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John Kadlecik
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Date Posted: 13:58:10 08/31/05 Wed
To Bootsy, Rob E, Cameron, and anyone participating in the current flame war:
Here's how I feel in a nutshell: if everyone in the world like d the same thing, it would be a BORING f****n' world! A lesson I learned from my mother, a moderately successful abstract expressionist visual artist, is that NO art is good or bad. You either like it, or you don't.
As far as copying styles go, I consider it to be the post-modern equivalent to oral tradition. Its easy to render songs into chord changes, lyric, and melody, (and btw only lyric and melody are copywriteable), but to understand a musician or groups style takes a pretty serious ear and is nearly impossible to translate to a written form. I compare what we do in DSO to what Old and in the Way did with bluegrass. Many people think of bluegrass as a "traditional" style, but it is actually Bill Monroe's (and to some degree the Stanley Brothers' and Flatt and Skruggs') style of folk music, derived itself from old-timey, Irish, gospel, and blues styles. And while Old and in the Way as a band only lasted year and half or so, the record was the best selling bluegrass record of all time untill "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou" was released a few years ago.
As far as censorship goes, shouting down a "troll" on a discussion board is not censorship, although it is playing right into the hands of the "troll." Censorship would be if the site moderator just deleted the offending post. Internet "newbies" (ie anyone who first logged on after AOL added html and the WWW to its offerings around '94-'95) would be well served here to refresh their understanding of "netiquette." Remember, folks, that e-mail, message boards, irc, and ftp have been around since the 60's actually, and tech-savvy Deadheads have been using them since the early 80's (check the history of Berkely's GD ftp site and the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link - the "WELL").
Anyway, don't forget to have fun with it!
Peace,
John Kadlecik
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