5 balls total!? whos rockin' the uni-ball!?

I have to say Krissi, after a very thorough reading of your blog, there are a couple of things that stand out to me.

Most glaringly, you twice name Spoonfed Tribe as the winner of the Festival. Fatty Lumpkin took the night's honor.

I take it the pride and pretention wrapped up in those two misstatements ("I’ll kill the suspense: Spoonfed Tribe had it the bag from the beginning." & "...though we don’t know the official results, I’d be amazed if this wasn’t the consensus choice...") must simply be a trademark of your delightful personality.

Directly contradicting oneself usually comes with a hint of irony...you plow right through oblivious. Kudos. Not every day one finds a supposed jouranlist willing to give an admission of ignorance after an authoritative spoiler.

Furthermore, you begin your 'review' with a not-so-secret bashing of the host, "...Wakarusa Music Festival in Lawrence, Kan. -- or an actual ticketed version of my own personal hell."

Interesting. Understood that blogs are not THE bar of journalistic integrity; it's your blog, it's your opinion...but why attend an event you know from go you're just going to despise and bash...and then try to pass off that bashing as some sort of gospel truth that the good people of Dallas should take your word on?

Furthermore, the Catfish Whiskey band you speak of recently had their new album reviewed by The Observer (among several other noteworthy DFW papers). It was an extremely positive review (as were the others), comparing the band's sound to Dylan (whom you definitely seem to recognize as someone you're supposed to respect), The Allman Brothers (whom you probably don't appreciate) and Tom Waits (whom you probably don't know but most likely wouldn't 'get' unless someone told you to).

Obviously, this doesn't carry anything too weighty behind it, save throwing a little balance to your very immature, very mean spirited, and entirely skewed view of what for every other person in that bar was a wonderful night of music and fun.

I pray the good Lord helps you find a mirror.

Just wanted to make sure you had an email address to reach me on.

I've seen all these bands before and know the style they play. Your review and opinions went well beyond any type of professional reporting and directed more of a "brow-beating" and "tasteless obseravtions". This article would be like Barry Manilow reviewing Phish, and Barry hates 8 minute songs.

well! i'm glad the waka winter classic made its way to dallas this year. and our local boys all put on a good show in the "lamest" genre of music! congratulations FATTY LUMPKIN who'll represent the Big D at Waka! i'm sorry this poor writer had to waste her evening with a bunch of predictable bong-smoking hippie jam bands! :)

Didn't Fatty Lumpkin win the night? Oh yeah, they did. Small detail. One more small detail, Spoonfed Tribe seemed like they were festival ready because they are festival ready, THEY'VE PLAYED LOLLAPALOOZA. I guess the local high school journalism departments aren't churning out Pulitzer Prize winning journalists they once were. By the way, Ms. Reeves, its pronounced PULL-itzer, as I'm sure you got that small detail wrong. Luckily, I don't think anyone is reading.

Krissi,
It’s a shame how small minded a “so called” aspiring music journalist. I definitely have to disagree with your rating for Catfish Whiskey. Their talent and presentation conveys some of the best music I have heard in a long time. Keep up the good work, Catfish Whiskey!!! I can’t wait to see you perform again.

Jamie

Wow! The writer of this article obviously has no idea what he is talking about. Snarky Puppy was "exciting as a circle jerk in a TCU dorm room" this guy clearly lives a very jaded unfulfilling life.

I am disappointed to see that the above article passes for journalism. Evaluating music is at best personal preference, but the immature tone of this article is regrettable. The fact that the author even cited the wrong winner of this event illustrates her lack of knowledge and capability as a journalist. I would suggest that Dallas Observer reconsider this particular writer's employment in short order.

Booooo

I have friends from Lawrence, Kansas and I am from Dallas, Texas. First off, people from Kansas are fucking right on...too bad "Krissy", you just don't get it.

GO back to your office and cry me a "whiver", "Kwissy".

As if the reader couldn't tell before this point in the article, your mention of Waukarusa being your own personal hell completely discredits your reviews of the bands aspiring to be seen there. If you have no appreciation for the KIND of music being played, you really have no business reviewing the musicians playing it or judging those who appreciate it.

FATTY LUMPKIN ARE YOU KIDDING ME, 5 OUT OF 5, ITS NOT HARD TO SEE

I would think that someone who has the opportunity to write for such a prominent music publication would focus on the music and not dwell on superficial aspects of a band, but obviously that assumption is incorrect. Does appearance have a direct correlation with the quality of music? In my experience it does not. If you want to criticize people's appearance, then maybe you should go write for a fashion magazine. Stick to what we want to hear about, the music.

I'm sorry that I followed the link to your story, written so blatantly just to attract hits to your blog.

I will forego any further explanation and treat you with the same journalistic integrity you have shown jam bands.

You suck. Good day.

I can't believe music criticism is your job and you haven't even contemplated the role of genre beyond the most superficial level. You missed quite a bit of detail and lumped us all together as "jam bands". Please give your fellow man more credit in future write-ups.

As the barefooted, pearl-snap wearing frontman of A Partial Freakout, my offense should be taken directly with you, the author. Yet I find myself feeling sorry for you. Obviously you haven't found something in your life that you love. Either that, or it's not loving you back. Either case is not the point.

The point is that any genre, scene, or collection of like-minded people serves one purpose: comraderie. Most individuals, normal or abnormal, crave a need to be surrounded by positive vibrations and good spirits. Surely, there are people who don't crave this primal need to be "associated" but these type of people generally don't put themselves in highly volatile social situations. You don't fit either category. You seem to assimilate with a very strange group. (Allow me to name-call for a moment.) Sado-Masochist. By clinical definition, you not only gratified yourself by hurting others with your poorly written reviews, but you gratified yourself by enduring something that you knew full well was unappealing and painful. For that, I feel sorry for you.

On the other hand, these "hippies", much like myself, were there to feel the good vibrations and to be a part of something that they felt was spectactular. This wasn't a Hitler Youth rally, this was a feel-goodery. Which is not a terrible thing. The collective was in attendence to have a good time, and well, they did. When was the last time you really felt good, Ms. Reeves? Honestly ask yourself that question.

Finally, Ms. Reeves, you indicted your character. You basically bullied a culture (or scene) that has been classically known as benevolent and loving. You assaulted our friends and our families with ill-prepared statements and rash generalizations. I hope you find that something you love, or it starts loving you back, because you'll see why we are bong-ripping, life-loving, crazy-dancing, pearl-snapping, barefooted freaks that don't take to name-calling and really expect more out of humanity then backhanded remarks and seventh grade sarcasm.

Bryant Goodall

PS. What does it mean when you are rated worst band by someone with poor taste in music? Did we secretly become the best band of the evening because we annoyed you the most? Thank god, for APF. =)

Kudos to Ms. Reeves for hitting the nail on the head!! Jam bands are dead and hippies suck. Wake up and get busy. There's already one Phish, and they seem to have it covered pretty well. Ms. Reeves DID focus on the music...it's just that the bands sucked and she let us know accordingly. I, for one, am glad i was warned!!!Oh yeah, and Clay Hornaday - incredibly stupid to threaten someone you don't know with such grievous bodily harm, especially if you're a sad, granola crunching weakling with poor hygene. Music is beautiful and diverse, as our opinions of it, and because someone pans one of your fucking pet bands is not a reason to put them on blast in the order of a Salem witch trial.If you ever talk to a girl in your lifetime, I would leave that nasty bit out...

Mister Dolla, were you at the show? All of the bands participating in the event were not jam bands. If she can't even recognize that, she has no business being there. She made fun of people's physical appearance...their weight, clothing, height, etc. To me, this is completely unprofessional. In a nutshell, Krissi sucks balls! Her writing rocks 0 of my balls off!

well I thought ms. Reeves was the most ignorant person in Dallas until I read Johnny Dolla's blog

Can someone please define "jam band", What makes a "jam band" Is it because there are hippy's in the crowd. If that is the case blackalicious, Radiohead and Del McCorry are jam bands

Scott McCurry= AC
Snarky Puppy= Jazz fusion
Catfish Whiskey= souther rock/blues
A Partial Freakout= Rock and or roll
Fatty Lumpkin= Funk
Spoonfed tribe= tribal metal/ really lame music
None of the above= Jam band.

I think krissy and Johnny are a match made in heaven. You two should get together for a drink, Just make sure there is some rat poison in it first

Obviously, if there's one thing that hippy pot-head jam band fans hate more than personal hygiene, it's someone pointing out that hippy pot-head jam band fans have terrible taste in music. Their anger (and their white boy dreadlocks) will keep them warm through to Spring.

I find it odd that someone who clearly has such a huge disdain for everything this festival represents should be writing about it. Do the words "foregone conclusion" mean anything to you? I wasn't there. But my friend's band was. And you know what? Because I am not a fan of this genre, I know better than to write a review of it for folks. Seems a little arrogant to me.

Hang in there Krissi. While most of these choads from the Dallas area and the surrounding sticks, bash your article I loved it and I laughed my ass off.

There's nothing worse than jam bands except for predictable, unoriginal jam bands with brilliantly back wooded fans who are willing to bash a journalist for doing their job. I guess people don't understand that these reviews are usually assigned to the journalist and not chosen. Further more none of these bumpkins seems to know a thing about whats going down with music scene these days. Jam bands are not in a growth phase. This is the decline the jam band and their grip of the local small venues... I hope.

What disturbs me most is what passes for acceptable rhetoric on this blog. So I assuming now, that Da Da allows high school children to attend their shows. I based that assumption on the intellect displayed in the above comments. OK, you don't have to be a brainiac to go hear live "music" or even to blog your response to an unfavorable review but some of these statements are just pointless insults. Many of these comments have nothing to do with the article or the event. Observer, edit your bogs please. Take out the trash. This is brutal, unwarranted and absolutely unprofessional.

As for the rest of you. Appreciate the honesty of a person like Krissi even if your rage and differences cause you to argue your case. As artists we must accept that some may not like what we create. Realising this, we need to acknowledge their opinion and debate the issues intelligently if necessary or in this case debate intelligently if possible. This never includes harsh insults or any other deviations from reasonable, issue driven, conversation.

Krissi, keep doing what you're doing. Let the hate mail and harsh comments roll off your back until they pile up into a mountain from which your voice will only be louder. I have read many of your articles and I must inform you that I've not always agreed but I've always enjoyed your writing. You might be the funniest, most sincere and most original voice at the Observer. It would be a shame to see them allow this type of immature conversation in the future. I will be watching.

Sincerely

Clint

P.S. I just read more comments and I find it funny that a hillbilly, under the title of anonymous, claims to have balls. Lets understand something here. Before you can have your balls rocked off, you must first procure, steal or grow some balls. It's just a suggestion.

Clint Scism

wow what an ignorant bitch!!! all the music at the show that night was so diverse it was the reason i enjoyed the night the most! jam bands are DEAD!!!!! hello widespread has been touring for over twenty years not to count the fact that just about every band and every style of music has some kinda jam goin on or it wouldnt be any good! anyone who would credit this persons review knows nothing of music or what it means. i bet this womans favorite music is brooks and dunn mixed with an exciting nite of achy breaky heart. get a new job cuz u obviously suck at journalism

First of all, I am amazed The Observer spends the money to pay you to attend events and write such an uneducated and poorly written excuse for a review. Your obvious distaste for so-called "jam bands" hindered your ability to appreciate popular, YES popular local bands. (Of which you can find at any number of bars around Dallas putting on a show that even gets the geezers dancing) I have seen all of these bands more times than I can even count, and I am offend by how easily you can simply lump them all into the same category. I will admit I am very biased to A Partial Freakout, they are all good friends of mine, and the fact they were the band you enjoyed least only makes me laugh. Clearly you are clueless. Go to another one of their shows, I dare you! Bryant Goodall is uncreative? Will Dowdy has no imagination? Robbie Crist's appearance matters more to you than his talent? And that doesn't even include the other 3 members of the band!!!! Their ability and improvisational skills may just boggle your closed mind on any given night.

And p.s. - Take a listen to Catfish Whiskey's new album, the fact you likened them to Dukes of Hazard makes me pity you and your terrible taste in new musical talent.

Clint, instead of focusing singularly on the admittedly unfortunate comments directed at Krissi personally, why don't you turn that sharp gaze of yours to the legitimate problems with the writing??

Many people (ahem, myself first on this list) gave pretty civil and thorough reasons why this article is lacking in integrity, but you didn't bother with that.

No sir, you were busy contradicting yourself:

Clint says one thing- "So I assuming now, that Da Da allows high school children to attend their shows. I based that assumption on the intellect displayed in the above comments."

Clint fails high school- "This is the decline the jam band and their grip of the local small venues... I hope."

*that's not out of context, it simply is a sentence that does not make sense...because it is simply not a sentence. Can someone in Da Da High help Clint with his syntax? And in case anyone missed it, is "So I assuming now..." correct, or should there be an 'am' in there somewhere??? Class?

Clint is indignant and speaks with great pride- "...we need to acknowledge their opinion and debate the issues intelligently if necessary or in this case debate intelligently if possible. This never includes harsh insults or any other deviations from reasonable, issue driven, conversation."

Clint opens his rant- "While most of these choads from the Dallas area and the surrounding sticks..."

Clint continues, "There's nothing worse than jam bands except for predictable, unoriginal jam bands with brilliantly back wooded fans...Further more none of these bumpkins seems to know a thing about whats going down with music scene these days."

*Damn Clint, there is that tricky syntax again...and 'Further more,' is one word 'braniac.' 'Choads'? That is a good word to contradict yourself with friend. And did you come up with 'brilliantly back wooded' or were you fed that by some 'bumpkin' who doesn't know that if you are going to make up a word, you should at least know where to place a hyphen? Or, once again, know that backwoods is only one word.

See, Krissi made the opening attacks personal. She did not simply review music, she passed judgement on a whole group of people, called names, and insulted many folks who just came out to have a good night.

She discredited herself entirely by opening up saying that Wakarusa (the festival that put on this show) was her ticketed version of hell, and that jambands are the lamest genre. Aside from the fact that 'jamband' may or may not be a fair or appropriate label for all or any of the bands at the event, she saw most of them as such and wrote her review from a decidedly unobjective slant.

We have not even mentioned that she got two pretty significant facts to her clever story wrong: 1)Scott McCurry's mother was NOT there rocking her balls off 2)Spoonfed did NOT win.

So Johnny Dolla, you who are so ready to take her word about a bunch of bands you did NOT see or hear, maybe you should reconsider how you feel about the so-called jambands at the event. And Phish does not have anything much covered these days...maybe a lack of fact checking runs in the blood of those who have trouble recognizing appropriate journalism from inappropriate...

clint--so naive--you rock 0 of my balls off

just one small point to make about this whole thing: soooo Krissy, that's a girls name. Your judgements are bassed on how much we "rock your balls". well, i can say that A Partial Freakout is very glad to have rocked 0 of your 5 female balls.

quit music journalism (if you wanna read some well-thought-out negative music journalism, try Lester Bangs. This is neither journalism, nor is it thought out)... i bet there's an industry for a chick w/ 5 balls

w.

First of all, when did two girls become members of a Partial Freakout? Oh yeah, never. You might want to note that as well, editor.

I am holding back from being mean here as hard as it is to do but apparently for Krissi, ignorance must truly be bliss because this might be the most ignorant piece of garbage I have ever read in my life...and I've read a lot in my days. As others have already pointed out I guess not much should be expected from some broad's little blog on the Dallas Observer's website but still. This is plain ridiculous.

I could ramble on but it's pretty much all been covered already. The only thing left to say is Krissi-I've thanked God everyday for the past three that I do not lead the same sad and miserable life that you do. FU.

Hey everyone. My name is David Barrett and I put together this year's Waka Winter Classic tour. First off I want to say that if someone hadn't written at least one article referencing bong hits and 30 minute songs then I wouldn't even consider the tour a success. So thanks for coming through on that end Krissi. The reason behind this sentiment is because some "journalist" always writes an article about Wakarusa with the same misconceptions and nonsensical ramblings. I'm sure someone will again churn out a story laden with drug references and a strange fixation on dreadlocks while completely ignoring the fact that our headliners include Emmylou Harris, The Flaming Lips, and Cake. Wow, those bands sure do inspire the unwashed masses.

Really the one thing that truly bothers me is the bashing of the musicians that played the show. I heard every type of genre of music performed that night with feeling and style. From the blast of southern-fried rock courtesy of Catfish Whiskey to the heavy tribal beats of Spoonfed Tribe my attention rarely wondered far from the stage. (And after producing the 18 previous shows this feat in itself is highly commendable) The lineup of bands was very diverse as compared to some of our other shows and every musician performing gave it their all. Kudos to them and don't let anything written here take away from what you are doing. This article is about style over substance. It is written in that sarcastic and cynical tone that is often mistaken by those trying to get noticed as "smart and sassy." Remember if it becomes cool to not like your music then it probably means you're starting to do pretty well for yourself.

Thanks again to everyone who came out to the shows to support live music and huge props to all the bands that participated.

Cheers,

David Barrett
Tour Coordinator
Waka Winter Classic
www.wakawinterclassic.com

One more thing I forgot to mention: I'll sweep the leg.

Easy people. There's no need for anyone to get too butt-hurt here...Krissi obviously didn't have a good time, and would have been happier at another show, that's all. It's not a reflection on anybody's talent. Many people at Dada that night wouldn't have had too much fun at a show by some indie band. I like chicken, you like steak, etc.

However, I like to think of myself as someone who really appreciates music, and as such I can find something I like about pretty much any type of music. It's hard for me to totally trash an artist/genre because dammit, it's music. Even when it doesn't rock my balls off I can find something to at least interest me.

I know a lot of people who are like this, and I would hope it's an essential prerequisite if one wants to write professionally about music. Sadly, Ms. Reeves seems to lack this quality. Her critique was immature and myopic.

But, that's okay, because this isn't music journalism. This is a blog. This is the same medium that neo-Nazis and fundamentalists and nerds and all other kinds of unsavory folks have used for years to spout their own immature and myopic opinions.

Don't let the fact that it's attached (tick-like?) to a legitimate paper fool you. Papers want to incorporate blogging because they can sense their own impending obsolescence. Blogs are just the 21st century op-ed piece, and like the op-ed, only carry as much integrity as their author.

So the great thing here is that you can just ignore this review. It's ok. It's just someone's opinion, and besides it's not like it's going to get un-written. Personally attacking Ms. Reeves or any of her supporters is only going to strengthen her dislike of the bands/community, and keeps the level of rhetoric as unsophisticated as that in the original article.

Krissi, you've got a good style, and you could do so much better than the unprovoked, petty mockery of this piece. Your bit on the Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show was good.

The writer has so much hatred pouring out into this "review", that im not really convened she even went to the show. Fatty raged it for sure, so did everyone else.

I mean, if you didnt like the show explain why without being insulting.

p.s. i bet you're fun at parties..

Yeah, I'm not sure I know of anyone who looks to The Dallas Observer for "journalism". I generally expect snarky, bitchy, and amusing articles, and Krissi delivered. If you want journalism then call up Spin, Rolling Stone, or hell, maybe the good old DMN. But I suspect they wouldn't waste their time on this show (well, clearly they didn't). I'm not sure but perhaps this article will lead the lovers of your particular genre(s) of music to you and the venues that feature you. Maybe not. Regardless, funny article, some fairly funny responses, and some really lame whiny ones as well, which wind up being unintentionally funny; the way a pathetic drug addled jackass walking into or through a closed glass door is funny. I'm trying not to laugh, it's slipping, slipping, ooohhhh, and I crapped myself. Damn.

Geez, Elmo and T-Bone are some literary geniuses

Well done Elmo. You pass the syntax and the choad test. I wrote mine in 5 minutes. How long did you spend on your exam. I hope you loosen up a bit in the future. I've heard oatmeal is good for that.

Clint

I spent about 10 to 15 minutes on it. I don't need long to complete sentences. But it took me about thirty minutes to recover from this last post of yours. A choad?? Damn, I knew it.

To Elmo: Well played Sir. I am now laughing and all of our differences seem pale. I take it back.

Sincerely,

Clint

Alright lets look at this ya'll. Krissi is a music critic and she didn't like the music. As a musician you have to realize that this is going to happen in your careers. It may hurt but grow a thick skin and keep on rockin' if you love to do it. Not everyone is going to like you. That's what taking risks and being an artist/performer is.

It's tough to write off an entire genre of music that people are obviously still creating and some people are still into. Krissi I am with you in many ways. I got over the jam band genre after Phish and wake n bakes got old. It sounds like there was some more diversity here but either way Krissi didn't enjoy it and that's her opinion. I think we can all agree that the announcement of the wrong winner wasn't very professional but it looks like it was written before the announcement was made which often times happens with deadlines.

I would have liked to see a little more research done on the bands rather than just their appearance that single night i.e. what kind of following they have, how many albums, what festivals they play and how established they are. That was a little lacking but Krissi was very vivid with her words, painted many great pictures for the reader like the circle jerk and stuck to her guns. If you haven't noticed journalism like this is supposed to be very opinionated and over the top not bland and wishy washy. That is what is making us all read this and write about it.

Plus, for all these bands...even negative attention is attention. I bet ya'll have had more people check out your sites and listen to your music then ever, so it's not all bad. So all you bands that were there keep rockin' and to Krissi, keep writing.

For both of you there will always be critics.

Krissi, I want to thank you for having the courage to say when you think music sucks. I have listened to these bands online (at least the ones I could find) and they do suck! If more reporters had the journalistic stones that you have shown here, we readers would actually respect them. If a writer doesn't like some band and I have heard them and disagree then I just respect their opinion and go on following my own mind. All the people on here that are attacking Krissi personally because her opinion does not match their own are just afraid that they're convictions are to weak to stand up to opposing views. Drink the Koolaid people. Rev. Jone will be around in a bit to tell you what to think!

But again, the idea that every reporter has to write some rosy, blow smoke up their ass, glowing piece about every band they see is crap. Lots of bands suck and critics need to be honest with their readers when they do. This is why we don't respect or take the advice of critics. Most of them lie to be safe and not incur fan wrath like this. Krissi, you keep it up and give the peddlers of crappy music Hell. Reviews like this save people time and cover charges. I wish there were more.

Krissi's writing rocks 5 out of 5 balls!

I liked the review. I thought it was funny as fuck.

I don't know what all the bands are so pissed off about.

Hey...you're in a band! What do you care if a reporter doesn't like you? In fact, shouldn't that just prove to you losers how hard you rock.

Have a sense of humor, dammit.

everyone that's hating on krissi can suck a big one! if you don't like what you're reading then STOP reading it, idiots! as long as the bands enjoy what they're doing and people are having fun who gives a shit what one person says?! YOUR IN A BAND. YOURE GONNA GET CRITICIZED. and we should all know by now that the Observer is notorious for hating on everyone and consistantly being bitter!! wake the fuck up you morons!!

wow...i didn't know peace lovin' hippies could be so full of anger and hate...

it's okay kids...your bruised ego's will heal...put down the fists and go back to your lives.

krissi was doing her assignment, and she knew going into it that she would not like what she was about to indure. it was her job though, and she did was she was supposed to do. you might not like what she wrote, and that is perfectly okay, but let's call off the hounds already.

enough is enough.

There is opinion, and there is fact.

Examples? "Hot dogs taste bad" is an opinion. "Canada is north of the U.S." is a fact.

Got it? Good. So let's be clear...

"JAM BANDS SUCK" is a stone-cold, shout-it-from-the-rooftops, print-it-in-textbooks FACT. They're not innovative. They're not original. They don't even ASPIRE to originality. They offer nothing NEW to the musical scene minus the fodder they give (excellent) music reviewers (like Krissi) to rip them a new one.

Or rather, a sixth, seventh, and eighth one.

"If music be the food of love, play on" was Shakespeare right? He wrote that long before the first mediocre stoner grabbed an acoustic guitar and began strumming 12-minute "songs" employing the same tired, overwrought four chords.

Let's amend it then, shall we? "If jam bands be the food of hippies, die now."

I applaud Krissi---and every other music journalist (including the beloved Mr. Bangs, whose recent anthology of reviews I helped edit)---who takes a FUCKING STAND for something.

She's trying to protect the good music by letting her readers know what music to avoid.

Catfish Whisky should be especially avoided, as (A) it's hands-down the shittiest band name in the history of band names, and that includes Mott the Hoople, and (B) their massive lack of talent is eclipsed only by their hubris.

Shove your giant, hairy female man-balls in the faces of all the haters, Ms. Krissi. Tell Catfish Whisky to take a lesson in RESPECTING THEIR AUDIENCE. And keep writing.

For good musio's sake, keep writing.

Even though I missed the show last weekend, I can safely say that I have caught many a gig with Krissi and I have found her assessments, both positive and negative, to be spot on.

You little whiners need to grow a pair and learn how to take some criticism without being so vindictive.

Keep up the good work, Krissi!

/Grackle-ass-grackle

Hahahaha...Andy, well done sir. Thanks for clarifying the distinction between fact and opinion. Really adds some weight to your words to watch your slight of hand linguistics...anyone who can completely ignore the definitions he/she introduces to establish a given argument is worthy of a serious ear tuned to Truth...so glad I am listening.

Proverbs 16:18

Apologies for the spelling. Easy, easy...

sleight of hand

n., pl. sleights of hand.
A trick or set of tricks performed by a juggler or magician so quickly and deftly that the manner of execution cannot be observed; legerdemain.
Performance of conjuring tricks.
Skill in performing conjuring tricks.

dumb bitch needs a new job

I have read this review and the comments.

I have to say, I thought the review was pretty terrible....it was opinions based on pre- and mis-conceptions of a genre of music. I don't believe that these musicians even had a chance to reach above Ms. Reeves condescending attitude and prejudice.

I do respect a writer to have their own opinion, but I thought this article, while well written and stylish, was not objective.

boo on that.

as for everyone else who is friends with Krissi...and attempting to give her some backing....that shows through, and therefore makes your opinions also non-objective ones.

Ms Reeves....sounds like you need to put down the beer bottle, stop talking over the music with your friend, and start listening.

I have never heard any of these bands live....except for Spoonfed, who I know are the real deal musicians and entertainers.

So, musicians, yes you will be criticized, but don't worry about anything this article has to say. This is obviously not one of the millions of people out there you are trying to send your message/art to.....or maybe it is...last time i checked Jam Bands were about having good times, feeling the vibe, and enjoying culture...bong or no bong.

k~

I have read this review and the comments.

I have to say, I thought the review was pretty terrible....it was opinions based on pre- and mis-conceptions of a genre of music. I don't believe that these musicians even had a chance to reach above Ms. Reeves condescending attitude and prejudice.

I do respect a writer to have their own opinion, but I thought this article, while well written and stylish, was not objective.

boo on that.

as for everyone else who is friends with Krissi...and attempting to give her some backing....that shows through, and therefore makes your opinions also non-objective ones.

Ms Reeves....sounds like you need to put down the beer bottle, stop talking over the music with your friend, and start listening.

I have never heard any of these bands live....except for Spoonfed, who I know are the real deal musicians and entertainers.

So, musicians, yes you will be criticized, but don't worry about anything this article has to say. This is obviously not one of the millions of people out there you are trying to send your message/art to.....or maybe it is...last time i checked Jam Bands were about having good times, feeling the vibe, and enjoying culture...bong or no bong.

k~