No disdain, Joe. I can't write the kind of songs you can, and you
can't necessarily do everything everybody else can. It's as
simple as all that. It takes all kinds. It would be a very dull
world if we were all the same.
Bill Mandel
Joe McDonald wrote:
>
> gee wizz guys i am starting to feel like a tennis ball: i am an "artist" that "intuits" things and not a "logical type" i am just a "musician" "cut me some slack".
> wazzup dudes?! i don wanna beef again but i am having a Jane Fonda flashback when she told me "the GI's are just working class guys who dont know how to spell". well
> us dumb bells, or lumpen, or freaks bleed if you cut us and "serve" in all segments of society. disdain is not a nice thing even disguised as a complement. no cheers
> this time from me, country joe mcdonald
>
> William Mandel wrote:
>
> > My reaction to Joe's post to me a few days back was to flash on
> > de St. Exupery's phrase: "Happiness is when you are understood,"
> > and that artists often intuit things us supposedly logical types
> > have trouble with.
> > Bill Mandel
> >
> > Joe McDonald wrote:
> > >
> > > monkerud wrote:
> > >
> > > > If Joe's views are supposed to be from the left, we're in bad shape. And yet his views reveal how little the ideas that we put forth reached ordinary Americans.
> > > >
> > > > We should perhaps cut the guy some slack ... he's a musician after all and apparently didn't learn much from being around the political movement.
> > >
>
> -- "Ira Furor Brevis Est " - Anger is a brief madness
>
> country joe Home Pg <http://www.countryjoe.com>
> country joe's tribute to Florence Nightingale <http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale>
> Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial <http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Links/Comm/vvm>
> Rag Baby Online Magazine <http://www.ragbaby.com/magazine>
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