[Dixielandjazz] Quitting

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Perhaps Kaye and some of the others  on the list who are chiming in 
with her statement or in support of it  are getting post that the rest 
of us are for some reason not receiving,  apparently trashing other 
musicians, but something must be terribly wrong with the Djml system if 
that is the case, because I have not seen ANY SUCH posts.   And quite 
Frankly when I got the one posted by Kaye I was having a hard time 
understanding what it was even about.

Perhaps I missed a bunch of posts, but I keep my computers on 24/7 and 
monitor the DJML as I work so I don't miss much if it come in on DJML.

Just my observation,

And as far as I am concerned, ANY OKOM musician or bandleader that has 
a consistent record of 160 -200 paid verifiable  gigs a year has earned 
the right to have it be about HIM.  That after all folks is how the 
Legends became legends, by working 200 paid gigs a year and more.  I do 
not envy Mr.Barbone, at all, I just wish the West Coast Market for OKOM 
was once again as lucrative as the East Coast is, and it damned well 
could be if more folks would do what Mr. Barbone does to promote it and 
sell it rather than sit around and pretend to be preserving it and 
keeping the music alive.  If Turk Murphy would have done it Barbone's 
way he would not have gone out of business either.

Folks the Music is ALIVE it is many of the practitioners that are DEAD 
and needing to be preserved.

I have heard the same B.S. for years about the BLUES and Blues 
Societies are still using the same old BS slogans, Keeping the Blues 
Alive.   Hell  the Blues have never been so poplar in History and 
certainly not because of Blues Societies, notoriously started and run 
by well meaning  folks who just want to get drunk and hear the Blues 
for cheap money so they can have more to spend on Booze.   Great Blues 
artist like B.B. King who earns $75,000.00 a show is what's keeping the 
Blues Alive Folks by taking it to new and younger audiences every day 
all around the world and mostly on JAZZ festivals too.  Hell Blues has 
been keeping Jazz alive for at least thirty years now.  Wake UP !!  It 
sells the tickets.

Tom Wiggins in the dark again. :))

-----Original Message-----
From: Kaye Wade <kaye at kayewade.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:34:52 -0700
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Quitting

   No, Steve Barbone, it's about you. 
 
  On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:00 PM, dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com 
wrote: 
 
 > 
 > 10. Unfamous Musicians? Trashing? (Steve barbone) 
 > 
  > Gee, I don't know Kaye. Vito Musso was just about always famous here 
> in the 
  > East USA. Ditto for Fire House Five. They were both revered. 
However, > George 
 > Rock does indeed elude me. Maybe faulty memory. 
 > 
 > I don't see much "trashing" going on either. 
 > 
 > Cheers, 
 > Steve Barbone 
 > 
  > PS. IMO this is a great list . . . lots of info . . . lots of ideas 
. . 
  > lots of fun. It helps to remember that it is not about who/what each 
> of us 
  > is individually. For those who are disturbed by the list content 
from > time 
 > to time consider the following Musical Content: "You're So Vain, You 
 > Probably Think This Song Is About You." Well, it isn't about you. 
 > 
 
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