[Dixielandjazz] Re - the Who lectures.

[Don Ingle]

Barb Jordan wrote:
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> Well said Dave! I guess I include myself as one of the "younger" members of the list, so thanks for your thoughts as mine are not too far off from yours.
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> Barbara Jordan
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> Burlington, Ontario Canada.
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> P.S. Had a good time singing with The 
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>> From: tubaman at tubatoast.com
>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:03:22 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Hard To Believe
>> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>> To: jordan_barb at hotmail.com
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>> Sorry Bob, and this may be kind of OT for a lot of you,
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>> As one of the "younger" members of this list I have to disagree with 
>> your comments. I grew up in the Rock and Roll generation and was 
>> exposed to Elvis, The Beatles, The Coasters, The Beach Boys, James 
>> Brown, and hundreds of other major and minor "Rock" artists from the 
>> mid 1950s to the early 1970s. I also knew about Swing, Jazz and 
>> popular music from earlier decades, but "Rock and Roll" is what I 
>> heard most of the time on the radio.
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>> I thought the halftime show was somewhat interesting because the 
>> lyrics of "The Who" songs were so anti-corporate and anti-big 
>> government that they never should have been "approved" for such an 
>> event. Maybe we have somehow all forgotten the power of music to make 
>> changes in society, maybe we have been overwhelmed by the 
>> corporations, but I always have hope for the musicians who keep on 
>> playing (even if they seem to be bought out by the Superbowl Masters, 
>> as it were.)
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>> maybe I am just falling back to those Hippy-Trippy days of the 1960s 
>> when "the kids where all right," but for me, that band was still 
>> saying a lot - even in the belly of the beast. Yes, I am sure they 
>> made a lot of money doing this, but that is the way it is. Now.
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>> So, what does this have to do with OKOM? I am not quite sure. Rock 
>> music has direct roots to early jazz and blues, most of the UK bands 
>> of the 1960s were certainly inspired by the Trad Revival of the 1950s 
>> - so where is the line drawn? What is Jazz, What is Rock? When a band 
>> that has been popular for almost 50 years plays for the Superbowl, 
>> what is "Traditional Music?"
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>> I don't really need a lot of answers to these vague questions - but 
>> it probably has something to do with how what is now considered "Old- 
>> Time Music" is understood by most of the younger generations...
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>> Dave Richoux
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>> On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
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>>> I was listening to the game on the radio. At half time, the 
>>> announcer kept bragging about what a great show the Who was putting 
>>> on. They were so loud, you could hardly hear him.
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>>> Things have really sunk to a new low...
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>>> --Bob Ringwald
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>>> --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
>>> rsr at ringwald.com
>>> Fulton Street Jazz Band
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>>> Check out our latest recording at www.ringwald.com/recordings.htm
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>>> "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the 
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>>> from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking 
>>> care of them."
>>> --Thomas Jefferson
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Before everyone comesdownhardon Bob, re=read his comments. It appears 
that he was commenting onthe Volume - not the content of thematerial. I 
agree that it was loud and lyrics hard to understand from the sheer 
speaker overload, but I enjoyed the light show.
As for the anit-government, anto-establishment backgrond of theWho, they 
are hardly free of the label pro-estabvlishment. Not withe the royalties 
they get fromhaving two of their songs the main themse for two lonf 
running TV show and seemingly endless re-runs. They are hardly 
non-capitalists.
Good gried = dosagree with the man but spare the long esotaric lecture. 
Opinions ae just that, and Bob merely expressed his.
Don Ingle