Re: PHX 4th of July Social Dancing

Date: 10 Jul 2003 01:22:41 GMT
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>Subject: Re: PHX 4th of July Social Dancing
>From: "Bob Wheatley" email-address-deleted
>Date: 7/8/2003 10:54 PM Mountain Standard Time
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>"Pvtdik007" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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>> Just want to thank Super Mario for saving the social dancing at 4th in
>PHX.
>> I've never been so inspired to keep dancing.
>> Thanks Mario!
>> Beth...great job with the contest music.
>> Russ
>> PHX
>
>
>You've got to be kiddin', right?
>First off, I love Mario. I owe a couple of my World Championships to him.
>That said, Steve Giles was rockin' the house Saturday night when Mario
>interrupted and asked if the crowd wanted to hear Blues the rest of the
>night.
>I was on the dance floor at the time and I heard mostly "boo's" and "no's".
>If anything, it created a bit of a distraction because Steve was doing an
>excellent job of blending styles and tempos at the time.
>At most, Mario controlled a "couple" of songs.
>The credit should go to Steve and Beth and the hired DJ's.
>I thought they did a good job of mixing it up, as far as styles are
>concerned.
>If anything, because I dance so many dances, I would have complained that
>there was not enough "dance style" variety. However, I attended a "West
>Coast" dance convention, so I expected "West Coast" music.
>
>For God's sake people, if you're gonna' dance the same dance all weekend
>long, at least have the good taste to be able to dance it to different
>styles of music.:>))
>Bob Wheatley
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Bob, I never said that Mario "saved" the late night because he only wanted to
play blues. What I said was...
Subject: Re: PHX 4th of July Social Dancing
From: email-address-deleted (Pvtdik007)
Date: 7/8/2003 10:26 PM Mountain Standard Time
Message-id: <email-address-deleted>
"Sorry, I forgot to mention John Lindo and Rick Tadra. Rick and I both
understand what it is to suffer what we consider uninspiring (I'm being kind)
music at the regular PHX club dances. I'm sorry that this spilled over into the
PHX 4th convention. Unfortunately, for unknown reasons (perhaps trying to save
a buck or two, or probably more simply that they just don't care) certain
members of our board decided to not hire the best they could for such a big
convention. Bad move I think. Mark was correct IMHO that there was no flow or
continuity... and was so - so at best. What Mario did was to (re) introduce
what our club should have been doing for the past couple years...that is serve
up a mix of GOOD music and that did NOT happen during the earlier hours of
social dancing. I am not attacking the local guys, I know most of them. I have
been (as well as Rick and a few others) begging the board of the GPSDC to get
some better music, pay the DJ's, intice the better dancers back to the club
with music that inspires...sadly and typically, ours does not.
Not just my opinion.
Russ
PHX"
As Chris Brown and others stated...he [Mario] INSPIRED us to dance (whenever
he played) and I heard no boos from the crowd (who were mostly asleep or doing
the zombie dance (did you ever win one of your world championships in this
catagory of dance?)
Were you there Wed, Thur, Fri. evenings? If you were, you'd understand what so
many dancers were complaining about. I actually heard someone at the table
behind me shout out "This music sucks!" As a member of the GPSDC I went to him
and asked him if he would go to any of the board members present and express
his opinion to them. Whether he did or not, I do not know; I hope that he did.
However, since I'm not one to hide in the corner and just pretend all is well,
I would hope that everyone who felt cheated about the MIX of music would write
to the board members here in PHX. You can find the website easily enougha t
GPSDC.org and more specifically write to the president, Jack Gathings, at
email-address-deleted
If we are going to spend big bucks to attend dance events we should expect THE
BEST THAT CAN BE OFFERED...not a "peanut butter and jelly convention!"
Have a nice day ; )
Russ
PHX