From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017070223560546004-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > They were a good band.   
      
   There's not enough of that kind of material, real country, being played much   
   nowadays.   
      
   > Huh ?   
      
   That the Darlings (The Dillards) were portrayed as somewhat of a stereotype.   
   I don't know why so many people just seem to have to have stereotypes -   
   probably makes it easier for them not to think, and in the process realize   
   that there are all so many variations, better known ultimately as   
   Individuality.   
      
   > I get reminded far too often that southerners aren't quite up to   
   > standards.   
   WHOSE 'standards'?   
      
   > People around here definately look down on anyone from the south.   
   > Unquestionably.   
      
   Bet they can't even explain WHY - but I'd call it Bigotry.   
      
   And speaking of that, it's so very often that we hear 'southerners'   
   stereotyped as such bigots and racists, with the usual references to the Ku   
   Klux Klan and such, and how 'civil rights' workers, particularly Martin   
   Luther King, were treated - violently, in the south.   
      
   Yet where did Dr. King get the 'warmest', i.e. most violent 'reception'? In   
   Chicago of course, Marquette Park to be more specific.   
   I was there that day with my siblings and parents. I'm originally from the   
   (in)famous Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, which I'll always remember as   
   home sweet home, and Sherman Park, my favorite park in the whole world,   
   where we'd all go, or just my siblings and my mother after school....but   
   very often, when my father got home, we'd get in the car and go to Marquette   
   Park, so it was always either of those parks, and I was there with my family   
   on that fateful day, August 5, 1966. I was only 10 years old and we were at   
   one of the 'far points', a corner of the park furthest away from the   
   'action' that was about to 'unfold', actually Explode!   
      
   I was certain we were far enough away from any problems, but I learned a   
   particularly scary lesson about mobs that day, that  those participating in   
   them are Mindless, and in this case, violent Zombies....for suddenly, for no   
   apparent reason whatsoever, particularly when considering the distance, I   
   found a wall of  people coming right at me with absolutely no idea as to   
   why. All I knew is that I was about to be trampled to death, and that was   
   the first time in my life that I seriously thought about about being killed.   
   Fortunately, I saw a rather large tree and ran literally for dear life to   
   the leeward side of it, getting there just in time, and not a second too   
   soon, to watch the mindless crowd stampede around me as they avoided the   
   tree...even though I was nowhere near the 'action', which I later read about   
   in the  papers - that Dr. King had brought his small motorcade to the center   
   of the park, an 'island' connected to the outer areas by several bridges   
   over the lagoon which formed a ring.   
      
   Anyway, during a speech, the crowd exploded and attacked him, and a couple   
   of his bodyguards grabbed him, yanking him off his feet, and literally threw   
   him into one of the other cars that then beat a hasty retreat with the angry   
   crowd close behind. They just barely got away, so the mob turned its anger   
   on his main car, turning it over and throwing it into the lagoon - and the   
   real kicker - these weren't southerners - last time I checked Chicago in in   
   the north ;) and Dr. king even admitted that throughout all his travels in   
   the south, and all the violence he  encountered, none of it compared to what   
   he experienced in Chicago's Marquette Park that day.   
   So much for stereotypes, huh?   
      
   > When the rent needs paid, reality kicks in.   
      
   Yes, the nightmare kicks in, the reality that the love of Filthy Lucre,   
   really IS the root of All Evil!   
      
   > They said, they ( the Nashville division of the company ) only had a   
   > budget for 10 acts.  Might have been 12, this happened a long time ago.   
   > And so to sign us, they would have to drop one of their current artists.   
   > And we didn't impress them enough for that to happen.   
      
   Sounds more  like their copping out, coming up with a lame excuse.   
      
   > In other words, we weren't good enough at whatever it was they wanted.   
      
   And naturally, they Never mentioned just What they wanted, right?   
      
   > That might well have been that they were looking for a strong songwriter.   
   > Or maybe we didn't fit the demographics they were after. Who knows.  I   
   > went, did the shows, went out with some big cheeses, then came home.   
      
   "Demographics"? I thought this was about Music!!!   
      
   Sounds like Honesty was something they had no idea of.   
   So what did you think your band sounded like?   
   Do you think they should have signed you?   
      
   > One final thing. It may well have been that they picked up on the internal   
   > band frictions that were starting to tear us apart at this point.   
      
   Okay, now That Really IS a Major Problem - BUMMER!!!   
   That's why I'm into the Love Vibe ONLY - NOT INTERESTED in anything else!!!   
      
   > It happened over his lifetime, between when he went pro up until now.   
      
   So those problems happened to him while he  was in the band - he should have   
   stayed there and just got into it all the more, since those other problems   
   should Never have happened in the first place and at least in the band, he   
   could have stayed ahead of them.   
      
   > One of our outdoor cats brought home a nice little bunny for diner this   
   > evening.   
      
   I like bunnies - had one for years, rescued from a high school biology class   
   over spring  vacation.   
      
   > Yes, they would prefer to be left alone.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Skunks, and other  weasels, can also be very friendly, that and also like to   
   bite ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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