--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for having my back Turq. The funny thing is that I know Jim > > was trying hard to be a dick (that came out weird) and get under > may > > skin as punishment for goofing on that MMY quote. > > And now I'm supposed to counter and say that you goofed on the MMY > quote in retribution for my praising Maharishi recently?
No, that would not be true. What I wrote about that MMY quote had nothing to do with you. This is kind if an important point. Oh stop. > Let's act like adults, OK? So you are saying that it wasn't retribution for what I said about MMY and I am being childish for thinking so? OK, go on.. I said what I said because a rich white > kid playing the blues seems incongruous to me, as it might others. First, I grew up with the privilege of going to good schools, but my parents were not rich. I don't know what musical form you think white kids should play Jim, rock perhaps, the sped up blues? Is it the tempo that concerns you or the 12 bar pattern? Would it be OK if I just stayed on the one cord for a while longer? Should I modulate the key in a more jazzy way or is jazz another forbidden musical form for white people? BTW my black friends now are curious about what music forms they should stick with. Can they play any classical music? And if a black kid grows up rich, like John Lee Hooker's kid, can he play blues or should we take it away after the first generation? I think I am going to need a chart to keep this all straight Jim and please include all the input from the "other's" you are speaking for. > You were getting all into your mocking and busting all over what > Maharishi said and I thought, Oh well isn't that calling the kettle > black? Sort of an extended version of people in glass houses > shouldn't throw stones. So I decided to make your house transparent, > and chuck a few back. So it WAS retribution for my comments about MMY's quote. If I am a white person playing blues, you think it is hypocritical to make fun of a goofy quote from MMY? The pot is me playing blues, and the kettle is MMY? And if I make a comment about how ridiculous a quote sounded to me, that is hypocritical because I play a form of music that your erroneously categorized as "whining and moaning" and which you feel white people should not play unless they grew up poor? (please clarify if poor white kids can play blues and include where the cutoff is. For example, I grew up poor for Orange County CA) > > Having said that, I have not yet said that I admire entertainers > like yourself a lot, and can't think of too many professions where > the return of good karma is immediate and abundant. Making people > happy as a vocation must be great!:-) Cool, that makes me feel a lot better. I thought for a second that you were just being a dick. >
