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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
LOL...so you read the confession thread hey?
Specifically the Banjo is associated with Southerners because they were the slave-lords who took an interest in the instrument. Its not like the guitar was something new. Did you know the earliest depictions of a guitar were Hittite stone carving dating to 1400 BC?
I have noticed you left my Woodstock comment right alone.
You said hippie art is worthless. I responded with a solid post that hippies manifested the greatest live-music event in the recorded history of the planet, and listed the hippie artists who participated. If you have listened to good music any time in the last 39 years, I'm sure that there were several artists on that list in your ipod/cd deck/whatever.
If you want to leave it alone, fine, but seriously it was a comment that really upset me. I'm not a stinking hippie, but I do have long hair and am involved in the arts. Difference is that I manage to get paid a pittance and play an instrument a little more demanding than a Djinbe or Bongos.
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Okay, in regards to the first bit. Yeah, I know that's how the banjo came to be associated with the South. Doesn't change the fact that it is still the basis for a lot of Black folk songs coming from the Deep South.
As for Woodstock, I'm not a cultural expert by any means, but does the music at Woodstock owe anything to the hippie movement? The Band, for example.
Anyway, I'm not going after "long hairs", just dirty hippies. I love arts and culture a lot and I am certainly not against creativity or innovation. So no offense intended.