Lan
I am saddened to see you go. You've made good contributions
here and I hope you will come back soon.
As one of the moderators, we don't want to censure messages
too much, prefering to give people the chance express their
opinions.
However, I agree that recently a negative tone has entered
a few messages, disagreeing with concepts, musical ideas is
fine, but criticising a person, personally, is unacceptable,
particularly a person who is only known through email!
So as plea as to the group, this is a support group for
Jazz guitar players please respect each other. As I've
said before, there are many of the leading players in this
group, and as human beings too (and artists!), they can be
hurt by harsh comments!
Alisdair MacRae Birch
Jazz Guitarist
--- In jazz_guitar@y..., Lan Mosher <ceolan@h...> wrote:
This will be my last post, because I will unsubscribe after it is
delivered.
Why?
Too much vituperative rubbish is crowding out constructive and
helpful
material. I'll miss the few good posts by some top rate people
who I have
come to know through the group. I read about them in Just Jazz
Guitar.
The other day I came home, after only 8 hours, to find over 40
messages,
mostly slamming great players and other petty remarks that were a
total
waste of time. I'll be better of practicing and growing my own
sound that
sorting through emails.
I've been lucky to have met many great guitarists since I started
playing as
a kid 48 years ago, from Barney, Tal, and Johnny Smith, up to
today's
curent family of players. I'm amazed at some of the things said
here and I
wonder if some of the writers have ever spent time with the players
they are
knocking. Beyond this, I'm not going to pick up the mud.
