No Barbara... this post is about lack of commitment by band members in an america where committment to each other in every relationship is lacking... this is why there is so much divorce in this nation, for example... I don't give a damn if a big record company discovers my music or not... if you follow my posts, and those of folks like McGrath, we are trying to get traditional music a place to survive in a world that is more and more cracking down on busking and where there are fewer and fewer places to get paid to play anything but comercial music. I think it is great Tommy Sands is on a comercial lable, but that is not the point, Janice seems to think it is unseamly to talk about the trouble keeping a folk band together in NYC, well, funny enough, most of the positive advice comes from fellow working folk musicians. That's because they know where I am coming from with this.
Peg... the police guide to racial profiling of Roma in the US, put together by the South Carolina police, and a quoted source used by the FBI is called Gypsies, Travllers and Thieves. Perhaps the song was not intended to be racist, however, I know a fair number of Pavees and Roma who frankly are not very fond of the song. Think about it, if the song were called Witches Psycotics and Crazies, you may not think it was about marginalised folks, but a strike at your faith? Try and cast the margin you live into the picture and you see the harm. BY the way, the popular halfwit will be in New York at the end of April, had to change his plans, so PM me and we will plan a get together with Ralphieboy.
Cheers Larry