Is it time for One Artist, One Thread? (Page 1 of 2)

Read the posting guidelines......that is a policy here. We've just not enforced it yet, but its coming.

Hmmm ... it would be nice to avoid these double-posts and similar topics in different threads, that´s true. But it would also get a little more complicated communicating within these threads - for example if someone wants to discuss the new AC/DC album on Monday and someone else wants to talk about one of their shows and someone else maybe wants to write about one of their previous albums etc. ... so "navigating" within the thread could be difficult. Especially with forum-favourites like BDS we would have a 50 pages thread in no time I guess .

But it´s definitely something worth thinking about. Maybe we should all just keep our eyes open while posting our topics and take care that something similar hasn´t been posted before - I´m taking Jane´s part now by saying: "use the search function"!

Eva

I think the Forum is perfect like it is. It would be a big loss to concentrate only on Joe. You can´t seperate Joe from the rest of the (Blues)world. He is surely a unique artist, but he is also embedded in tradition and the present Blues landscape.
And it´s fascinating to see, from which directions people have found Joe, and what they accept as compatible with his music.
I think the one artist/one thread approach would be too formal. I like it more when a system is grown organically. And as it did grow nicely, there is no need for change.
Günter

I pretty much agree with this. There are plenty of bands whose music I don't care for. When they come along I just don't read them - simple really.

I have also pointed out the usefulness of the search facility for avoiding unnecessary repetition or a whole bunch of topics basically about the same band. When I have something to add to 'my' Bonnie Raitt or Little Feat topics I just look for them, find them, and post on them again. I more or less already practice what is being suggested here. I think that as long as people are reasonable, exercise some common sense, and are able to maintain a sense of proportion (unlike a certain departed poster), then we're fine as we are.

George

Oooh, I'm so tempted to haiku this but I wont

We're all here because of Joe but even the main man has a passion for other peoples music. It's good to get the occasional heads-up on something that we may not have heard of else where. I don't think it takes anything away from Joe's music to discuss other musicians on here. Surely it's our love of fine music that brought us all here in the first place and that love should be on-going. If, as a result of that, we are sometimes led into each others personal triumphs and disasters then so be it.

There's a lot of love and compassion on here and I think that is what helps to keep this place (usually) sane. There's also a healthy dose of humour (sometimes misplaced I suppose) that makes this a cool place to visit.

Strange that Jim quoted the John Mayer thread as an example.....whenever I mention John Mayer on here the thread gets closed down. Funny old world isn't it.

Geoff

It means (I think) strange how things work out sometimes. There was a football player, and I do mean football , who used to say 'it's a funny old game'....I think what he meant was that he was rarely surprised, never shocked but never confident that the expected would actually take place. Funny isn't always actually funny but it can raise a wry smile from time to time in so far as the outcome of an event doesn't offend but does cause the inward laughter that satisfies only the 'laughee' (is that a new word?) I suppose it can also mean 'coincidence' coincidentally. Hope that clears that up

What if there was a way to catagorize the other artist thread? ie. New acts(up and coming)
and Established acts(great to see them again) or Whatever happened to them(?). Just a thought. It definatly sounds like more work for Jim and Phil.

Hi Jim and Phil,
FW

Well folks,

Thanks for your contributions to this debate to date. There appears to be broad agreement that self moderation is the preferred way to go. We all need to make sure this works together though.  While I do see benefits to one artist one thread, this would perhaps make the forum more restricted.  The section does work best though when nearly every thread is about a different artist, old and new!

When it comes to lengthy reviews of other bands, I would suggest that we look to put these on the forums of the artists concerned rather than on Joe's forum (we can always provide a link).

If you look at the first page of this topic linked below, you will see that this is something that I'd proposed back in July in respect of Back Door Slam:

http://www.jbonamassa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6739

As we've seen, saturation of the other artists section of the forum can lead to a back lash, and I really hope we'll not see another conversation like that again.

Cheers