Rockin’ to Rollo Greb
After reading Charles McClain’s review of the record by Rollo Greb in the March 5 issue, I wasn’t quite sure what to think. Writing reviews is a tough task, and the world is an ambiguous place, and so the review seemed a bit ambiguous.
It seems Mr. McClain doesn’t love or maybe he does love Rollo Greb. I’ve listened to the record a number of times, and found that it satisfied some of my base expectations for a rock ’n’ roll record. It’s bluesy, rootsy and has a good beat. All musicians have antecedents, Rollo Greb included. To draw from Wilco and Mark Knopfler ain’t half bad if you gotta draw from somebody. In their live shows they close out with a Bob Dylan song, “Oxfordtown,” which raises their cachet in my estimation. I don’t know anything about Nickelback and have never knowingly listened to them, but John Steinbeck has grown on me over the years, and now I appreciate “Travels With Charley” a whole lot more than I did when I first encountered it. And Rollo Greb has grown on me too.
But the proof of the record is in my dog, Smokey’s, response. He is the third of my dogs who has loved rock ’n’ roll. All I have to do is put a CD in the player and crank it up, then watch for his reaction. All three critters responded viscerally to James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” howling like wild wolves in time with the music. And though Lily and Prairie are gone, I’m confident that were they here, they would join Smokey in howling with Rollo Greb.
? Gib Backlund, gjbacklund@yahoo.com
Many Flavors
I thought Jason Grissom’s article about the Melting Pot (“Immigration,” Pulse Vol. 4 Issue 5) was fair and balanced.
I thought it looked at the issue from all angles. Right on!
? Scott Petersen, petersenbass@hotmail.com
Protect Home Turf First
We have yet to get out of Iraq, and now want to pour more troops into Afghanistan?
The mighty Russian military saw the light, and had sense enough to pull out before all of their troops were slaughtered. Yet, we are committed to death and destruction there, if we continue this madness of war.
Why not use those dollars here at home and defend our Southern border, where the drug cartels now rule?
America! Wake up before it is too late. We CANNOT police the world; and we CANNOT fight this economic battle here at home if we foolishly squander our money on a war in Asia we CANNOT win!
? Everett Corbin, ejcorbin@juno.com
From One Troupe to Another
How wonderful to see young people working hard and accomplishing so much! (“Local Dance Team Competes in NYC,” on the local Loyalty Dance Team, Pulse Vol. 4, Issue 5) Their parents and leaders are to be commended as well for their vision and support.
? Steve Cates, appdancer@aol.com
Editor’s Note: Mr. Cates knows something about the efforts of training, and travelling, a dance troupe himself. Check out the feature on the Cripple Creek Cloggers in the next edition of The Pulse.
Foreign Forces Taking Over Many of us old timers like to look back in history and glean some wisdom from the past.
In his book, “With No Apologies,” in 1979 former Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater wrote, “The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.”
Was Goldwater a prophet or what? If only we had taken him seriously. The good news is that there is a vast contingent of young Republicans who will make the buttons of us old time Goldwater supporters pop. This is no illusion, you can hear the war drums beating everywhere on the Internet. Our Constitution will again reign as the supreme law.
We will once again be a government of, for and by the people and not of, for and by special interest groups!
? Clarence Jaeger, Murfreesboro, cjaeger@comcast.net
