This tidy rhyming phrase was coined in 1994 by Matthew Callan in order to point out that all formal ideologies involve the ingesting of the by-products of someone else's mental masturbation. Town Hall, as a record company and a group of musicians, does not believe in labels. It looks suspisciously upon those who wear them, knowing how easily they can be removed and replaced. Town Hall realizes that the denial of ideology is in itself an ideology. To avoid this catch-22, it sets no offical party line.
Members are free to agree or disagree with each other as little or as much as they like.
Music that truly results from such endeavors is usually puerile and poin tless - witness the Grateful Dead. We don't care. Or we care too much. We stay because w e feel the poor souls here need it the most. No problem is ever solved by running away.