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Bob
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Date Posted: 20:26:57 08/29/05 Mon
In reply to:
DSO Sound Guy
's message, "On Reviews, Positive & Negative - From A Hippie" on 12:00:33 08/27/05 Sat
>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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