Back on topic, I think the Traditional Music Authenticity Police (TMAP) have a sister organization, the "You played it differntly" police (YPID). Most of YPID want it to be just like they first heard it, and aren't limited to traditional music topics. Any song is fair game. Someone once told me that I didn't do a Tom Lehrer song right because it was different than his version. He redording it with a piano and I was using a guitar. My explanation that it had already been done that way and didn't need to be done in that way again was met with an uncomprehending stare. How could anyone even consider doing it differently than Tom?? Some people even seem to think that it is disrespectful to the composer for a musician to do anything differently with a song at all.

The worst, of course, are the people that are both TMAP and YPID: "you didn't do it the way I first heard it, and here's all the reasons that the way you are doing aren't traditional, and here's all the ways that that the person I first heard do it is more traditional than you and he did the definitive version and there's no point in singing that song anymore."