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You guys who take offense to my words assign that intent.


I don’t take offense to your words on a personal basis. I’ve written about 50 songs in a variety of styles. Oddly enough, only a small handful of them are bluegrass. Most of them are country, folk rock or pop songs. I’ve always found it to be relatively easy to write songs, especially after I started studying music theory. So I understand why you don’t want to play or listen to cover songs.

What I don’t understand is why you appear to be hell bent on a mission to denigrate all of the working musicians on the forum who do perform cover songs. You don’t even want to call them musicians, even after they’ve worked their butts off to become proficient on their instruments!

If you’re going to be a working musician, you HAVE to play covers. That’s one of the many reasons I’ve always avoided being a working musician. The fact is, I couldn’t possibly care less about what songs the audience wants to hear. I only care about what songs I want to play. I don’t want people on the dance floor having fun. I want them to sit down, shut up and listen, … or leave.

So my attitude is totally out of sync with what it takes to be a working musician. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect the guys who are working musicians like Notes Norton, 90db, jazzmammal and several others on the forum. Pat Marr is trying to get his gear and act together so he can live out his dream of playing cover songs tailored to what the audience wants to hear and I sincerely hope he achieves that.

Eddie, you’re a cantankerous old fart. I can relate to that because I’m a cantankerous old fart too! But that doesn’t mean that either one of us should be raining on other peoples parades when they’re enjoying what they’re doing AND making a few bucks while they’re doing it.

So, back to the quote:

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You guys who take offense to my words assign that intent.


The people who are being offended aren’t “assigning that intent”. They’re being offended because you’re jumping through hoops in order to offend them.

Bob
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