[Dixielandjazz] 10 Representative Dixieland Recordings

[Steve Barbone]

on 7/7/06 5:23 PM, L Patrick Briody at lpbriody at yahoo.com wrote:

>Steve,
 
>I discern a rare note of inconsistency in your stance on "Happening right now
with >many bands that insist upon copying what was done 50 or 80 years ago.
The music >is not relevant to today's audience, except for you and me and a
few other mouldy >figs" versus your recent, well warranted praise of Vince
Giordano and his >Nighthawks.  Of course that quote is out of context, but,
hey, with so much >context,......


Ha, ha, Nah, he's got the mouldy fig audience. Vince, and some other retro
bands have a solid niche and know how to appeal to it. Nothing wrong with
that. It's a living and that's good. :-) VBG.

Perhaps I should have said "mass audience".

You context is accurate.

Cheers,
Steve