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Yes, the interesting thing is that the backlash, as near I could tell, was more people voting with their feet and staying away, or talking to Meeshi directly, rather than people posting on the forum. Ron, what did you expect when we tried to make people listen and dance to what was essentially unfa...

Gotcha.

The members of the band are: Anita Thomas - reeds, vocals, arranger Katie Cavera - guitar, vocals, arranger Carl Sonny Leyland - piano, vocals Mike Earls - bass Hal Smith - drums, leader They're going to be playing on June 15th at the Aubergine. You should come down for it, Peter. I have the feeling...

So, just out of curiosity, why was the number of posts removed from the author info?

GemZombie wrote:Ya, and the local groovers are making me play it. Argh, I'm going to destroy my copy of it.

Haha! I never succumbed to the pressure, so I don't have it.

We have a new band in San Diego that I think some of you guys will like. The name of the band is Hal's Angels, and it's made up of some of San Diego's best musicians including Carl Sonny Leyland and Hal Smith. You can check out some clips from one of their demo CDs here . They play all sorts of stuf...

The bitching and moaning I think he's referring to is the constant broken-record "you aren't dancing Lindy Hop", and "why don't you play some Lindy Hop music?" postings all over the net. You have to admit, Ron, that you've bitched and moaned a lot about "poor quality lo-fi ...

Ron wrote:...but I have a hi-fi version I like better...

Good old Ron.

Occasionally, if I have a really good song, I might play it twice. But, I'll only do that if I play it early on in the night, before most of the regulars show up, and then again later when most of the newbies have left and the venue is filled with regulars. But, that's very rare. It usually only hap...

SirScratchAlot wrote:I hear ya...but in 50 years it will be all broken down and workshops will be givin by white dudes all across the world.

Sweet! I guess I have a future as a hip-hop dance instructor after all!

It does seem to me by reading the internet that the "groove" dancers do infact want to drive away those that dance the original form of Lindy Hop and the music that went along with it so that the new dance will not be bothered by those hyper active dancers. It's just history re-peating it...

I went to an event this weekend where they played the same songs 3 times or so. They just had the CD/CDs on repeat. It was pretty bad.

main_stem wrote:I was one. LOL I actually started dancing because my friends had a band, Blue Plate Special, back in college.

Blue Plate Special rules!

SirScratchAlot wrote:Yea, now you know the turn offs to Groove and why it's acually in the same vein as west coast swing and Carolina shag. Lindy Hop is one of those couples dances that can reflect the element of challenge or battle.

You say that as if I wasn't aware of that already.

:shock: Yes, a bad analogy, out of which the only salient point I draw is that you're watching all kinds of "Neo-sci-fi geek crap" and need to try watching something interesting in comparison... like McGyver. :lol: Actually I've probably watched more episodes of McGuyver than Star Trek. I...