".dishonest, ludicrous, aggressive, nasty,unpleasant, unfriendly, insulting . "
All culled from the three people I mentioned (not "the rest of you" - I assume that was a mistake on your part Al) throughout this discussion.
In each case, I specified examples of their behaviour - read the posting again and tell me they are not accurate descriptions of the behaviour displayed on this and other threads.
Invite one of your mates to a heavy metal concert and give him a night of Child ballads sung by ''finger-in-ear' unaccompanied singers and ask him if he is happy to accept that he has been given what he was promised.
"Mainly because most people are leafing through their three chord songbooks"
Is that what happens at sing-around clubs nowadays - are you backing me or Bryan in our argument on the state of clubs.
I could probably sing around 150 songs off the top of my head - at least double that if I was given a week to prepare and my mate didn't need a 3 chord songbook" - he was a pretty good instrumentalist - goood enough to have done enough work beforehand not to need any paper prompting.
Your contempt blanket spreads far enough to include anybody who doesn't sing Lady Gaga hits, it would appear.
"If you want to kick Martin Carthy out for singing Cum on Feel the Noiz"
I don't want to kick anybody out for anything; just don't want to be part of anything that cons people by telling them they are going to hear something they are not.
If our greengrocer starts selling frocks instead of spuds, I'd look for another greengrocer.
Jim Carroll