as for Americana, you didn't win that war thirty years back.

what you did was stop a working class movement in its tracks by turning up and insisting on doing music people couldn't understand and was made even more difficult to understand by doing it to weird rhythms, and harmonies. it was jurassic park. you let the monsters out to scare the picnic -ers., whom you still think have no right to be there.

God alone knows how many young people were lost as professional musicians as the venues disappeared. I think you would have understood the scale of the tragedy if it had been working opportunities and workplaces for electricians that had gone to the wall.

All that said, i understand your point of view Jim - I just wish you would try and understand it from where I'm standing.