[Dixielandjazz] EVERYBODY seems to have missed it!

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Bill:

  Good Post, and some of us did read it and did not miss the point, even 
if we got suckered into commenting on only one aspect of it. Sorry 
about that. This subject indeed deserves deeper and longer attention 
spans, which are often not functional on this great list of often 
contankerous folks.

My Daddy once told me to " Never try to teach a Pig to sing"  "You will 
only frustrate yourself and annoy the Pig"

I sure wish I had  paid more attention to that good advise:

Hence, I will not belabor this worthy subject upon these hallowed pages 
lest I PISS off the two or three remaining friends I have made here.  
:))

That is why the Ken Burns series generated so much interest and gave 
Jazz a another long over due and needed, shot in the arm, there was no 
good new music coming, so it was time indeed to go back and visit the 
roots and start it all over again.  Too bad so many missed the whole 
idea.   Fortunately some of us did not and are enjoying the results and 
playing to bigger and younger audiences all the time.    There is life 
after Geritol and before it too if you go look for it.  :))

I gotta go finish writing my new hit OKOM song,  "Viagra Boogie"

Just watched the disgusting parade of no talent auditions on American 
Idol,  That alone explains your post.

Maybe the IAJE could start a show like that so we could see all the 
great Musicians they have turned out in the past forty years.

Cheers,   It's your turn lad ,  give em Hell.

Tom Wiggins