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Date Posted: 12:10:53 09/03/05 Sat
In reply to:
Bootsy
's message, "Re: Just my two cents" on 22:13:58 08/31/05 Wed
LOOOOOOOONNGGG story real short now:
He sees that there IS talent on stage, quite a lot in fact, but disagrees with the premise that is DSO with (many) shows' seltlist being predetermined and all the other trimmings (sound, EQ, placing of the players, etc). It is simply a difference of opinion and taste and now it can be all over. I know it's not for I have about a hundred posts to read - see what happens when you don't check this site for a couple days - and it won't be in the future, but that's really the BOTTOM LINE. All the mean hurtful jabs and roundhouses, from he and people trying to defend the band, will hopefully dwindle down to nothing very soon. We can pay attention to more important things (N.O.) or at least OTHER things. Though I got to admit this has been fun :)
Nice post JK, by the way. I said many of the very same things to him (regarding music/borrowing/stealing/etc), although not nearly as well nor as detailed.
So now what? To pass the time, how 'bout a lateral thinking problem. A woman was washing dishes when she placed her wedding ring on the window sill. She accidentally hit it with a towel and watched it fall out, barely. It almost stayed on the edge. Anyhow, she didn't make any effort to retrieve it because she knew that she, nor anyone, would probably EVER find it. WHY?
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>I don't see the comparison between you guys and Old &
>In The Way. Sorry. I'm very familiar with the fact
>that Bluegrass was the creation of Bill Monroe and
>then spun off into the Flat & Skruggs, Stanley's etc.
>However, when Flat & Skruggs , the Stanley's etc
>played, they generally played all original material
>and basically helped to create the genre. This is
>kind of like comparing yourself to Little Richard,
>Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins. Did any one of them
>really create Rock 'n Roll? Yeah and honestly I'm not
>sure which one, (haha at least I'm honest), but just
>like Monroe, Stanley's and F&S they more or less
>created the genre together. While O&ITW played
>bluegrass standards in bluegrass style they stepped
>out of the basic solos and rocked them a little. It
>sounds like you're pretty familiar with Bluegrass so
>I'm sure that you'll agree with that. That being
>said, I don't see you guys doing the same thing with
>the Dead's music if that's the point you are trying to
>make and the comparison you are trying to draw. My
>friends feel the same way. As my good friend posted
>here and I'm paraphrasing...You guys are talented and
>you're playing fantastic music with incredible
>improvisational possibilities. Why not open the door
>and step out and explore them. If you think that you
>guys are taking the GD's music and doing with it what
>Jerry, Peter, Dawg, Kahn and Clemmens did with the
>Bluegrass standards I would have to say that is a bad
>rational. Jerry was not as good of a banjo picker as
>Earl Skruggs, but he didn't try to play his exact
>solos either.
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>I really have no comment on the censorship thing. I
>was censored. Some people here washed the site of my
>response to Rob shortly after I posted it, by posting
>over and over until it was gone.
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>John honestly I think you guys can play your asses
>off. I think you are real Dead Heads and I think you
>play from the heart. But I still think you guys take
>it WAY too far and the merchandising and setlist thing
>is still very Beatlmania to me. Sorry. If you guys
>want to take th Dead's music and do what Old & In The
>Way did then do that, but if you think you are doing
>that now, I think you need to step back and re-examine
>your approach. Just my 2 cents. Hopefully some of
>you will make it to th RatDog show at HOBAC
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