[Dixielandjazz] Making Love To The Audience

[Russ Guarino]

Bob,

That is the silliest answer I've ever heard.

Russ Guarino

Robert Ringwald wrote:

> 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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