Quote: "Bee, no one has said what you are or are not aware of or capable of. Those of us posting here who are not enthralled by this idea have been here for what I think of as "a long time," and perhaps it seems to you like Azizi has been here "a long time," but to this oldtimer she seems like a recent arrival. Just as I am sure I seem more like a new arrival than an oldtimer, to those who got here before I did.


A certain amount of umbrage seems to have been assigned to those of us not enthralled. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET, but it's up to the individual what you choose to see, and how you choose to take it.


DW, if you thought Bobert told you to jump off a roof-- would you? I suggest the posts of other professional practitioners at Mudcat as a possible model-- who are often thoughtful about not trying to practice their professions here but who offer, instead of specifics, general principles from their professions." - WYSIWYG

First of all, I'm not really liking this line of 'Old Boys and Girls' versus people who've only been here one or two or three years. In fact, I find it a little offensive. If you can't claim to have understood to some degree the inherent culture of a self-chosen forum after a year of posting, then your powers of observation must be severely limited, IMO.

Frankly, I'm seeing more 'umbrage' being aimed at those of us who think the OP has an interesting proposal, to the point of some even questioning DW's professional ethics, which I think is a really over the top and unfair response.

I have seen some of your 'professional practitioners' here being extremely explicit in their professional pronouncements on specific individual folk musicians and even on specific songs that individuals have written.