""Remind me, how long have you been on the scene?" "
That was in reference to this
"If a definition of folk has been researched for over a century, it wasn't well documented or promoted."
It had sod all to do with how long you had been on the scene - just a reference to what I believed to be a stupid statement.
One of the first things I learned when w ran workshops was that everybody brought something to the music no matter how long they'd been on the scene.
I'd resent claims that seniority brings authority, the same way I resent the twot who keeps suggesting that people have no right to comment and criticise because they aren't singers or they don't command such-and-such a fee - made at least once on this thread and often elsewhere.
If I have given a different impression - I apologise.
It goes against how we have always worked.
Jim Carroll