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Thread #142157 Message #3285356
Posted By: Richard Bridge
05-Jan-12 - 01:58 PM
Thread Name: M. Carthy on The Critics Group - Radio 4
Subject: RE: M. Carthy on The Critics Group - Radio 4
Details have been changed in this post to avoid identifying the guilty.
The biggest danger of the "we have standards" brigade is vividly borne out by a singer and player married couple of my acquaintance. Her singing is at best average and his playing is often wholly unacceptable (particularly when he joins in with others and forces them to change key(!)) - but he is incomprehensibly convinced of his own great merit, and indeed sometimes posts here to play that up. He is also judgemental and critical of others.
If the "standards" approach prevails he will be handed a weapon to go around saying "You are not good enough, get thee hence" to others in fact better than him - and he will do it. Most amateur performers are quite sensitive to that sort of criticism and even if they are pretty damned good will be driven away by that sort of thing.