Good prose needs to be preserved.

I say, if you don't want something to be public, use email.

"you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube"

"you can't unwind a clock"

"no point in closing the barn door after the cow is gone"

etc., etc.

"OH LORRRRD, IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE"



chas

Chas and Diki...seems like we're always on the same page. and that's not a bad thing, either.


Be well,


Russ

Chas,

What is this? Grade school all over again? Are my in this forum to please YOU? I somehow doubt that. If you don't want to talk about music related topics, that's fine. But don't impede the flow of others.

So what if I dared to "break stride" and mention how I feel about seeing “death notices” posted here or how I feel about “world affairs” topics being brought up? You’re acting like I broke one of the Ten Commandments. Learn to attack the message and NOT the messenger! Out of 250 postings, I contributed more than my share of positive postings, but of course folks like you are too busy being on the “attack“ to even notice it. And the worst of my postings come nowhere near some of what I’ve read here in the past.

I'll use the same argument King used. If you don't like what someone writes, it's simple. Don't read it! It's a no-brainer! Even I'm learning to do that now. And trust me....it works.

Definitely never set yourself up to be judge, jury and executioner. As the good book says, "clear the splinter from your own eye first."

I watched some of you tear Donny apart a few weeks ago and, if I remember correctly, you even had a feeding frenzy with Diki at one point! IMO (note the IMO qualifier) it’s disgraceful and immature for grown adults to do this to each other. At least, Donny's out there using his music talent making music and making money and the same for Diki. I don’t see it should bother anyone how many keyboards Donny went through!

Now, there are certain people in this group I consider "players" and accomplished musicians just by how they talk here, and I have a great deal of respect for them. Unfortunately, I don't consider you to be one of them. So please save your remarks and polished writing skills (?) for someone else. Find a new "flavor of the week," because you're wasting your time with me. I learned long ago to always consider the “source” of negative remarks directed at me.

Lucky

...edited out as promised. Thank you Nigel for allowing me the brief platform.

Lucky

Lucky, in the future I'll try harder to gain your respect. Uh, how do I do that? But first, let me correct a couple of your assertions. First, you've never heard me beating up on Diki. He's one of the handful of guys whom I deeply respect, both musically and (especially) intellectually. In other words, "he gets it". Secondly, if you go back and read all the posts, you will see that I was NOT part of that "feeding frenzy" surrounding Donny's frequent "exchange" of keyboards and the drama surrounding those "exchanges". Frankly, I couldn't care less about the frequency of Donny's keyboard purchases. In fact, I have similar tendencies. I'm just too dumb to sell the old ones.

Frankly, I was just yanking your chain a bit about "going back to being humble" after first letting us know how 'great' you used to be. Here's a tip; want to keep your pulse rate down......don't take me too seriously (but also be careful what you write.....Diki and I and a few others, will be all over it ). If you know ahead of time that you need to remove a post ten minutes later, that's a pretty good indication that you shouldn't post it in the first place.

As far as not respecting me musically, no problem; hardly anybody does . Luckily, I was able to recognize my mediocrity early, and not pursue it (music) as a full-time career. Probably a smart choice on my part. Me, I tend to withhold judgement about someones musical ability unless or until I've heard them play. But as I always say, different strokes..........

chas

Now let us let Freddie RIP