There's no way to just go play some music when you're arguing on Mudcat.

I think that's one of the main reasons. When I was playing in a band, we sometimes discussed politics/sport before starting. One day it happened that I complained about an article in the local newspaper and said it was one of the worst articles I had read for a long time. One of my co-musician said he had written that article. I blushed for I really had forgotten for the moment where he worked asnd had not looked at the name of the author.

It was a bit of an embarrassing moment but we said come on, let's play together and all was well. So what lacks here is the playing together between or even instead of discussions.

Wolfgang