The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95137   Message #1849534
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
03-Oct-06 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Club - The Cellar Upstairs, London?
Subject: RE: Club - The Cellar Upstairs, London?
I know exactly what I said, and so does anyone else who has the wit to scroll up and look. I merely expanded upon it after you had misquoted me shamefully. You couldn't even get my Mudcat name right. And none of the titles you mention are of any use to me.

Whereabouts in Sweden, and just how extensively did you conduct your survey on musical opinion? I think it's rather rude, dubious in accuracy and certainly unkind to slag off a musician of international reputation who attends many London venues as a floor performer when in town and will surely get to hear of your snide and unjustified criticism. Tom Paley isn't the best exponent of Swedish fiddle music in the world and I don't believe he would claim to be so. But he is a valuable source, generous with his knowledge and one of the few who is readily available to learn from in London. I owe him a lot over the past several decades and I deplore the tendency to treat him as some kind of joke. It's not big and it's not clever.