Bit late but:
> I see your point about how annoying it would be for a 17 year old kid in a
> parka just asking for the who. But even he has to be applauded for
escaping
> what passes for music today.
Yeah, but not if he's asking for it while there's a full dancefloor of
people dancing to some class tune, because then he's showing himself up as
closed minded - using the little knowledge you have rather than wanting to
learn more. And I'd wager that's exactly the sort of person to turn into an
elitist arsehole later on, if they don't burn out. From a DJing point of
view you can pretty quickly tell the difference between youthful enthusiasm
(to be encouraged) and people asking for things to try and prove some sort
of point, who are just asking for a put-down. I guess it's like stand-up
comics and hecklers.
And as Mark says it's not usually the 17 year olds that are the problem,
it's the ones that want to hear Eton Rifles (like you haven't got bored of
it in 20 years?).
> Remember its allot harder to get into a band like
> the who today than it was is the sixties.
But then it's a lot easier to get into the Fleur-de-Lys, so it's swings and
roundabouts - these days you can learn to be a mod (read up on the right
records, right clothes, rather than it all being unspoken and changing).
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