eor
Well-known member
hey folks
after reading this thread ( http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?45886-UU-VIP-Program ) my first reaction was that the smart thing to do would be to forget the soap box, shut up and go to bed.
yup... the smart thing to do...
.......but that would be going against character.
I havnt been here a long time and i dont chat or take part in many threads. If I have something to say I say it and if I have some thing to ask I ask it. Aside from that I listen. I have tried to give back to this community when I can, an example being the "ukers guide to blues harp". Its had 2000 hits so i assume its helping somebody
I am a uke beginner and dont have a extensive stable of expensive ukes, each with thier own names and fancy dodads hanging from the tuners. I dont own a solid wood ukulele. My "K" brand is Kala. Im proud of that. I have never met james hill or jake and probaly never will. I have two ukes and one was signed by Manitoba Hal before he gave it to me for playin his music and because he liked the job I did it. I am also proud of that.
Im not rich, Im not hip and Im not good looking.(well not THAT good looking)
I am a uke beginner, a mediocre player. I have two simple ukes but they are damn good ukes and I challenge any one of the 39000 members of these forums to come sit on my porch some warm summer day when the west wind is dancing low over the mountain and sea gulls are crying high over the bay. we can crack a bottle of home made wine and with baccus blessing we can each take a uke and look at the land and sky and water and under a thousand hues of blue and green we can play. or come over some winter night when it is so cold out side the trees are cracking like gunshots and Ill stoke the fire and make a couple of irish coffee and we can each take a uke and play and we will feel like kings and after its all over and the last note of the night has died off and the only thing left in the room is the smell of cedar and birch and chicken and dumplins you tell me if you need anything more than that.
Thats what ukin is about. Thats what music is about. .
We call ourelves the ukulele underground. Its a community I am proud to to be a part of.
We play an instrument that most folk take as seriously as if we showed up with a plastic sax. We are the geeks and nerds, the eccentrics and the dreamers, the oddities of the music world. our forum has been remarkably free of the snobbery, mysoginism,and elitism that is par for the course in other instrument forums. every body has always been welcome here. everybody
until now...
I understand the costs of business. There is however alot about the main UU site that can be made "deluxe" and charged money for with out touching the forums. I fail to see how polarizing this community along financial lines will be " helping UU and the ukulele movement stay strong"
I think UU should be offering services/features that encourage folk to become members to of the "deluxe club" not withholding things or making two tier forums to punish those in the regular forum who are not..
Even the term VIP program gets my hackles up because it implies that those of us that dont want to or cant for whatever reason lay out 45 bucks a year are some how not "very important people".
Saying that UU will be having give aways and contests again but only for the folk who pay bothers me so much I am not even going to get into it.
Contests are a much under rated and superb way to improve not just your playing but your musicianship. Restricting who can enter to paying customers is an insult to every body who was come togeather to make the UU forums the place it is. Particularly since contests have been "on hold " here after some displays of poor sportsmanship in the past. Suddenly contests are ressurected for VIP s only? Is the cost of integrity 5 bucks a month? Are folk with cash some how more deserving or more honest or cut from some morally superior cloth??
I will note however that having give aways for paying members of the vip prog ONLY may be considered a lottery and probobly illegal.
I dont imagine this rant will make me very popular around here but being a canadian I am genetically programmed to stick up for the underdog. If i didnt get this off my chest my teeth would be ground down to nubs by 5 tomorrow .
I am waiting for my UU pin to arrive in the mail and when it does I will wear it proudly.
I just hope I will be wearing it as a symbol of what is and not as a memorial of something that was.
I am going to go and play my ukulele now.
peace
eor
after reading this thread ( http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?45886-UU-VIP-Program ) my first reaction was that the smart thing to do would be to forget the soap box, shut up and go to bed.
yup... the smart thing to do...
.......but that would be going against character.
I havnt been here a long time and i dont chat or take part in many threads. If I have something to say I say it and if I have some thing to ask I ask it. Aside from that I listen. I have tried to give back to this community when I can, an example being the "ukers guide to blues harp". Its had 2000 hits so i assume its helping somebody
I am a uke beginner and dont have a extensive stable of expensive ukes, each with thier own names and fancy dodads hanging from the tuners. I dont own a solid wood ukulele. My "K" brand is Kala. Im proud of that. I have never met james hill or jake and probaly never will. I have two ukes and one was signed by Manitoba Hal before he gave it to me for playin his music and because he liked the job I did it. I am also proud of that.
Im not rich, Im not hip and Im not good looking.(well not THAT good looking)
I am a uke beginner, a mediocre player. I have two simple ukes but they are damn good ukes and I challenge any one of the 39000 members of these forums to come sit on my porch some warm summer day when the west wind is dancing low over the mountain and sea gulls are crying high over the bay. we can crack a bottle of home made wine and with baccus blessing we can each take a uke and look at the land and sky and water and under a thousand hues of blue and green we can play. or come over some winter night when it is so cold out side the trees are cracking like gunshots and Ill stoke the fire and make a couple of irish coffee and we can each take a uke and play and we will feel like kings and after its all over and the last note of the night has died off and the only thing left in the room is the smell of cedar and birch and chicken and dumplins you tell me if you need anything more than that.
Thats what ukin is about. Thats what music is about. .
We call ourelves the ukulele underground. Its a community I am proud to to be a part of.
We play an instrument that most folk take as seriously as if we showed up with a plastic sax. We are the geeks and nerds, the eccentrics and the dreamers, the oddities of the music world. our forum has been remarkably free of the snobbery, mysoginism,and elitism that is par for the course in other instrument forums. every body has always been welcome here. everybody
until now...
I understand the costs of business. There is however alot about the main UU site that can be made "deluxe" and charged money for with out touching the forums. I fail to see how polarizing this community along financial lines will be " helping UU and the ukulele movement stay strong"
I think UU should be offering services/features that encourage folk to become members to of the "deluxe club" not withholding things or making two tier forums to punish those in the regular forum who are not..
Even the term VIP program gets my hackles up because it implies that those of us that dont want to or cant for whatever reason lay out 45 bucks a year are some how not "very important people".
Saying that UU will be having give aways and contests again but only for the folk who pay bothers me so much I am not even going to get into it.
Contests are a much under rated and superb way to improve not just your playing but your musicianship. Restricting who can enter to paying customers is an insult to every body who was come togeather to make the UU forums the place it is. Particularly since contests have been "on hold " here after some displays of poor sportsmanship in the past. Suddenly contests are ressurected for VIP s only? Is the cost of integrity 5 bucks a month? Are folk with cash some how more deserving or more honest or cut from some morally superior cloth??
I will note however that having give aways for paying members of the vip prog ONLY may be considered a lottery and probobly illegal.
I dont imagine this rant will make me very popular around here but being a canadian I am genetically programmed to stick up for the underdog. If i didnt get this off my chest my teeth would be ground down to nubs by 5 tomorrow .
I am waiting for my UU pin to arrive in the mail and when it does I will wear it proudly.
I just hope I will be wearing it as a symbol of what is and not as a memorial of something that was.
I am going to go and play my ukulele now.
peace
eor
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