From: AM@highwire.net   
      
   "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   news:opsrf954os8955ol@stylgar...   
   > On Fri, 27 May 2005 08:08:47 -0600, AM  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   >> news:opsrfjygwi8955ol@stylgar...   
   >>>>   
   >>> Well, if the piece getting played is a *song*, then one would expect the   
   >>> singer to have a good deal of input, as one would consider it his/her   
   >>> tune.   
   >>   
   >> Most folksingers define singing as "any sound emanating from a bodily   
   >> orifice," and, thus, are not worthy of any special deference.   
   >>   
   > Depends on the folksinger: I'd argue that say, Gordon Lightfoot, is as   
   > fine a singer as you'll find just about anywhere and Nancy Griffith ain't   
   > bad.   
      
   I did say *most.*   
      
   > Well, I'd disagree on one point, which perhaps I didn't articulate very   
   > well the first time:   
   > The person who called the tune (presumably the one singing it if has   
   > words) gets to have a considerable degree of say over the sound of the   
   > tune, when your turn comes, then you get a degree of say.   
      
   This is, indeed, the convention, but it is a large part of the problem.   
   What if not everyone is a folksinger?  Let's say, for instance, that Jean   
   Luc Ponty visits your local open  mic.  Should a musician of his virtuosity   
   be obliged to take orders from every small-time, beginning folksinger in   
   your town, simply because his violin is, by it's nature, more of an   
   accompanying instrument, or might it be more appropriate to simply let him   
   rip, knowing that whatever he chooses to do would represent an improvement   
   over how the song would sound without him?  Folkwad strumfarts should   
   *appreciate* skilled embellishers improving the overall sound of their tunes   
   and demonstrate their appreciation through an atmosphere of egalitarian   
   mutual respect, rather than compulsively employing their guitar-centric   
   Guitar Chauvinistic conventions as a rationale to inflict subservience upon   
   them.   
      
   Again, the whole problem is solved by simply *playing* with each other and   
   accepting whatever happens.  Unless you are *paying* someone to do as you   
   wish - - - just shut the F up.   
      
   AM   
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