<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Theriot</b> <<a href="mailto:kentheriot@ravenboymusic.com">kentheriot@ravenboymusic.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><</span></font>1. Good
Bards. You can make do with OK Bards, but too many BAD Bards can ruin a
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh, Robert. I was going to stay away from this one, but since you
bring it up….:)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><Snipping of much good stuff></span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kenneth </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br> What to do with Bad Bards is a tough one for which I haven't got an easy answer. We all know that there are Great Bards and Good Bards as well as Fair and Poor Bards. And then there are really BAD "Bards". The kind that are just torture to listen to.
<br> I never have the heart to tell them that they are just terrible, but you don't want to tell them that they are good either. or they will just keep performing, thinking that they are doing a good thing. <br> You can try to help them improve, and it often doesn't take much to raise a BAD bard to a poor one. But first you have to negotiate the minefield of making them understand that they really do need to improve. But even then you still have a poor bard to listen to, and it's not something you can really deal with during a circle. A good circle can survive one bad bard, but if you get several you either put up with it , or ask them as diplomatically as possible not to perform anymore.
<br> You could try and steer them away from singing, but a bad story can be just as terrible as a bad song and much longer. (Bad stories always seem to be long.)<br> There's no easy answer that I know. We're there to have fun and listening to bad bards is not fun, but neither is hurting people's feelings.
<br> In practice we tend to just put up with it and use the time when they are performing to get another drink and go to the bathroom. <br><br> It's not a problem that comes up frequently though. I still think the biggest challenge to having a good circle is that too many people are day tripping events and leaving site right after feast. Especially when feast runs till 11:00
<br><br><br>Robert<br> </div></div><br>-- <br>"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." John A. Wheeler<br><br><a href="mailto:Fitzmorgan@gmail.com">Fitzmorgan@gmail.com
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