too weird - if you need a note, use it.

its like these people who always claim to be being used in relationships. what's the virtue in being useless?

This business of, for it to be real folk music, how we all have to try and sing modal scales that were prescribed in the days when there was only one set of bagpipes in the village and that had half the notes missing. Screw it! Its for slavish morons.

We cannot unmake ourselves. We grew up in an age where we had access to all kinds of musical experiences, and we all absorbed those experiences at an age when we were too clever to absorb dumb ideas about 'the nature of folkmusic'. If we selfconciously deny that eclectic aspect of the culture and we were brought up in, we are (probably for not wholly honourable reasons) turning away from our fellow humans.