OmbraSorrore (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You do get the occasional band or artist with this much passion, just not a lot of them and not consistently...

OmbraSorrore (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You have heard of classical music yes?? people listened to that without dancing, and also gospel - both choir and rock had people listening without dancing. I also don't think they had many people dancing to the vast majority of blues or bluegrass either. Bands like this one were around long before the fabricated boy bands like the Beatles and the Monkees and they will be around long after them too, & as it happens I have a rather comprehensive critical knowledge of modern music. 5 years worth.

mick005usa (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I don't think you can equate slavery with 'blood for oil.'

Napier1000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

American traditional music made people sit down and listen long before the Beatles. So did blues, blue grass, etc etc. Both White and Black southern and Appalachian music along with Irish influence made American music long before the Beatles came along. My view is the Beatles and Stones were the beginning of the end of real music. Hell the dam Stones were ripping off one old southern black musician after another...Don Mclean was right!

bernardshakey2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What does the Beatles have to do with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"??? No one gives a fuck about it.

britishinvasion1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

If you dont think that The Beatles are the Measuring stick for pop/rock then you dont have any critical knowledge of modern music. The beatles single handedly legitimized the pop/rock as a art form. No other can make that claim. One could say that the "Beatles" are when people stopped dancing and started listening to the music. Without them average/mediocre bands like the "Band" would never have been heard.

mattjmd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hell yeah, well put. Long live the South.

YouMe7898 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Just watching the way they play the instruments, it's a great thing.

TheTerminator97 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

slavery was just propaganda to keep the europeans out of the war.

jockherbertperry (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My great great uncle was a Brigadier General in the Florida Guards. Preservation of state rights was the key reason Southerners fought the Union - slavery was merely the moral instrument used by the Federal Govt (Union), to wage war. Same crap still happening today (Oil=Iraq). Maybe the South was right after all. Long live the South.