[Tango-L] Thanks Phil for your not too serious comments.

[Dwain Edwards]

I must say that Phil's post gave me a chuckle. I imagine that his post 
got many folks' knickers in a knot. I wonder how many people ignored or 
forgot the initial warning "hey, don't take my comments too 
seriously!"? Oh well....

Tradition. Very powerful. Worth killing for, worth dying for. Or 
perhaps that's a touch too extreme. But certainly worth insulting a 
person, flaming a person as it were, for even mentioning, as a 
possibility, some deviation from the all holy traditions.

Traditions are comfortable. And as the old saying goes, why try to fix 
something that isn't broke(n), forgetting I think, that old chestnut, 
the more things change, the more they remain the same.

There is a powerful intention in most folks to return to our "birth 
place", to grasp and hold close to our breasts that which started it 
all - our Motherland (so to speak). A Zeitgeist, a Cynosure of tango: 
Buenos Aires. And all that is well and good. I can "respect" Tradition, 
appreciate its "purpose". It is the "religious" intensity of some of 
the adherents to "the codes" that have squelched any desire I may have 
had to visit Buenos Aires. (As an aside, was not Paris the midwife of 
tango; that without Paris, tango would have been a still birth of 
Buenos Aires? Hmmm. Or that the waltz, broke tradition by being the 
first alternative music to be danced using the "steps" of tango - or 
was tango still in its youth and therefore not yet rigid in its 
traditions and able to accept alternative music? Hmmmm.)

Anyway... Thanks Phil for your not too serious comments.

Light, Love, Passion, Compassion,

Dwain