From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Ray Shea Goes Ballistic (was Re: Top 10 bands of all time)
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:22:43 GMT
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <1ei0baINNgco@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@xbar.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
>>Can it?  Is it true that RAY SHEA HAS NO FACE?
>
>met.a.phor \'met-*-.fo.(*)r, -f*r\ \.met-*-'fo.r-i-k*l, -'fa:r-\ 

hu-mor.  humor.  joke, i say, i say, it was a JOKE, son, a JOKE.

>I don't miss that point at all; I just don't think it gives him the
>right to spew his nausiating attackings on people with opinions that
>differ from his.  

I didn't attack *him*, I attacked his knowledge of music.  Granted, I know
we're not supposed to talk about music here unless it's in the form of a
list, but I just gotta be me.

>The point *YOU* seem to miss is that there exist people who have been
>reading this group for a long time without feeling the need to post
>their personal musical resumes, 

Again, I don't think I was posting a "musical resume", I was talking about
music...in a fucking music *newsgroup* ferchrissakes.

>Case in point: I still have *yet* to see any of you musical
>sophisticates actually address any of the content of my reply to Ray's
>ranting.  COULD IT BE that if you can't dispatch your victims posthaste
>that you don't really want to contribute?  COULD IT BE that you're
>really more interested in tearing people down rather than discussing
>the topics at hand?  

COULD IT BE that you only posted it less than two days ago, and some people's
replies (mine, for instance) hasn't made it to you yet?  Get a grip.

>But I *do* get the impression that this group is dominated by a small
>cadre of people who consider themselves musically superior to everyone
>else here

I for one don't consider myself musically superior to a lot of people.  Yes,
I know more about music than a lot of people here...I've been a DJ for ten
fucking years, I ought to.  I *enjoy* telling people about music they haven't
discovered yet.  And I *enjoy* hearing from people about music I haven't
discovered yet.  There's gobs of people here who know a hell of a lot more
about some kinds of music than I do (Jim Hori, Clayton, Eli, Andy) and
I don't get flamed by them because I don't spout off like some kind of
expert when I'm not.

>No, I get the sense that this group is dominated by a "fuckwad" of
>snobs, frankly, who are killing any chance for reasonable discussion of
>*anything* in a group that has a broad charter.

Funny, I've had several reasonable discussions with people here in the past
few weeks.  And I have yet to hear anything from *you* except a lot of
petulant whining.  Where's *your* opinion on *my* first post?  What do
*you* have to say about a Top 10 list which places the Police's reggae
influences above real reggae artists?  What do *you* have to say about
the influence of black musicians on American popular music?  You haven't
said thing one about music at all, from what I've seen.


>Why don't you all just join hands and dance in a circle for us?  You're
>*such* good friends and you know *so* much.  Right, Ray?  Kiss, kiss.

*smooch*.  I do have a whole lot of friends on this list...only three
of which I've ever met.  We talk a lot about music; we joke around a lot.
You could too, but you'd rather bitch.  Oh well.

-- 
Ray Shea                               I woke up this morning,
UniSQL, Inc.                           all my shrimps was dead and gone...
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu       
DoD #0372 -- Team Twinkie -- '88 Hawk NT650
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