I have a good friend who does "Stairway to Heaven" as a bluegrass song and it works pretty well. Also does "Smoke on the Water" on his banjo.

Freedom of speech is a bitch, ain't it? But that was part of the "original" design of the place, as far as I can tell from talking to Max and reading his stuff from past posts. It ought to be self-regulating, and would be, if people who don't like the discussion in any one particular thread would just walk out of that room and go to another one.

And this very well may be a generational thing, in which case, why on earth would a bunch of musicians and music lovers whose time on this earth may be somewhat, um, limited, be working so hard to alienate and dismiss the younger ones who might not be quite so orthodox but have an obvious and enormous enthusiasm for traditional music and blues, in addition to other musical interests?

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