DavidinMaine

Any chance of getting a review from Atlanta?… This is a tour that shouldn’t be missed… Love that 1958 Gretsch Tenor 4-string axe that Elvis pulls out from time-to-time. There’s a blue not in each song, that I sing since you’ve been gone–Blue must be the color of the blues![attachment=0:3trko2a6]2010-04-20_Boston2.jpg[/attachment:3trko2a6]

OK, OK, Tom, I do wish I could say that I appreciate your long lecture-like attempt to address, what you see as inappropriate words and pictures that I entered here in this forum–def. a place for open discussion. All the silly emoticons (adults use words) and vernacular (puh-leeze), the heart of the matter is that different opinions and views exist outside of the “we” you speak of. I prefer “I” statements because I can only speak for myself. When you speak of the collective we, it only shows the group-think, bully mentality that sometimes exists in this forum, which is very clear in the long history of posts. Finally, provoking individuals in this forum would be like shooting fish in a barrel. As a presupposition, it is very, very–actually all to clear, in terms of what a bunch of exposed nerves several of you are in here. Wow, really, is a good way of looking it! Eliminating a post and then prattling on about why you did so…hmmm. This forum is kinda like a trout farm of hyper-sensitive LWs fans but do what you like ’cause it’s your forum. I don’t care who it is or what the line is, if I see a line of BS I will call you out. Take Tony’s troll imagery from above. I thought you were talking about trolling as in fishing. Is that on topic Mr. Speaker? How many more Mr. Speaker, how many more??? Oh yeah, I don’t see db as “beloved” so I would appreciate that you not put words in my mouth. But, thank you for trying all the same. I view many musicians as accomplished with pre-Essence LW being in my top 10 of about 150 or so… Enjoy the day as winter starts to turn towards spring. Oh yeah, I will let you and Tony-G if he is there, buy me a pint the next time we meet up before a show.

Thanks, for sharing your perspectives, Tom–nothing personal taken–necessary forum discourse. In fact, nothing personal coming at you either.

That aside, I always enjoy it when someone’s shift key gets stuck and a thread comes out all caps. Etiquette aside (all caps = yelling, right), I am confident that your intention was to indeed do just that, yet your content was less then thrilling. Having db’s baby, really, is that all you got–nothing about my mother or gender or sexuality, etc? And why take such a line of offense and offensive tone? Actually, I only saw one show of his past tour because that’s all it took–in other words, I was not a huge appreciator of the tour. Yeah, everyone uses the Internet to communicate but few use it as effectively as db in terms of selling everything and communicating efficiently. In addition, he doesn’t “hire,” he collaborates with individuals (nice concept, collaboration). After all, he has been doing special packaging for over 25-years (180-gram vinyl is not-so-special packaging).

Curiously enough, I wonder why you discount and sweep these and other issues so swiftly and vigorously under the proverbial rug. Boy howdy, the writing is on the wall (dude)–record companies, newspapers, and corporate radio didn’t pay attention and now are slowly running out of life on the side of the road (no pun intended!). Kinda like Circuit City and others, right? Yeah, the hard truth is that there is nothing anybody can do about Ticketmaster ‘cept supporting the things like db and the local clubs like Space, One Longfellow Square, Stone Mountain Arts Center, and Port City Music Hall (all Portland Area) do; all have made a go of it without heavy fees and Ticketmaster.

Anyway, nice shooting Tex and remember, it really is hard to read all caps–it’s much easier using appropriate and accurate diction versus simply yelling. And if you want to have this be a cheerleaders only forum with you as the faithful leader and then we can all take a treasure-bath, go for it. I, too, remember many terrific shows in MPLS including db’s Monster in the Mirrow tour, a few LW’s tours with Gurf “Beer Bottle” on guit, and many more. Great memories and sorry yours aren’t so terrific. From what it appears, it sure sounds like you just finished reading Sarah Palin’s latest “book,” which inspired you to go all rouge-y. Finally, I was not trying to highjack this thread rather, I simply did not buy or appreciate the line of BS that you were trying to sell… Kinda like buying a pig with glasses–it’s still just a pig (without lipstick of course!).