No one else probably cares about this, but since a direct question was asked.... Janos Gereben writes: >What slap? In whose face? Being an "entity onto himself" may be a >clumsy, but certainly not insulting statement. Nowhere did I say that >he is not drawing on this, that or the other. I have heard his Carnatic >recordings, I recognize that he is from where he is. You did not even mention that Srinivas is a Carnatic musician. Here, called on it, you dismiss Carnatic music as "this, that or the other." It is a direct insult to the tradition, and I now see, intentional. >Carnatic is good. Srinivas is better. Ridiculous. Todd McComb [log in to unmask]