From: AM@highwire.net   
      
   "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   news:opsryuktaf8955ol@stylgar...   
   > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 07:48:16 -0600, AM  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Clearly, one who chooses to play, principally, dobro and pedal steel   
   >> guitar is simply, culturally more compatible with a Redneck Rules "jam."   
   >> If one perceives institutionalized injustice as entirely fair (because   
   >> it is biased in one's own favor) and if one is, himself, a folkwad   
   >> dawgfart grasshole, one will find absolutely nothing wrong with   
   >> Okey Folky Hokey Pokey Shucky Darn Doo Dah Hee Haw culture.   
   >>   
   > Not at all.  I merely recognize that, in the settings you seem to seek out   
   > for your jamming (by excluding picking parties and other far more   
   > inclusive avenues and instead going for the jams at bars/clubs et c.) the   
   > wishes of those who've either started the jam, or those who are getting   
   > paid by the bar to run it, have a right to control what happens at their   
   > party.  Just like playing at a bar gig; if the owner says he doesn't want   
   > to hear anybody play "Whiskey River," even if you're a Johnny Bush (he   
   > wrote it) or a Willie Nelson fan, you don't claim you're getting stepped   
   > on, you just smile and say "no problem, is it that song, or do you just   
   > not like anything from the Johnny Bush/Willie Nelson catalogs?"  No   
   > injustice lies in the concept of "my house, my rules."  If you take   
   > advantage of someone starting up a bluegrass version (or even a Taj   
   > Mahal-esque) version of "Sitting On Top Of the World" to play the Grateful   
   > Dead's pretty darned cool turnarounds, you've stepped beyond what everyone   
   > else is playing, and can expect to get your hands slapped, preferably only   
   > metaphorically.  Likewise if you choose to show off your keenly developed   
   > polyrhythm skills by playing your section of that long spell in E in the   
   > Orange Blossom Special playing 11/8 into the band's 4/4 (guitar player did   
   > that in a band I was in once: we told him not to do that again, not for   
   > our sake, but because the audience was looking at him like he'd lost his   
   > mind).   
   >   
   > Don't tell me, you're the sort of person who'd take up a job as a cook at   
   > an Italian restaurant, then complained your creativity was being stifle   
   > because they wouldn't let you cook General Tso's Chicken.   
      
   All I know is that if Jesus, Himself wanted to blow a litte shofar at any of   
   these so-called contemporary American open stages - - - He'd end up   
   overturning the mixers of the mother-fuckin' moneychangers.   
      
   AM   
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   through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle."   
     --AM, the Synthesist   
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