Re: [LAU] Foul Language

David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2007, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>> On 4/8/07, David Baron <d_baron@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>> So am I, sort of. Grew up in the 60s. Woodstock. The whole hippie scene.
>>> I loved Hendricks, though I was more a "folkie". He and all the others
>>> that took tremendous talent and used it for vulgar (and narcotic) things
>>> all ended the same. What a tremendous and horrid pity. What a waste.
>>>
>>> Enjoy Zappa. This does not mean using cheap or foul language in a public
>>> forum about Linux and music which has members of all ideas and
>>> backgrounds, does it?
>> I was actually not thinking of Zappa's music (you must know that he
>> was narcotic-free). I was thinking of some of his publicly broadcast
>> arguments with do-gooders during the Tipper fiasco. Even face-to-face
>> he let them have it.
> Must have been cool!
>> You misspell Hendrix and call him vulgar. lol thanks for your opinion.
> I did not call Hendrix (yes, spelling counts) vulgar. I said that many great
> talents used their talent in a vulgar manner and the consequences were in
> fact that we no longer have the talents with us today.

A musician (or any artist) using his or her talents in a vulgar manner
has nothing to do with whether or not their talents are with us today.
Earnest Hemingway isn't with us today, because he shot himself. Did he
use his talent in a vulgar way?

-- 
David
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