[Dixielandjazz] Uniforms - Public Perception

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

That pretty much says it like it is Steve:

I keep getting comments on what my band is doing playing to younger 
audiences around the globe, and one of the best compliments I have seen 
in print yet comes from a list that is full of Rocker bands and 
Electronica and Rappers, and Hip Hoppers and Holy Hip Hoppers  (The 
Christian Ones).

They constantly post things like wow "YOU Old GUYS REALLY ROCK"   "You 
Guys are Awesome" and Can We be your opening ACT?

I promote us on that list as a "Heavy Metal Band"  and tell them to add 
up the weight of all the brass instruments and if it ain't heavy I'll 
carry their Brother.  :))

Kids are starving for good music and will embrace OKOM if it is just 
put in front of them.

Your recent College dates clearly prove that, so maybe guys like us 
should just stop preaching to the Choir and let them wallow in their 
own self pity.   For the most part when guys like you and I and Mike 
get on the soap box they just ignore us as BSing bores or worse.

The Public Perception of Dixieland is indeed what we have been 
referring to in the past few days, and which our esteemed  friend Bob 
Ringwald pointed out about the laughing and making fun of the IMAGE of 
Dixieland as you explained it becoming Tiresome.

There was a time in history that this music was indeed respected Highly 
in many social circles, and the fact that it has sunk to it's current 
low point is the fault of non other than the practitioners and 
revivalist preservationist of the genre.  Perhaps that is the problem 
in a nutshell  "It is currently being Preserved by the Revivalist"   
hummm!!!  never thought about that before:!!  Perhaps they are actually 
preserving what never existed but merely their own recreation of what 
they thought existed.

Well Bob the problem that many folks don't seem to understand is that 
you are absolutely correct about that Tiresome idea, unfortunately the 
image of Dixieland and the music that so many Dixieland Bands play 
these days simply fits that description to a T.   Tiresome, and you are 
not going to turn on any new younger audiences or masses with that 
attitude and sound.

If ya'll continue with that attitude and simply go about pacifying the 
older and unfortunately dying off generation with the same old same old 
mediocre stuff year after year, you will indeed see the market simply 
dry up and disappear, especially in the USA which is the land of 
instant Gratification and a never ending desire for What's New?

Cheers,

Tom "Getting to old to fight" Wiggins

Also getting too old to keep trying to teach Old Dogs new tricks,  I 
have finally been convinced that they simply don't want to know any new 
tricks, even the ones they should have learned forty years ago.



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:58:23 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Uniforms -  Public Perception

    I guess there was more interest in these threads than we first 
thought. Here
by way of wrap up are my opinions:

Uniforms: