we meet.
S’aright, hardly anyone in North America plays it the old way!
I’m mortified to hear that I did something McGoldricky; I’ll give my flute a good coat of geezer grease to make sure that never happens again
But we must realize what an act of selflessness it is for Jack to admit he’s not playing a tune the old, or should I say, orthodox way.
Heh.
Stuart
Stuart, you might be shocked if you heard me play that tune. I recorded it for eld the other day and he said it was the standard way of playing the tune and that I sounded very Molloyish. Scarey, I too will have to coat my flute with geezer grease this evening.
I do, and I get funny looks for doing it. I prefer it. I managed to get a couple of people to come along, but majority rules and all that craic.
I have just about worn my Gort session tape out and would love to see someone digitalize it. Until someone does I only have one thing to say:
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO
