Big Al Whittle needs your vote

Subject: RE: Big Al Whittle needs your vote
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 12:44 PM

Not a good time, Paul - I think the lynch mobs out for me this week.

Subject: RE: Big Al Whittle needs your vote
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 02:07 PM

Yay! Let's all vote for DCI Big Hearted Al Whittle of the Popularist Branch of the Folk Constabulary who craves your collected adulation whilst gleefully stomping all over the hard work of others and then has the neck to whinge about lynch mobs...

If can't show any respect then keep to your own manor (and era), Universal Soldier.

Subject: RE: Big Al Whittle needs your vote
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 02:16 PM

I wonder why?

"Despite the abuse heaped on me in this thread I have no bitterness towards you - more sort of compassion." (BAW, 8:49am)

I like the songs you sing, Al. They're clever and funny - so unlike the persona you present here. With compassion like that, who needs a vote?

Ross

Subject: RE: Big Al Whittle needs your vote
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 10:47 PM

The persona I present here is one of fierce intelligence. I am trying to engage with other people who say they are interested in folk music as an artform.

Theres no bluff. I am a nice person and I have given help and assistance to everyone I've ever met whenever I can. Even if their view of stuff is diametrically opposite to my own beliefs. My Quaker upbringing - I realise I don't have a monopoly on the truth.

if I can help you Ross in any way, let me.

However somewhere folkmusic has gone wrong. Eliot called it disociated sensibility when it camto English poetry. poems in the 1890's were being written in this grossly sentimental way -poems about Highwaymen and dark Angels in age of atheism and railways. A bit like this 'in the tradition' mush, that we're being force fed as folk music. Its nowt to do with us earth folk.

Ground Control to Planet Folk Music.....! the circuits all gone dead! Can you hear me Major Martin?