Greg asks about blues clubs in Germany (the town is unimportant for this
post) becausehe'll be visiting. At the risk of being called a snob or
snot, I'll take this opportunity to do something I've always wanted when
I see these posts.
How about actually checking out the culture you'll be visiting. How about
looking for German music, rather than some rehashed version of an American
form. See what German folk or other music is there. If you're in
Germany, maybe see if there's a program on one of their historic
organs--hear Bach on an instrument he played. Or find a martins-horn
band. Or something, anything other than going to the musical equivalent
of McDonald's (American music, American food, etc...).
I mean no offense by this, but it's a question I've always wanted to
ask--a rhetorical question. I will be travelling soon myself, and I want
to absorb the culture there--I get enough American culture where I live,
and it's the original at that.
JR "Bulldogge" Ross
& Snuffy, too:)
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