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You continue to buttume facts not in evidence. I just don't think there's anything at all wrong with music sounding fresh and new...

If by 'jam' you mean one of those things at a club, then the people that the bar have told to run it have control of it, and perhaps you should either find another bar to pick at, or find-host picking parties if you have problems with the way they run it. I've been at a few of those, especially when I feel like pushing some boundaries. At that point, I head off to a blues 'jam' or I've even done a soul-funk jam (think Average White Band and George Clinton), with my pedal steel (Understanding that it would be silly to take the dobro, it would get watered out). And I've gotten a good welcome, but I try to play stuff that sounds like blues (in the first example cited) or good and funky (in the second) by trying to think like a guy on a B-3. If I'd tried to make everything sound like Harlan Howard wrote it and Owen Bradley produced it, I think I'd have gotten told to pack up and go home at the end of the first set.

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Not at all. I merely recognize that, in the settings you seem to seek out for your jamming (by excluding picking parties and other far more inclusive avenues and...

Like the music, worried about the culture 257
But if it doesn't mesh well with the music currently getting played (at least by the majority of those in...

Or because *somebody* has to stump up from about a grand to several grand for a PA. If you don't have a house PA, then they're gonna have to find a band willing to let theirs get used. And I don't have a problem with them saying something like "if I'm not having fun, I'll just pull the plug." And I don't see them seizing control of the means of production; your hands are still the only ones on your guitar (or whatever you play) And you're always welcome to go find an acoustic jam without that annoying necessity of the PA system, or a big ol' picking party. Not to mention that Marx has failed everywhere his theories have gotten tried. Marx didn't get that you can't trump human nature.

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You have never left us anything else, save plabreastudes and generalities, to go on. No, I...

I've never seen that happen anywhere. At the larger picking parties, or the jam sessions hosted by the bluegrbutt societies (there are two regular jams in the Kansas City area), you'll find a circle where nothing other than Bill Monroe-F&S get played (and if you try breaking out a Country Gentlemen tune, they'll either glare at you, or wander off to regroup without you - I've seen it happen) sitting just a few feet where the most normal thing you'll hear is "With Care From Someone" or "Deputy Dalton" just around the corner from the circle you'll most likely find me in, namely the one where they take clbuttic country stuff (Carl Smith, Carl Butler, ET, Jean Shepard, Hank, Hank, Hank, Hank, Hank, Hank, and Hank (all different Hanks, and none of them have a Jr in them) get a bluegrbutt treatment. And they all get along just fine.

Like the music, worried about the culture 254
You can pick 'til your fingers bleed (and, believe me, I have), but it won't make a bit of difference if there's...

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