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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Maybe a vote on rec.music.rock is in order...
Message-ID: <6673@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Oct 89 14:52:08 GMT
References: <6532@ficc.uu.net> <177@scorn.sco.COM> <6574@ficc.uu.net> <1035@root44.co.uk> <6620@ficc.uu.net> <1159@ks.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1159@ks.UUCP> ebm@ibmarc.UUCP (Eli Messinger) writes:
> Widen your view and you'll see that there are still a few of us out here who
> like to think of music as music, and not as a bunch of genres strung together
> end-to-end.

Yes, I'm one of them. But when one genre overwhelmes the others, it's time
to make some more room... knock this wall down (unh) (hand me that hammer).
(there we go, the rec.music.rock room).

If you seriously hold this opinion, and you think that somehow rec.music.
rock would somehow tarnish the purity of this art form, how can you stand
all the *other* subgroups of rec.music?
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
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