Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Loud extreme amps/ Subject Re: Jason Ricci Acoustic?

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

iceman "analyzes" my post to someone else:
 
"Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:05:39 -0500
From:  icemanle@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Loud extreme amps/  Subject Re:
Jason Ricci     Acoustic?


"Elizabeth:

I'd think you'd be more tolerant  of other people's opinions and not let your 
personal attachment and  feelings towards Jason influence your editorial."
 
 
......First, it was a post not an "editorial", so kindly desist from  
editorializing about my posts.
 Second, clearly you somehow missed where I specifically said  that my 
feelings for Jason were NOT a factor...


"Gary is certainly entitled to his opinion, which will no  doubt - not - keep 
anyone from going to see Jason."
 
 
....Wrong.  Something said negatively about an artist in a  public forum such 
as this CAN have a negative impact on that artist's  income if someone who 
read the negative press believed  it was current then decided against spending 
their money to go out to  a show.  What part of that isn't logical?
 
...My response to what Sonny said was also colored by other  information 
about Amps you aren't privy to. 
 
... Further...I was suggesting that his statement of  "blinding volume" was 
perhaps referring to something that  might possibly have been true some time 
ago, but  not necessarily today. 
 
....For that matter, just when was the last time YOU  actually saw or heard 
Jason play in person?  My point was  (for those like you who clearly missed 
it)...is that even in these  past two years he has grown so much as an artist, 
his band  changed with a newer sound and vibe...judging him on something one  
might have heard years ago is simply outdated.
 
....So perhaps reading JUST a tad more carefully might be the  better option?


"As much as I love Jason and his playing"
 
 
....you do?  How nice to hear that!   I would never  have surmised you did 
from your earlier post  implying he supposedly won the Mars award by "fraud".  
What a happy  surprise!
 

 
"his volume and the sheer number of notes and sustained high energy  are too 
much after 45 minutes or so for this middle aged guy."
 
 
...oh.  I'd no idea what age group you fell into, other  than your several 
comments of expanding your mind through LSD in the  60's/70's(?)...which I might 
have extrapolated to guess your age, but  didn't bother.  Most of the other 
"middle-aged" (and older) folks who  were grooving to his playing at SPAH and 
Buckeye didn't react that way at  all, but as you say, to each his own.

 
 "Does that make me wrong? No. Does that insult Jason? No"
 
....no, of course it doesn't make you "wrong".  And if you'd  just clear 
something up for me, just where have I said that it does?   Please point me to any 
post of mine where I've written "iceman or  Larry Eisenberg is wrong and 
insulting to Jason because he can't sit  through a JR & NB show".  I'd love to 
re-read where I ever made  any such claim.


"You can never please everybody. Everyone is  entitled to their life 
experience opinions and should be respected for  voicing such, as long as it is not 
stated as "THIS IS THE WAY IT  IS".
The Iceman"
 
...Quite.  As I'm entitled to voice mine, or am I somehow  excepted from 
having an opinion in your scenario?
 

"btw, having done workshops with Jason in which he only played  acoustic 
harmonica, he does indeed sound great without  amplification."
 
....Btw, Jason sounds astonishing with AND without  amplification, as anyone 
who's heard him within the last several years is  aware.  Judging him by 
something they might have heard years ago was  the entire point of my post, since 
there's no grass growing underneath  that boy's feet. 
 
Elizabeth