Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music.
Today's Listen: Lester Young, one of Mississippi's finest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHj9uNZOgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxZ3r1LGA4Q Cheers |
So Orpheus 10, I usually read your posts, but I read a lot of posts and rarely comment. I do believe you explained both "there's no most important instrument" and poverty vs affluent very well. Doesn't mean there aren't any thugs. But thugs come in every race, nationality and shape. And yes the whole country is falling apart. But we don't seem to care. |
@rok2id "St Louis has suffered the fate of all large cities." An incredibly gross over-simplification. Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Denver, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, San Diego - need I go on? Stick with music rok - your understanding of American sociology is wanting. BTW, I've driven I-70 across Kansas. I felt like I was on a treadmill, with the same desolate landscape punctuated by a town with a grain silo on the north side about every 11 miles. I'm glad we have Kansas, and I'm glad people live there and farm. But I have no use for driving through it again, and I'm not sure I get your affinity for it. |
@orpheus10 "In one word, what took St. Louis down was "JOBS"; when the going got rough, the tough got going and left, leaving the majority of neighborhoods to those least able to fend for themselves, and crime was for some, the only viable way to make a living." Bingo - here's someone who gets it. Here in Baltimore, we lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1960, and you don't need 3 guesses to figure out which race got laid off first. Whites stayed employed and used their money to move away (after housing discrimination was outlawed) - leaving the unemployed in the crappy city housing that was all they could afford. Capitalism moves on to the next best thing wherever it's happening, sometimes leaving millions of the least skilled (and intentionally marginalized) behind. Whether it's steel or coal, ex-employees and their families are left in the vacuum with little means of moving with the investment capital. |
