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Cigar Box Fire & Brimstone.
A place to spout off with your tirades, your manifestos, your calls-to-arms. (all the stuff that made the "old forum" great).
What are you passionate about?
What makes your blood boil?
Don't pull any punches.
. . no touchy-feely support group bullshit here.


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Started by Susan Hunt. Last reply by Mama Mojo Dec 11, 2009. 8 Replies

I just have to say, this site is so damn much fun. There's always something interesting going on, in addition to the river of information inside. It's impossible to look at CBN for just a few…Continue

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Comment by Wichita Sam on December 21, 2008 at 5:05pm
Shane,

I love you too.....

BTW, God/Jesus loves everyone, but often waits to see if the love is returned......

BTW, of course Jesus loves the musically inept punk and anarchist crowd, but not because that what they are (or claim to be)

BTW, we all love deeply, try hard and get nowhere, until we surrender and ride the wave....it's so much easier than fighting the current....

BTW, God is often more "present" the greater our pain, but it doesn't mean that we can't have more productive encounters with the divine in ordinary time.....

BTW, I have never been mad at you, only confused about why you turn away from your greatness to play the "joker"....

Peace and Love (for real),

Sam
Comment by Wichita Sam on December 21, 2008 at 3:50pm
Shane,

You will probably never understand that most readers don't do second and third level analysis, so that they will never understand that when you say "Kill Eric Clapton", you don't mean anything except you wish someone would do the begger in. All the the hyperbole is wasted on them. They go.... uhhhh, Shane hates Clapton, so I hate Clapton.

In the end, you become so closely identified with that symbolism that you detest that you never really get to say what you are. Do you really think that the old blues masters spend one second worrying about Frank Sinatra or the Dorseys or whoever was "pop" at that moment? Hell no! They simply did their thing, shamelessly, powerfully and that is why want they did, not what they talked about, lives on thru a thousand generations and evolutions and that is why we keep going back to them.

What I trying to say, is don't play to the brainless crowd of musically and intellectually inept anarchists that punk seems to collect. Shane, just be Shane, you will have a whole lot more influence and your soul will be at peace...

Or, nothing is nothing so what the heck?

the best,

Wichita Sam
Comment by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on December 21, 2008 at 3:27pm
Ok, here's a prayer meditation for y'all . . .

Revelations 3:14
". . . So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

(I think he was talking about "You Look Wonderful Tonight.)
Comment by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on December 21, 2008 at 2:00pm
Ah, I knew that one would get the juices flowing!! . . . . can't agree with you on this one, Sam.

The Kill Clapton battle cry is perfectly crafted hyperbole.

It aint personal, it's iconic. Ol' Slowhand is the epitome of pedantic, homogenized corporate muzak pap . . . having basically phoned it in for a full generation. As a symbol, he represents everything that raw, real music abhors.

Shane found a perfect expression of the bubbling excitement of the cigar box guitar revolution in that little two-word gem.
Comment by Mike Leeworthy on December 21, 2008 at 1:28pm
Echo that

check this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&feature=email
Comment by Wichita Sam on December 21, 2008 at 1:18pm
With all the talent at Shane's disposal, isn't it a shame that he chooses to be known by who he hates? A lot of waste psychic energy and definately very, very, very bad karma....

All you need is love........
Comment by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on December 21, 2008 at 12:13pm
How 'bout a little of the old fire and brimstone? Here's a a bit of vintage Speal (used entirely without his permission) It dates back to the days leading up to the Huntsville extravaganza in June of '07

" . . . . The following post is the remarks of the King of the Cigar Box Guitar and do not reflect those of...oh, hell, who am I kidding. They're the
truth...


Though commonly looked at as one of the greatest blues guitarists of
all time, Clapton is nothing but an adult contemporary singer...and
has been since the mid 60's. He successfully killed the blues with
his brilliant piece of suck, Me and Mr. Johnson.


Many up and coming guitarists buy his cds because they are repeatedly
told by their elders that Slowhand is someone to emulate. I say KILL
ERIC CLAPTON. This world doesn't need any more finely crafted fluff.
The world needs music with teeth...with passion...with balls...with
cigar boxes!!!


Yeah, this post will surely go over like a turd in the punchbowl, but
sometimes you need a little pseudo violence in a revolution. Didn't
Johnny Rotten wear a t-shirt that said "Chuck Berry is Dead"?


Like I said before, when I take the stage in Huntsville, I will have a
couple homemade amplifiers on stage. One of them has the words KILL
ERIC CLAPTON scrawled boldly across the front...poised and ready for
the PBS cameras.


I'm gonna bring the blues back from the dead. You with me? LEMME GET
A "HELL YEAH" FROM THE CONGREGATION!"


shane
Comment by Wichita Sam on December 21, 2008 at 5:31am
Hey,

Every anarchist pit of "I-have-an-opinion-about-things-I-know-nothing-about" has to have a member of the "moral-I-know-better-than-you-do-even-if-I-really-don't-majoirty" to use as the absurdity straw dog.... so, here I am....
Comment by Mike Leeworthy on December 21, 2008 at 5:27am
Hi K.
thanks for the invite!
How're things down in your beautiful neck of the woods?
We've got a major snowstorm underway...just adds to the seasonal feeling and gives another reason (as if I needed one) to stay in the workshop.
Comment by Rick-e on December 21, 2008 at 5:26am
Well, I'm a little short on rants, tirades and manifestos right now but I'm proud tp be soapbox member #3...so bring it on, lets stir up some shit :D
 

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