Guest, Catscradle,

You seem to be new to Mudcat. If so, welcome to this place where everyone can be right.... for as long as it takes for the next person to post and be just as right, just as briefly. *G* And where we also discuss music, a LOT of music, on a good day, without regard for who is right, which is awful nice.

I looked over your posts to date. I saw someone start with some debate in the style that is an honored tradition here at Mudcat. Then I saw someone whose buttons had apparently been pushed (not by anyone's deliberate effort here), and who started to sling it the personal way, to make his/her point. And then here in this thread, a continuation of that personal-attack style.

We have just a few habitues here who debate in that style... that style is tolerated by most of the rest of us because we know them, first, as fellow musicians. We've learned to take the salt they pass along. I wouldn't say (speaking just for myself) that most of us LIKE that style, though, or find it effective in making a point.

Well, it's none of my business, but as someone willing to be friend, I would just say, perhaps you want to get to know the place and the people a little before posting in a fashion that causes the reactions you've gotten here so far? And let the rest of us get to know you a bit as well?

~Susan