RE: [Harp-L] Harmonica/harp player & Popper (Martin's response)

["Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Martin for an insightful post.

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> From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> The value of the distinction harmonica/harp player escapes me, unless you 
> compare, say, a chromatic classical musician with a blues harp player; but 
> that was not the issue here.
>
>     However, John Popper was: and it appears that every time someone says 
> something about him this has to be framed with some kind of "excuse". This 
> is a hamonica forum and debating the merits of John Popper must be a 
> perpectly legitimate topic. I cannot see why he has been placed under some 
> kind of stigma? "The harmonica player whose name I dare not mention ..." 
> and such alike phrasings has been seen here, why?
>     This demand for a suffocating politeness, or political correctness if 
> one wants to put that twist on it, is just as ridiculous as those "flamers" 
> whose world appears to be crumbling when somebody expresses an opinion 
> radically divergent from theirs. (I know, I received somthing akin to 
> threats of violence in my mailbox some years ago, when I had ideas about a 
> certain harmonica performance.)  Opinions can be debated, even in 
> relatively harsh terms, without this being an infringment on someones 
> "personality" -- and moreover, there is a moderator here to watch over 
> things.

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