Comments on: The Dave Clark Five Flap http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/ First in Music Analysis Tue, 22 May 2012 02:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ballot BS at the Hall-of-Fame « I’ve Gotta Fang http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-35065 Ballot BS at the Hall-of-Fame « I’ve Gotta Fang Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:03:02 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-35065 [...] near-daily dose of music-industry gossip and flamethrower opinion from The Lefsetz Letter. That day’s missive dealt with an issue I was surprised [...] [...] near-daily dose of music-industry gossip and flamethrower opinion from The Lefsetz Letter. That day’s missive dealt with an issue I was surprised [...]

]]> By: Seth Kibel http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34987 Seth Kibel Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:32:07 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34987 Isn't it a basic rule of elections that if you're not supposed to count late ballots, then you're NOT supposed to count them? Okay, I phrased that poorly. What I mean is this: if ballots show up late, or are improperly cast, then they're not supposed to be tallied. That's an important part of preserving the integrity of an election. If the RRHOF didn't want to count late ballots, then they never should have been opened. The fact that we have a tally that INCLUDES late ballots is proof that the process has been tainted. Isn’t it a basic rule of elections that if you’re not supposed to count late ballots, then you’re NOT supposed to count them? Okay, I phrased that poorly. What I mean is this: if ballots show up late, or are improperly cast, then they’re not supposed to be tallied. That’s an important part of preserving the integrity of an election. If the RRHOF didn’t want to count late ballots, then they never should have been opened. The fact that we have a tally that INCLUDES late ballots is proof that the process has been tainted.

]]> By: Al Kooper http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34986 Al Kooper Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:31:49 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34986 HERE, IN A NUTSHELL IS PART OF WHAT IS WRONG.... I just got back from a week in Nashville for various reasons. A friend of mine has a job at The Country Music Hall of Fame. I went there to surprise him and say hello. I left four hours later. Now I am a fan of OLD country music - The original Hank Williams Sr, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Rogers, etc. Don't even get me started about current country music. But my friend took me through the innards of the building-NOT the exhibits - but the folks that were working there. There was an audio office where, using the best technology, music was being preserved from old acetates from radio station concerts from the forties and fifties. Films were also being transferred and archived in another department. Every month, a show is held that honors great sidemen, STILL ALIVE, from the 50's and 60's. It brought a tear to my eye because I went "inside" the architecture Cleveland debacle and saw NOTHING like this going on. Shit, the little museum that used to be adjacent to the wonderful Peabody Hotel in Memphis was more caring about it's exhibits than the R&RHF has been so far. So it's pretty sad that the Country Hall of Fame employs all these folks that cant believe they're getting paid to get up each morning, and do for them, what is a joyous job - to TRULY hold together a historical, "clean" building where folks REALLY care. Other than who is who's boss, I saw no other poltics and a lot of love for true history going on. Show me THAT in Cleveland.... Oh and the building is TWICE the size of that wasted space in Ohio. HERE, IN A NUTSHELL IS PART OF WHAT IS WRONG….

I just got back from a week in Nashville for various reasons. A friend of mine has a job at The Country Music Hall of Fame. I went there to surprise him and say hello. I left four hours later. Now I am a fan of OLD country music – The original Hank Williams Sr, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Rogers, etc. Don’t even get me started about current country music. But my friend took me through the innards of the building-NOT the exhibits – but the folks that were working there. There was an audio office where, using the best technology, music was being preserved from old acetates from radio station concerts from the forties and fifties. Films were also being transferred and archived in another department.

Every month, a show is held that honors great sidemen, STILL ALIVE, from the 50′s and 60′s. It brought a tear to my eye because I went "inside" the architecture Cleveland debacle and saw NOTHING like this going on. Shit, the little museum that used to be adjacent to the wonderful Peabody Hotel in Memphis was more caring about it’s exhibits than the R&RHF has been so far.

So it’s pretty sad that the Country Hall of Fame employs all these folks that cant believe they’re getting paid to get up each morning, and do for them, what is a joyous job – to TRULY hold together a historical, "clean" building where folks REALLY care. Other than who is who’s boss, I saw no other poltics and a lot of love for true history going on. Show me THAT in Cleveland…. Oh and the building is TWICE the size of that wasted space in Ohio.

]]> By: Tommy LiPuma http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34985 Tommy LiPuma Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:31:14 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/03/17/the-dave-clark-five-flap/#comment-34985 Dear Bob, just an aside and for the record, in the midst of the Dave Clark five flap. In regards to Al Marks response that he got chills listening to the DC5 on Murray the K's show on WMCA, I was a promotion man in New York in 1962-63, and I remember Murray the K being on WINS. Dear Bob, just an aside and for the record, in the midst of the Dave Clark five flap. In regards to Al Marks response that he got chills listening to the DC5 on Murray the K’s show on WMCA, I was a promotion man in New York in 1962-63, and I remember Murray the K being on WINS.

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