RE: [313] DEMF & 'Hurt Feelings'

[rol leider]

My post has been interpreted as an attack on Alan Oldham, which I didn't 
mean it to be (the 'stuck in a groove' comment is regrettable). I read 
Alan's manifesto and I posted in the same straight style he used. (I trust a 
big shoot-from-the-hip man like Alan will not be offended by the small words 
of a small Scot like myself). I just wanted to open discussion on what 
Detroit means now as a sound. The subsequent posts have been unanimous in 
their attack on me, saying Detroit means all things and nothing in 
particular (a broad chuch), and Alan is as much a part of it as anyone else. 
But it didn't used to be like that. Detroit used to mean something much more 
precise (and Alan was definitely a part of that). That's why we're all on 
this list, right? We all know 'Detroit' refers (or at least used to refer) 
to something in music, even if we can't say exactly what that is. It just 
seems to me that Alan is now closer to present day Europe than he is to 
present day Detroit (musically speaking, and I don't see that as an insult. 
I remember him posting something to that effect a few months ago). And with 
the DEMF happening it's as good a time as any to discuss what exactly it is 
that Detroit means right now. If it means anything at all.

But what do I know...
Rol
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