From: AM@highwire.net   
      
   "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   news:opsrgasyxh8955ol@stylgar...   
   > On 27 May 2005 14:47:54 GMT, bogul  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> As Frank Zappa once said, "Without deviation from the norm, no   
   >>> progress is possible."   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> In order to deviate... a norm must be established... Any norm established   
   >> started as a deviation... So to give a "norm" the back of your hand   
   >> simply demonstrates a complete lack of understanding and appriciation for   
   >> musical roots. Zappa was great... but didn't "always" deviate... Much of   
   >> what he did is now considered norm... shall we belittle it as well?   
   >>   
   > I really think AM is a relatively new picker who came to music through   
   > someone like the Flecktones, Dave Matthews or Phish, and expects all 'jam   
   > sessions' to sound like a 'jam band' without all that pesky business of   
   > actually having to learn how to make music.  Much like in the early-mid   
   > 70s, all those young banjo players wanting to play that 'Keith-style'   
   > melodic stuff, and rebelling when an instructor had them start with   
   > Scruggs' stuff (why not, that roll stuff is *hard*).   
      
   I guess you just think whatever you want to think, since you know absolutely   
   nothing about me or my music.   
      
   AM   
      
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