[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 7, Issue 34

[Butch Thompson]

On 7/13/03 3:28 AM, "dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com"
<dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com> wrote:

> And all this fodder feeds the MYTH of what a GREAT BAND they were or are
> still purported to be, at best they were barely adequate players consisting of
> unemployed musicians with no place else to work, because of habits and
> problems, 
> or not being good enough to play in the working bands around New Orleans and
> road bands.

Tom, if you weren't at Preservation Hall during the 1960s, you are
unqualified to make this comment.

Butch Thompson