Shambles: no pretence, no artifices; many people who know me will tell you, what you see, hear, read is what you get. I have no issues with control. (That's one thing I love about the Mudcat, it is so egalitarian.) If you choose to believe otherwise and read hidden agendas into everything I write that is your problem, not mine. Enough other people who've posted on here seem to have understood my genuine interest in the music.

When somebody brings up a subject that I feel strongly on, then I am bound to voice my opinion and/or experience. I am a person of strong convictions and have always been know to stand by them, no matter how painful or dangerous. For you to suggest otherwise is, I suspect, a bait you dangle, which I refuse to bite.

To bad you have apparently felt so uncomfortable about this discussion. It seems there are a lot of us who feel it is needed and has been intertesting.

You may want to understand, as you say, but to say the songs get in the way sounds facetious or sarcastic, esp. here on the Mudcat. We've recently had threads on how the BS got in the way of the songs. Now we have songs getting in the way of the BS???

Thanks, Jeri.

kat, flaming control freak!:-)