Ray O'Hara
11/28/2011 3:15:00 AM
"DGDevin" <DGDevin@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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>>> Kind of a sad article on the two kinds of blues clubs
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>> I dint have to read it.
>> Blues is dead.
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> I know a bunch of folks who make a living largely playing the blues, from
> where I stand it seems to be quite a lively corpse.
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>> Young spades aren't playing it...aint listening to it...
>> and are not going to blues clubs.
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> Do you talk like that in real life, is that where the evidence of multiple
> concussions comes from?
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>> It's amazing that the last blues dude to break thru to
>> a wide audience was white ( SR Vaughan )...that'll
>> tell ya all you need to know....
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> So when Buddy Guy gets a standing ovation from a *stadium* audience at the
> Crossroads festival, what's that, indifference?
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>> I (barely) tolerate white
>> jazz musicians...a white MF'er playing the blues?
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> It's like Paul Lynde announcing he doesn't like beer, he really shouldn't
> expect the information to have much impact in the wider world.
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>> I had enough...went into the bathroom to return some rubbers
>> ( they were too small )...
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> [Sigh]. Poor Dave, fell for the old fingers-cut-off-a-rubber-glove for
> five bucks a pop, poor sap.
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>> tipped the old spade a jackson, and
>> cut out of the club shaking my head in disgust and sadness.
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> Come on D-Kell, when was the last time you had twenty bucks that wasn't in
> the form of a sock full of sticky coins?
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Blues is alive and well with older Whites.
Kids of all races are not hugely interested.