Chris Bonds wrote:

>Of the motivations of SOME practitioners of HIP.  That they are more
>interested in being cool and in the know than in the music.  Just an
>intuition on my part.  I could be wrong.

Chris, this sounds like prejudice.  In any case, HIP folk, in general,
would probably be just as interested in squelching this attitude among
their numbers as anyone.  At any rate, they *should* be.  That's the
only way for HIP to grow up.

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