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Bootsy
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Date Posted: 03:57:51 08/28/05 Sun
In reply to:
DSO Sound Guy
's message, "On Reviews, Positive & Negative - From A Hippie" on 12:00:33 08/27/05 Sat
Here, Here DSO sound guy. I only wish that Rob could have gotten a chance to rean my very logical, thought out and honest replies to his post. I grew up surrounded by nothing but Dead Heads and Punks in the 80's. Mis sister and her friends being punks and me and mine being Dead Heads and you would not believe how many Punks I took personally to a Dead show sooner or later or how many punks to me to a Misfits or Agnostic Front (close friend was drummer) or Madball or Samhain shows that I went willingly to. No matter whether you think I am an asshole or not. The stuff these people pulled was wrong and really says something about the type of people the DSO are really attracting. All you D.J. DSO fans, hope to see you at the RatDog show and House of Blues, maybe you'll see what it's really all about. Peace and thanks again. PS Hopefully you guys can find a way to pull my comments so Rob can at least personally read them. I'd be more than happy to discuss any of my comments or anything else with Rob. -Bootsy
>I find it disturbing that fans of this band cannot
>seem to accept that some people don't enjoy what we
>do... while enthusiasm is appreciated by us all (in
>the band), there are going to be times where the music
>just doesn't reach out through us in particular to
>certain individuals, and no matter what that person
>thinks we should try to be more tollerant and perhaps
>even turn an ear towards the nay-sayers in an effort
>to further sharpen our act... the reviews page is not
>a place where only good things can be said, it's a
>place for people to exchange ideas and feelings...
>
>I didn't get the chance to read everything this guy
>wrote because we were out on the road when the post
>was put up, but I gotta say I'm almost MORE offended
>that someone went and cut'n'pasted their blather over
>and over and over just to try and blot this one
>person's opinions out... that, my friends, is
>CENCORSHIP... and it pains me greatly to think that we
>as hippies are so close-minded and intollerant that we
>can't allow such views to coexsist with our own.
>That's not how the hippie elders taught ME to be when
>I joined the family back in 1981, a punker with a
>spiked wrist band who just wanted to fight with
>everyone around me (and... uh... often LOSE said
>engagement... heh heh).
>
>Why do we fear someone who hates what we're about so
>much? And do we think that such opinions (expressed
>where said opinions are supposed to belong - a REVIEW
>PAGE) are going to bring us down, or ruin our buzz,
>just because they exsist? Are we (as Dead or DSO fans)
>really so insecure?
>
>I don't think so.
>
>I didn't get to read all of the nasty comments this
>guy made but I heard about a few of them... and so
>what? Plenty of people think I'm an asshole, and a lot
>of other people view me as a Sonic Saint. Which is it?
>Well, if you ask Lisa our vocalist on any given day,
>you might get either answer and neither of them would
>be 100% correct... it's a perception, and she's
>welcome to form whichever she feels (sorry Lisa, I'm
>not picking on you but I needed an example) at the
>time...
>
>... I WILL say that I'm kind of glad we're not
>floating every listener's boat... I'm glad to be
>pissing a few people off playing music that "isn't
>mine", because the Grateful Dead did that very same
>thing throughout their entire career ("I Fought The
>Law"?) and they still carry out that mission as
>splinter cells to this very day (or did I just imagine
>the name "Scratch-Dog" around the scene when Bobby
>added turntables to his act?)
>
>As a member of this gathering, I am heartened by the
>fact that there are people out there who love what we
>do... but I'm also a bit put off by the rabid nature
>and paving over perceived cracks by a few individuals
>who can't take some criticism at the object of their
>affection... the self-appointed cencors of the review
>page are wearing blinders just as bad as the person
>they are so desperately trying to muffle...
>
>You don't change anything by simply "making it go
>away". Hard attitudes and strong attacks are not fun
>to endure, but they can be met with intelligence
>rather than brute strength or totalitarian-state style
>cencorship.
>
>Just my two-cents,
>
>~Cameron~
>DSO Sound Engineer & Trained Monkey
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