The Grand Ole Opry's future?

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 3 Dec 2000 5:25 am

Tow Smiley? Yep I do remember well when my vehicle was towed in front of Tootsies while we were upstairs,and I was thrilled with the free ride to the impound yard and when they gave me my truck with no towing charge..I guess it was nice to have some pull or the right name in those days......You could even hear some Country Music then...

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Andy Alford · Post by **Andy Alford** » 3 Dec 2000 7:22 am

There will be a Opry in the future.It has and will evolve as time goes by.There was a time when there were no electric guitars,drums,or brass on the opry but along came ET and Marty Robbins.

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 3 Dec 2000 7:31 am

Life in the big city!

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 4 Dec 2000 5:12 am

SJ;Thanks for posting that article it cuts to the chase..If the Opry goes then one can say "there goes the root of Country Music" . The root is dying because the wrong fertilizer (manure,s**T ect)is being applied to it...."the Gaylord brand" is likened to an "Agent Orange" which destroys everything it comes in contact with...

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Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 5 Dec 2000 5:54 am

SJ unfortunately there are no strong voices left in the old Opry personell..If a leader can emerge it would have too be either GILL,Stuart,Jackson,Brooks one of the newer Artist..that won't happen yet until the doors start closing then and maybe only then will one come forward...don't count on it.When the Opry goes,Nashvilles music and tourist Industry will follow...Nashvilleians don't support it now...

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Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 6 Dec 2000 3:17 am

This is an interesting thread, if a touch despairing, but I see it as part of a bigger picture which is, if anything even worse outside country music. It's all down to ageism. Musicians have to be young, pretty (men too) and new.
If you are old enough to be any good, you are too old for the thirty-odd year old teenagers who decide who gets the breaks.So you won't get on TV, so the couch potato public will never see you.
However there are more of us than there are of them, so time will tell.

Rusty Hurse · Post by **Rusty Hurse** » 6 Dec 2000 6:12 pm

I would have loved to have seen Jimi Hendrix at the OPRY. Can you just Imagine him doing The Wabash Cannon Ball with Roy Acuff. Man that would have been a site to see!

John Steele (deceased) · Post by **John Steele (deceased)** » 6 Dec 2000 6:29 pm

OK, OK,
So, now that we've established beyond doubt that the current management are minion-of-Satan baby-killing terrorists, (or worse, foreigners!) can we move on ?
How would you change it for the better? Joe ?
-John

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 6 Dec 2000 7:47 pm

By recruiting Gene watson ,mark chestnut ,David Ball,ect

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Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 10 Dec 2000 6:04 am

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 10 Dec 2000 6:29 am

This maybe my last post. As alot of you know I'm married to Gregg Galbraith. He was invited to the opry last night with a steeler Bob Ricker and wife. He sat out in the audience and enjoyed the show.
Martina, Chely Wright, Phil Vasser and of course some of the standard legends performed.
I regret missing Gregg's face. He said,"It was great"! The singers and musicianship was outstanding. The opry is in good hands

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Theresa Galbraith on 10 December 2000 at 06:52 AM.]</p></FONT>

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 10 Dec 2000 8:51 am

The Opry would've been better off last night if Gregg had been playing on it instead of watching it. Best, Boomer

KEVIN OWENS · Post by **KEVIN OWENS** » 10 Dec 2000 10:20 am

(some of my thoughts as I watched part of the G.G.O.)All I saw was that Phil Vasser---folky-pop sh*t that has nothing to do with country music. I don't care what anybody says, country (or any type of music) has to be kept with in certain guide lines to be country music. If you don't believe that you're part of the problem. Don't tell me it's my opinion, it's the opinion of the small amount of people who really like and care about the future of country music. If you don't like country music , fine, but why destroy it or try to discredit it for the others who do?

All this talk about -things change- well how about changing your mind and help country music before it's a side note in american music history.

I'm really feed up with this rockin-roll hippy sh*t. If you don't want to play country, go back to wherever you came from and leave Nashville and country music alone.

Kevin

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 10 Dec 2000 10:42 am

Please re-read my earlier post:

Country Music isn't going to die.....
It's just going back the the Mother Church.

Gaylord can have the "NEW" Opry House for it's Acid Rock and New Country @#$% and ShorpyMills,(which, in a few years, like all the other malls, will cater only to the local patrons) to continue the seperation of the two fields of music.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 11 Dec 2000 5:28 am

quote"The Opry is in good hands"...

...I don't know if the Gaylords can be considered good hands,especially since everything thet have to do with country music gets ashcanned....Buchanan and Fisher so far have been trying new things..If these new things are being tried at the expense of long standing dedicated members that's not in good hands...I have no objection to newer Artist being guest if the members are not stepped on or removed from their spots...It should be their choice when they want to step aside...It's more then rumors that Opryland productions has new Ideas for Opryland complex........

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