Yes...where it usually leads...right into Chas's lap waiting to be devoured like a "hungry lion" begging for his next meal.

Chas, have you not learned yet that music is not a science, or a mathematical formula or a profession that's to be played only in a laboratory? Have you not also learned that some remarks are not meant to be taken as Gospel for the sake of practicality and conversation? And that many of those same remarks, are not meant to launch a "scientific" conversation?

We're not talking about "can it be done (a non-ethnic type playing ethnic music)?" Or course, it can be done. Anything can be done if you want to put in the time and energy. But even then it won't happen unless you were born with the talent and the ability. And, lived the "lifestyle."

I listen to a lot of the blues...a LOT of the blues. In most cases, I can tell in an instant the difference between a seasoned Negro blues man and....anyone else. Why did the blues become successful in the South...because that's where poverty existed and was most prevalent. It spawned hundreds of real bluesmen that lived the lifestyle necessary to express emotion and sensitivity in their music.



No, Mark "gets upset" when someone changes the direction of his posts from everyday casual conversation and remarks into a feeding frenzy for someone else. Someone who uses it as fodder to build a Perry Mason-like case for the sake of being "heard" only whether his arguement holds water or not. In this case, it's always the same person....Chas.

Now, I asked you before NOT to pick apart my posts like you have a nasty habit of doing. You break the flow of conversation from other members and presto, bingo...the post goes South. There are ways to make your own case without the snide remarks. You backed off playing the "race card"....now please "back off" of interrupting my posts with your "glory-seeking" remarks. Look where YOUR input took a casual post that started out praising the beauty of the La Foule song.

I was in my glory discussing Latin music and the positive related comments that were introduced by the other members. Why didn't you leave it alone, or, better yet, start your own post and argue with yourself!