PS Joe... point of clairification... The reason for posting the Dixie Chicks piece is that AS A WORKING MUSICIAN, it is about our music and industry when pronouncements from the stage, or in our public life leads to McCarthite responces. As I said, I have had a booking cancled for support of Lynne Stewart, from a venue who supports her case but is frightened by what America has become. This is the exact nexus between people's music and politics. When what we say and sing is attacted by the industry, that is about music. I agree it is a call you could make either way, and for a working musician it seems more like a music thread, I grew up reading Variety, so what is industry news seems broader to me.
Cheers, see ya in the Azores.
LarryM

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No argument with the topic, Larry. It could have stayed up top, but somebody complained about it being there. That one was kind of a 60-40 judgment, with 40 percent of the reasons being for it staying on top. I didn't have any personal opinion on the placement of that one at all. My personal opinion is that I was proud of the chicks when they made their anti-Bush statement, and disappointed when they retracted it - but I didn't care where the thread ended up.
-Joe-