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- Zurf

Well, Over the Rainbow could be reworked as a Country Waltz too.  You could probably do a little Bluegrass finger-pick riff work with "If I Only Had a Brain."  It's a little too early and a little too long since I've watched Wizard of Oz to remember the other songs right now.

- Zurf

Rich Kid Doctor by Ken "Dirty Ed" Willis

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Alvee - I think you nailed it on the head.  Christian music is for the most part boring to me.  There's some good tunes, but there's a lot of repetitive stinkers.  I call them 7/11 songs.  Seven words repeated eleven times.  But the genre of Christian Rock and Christian Country is maturing to the point that there's some tunes I like quite a lot.  The problem I've always had was how repetitive the songs were.  That happens frequently in secular Rock and Country as well, and I don't like those songs any better. 

I'm going to check out some of the sites referenced on this thread.  Sounds like there could be some good stuff.

- Zurf

Let me know when you come across a happy woman!

- Zurf

Let me be very clear about this.  Any vendor selling BAKED corn dogs should be immediately evacuated from the county fair and his ovens condemned.  Corn dogs should be fried!!!  Anything else is an offense to the gastrointestinal nightmare that is fair food. 

- Zurf

Sockrocker has it just right for the Christian music.  It's a sort of folk/pop fusion.  I call them 7/11 songs.  Seven words repeated eleven times.  There are a few Christian themed bands I enjoy, Mercy Me and some of Randy Travis' latest releases are examples.  The bands I enjoy are bands that play Rock or Country with Christian themed lyrics, and not necessarily worship or praise music.  The difference between worship and praise music, I have yet to grasp.  I play in a worship band as a backup musician (will actually be getting stage time in a couple Sundays), but we tend to rock out a bit more than the mamby-pamby stuff I hear on the radio. 

Being Indie has more to do with whether the band has a contract with a recording lable or not and has very little to do with style of music.  There are gazillions of Indie bands.  With the advent of relatively inexpensive studio equipment, including mixing and production equipment, it's now possible for a band to have their own studio and publish their own CD's.  Then they can sell them through sites like CDBaby.com (great site, by the way) or their own web-sites.  One of my current favorites along this line is The Duhks out of Canada.  It's mostly music that doesn't fit neatly into Country, or Rock, or Folk.  The Duhks play music that blends elements of Celtic/Cape Breton, Rock, Folk, and Bluegrass.  Another of my favorites is Hillbilly Idol, a band whose slogan is "It's not your grandfather's country music, but he'd probably approve."  This weekend, I'm going to be meeting up with a buddy on a fishing trip.  He records music in his spare bedroom, publishes CDs on his home computer, and gives the music away as gifts to friends.  He could be consider an "Indie."  I call his style of music "campfire music", because that's where you're most likely to hear it.  Good stuff. 

- Zurf

Now that I've had the chance to think about it, I guess I have a few things that get my goat.

- Cruelty.  Not meaning tough love where firmness makes a kid cry but your intentions are to teach an important lesson.  I mean inflicting pain for no reason except to salve your own frustration type of cruelty. 

- Deception.  Hanging out with me can be difficult, because I don't like deception.  I don't even like the "doesn't your hair look great" when it looks like crap but the person just paid $200 to get it to look like crap sort of white lies.  So, I tell people what I think, or I hold my tongue remembering what my Gram taught me about not saying anything if you haven't got anything nice to say.  But usually I can get creative like Pollyanna and come up with something nice AND honest to say about anything or anyone. 

Manipulation - I don't like people thinking for me, or for others in general.  Think for yourself and let others think for themselves.  Don't go protecting them from themselves either.  They aren't go to learn if you do, and maybe just maybe they don't have the same dislikes and distastes and don't find whatever outcome that's coming to be unpleasant.  I hate being gamed or played.  I am very good at spotting when someone is gaming me.  So good in fact, that I made a living off it for near on to twenty years.  As a negotiator, it was my job to figure out what people were up to and to take an informed decision as to whether or not to let them. 

There you have it.  I don't like cruelty, deception, or manipulation.  I'm sure there's more, but those are some biggies.  The rest are probably just nits and may fit into one of these three anyway. 

- Zurf

Boneheads.

- Big D

1. I believe Henley has admitted to having had an interest in the occult.  That is not the same thing as being a satanist.  When it comes to accusing, be very careful to be accurate.  Further, having dabbled in the occult does not condemn a man if he comes to Jesus later.  Do you know the current status of Henley's heart?  If not, then I think you should be doubly careful.  Do you know anyone who is a Christian now that did not have a cause for repentence?  I don't. 

2. Your argument makes no sense.  You say that Henley is unreliable, but that a person who knew Henley at one time is reliable when speaking of him.  But where would the person who knew Henley have gotten his information about Henley but from Henley himself?  How does an unreliable source get to be reliable by passing through a third party?  That doesn't pass the BS-meter.  I don't mean to accuse you of lying, but I am suggesting that you think it through from this perspective and see if you'd like to amend your comment.

3. What do you know of Satanists?  There can be no deception without partial truth.  The best lies merely encourage false perceptions to observable facts.   Even if Henley were a Satanist, what would be the reason to sing a song about Satan and then mislead people to thinking it was about something else?  There is no sense to the suggestion.  He would have just not sung the song if he wanted to deceive people.  Or sung about truth, happiness, and butterflies to mislead people.

- Zurf

Well, not too funny but an odd circumstance.  My brother-in-law occaissionally sings bass in a bluegrass band.  Well, one time the band was invited to a private club up in the hills.  They took the job and went to the club.  It was a pretty high security place - double pass doors, bouncers inside the second set, one-way glass so that the folks in the club could see who was coming in the doors but the folks coming in couldn't see who was in the club.  That sort of thing.

Well, once they got inside and set up and got the chance to look around the room, they started to notice some KKK paraphernalia.  Then when the members started coming and removing their robes and headpieces, they knew they were going to be getting out of that club just as soon as their contract was complete. 

- Zurf