The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165278 Message #3963474
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Nov-18 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: Woody Guthrie: A Place of Celebration and Pain
Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie: A Place of Celebration and Pain
I want to know, in very simple language, as I'm a very simple man, precisely what Phil's beef is with Woody. I have beefs with Woody myself, as any honest person would. Woody was a seriously flawed, seriously brilliant human being. Beethoven was an extremely antisocial, unhygienic man who drank too much white wine and who unfairly accused his friends of cheating him. Mozart was a childish man who was obsessed with poo and bare bottoms. Bach spent time in jail. Sibelius had to be dragged out of inns, where he feasted on lobster and champagne, by his wife. Caravaggio probably murdered someone and Gesualdo definitely did. Benjamin Britten took little boys into his bed. Schubert died of syphilis that he probably caught from prostitutes and he was careless about the very young age of some of his sexual conquests. I don't want to hear any more literary references or any more insinuations or any more crap about timelines, etc. Phil, piss or get off the pot. And when I say "Phil, piss or get off the pot" please note that no word in that sentence exceeds one syllable.