[Dixielandjazz] Making Love To The Audience

[Robert Ringwald]

Steve,

You know, and I know, and I am sure that every member of DJML knows that the 
term "Making love" is a polite way of saying "Having sexual intercourse."

Thus, when you say that you are making love to your audience, what do you 
think we will make of it?

If you are going to say these ridiculous things, then mean what you say. 
Don't try to worm your way  out of them.

--Bob Ringwald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen G Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: "Bob Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 7:45 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Making Love To The Audience


> Oops sorry, didn't mean to send the incomplete draft. This is the 
> complete
> post.
>
> Steve writes:
> >Making love is sexual overtones? Maybe so, but I always thought
> making love
> >was the basis for a lot of the Tin Pan Alley songs that OKOM bands
> play.
>
> Jim Asks (polite snip)
> What on earth does that have to do with your first statement; that you 
> "make
> love to your audiences"? . . .
>
> I was a little disappointed that someone on djml didn't pick up & run 
> with
> my little essay on the 3 types of audience reactions.  I felt it was an
> honest blurp about what a band can run into as far as audience
> participation.  (Every night isn't always magic for anyone, in love or  in
> playing!)
>
> Are you kdding? It has everything to do with my statement, and your
> subsequent disapproval of it.. Simple logic.My statement about"Making
> love to the audience" contains no sexual overtones unless folks choose
> to read something into it of their own volition.
>
> Can you not see the irony of your statement about sexual overtones that
> apparently are offensive to you, yet you love and play all sorts of  music
> that contains much more explicit sexual overtones than my description.
>
> Regarding you essay on audience reaction, I enjoyed it and believe
> it parallels the reactions Barbone Streets gets, except that we do chat
> quite a bit about the humor of jazz and jazz musicians. We try hard to
> establish rapport with the audience because they are, like yours, not
> really jazz fans, some hearing the music for the first time.
>
> For example, in club dates, with young audiences, we tell them about the
> time Paul Whiteman took his band to 52nd Street after a performance, to
> hear some jazz and how Whiteman then treated his entire band to a  fling 
> at
> a local whore house. Now that has sexual overtones and the audience is
> always responsive to it though we old folks may find it hard to  believe 
> and
> completely out of character for Whiteman. It is a true story.
>
> Jazz and sex have always been linked. Sex is what helped popularize it,
> if the early media reports are to be believed.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
>
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