Re: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records (slight return)

["Rob Paparozzi" <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx for the info Martin...

but I respectfully disagree....F*&^ ! the Hip Hoppers and the horse they 
rode to town on...
Little Walter Jacobs was a GREAT American Genius, yes, he had a bad temper 
but was NEVER charged with MURDER.....I'm obviously still upset,-)))

YES, it's ONLY a MOVIE and HOLLYWOOD gets another FREE PASS....BUT, if they 
decided to Make MUDDY WATERS the Murderer.....GUITAR-L would have started a 
Revolution and RIGHTLY so....and I'm sure Clapton would have had a public 
staement to make too....but we are ONLY Harmonica Players......

We need to speak ot against the Hip Hop-RAP mentality that ADORES and puts 
violence on a pedestal. We are sending a terrible message to our 
youth....amen

I'm not tryin' to stir this up again....just stating my personal opinion 
about a musician that greatly inspired my career and just because he is now 
DEAD, doesn't mean we shouldn't defend his legacy to the masses they SO what 
to educate about AMERICAN BLUES

Rob Paparozzi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martin oldsberg" <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:46 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records (slight return)


Yesterday at the library I was browsing through the latest issue of Blues 
Revue and there was an article on the Cadillac Records film, with it´s 
creative use of history re: Little Walter. (I have yet to see the film; not 
shown over here.)
The journalist asks the producer and writer/director directly about the need 
to ascribe a fictitious murder to an historical character and the producer, 
som bozo called Sofia Sondervan, says, predictably (I don´t remember it 
verbatim) something along the lines that you gotta spice up for the kids 
today.
Meaning that the hip hoppers need at least one murder in order to stand a 
feature film, and LW seemed like a good fall guy.

I´m not surprised, nor particularly upset -- it´s Hollywood --, just taking 
note of the sheer cynicism.

Also in this Blues R no. reviews of Carlos D J and Rishell & Raines CD:s.

Cheers,
Martin



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