From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017060623154759155-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > We try things. Some work out, others don't.   
      
   A couple of experimental tunes here and there shouldn't shake things up too   
   much.   
      
   > We use to do When You're Hot .... haven't thought about that song in many   
   > years.   
      
   Great old tunes, and funny ones at that.   
      
   > Kinda kid like isn't it ?     Maybe that hints at who these songs are   
   > targeted at.  Weird tho, the kids who would think it funny wouldn't have   
   > any perspective, they wouldn't be old enough to have ever seen Hee Haw.   
      
   That's right! Because they're for BIG KIDS like us ;)   
      
   > So, then, lets consider adults who would remember Hee Haw, or have ever   
   > seen the Opry ( which is what they are parodying, not Hee Haw ). Would   
   > those people see it as cute ?   
      
   I've never seen the Opry, but I have seen the Muppet Show and Hee Haw.   
      
   > I don't.  Band girl wouldn't even watch all of it.  To us, music is   
   > serious.   
      
   Music is serious. I keep trying to convince my brother of that when he keeps   
   suggesting that the opening track on the  Ignite The Sky album, "Stranded",   
   should be performed by Kermit the frog - but then, he's obviously trying to   
   get me irritated.   
      
   > Maybe that's the thing.  Maybe we should just make fun of the roots of our   
   > culture.  Why not ?   I'd add here that we have spent a large part of our   
   > lives living with being looked down at and being made fun of because we   
   > played " country " music.  In school, they called Tim   
   " Buck " and it wasn't meant at a compliment.  Band girl had people   
   > whisper about her that she " sang hillbilly music . . . in bars ".   
      
   I grew up with hillbillies and I'm kind of a hillbilly myself - and there's   
   Nothing wrong with that, they're Americans, which is a whole lot more than a   
   lot of other people taking up space in this country can say...and I don't   
   hear anyone poking fun at them!!!   
      
   > What they said about me, I dunno ?  I do recall one instance where I was   
   > singled out and ridiculed in front of the class for not going to some   
   > basketball game.  I went to see George Jones in concert that night   
   > instead.  For that I was told I had no school spirit.   
      
   > Ah, the memories.   
      
   :-)   
      
   Jim   
      
   School spirit? What's that...besides a bunch of Nonsense?   
   I'd choose Music over some silly smelly sporting event every time!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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