Re: Mould Bashing, etc.

DLebo10711@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Without naming names (this phrase alone is probably sufficient to indicate
> who it is I'm talking about, which, if true, speaks volumes), let's knock off
> the Bob Mould bashing and try to keep this list on topic. Not all of us want
> (or can afford) to spend all day reading a clogged-up digest filled with
> useless drivel stemming from someone's need to publicly display a curiously
> excessive, beleagured and vulgar diatribe against Bob Mould.
> Enough already. No one on this list really cares what you think about Mould.
> Why do you feel this need to continually broach the subject, complete with
> adolescent-level homophobia mixed in.
> 
> Pete Townshend is a fan of Bob Mould's music; Pete was to produce the next
> Husker Du album after Warehouse, until the band broke up before the album
> could be started. Pete personally asked Bob to open the NYC Supper Club
> shows, just as Pete was the one who asked The Clash to open the '82 tour,
> etc. My point is only that Pete listens to a wide variety of music, as do
> most of us. He doesn't just listen to The Who. And if one's own musical
> tastes are not perfectly isomorphic to Pete's, it doesn't warrant telling the
> musician Pete has selected to open for him to, for example, "go home" or "get
> off the stage".
> 
> It's really a shame that an individual with so much valid Who information,
> information that can be quite helpful to many list-members, feels the need to
> over-expose themselves and continuously try to dominate the tone of this
> list. Maybe it's the whole *He who has the most toys wins* mentality, which I
> fully expect to see realized once again after this message is posted.
> 
> David Thirteen
> 
> *I was a detective; brave and fearless. Like Sherlock I had my idiot partner.
> We called him Fan and he was black. I always listened carefully to whatever
> he said, then disregarded it. Why, at this point in my career, should I have
> even bothered with such buffoonery?*
> 
>        ---  opening paragraph from the story *The Plate* in *Horse's Neck*

Hmmmmm, what if no one wanted to read the "clogged up....useless 
drivel..." that you've chosen to pervade here?