From: mitchelldickson@bellsouth.net   
      
   LOL!  I wished I was Kate.   
      
   You see I know exactly how Earl looked and sounded when he stuck that old   
   Martin neck in the air and played Jimmy Brown on the Martha White show.  I   
   grew up with the old bluegrassers.  But think of what is happening now.   
      
   First off, Most banjo players for instance are learning from Crowe.  Nothing   
   wrong with that but that amounts to copying an copy!  Crowe is a Scruggs   
   copy.  He makes no bones about where he learned the banjo.  Although a very   
   good one, still he is less than Earl was at his best.  Some young players   
   now are learning from copies of Crowe.  That makes them a copy of a copy of   
   a copy.  And so it goes Kate.  A cursery listen to Sirius Bluegrass will   
   soon register to the trained ear that a new form of "festival time" has been   
   reached.  Way too perfect and controlled time fed by super clean technicians   
   without a shread of emotion in their music, nor have they the ability to   
   transfer it! All sound alike.  Generic trash :)   
      
   It truely is fading Kate.   
      
   C YA   
   Mitch   
      
      
   "kateh"  wrote in message   
   news:fHIHg.16$gN7.13@newsfe05.lga...   
   > "Mitch Dickson"  wrote   
   > > The music is dying.  Very few of us left that actually understand or   
   play   
   > > it.  When we are gone so will bluegrass be gone.   
   >   
   > Awwww, now yer just bein' silly.......   
   > KateH     :)   
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