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#105
Grateful Dead, Country & Western? Maybe country & Western inspired. But definitely not real country music. If it doesn't got a fiddle or steel guitar that makes you want to cry your eyes out, then it isn't real country music. :D



Here's a young Jonny Paycheck on bass

 
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Bad attitudes are to be found everywhere, from Craigslist to local Bars to even right here on this site.
From what I have experienced, 90% of ads that are laced with the arrogance of the one you posted, come from individuals that are nowhere nearly as talented as they think they are.
They are more successful at slinging their Ego's than they are at playing their instrument.
I'd have a hearty laugh at their ridiculous ad and move on. Or if curiosity grabs you, find out where their next gig is and see how "Great" they really are!
 
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Axstar said:
Marginally off-topic rambling ahead: As a millennial I find it somewhat ironic that my generation, aka Generation Snowflake, are characterised as being "...too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own". Ironic, because this is exactly the sort of stunted emotional maturity I associate with the sort of people that post an advert like the one in the OP. A good portion of that advert indicates that these 32 year old lads don't want any sort of dissenting opinion, musical or political, within their band, so who is too emotionally vulnerable to deal with views that challenge their own here? Ted Nugenty guys that feel they always have to make the preemptive strike, not because they are insecure or 'less emotionally resilient', but because they are 1) right and 2) under threat from people trying to erode their freedoms, rights etc, ad nauseum. And all of this probably because they are no good at fleshing out their arguments or ideas with any real conviction.

Hey, there is an issue with millennials trying to turn university campuses into giant blanket forts, but I tend to blame this on crappy parenting more than anything else. Even the neckbeards that listen to the Milo Yiannopoulos Podcast on repeat, and think they are a persecuted minority, are snowflakey in their own special way. When Milo sweeps into their campuses, under heavy protection from campus security and/or campus police, and then spins his banal platitudes and tortuous high-camp act to twenty guffawing nerds in fedoras, isn't that just another form of the much dreaded 'safe space'? All of this seems to be people wanting to hold their ideas within a sealed Petri dish, rather than road-test any of their ideas. One of the reasons I'm personally wary of having children is because of the number of totally doted on, spoiled children I see about the place. Affluent parents appear to treat kids as an interesting piece of project management, and their children have to experience the world to the absolute fullest, regardless of whether this means they actually learn how to behave as a member of society or not. Push straight to the front of the queue! Run around this restaurant screaming! Trash a shop window display! This is your time to shine! My kids wouldn't be like that, but what happens if all their colleagues, peers, bosses, teachers etc were raised this way?
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This. All of this.

I have read some really interesting stuff on the phenomenon of older generations deriding "Millennials" as "special snowflakes who need their safe spaces and safety pins to hold up their diapers" as basically akin to gaslighting an entire generation. By that, I mean it was actually the older generation who raised these "special snowflakes", told them they could be anything and to follow their dreams and succeed, then when they believed it and acted like it told them they were being selfish, lazy, dreamers who can't handle reality. So now it's the kids problem for listening to the adults who raised them. Silly kids, believing adults.

I work on a university campus that is considered one of the most liberal in my state. While there is some small amount of "head in sand syndrome" most of these kids work hard to pass their classes and do all the same stuff college kids have been doing forever.

People have also been misappropriating and misunderstanding what the term "safe space" actually referred to originally, but that's an entire other discussion.

You are correct though, political correctness and aversion to listening to other points of view isn't limited to one ideology. There are sacred cows and forbidden questions in every in-group. People are people, and they'll find ways to get offended.
 
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itsalljustaride said:
This. All of this.

I have read some really interesting stuff on the phenomenon of older generations deriding "Millennials" as "special snowflakes who need their safe spaces and safety pins to hold up their diapers" as basically akin to gaslighting an entire generation. By that, I mean it was actually the older generation who raised these "special snowflakes", told them they could be anything and to follow their dreams and succeed, then when they believed it and acted like it told them they were being selfish, lazy, dreamers who can't handle reality. So now it's the kids problem for listening to the adults who raised them. Silly kids, believing adults.

I work on a university campus that is considered one of the most liberal in my state. While there is some small amount of "head in sand syndrome" most of these kids work hard to pass their classes and do all the same stuff college kids have been doing forever.

People have also been misappropriating and misunderstanding what the term "safe space" actually referred to originally, but that's an entire other discussion.

You are correct though, political correctness and aversion to listening to other points of view isn't limited to one ideology. There are sacred cows and forbidden questions in every in-group. People are people, and they'll find ways to get offended.
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your post and @Axstar 's posts were top notch. the world is a better place with the 2 of you. I doff my cap
 
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itsalljustaride said:
This. All of this.

I have read some really interesting stuff on the phenomenon of older generations deriding "Millennials" as "special snowflakes who need their safe spaces and safety pins to hold up their diapers" as basically akin to gaslighting an entire generation. By that, I mean it was actually the older generation who raised these "special snowflakes", told them they could be anything and to follow their dreams and succeed, then when they believed it and acted like it told them they were being selfish, lazy, dreamers who can't handle reality. So now it's the kids problem for listening to the adults who raised them. Silly kids, believing adults.

I work on a university campus that is considered one of the most liberal in my state. While there is some small amount of "head in sand syndrome" most of these kids work hard to pass their classes and do all the same stuff college kids have been doing forever.

People have also been misappropriating and misunderstanding what the term "safe space" actually referred to originally, but that's an entire other discussion.

You are correct though, political correctness and aversion to listening to other points of view isn't limited to one ideology. There are sacred cows and forbidden questions in every in-group. People are people, and they'll find ways to get offended.
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DiabolusInMusic said:
I wouldn't go anywhere near a group of 32-year-olds that use the term "little snowflake". That term tends to be used by crochety old men who are hating on the new generation or by people who like to use slurs. At 32, I'd be thinking they're are the latter and their "dirty jokes" are probably "offensive" more so than "dirty".
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+1. The use of the term "snowflake" is a red flag. It shows that these guys have a certain tribal point of view and anyone who doesn't share it will not be accepted. Sort of anathema to what a guy would look for in an artistic situation, in my opinion.
 
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