<rant mode on; ratcheted up to 11>
This kind of feedback from the so-called "keepers of the flame" of old
time makes the gorge fairly well buoyant. Who bequeathed them the
music and who told 'em it was a fossil, fit only to stick under glass
in a museum? Real musicians don't often think this way about music nor
did those first-gen folks whom they--and we--admire.
Here's your mantra:
Screw 'em
Screw the fiddle mafia that makes six of them vs one of you a good jam
Screw the lock-step jack-booted thugs who keep careful track of who's
playing the wrong notes of the wrong version
Screw the smug know-it-alls who insist on only one kind of old-time
Play what you want and if they don't like...sc--well, you get the idea
<rant mode off; urge to kill....subsiding>
;^)...but only partially
On 1/15/10 3:53 PM, Topher Gayle wrote:
Once I was jamming on my mando at a small old time jam, pretty much
playing backbeats. And after a couple tunes the fiddling gal sneered,
"how long have you been playing bluegrass?" and that was the end of
that.
So I was a little bit nervous a couple years later when Brad Leftwich
asked me to accompany him at a dance, with my mando. I asked him what
he wanted me to do, and he said, "whatever you want, but it would be
nice to have a rolling strum." I didn't know what he meant, so he said
something like dum-a-strum-a dum-a-strum-a, a little bit swung, but
not much. That's kind of a guitar strum for me. I guess he liked it
because he asked me to accompany him a few more times that week. It
was really fun!
I think it's the same as any kind of social music. It's as loose or
strict as the people involved want. I personally really like things
loose. But sometimes that's not the scene.
Topher
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