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Topic: Changes at Take Country Back |
Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 7:11 am |
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Janet I admire your spunk. CMT and the money behind them are evil as far as real country music goes. Its scary that these forces could take over the airwaves of both television and radio and dictate/corrupt a whole music genre. Infinity Broadcasting in partners with CMT. Translation- You do the videos, we'll play only the music from your videos. Rock rules. Let real country music and those that like it be damned.
Anyone who doesn't play ball gets dropped from their record contract.
John Couger Mellancamp on Inside Fame on CMT. What a joke.[This message was edited by Kevin Hatton on 22 January 2004 at 07:40 AM.] |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 9:08 am
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| How about Dave Matthews and Emmy Lou?..Joke two. |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 9:38 am
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| There goes that steel door slamming shut again. And we wonder about the future of steel guitar. If we keep our minds closed we will never get the steel guitar out more. |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 10:20 am
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Last nite, as i watched Larry King w/ Toby Keith as his guest, I began to wonder if maybe there is a specific conspiracy in the music industry to turn all listeners into zombies. Toby Keith said that for about 10 years he was "handcuffed" to a recording contract that mostly prevented any independent composition on his part.
Today's music has no edge, no bite, nothing unique to separate one tune from another.
The social forces that drive the creation of tunes like Ray Price's "My Shoes Keep Walkin' Back to You" and Buck Owens' "Together Again", or Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" or Verne Gosdin's "Chiseled in Stone" haven't changed. Why is today's country music about as stimulating as oatmeal?
There is a very well written and ever more timely short (20 page) science fiction story that was written 50 years ago called "The Subliminal Man". It's all about advertising and mind control. This story continues to come to my mind when I see the ever increasing advertising and media pressures in our media profuse lives.
There's no need to be paranoid, they really are out to get us... :>) |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 10:52 am
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| There goes that steel door slamming shut again. And we wonder about the future of steel guitar. If we keep our minds closed we will never get the steel guitar out more. |
I had a call to play on an alt-rock album on tues. Initially I was there to play on one cut, steel guitar into lots of echo, something I'm actually known for. I ended up working from 2pm until midnight and played on 6 or 7 tracks. everything from "sort of traditional" E9 to C6 to overdriven lap guitar.
One of the young people there mentioned that he loved the sound of the steel guitar, especially when it wasn't playing too many notes (machine-gun speed picking, our version of the heavy-metal guitar riffs). |
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 4:38 pm
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| when it wasn't playing too many notes (machine-gun speed picking, |
As a very famous steeler is rumoured to have said:
"I wish I could play that fast ... then I wouldn't"
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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