[Dixielandjazz] Where the girls are.

[Phil Wilking]

One thing which will get younger folks in is just what got their great-grandparents in in the 1920's while THEIR parents fulminated against the sinfulness of it all: play for couples' dancing with appropriate tempos and more than one rhythm.

You have to get one or two pairs started to act as "trail-blazers," and find a place to play which has room for it, of course. But once the "younguns" rediscover the art of "polishing belt buckles," they'll come.

Or, as I once described it to a teenage boy whose "Dancing? Me? Yuck!" reaction is typical: "Yeah, but with foxtrots and waltzes and such, you get to hold the girl - and even feel her up some - in public, AND her mother approves!"

Phil Wilking

-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
>
>Good point Phil. The concept is as old as the hills. But lots of "art"  
>dixieland bands seem to have forgotten it as they bemoan their lack of  
>audience.
>
>Fact is if you make the music FOR THEM, they love it.
>