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Quoted from "swinginstyle"
ah hip hop lindy, a dance form that should have been banned immediately after conception

Disagree. I think it was/is important to show that partner dance concepts are adaptable to various contexts, and that lindy isn't just some dead art form we resurrected to preserve in amber. That said, "lindy hip hop" as a recognized style was a bit flash-in-the-pan. :) (Also, that clip shows that Damon rocks the hotness, even well outside the blues genre.)

That's why there's a swing genre called west coast [edited to add] and I just saw that Damon mentioned that. But Damon, I still can't forgive you for stating that body rolls belong to west coast. Aaargghh get the facts right. :crash:

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Quoted from "swinginstyle"
That's why there's a swing genre called west coast [edited to add] and I just saw that Damon mentioned that. But Damon, I still can't forgive you for stating that body rolls belong to west coast. Aaargghh get the facts right. :crash:

You don't have to forgive me... but West Coast Swing added it what a decade ago? And it can still be seen nationally. I didn't say body-rolls belong IN WCS, just that there is where it diffused into Lindy Hop (and the slow-dancing done by lindy hoppers).

sofa. king.

I did say something like that, though I don't remember the exact words. I said what I did more for comedic effect and draw a clear line about what blues isn't, not so much as to make a definitive statement about WCS.

I probably should have found another way to say it so as not to misrepresent WCS. Totally my bad.

We caught Etta James headlining at the Ruth Brown Blues Festival in Portsmouth in April. Talk about a dirty bird!

It was pretty shocking to see a 70 year old graphically reminiscing about getting her itch scratched at wild sex parties during her days with Johnny "Guitar" Watson and sitting on stage straddling her chair and simulating getting and giving oral sex at on outdoor music festival.

As one review stated at another show on that tour.... "when she came out and straddled her chair while the Roots band played Come to Mama, refined was not the word that came to mind. Nor was it when she suggestively touched her microphone stand (or, um, herself) while imbuing the lyrics with all their filthy possibilities. Yeah, much to the delight of everyone present mingled, perhaps with some embarrassment on the part of the uninitiated few Etta started her set on a suitably lewd note and went on from there."

Then she'd mix in stories about her grand children. Definitely surreal; especially when our city just tossed a New Orleans musician off stage and arrested him for dropping the "f-bomb" at the Bayou Boogaloo festival.

Quoted from "Keither"
ZOMG! People have sex?! WTFBBQOMFGROFL!!!one!oneoneone11 Say it ain't so!

Um... I don't think that post is about people having sex. Read it again, Re-re.

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Quoted from "billy bakelite"
It was pretty shocking to see a 70 year old graphically reminiscing about getting her itch scratched at wild sex parties during her days with Johnny "Guitar" Watson and sitting on stage straddling her chair and simulating getting and giving oral sex at on outdoor music festival.

God, you're so right, Beckto. Clearly I've completely missed the point.

Glad you agree.

I'll tell you Chuck, I've never understood the titilation about watching a girl publicly deep throat a banana for a crowd of cheering, over-sexed guys or found much sexiness in the drunk girl at the bar flashing/touching while making that creepy eye contact indicating ANYONE should take her home. Its always made me think, "if she's got to do THAT in public to get attention, obviously she's got some screws loose."

So seeing Etta do it with a microphone stand &amp;/or water bottle was nothing new, novel or exciting. The fact that it was on a public stage at on outdoor concert with a multi-generational audience was what made it particularly inappropriate. Now, if it was Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 Weeks privately in my kitchen, that's a different story.

Its all about appropriateness within the context and surroundings.

My wife spent almost 200 for front row seats to see a musical icon as a birthday gift instead of sitting for free on the lawn seats. I'm sure she could have gotten somebody to give me a personal lap dance at the local strip joint for a quarter of that price and not had every kid in the neighborhood watching and asking mommy what she was doing.

And for the record, seeing 70 year old Etta doing it in the front row was probably a lot worse up close than seeing it from the lawn seats... sorry, call me agist; but I still would prefer to hear her sing than do that even if she was 25.

It was a cheap, lowest common denominator stunt from an icon who obviously has the talent to deliver better, especially when headlining a jazz festival in an outdoor public park. It was demeaning.

This thread is sooooo much better than the deodorant/anti-aliasing thread.

Sofa King.

Quoted from "Chuck Knuckles"
I just looked at the title of the thread and thought of a Yehoodi type response. Maybe retitling the thread "Why do male blues dancers get such great erections." Then I thought it would be in poor taste. So I am posting it anyway. I am not a fan of blues dancing. :disguise:

http://www.yehoodi.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=80768

Why rehash old Blues threads, why not just start a new round?