Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: dance bands? Message-ID: <868@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 14:29:29 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.868 Posted: Wed Oct 3 14:29:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 20:20:25 EDT References: <1161@drutx.UUCP> <846@opus.UUCP> <4370@fortune.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 18 > > What I'm getting at is that, for example, the Grateful Dead are > > a real dance-your-***-off band, and they're playing as strong as ever, but > Grateful Dead a dance band? The only song of theirs I would consider > danceable is the version of Trucking done by the POP O PIES. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** (OK, I will:-) I thought that a dance-your-***-off band (whether that's the same as a dance band, I don't know) would be a band where most of the people who are listening to the band are dancing their ***es (sp?) off--in which case the Dead qualify to a greater extent than any other band. The Pop o Pies version of Trucking WAS good for a few yuks for the D'Heads and the band, but only as a flash-in-the-pan gimmick. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.