I could be wrong Jack but we may be agreeing. Back in the 70s I started out in a rock band, a blues rock band in fact, nothing big but an experience I found extraordinarily limiting. I later joined another rock band and we cut a couple of records with some members of the band going on to have considerable chart success. Right through this process the idea that there were any boundaries to what one could play in style or material was extraordinary. In fact on a psychological level we were processed like sausages from the moment we tuned into pop music radio as kids.

Even so a committee deciding what a music's background should be called seems peculiar. I'm suggesting in a roundabout way that the sinister overseeing eye of the record company and concert impressarios might be replaced on a kind of committee level by peer approval and a heightened sense of what is and isn't right, a self-policing, standards association if you will that attempts to bring a theoretical framework into practical performance.