For swing dancers, we wanted to keep it as innuendo-laden as possible, so we wrote it as "swingers", but it didn't scan well, and wasn't tremendously understandable or easy to enunciate at fight speed. So, we moved it to "dancers"... and we re-wrote all the lyrics to match things that swing dancers do: Mountain Dew instead of Irish stew, "there's even dancers in a cuddle puddle on the hardwood floor", "dancers hanging from the big-ass fan" (no joke, we have a fan with about a 12-foot diameter in our main venue whose brand is, literally, Big Ass Fan (http://www.bigassfans.com/)), and a couple inside jokes specific to our event. We started it off with a couple of pirate jokes, and I came out wearing a pirate hook on one hand - luckily, we found the actual hand hidden beneath it before I had to play :-) If you go back about 20 or 30 photos on Facebook, I've been tagged in a few holding a guitar - that was that day. And there's one of a few of our dancers doing the "We're not worthy" bowing in front of us, which was a blast!
And yes.. I'm a big fan of drums / drumming / good drum circles, but I totally get the "dirty hippie" issue. As a bodhran and bones player, I run into it at ceilidh / sessions, because after Riverdance happened *EVERYONE* wanted to play, and anyone can bang a drum with a stick. So, I bring my fiddle first, and then the bodhran later - they seem to trust that I won't be abysmal if I demonstrate that I can actually play first, you know?
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Date: 2012-08-23 04:57 am (UTC)And yes.. I'm a big fan of drums / drumming / good drum circles, but I totally get the "dirty hippie" issue. As a bodhran and bones player, I run into it at ceilidh / sessions, because after Riverdance happened *EVERYONE* wanted to play, and anyone can bang a drum with a stick. So, I bring my fiddle first, and then the bodhran later - they seem to trust that I won't be abysmal if I demonstrate that I can actually play first, you know?