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Re: James Watson

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Subject: Re: James Watson
From: "Phil Green" <goaty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:23:23 +0100
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Evan,
hello, it's been a while !
As someone quite close to the current situation at Fodens and the future of
JW, I have to say that what he has done at Dyke is move them away from
mainstream banding, some may see this as a good thing, others a bad thing.
He has also, probably indirectly, lowered the contesting standard of the
band - there are no real "names" there anymore.  Dyke are also lucky to have
an audience, it seems, who will go to Dyke concerts regardless of their
current contest standing or even, it seems, their playing level.  Ask
yourself - do these people listen with their ears or their eyes ? - do they
see the gold and black and automatically think "this is / will be great !"?
Nick's challenge is to get the band playing to the exeptionally high
standard that the band had at it's greatest time (early to mid 80's) and to
do this I think will need some personnel changes but also a totally
different approach to repertoire (sp?) and mindset of the players.
A 'professional outfit' they may be but a mainstream, traditional band they
are not !

Good luck Nick,

Phil.



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