The Nob Hill Boys

On Saturday, we went to the Cedarburg Cultural Center to see The Nob Hill Boys (my mom went too). The Boys are a bluegrass quintet - madonlin, guitar, banjo, fiddle and bass. The two new members were the bassist and the guitarist. The guitarist was a young guy - Seth Foerster. Looked like he was in his twenties. He was good. His fingers really flew. Looked like he was working hard at it - he certainly didn't make it look easy. The bassist was Mark Hembree, who has played with Bill Monroe. He was the band's spokesman onstage. I liked his technique with slapping strings on the fretboard. It sounded like a rockabilly rhythm, tapped out on the rim of a snare drum. He was pretty funny, too. He'd say things like, "and that concludes the musical portion of our show," which would get a laugh, and then he'd continue, "I'm going to sing this next one." John Fabke was the mandolin player. I wasn't all that impressed with his playing. He's one of the founding members, along with Jon Peik, a great banjo picker. Paul Keinitz is the fiddler, and the only one who doesn't sing. Right after the break, the band invited Seth's wife onstage to sing a duet with him.

Cyn and I were just about the youngest people in the room (which was full). There were others in our general age group, but only about half a dozen who I was sure were younger than me (the sound guy, the guitarist and his wife were three of those). At one point, the bassist asked if anyone had heard of Hayseed Dixie, which is a bluegrass/country band that covers rock songs, like AC-DC. I had, but I didn't answer because I didn't want to blow my cover.

community complaints

I just saw a guy with a poll in his journal asking his friends what they thought of what he's been posting. But he got all pissed off when a couple of people complained about what he posted in some communities. WTF? It's his journal. Why should he care what people think about his journal? But the communities belong to all of us. I can understand a need for approval from your friends, because you want people to read your journal, but spamming communities is like taking advantage of a captive audience. People can always drop your journal (okay, not really), but it's bad that someone drops a community because of one member.

This particular guy seems to have issues. He posted links to mp3 files, and someone told him that was illegal. So he said, "fuck you, then I'm not going to post them anymore."

So then I said, "You didn't actually get into trouble for posting that, did you? Because if it's that easy to get you to change what you post, I'll ask you to use a cut on part of your posts, because you took up over half of my friends page yesterday."

Unsuprisingly, he didn't really get the point and said, "People seem to be unappreciative cunts around here. Go fuck yourself... If you don't like my posts, then I'll just quit posting in any community you're a member of, too."

Funny thing is, for every negative comments he gets on his many postings, he probably gets ten positive. As far as his "threat" goes, I predict he'll be back in a couple of days. Which is fine. I know how to scroll.