Let's talk about the truth

[David Gordon Burke]

So this post has caused great pain and suffering. My great apologies. Seems like if I post what I want to post on this site, I will have the threat of sabotage held over my head. So yet again I am modifying it in the hope of keeping the peace.

And I am holding an IOU for future in case anything is said against me by the people who were so offended and suffered greatly due to this post.

For the record, and again this is a question of a person's perspective, the material for the original Accordion Assassins came from the site whose link is below. The forum was set up by the Admin of AA and was created by the USERS.

I guess it is all a matter of what you value. If I want to chat, I use a chat program. If I want to create something of value, I add it to a forum.

So here is the modified version of this post.

Some people lead, others follow and copy. Some people shout from the mountain tops that they are the best. Other people quietly prove they are the best with content and useful information that CANNOT be disputed.

Homage is due to Gilbert Reyes for starting this whole phenomenon.

I started the original version of this site over a year ago because a lot of the information that I posted on the Reyes Accordion forum would just disapear because they didn't archive the material from their forum.
Then we started Accordion Assassins. Then it died.
During the time that Accordion Assassins was up, I developed tons of material, particularly in the area of Music Theory. Some people have benefitted from that stuff, others just come to these sites to gossip and hear about their favorite bands, and others have said that the Theory thing is just a load of crap. Either way, it is the user's choice.

I call upon anyone who s thinking of starting an accordion site to have the ingenuity to do their own thing instead of using anyone else's ideas. (this includes copying my site or any other site out there which already exists)

Was AA a copy or Reyes? NO! The only thing in common were the accordion Tabbs. And this forum, and the accompanying site DTMTCAP (davetrial.tripod.com/index.html) is an original entity as well, with information created by me which you won't find on any other site.
Fair is fair.
Stoney

[CesarSC]

Pa empezar dejenme nomas decir que yo estoy standard en esto, solo quiero decir que Theory is not crap. Si todo musico en cuanto la musica norteña supiera de lo que pone Stoney en sus theory sections la mayoria de la musica seria rica en musicalidad, y creo que las secciones de Theory deverian ser las mas populares, la gente no sabe la valides de la theoria compadre, saber theoria es tener una buena educasion musical, es lo basico.

Cesar

[David Gordon Burke]

Let this please be seen as an appeal to eveyone on any accordion site that we all stop bickering, backstabbing, namecalling and especially utilizing these public forums to bash each other.
As you are all aware, the old Accordion Assassins died, I won't go into the reasons here. The fallout from that disaster has been a lot of mistrust and hard feelings which I think we are all still feeling, myself included.
I stated earlier that I was not going to continue to wage war, and I am proud that in subsequent conflicts I have not named names or jumped to post negative things about people on this site or any other site.
Ethics. What does it mean?
Who the hell knows.
But I do know that some people have good ethics and others have bad ethics. We have all met liars in our lives, but did you ever meet someone who would admit that they were dishonest? Probably not.
In the end, I have decided that I would rather not do a site if it means bickering all the time. But many people benefit from this and other sites like it.
So, for the benefit of everyone, let's all take a deep breath, realize that the other guy is as disillusioned and hurt by any negative vibe as I, you or anyone else, and stop and think before we start throwing stones again.
If there are any more wars, I don't want to participate, and I don't want the war waged here. Use E mail.
That said, my nerves have been on edge for the last month so my apologies for any wrong or insult.
Stoney