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Thread #105162 Message #2171214
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
14-Oct-07 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: 2007 Ewan MacColl Bio - Class Act
Subject: RE: New Ewan MacColl Biography
snail, cos he disagreed with people - perhaps expressed himself badly in some situations.
nobody's trashing anyone - except MacColl.
If people wanted to take his words and misconstrue them into bad behaviour - its the last thing he would have wanted. Really he was okay.
My songs take all my money, all my time and they don't get anywhere in the folkworld - cos I think 'traditional' music is a load of bullshit. An insult to my intellect. Nobody handed this pile of rubbish down to me. I've suffered from the shits who have twisted MacColl's words more than most, although not as much as the ones of my generation who are dead.
But it doesn't mean Ewan wasn't a great and decent human being.
rest easy
al