From: AM@highwire.net   
      
   "AM"  wrote in message news:y6one.6$K66.5@fe02.lga...   
   > "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   > news:opsrnwapyv8955ol@stylgar...   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >> Well, I know that you suggested Bogul couldn't use the language, while   
   >> you seem incapable of using the possessive "its" without the apostrophe   
   >> that doesn't belong there.   
   >   
   > While that may be true, it did not pass without notice that you had no   
   > comment on the Jean Luc Ponty scenario.  Do you now see how guitar players   
   > use their overwhelming numbers to etch in stone the premise that "everyone   
   > must always take orders from the nearest guitar player, no matter how   
   > insipid and mundane he may be?"  Then as you all nod in unanimous   
   > agreement at this ironclad convention, someone quickly announces on the   
   > mic,   
   >   
   > "And now here's some MORE fatuous, folkwad strumfuckery, y'all!"   
   >   
   >> That, and you seem to express little regard for the conventions and norms   
   >> that basically serve to identify a type of music as what it is.   
   >   
   > That is because it is the music of a culture with which I feel little   
   > affinity.  I think, most of the time, I am using music as a means of   
   > escaping Middle America, thus playing traditional, middle-American   
   > music fails to meet my own personal objectives.  It is, however, up to   
   > each individual artist to decide what kind of picture he wishes to paint,   
   > so it's all good.   
      
   I did have a very enjoyable jam with an out and out Country and Western band   
   in the past week, however, so the issue is clearly not so much about the   
   style of music, but the quality of the jam.  Any situation that employs a   
   sign up list or any degree of hierarchicality or regimentation is not a   
   jam - - - and should not, in all honesty, be billed as such.   
      
   It's about respect.  To simply show trust and faith in one's fellow musician   
   to do something harmonious is to treat him with respect.  To constrict,   
   control, hogtie, hamstring, suppress, undermine, sabotage, and vampire   
   him - - - is to show him disrespect.   
      
   And, Bogul, that's R-E-S-P-E-C-T!   
      
   AM   
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   "Oneness is not achieved through conformity or subordination, but   
   through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle."   
     --AM, the Synthesist   
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