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[PeterRabbit]

Originally Posted by aveojohn

Does anyone remember Nashville North?

A biker hangout on Saltsburg Road.

[aveojohn]

Originally Posted by PeterRabbit

A biker hangout on Saltsburg Road.

I don't recall it being a biker hangout. unless it was in the later years after I quit going there.

[nuwaver88]

I remember being dragged to Rodeo in the Parkway Center Mall around 1990. I remember some girls who came up from WVA trying to teach me the Cotton Eyed Joe. I was not for me. I took off my ten gallon hat and snakeskin boots that I had recently purchased and headed to Metropol for some industrial dancing. That was more becoming to Pittsburgh and myself. If anybody remembers, there was a country craze led by Billy Ray Cyrus (Achey Breaky Heart) sweeping the nation at the time. I remember ABC World News tonight doing a piece on the Country and Western culture taking Brooklyn by storm. It was a flash in the pan. After that, the only people who liked country were the people who were country before country was cool.

[Pitt Chick]

Wasn't there a place in the West Hills Shopping Center that had country music and a mechanical bull?

[PeterRabbit]

Originally Posted by aveojohn

I don't recall it being a biker hangout. unless it was in the later years after I quit going there.

I don't know if Nashville North was a biker place. There was always motorcycles parked outside when I'd drive by before it's demise.

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by johnnytang24

So calling people who listen to country music bumpkins, hillbillies, stereotyping, and condescendingly defining 'denigrate' aren't forms of degradation?

How about all the posts advocating the expulsion of country music from Pittsburgh? I suppose that's tolerance as well.

You said it better than I could have. Reps to you!

Originally Posted by raubre

Uh, most of my family members listen to country (or fake country, Y108 and Froggy music) and it really is coorporate crap. I've heard it and don't like it. If you want to hear real country listen to the classics (Hank or Johnny.)

BTW, alt-country is more country than oh say Toby Keith. He's just a novelty country wannabe

I agree with you 100%. Real country is Cash, Haggard and Jones.

Originally Posted by Hopes

You're not going to get people to love country by bullying them and calling them names.

That's what all of you "non-country" people have been doing throughout this thread!!!

[ditchdigger]

I agree with you 100%. Real country is Cash, Haggard and Jones.

You know, music is just like language--it evolves, and what it was yesterday is not necessarily what it is today. Are you going to criticize the fact that because of the words I'm using in this post that I speaketh notte the King's English?

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

You know, music is just like language--it evolves, and what it was yesterday is not necessarily what it is today. Are you going to criticize the fact that because of the words I'm using in this post that I speaketh notte the King's English?

Yes, it does evolve---doesn't mean I have to like it or listen to it! But when I don't like something, ie: rap, hard metal....I don't criticize the people who do like it. I don't call them names like those who are calling country music lovers here names, ie: country bumpkin, hillbillies, stereotyping, and condescendingly defining 'denigrate'.

[ditchdigger]

But when I don't like something, ie: rap, hard metal....I don't criticize the people who do like it.

You quoted raubre saying that Y108 and Froggy are "fake" and "corporate crap", and Toby Keith is just a " just a novelty country wannabe", and you agreed 100%.

That statement was strongly critical of the evolution that's taken place.

And while agreeing with it may not be directly critical of those who like Keith, or those stations, it infers that their tastes are somehow inferior to yours.

Originally Posted by pcc09

Hempfield, i agree with you that there is probably a decent market in PGH for this type of resturant. It'd be hard to disagree with that. But I also think that a lot of people in PGH, suburbanites and the "shielded(?) city types" alike, want something a little more appealing than cheesy, themed chain restaurants selling bologna sandwiches with bad country music playing in the background.

It's obviously a formula that works, as proven in other markets. Whether it works here will be proven or disproven here. But if there are a lot of people that "want something a little more appealing", then somebody should step up and fill that niche, shouldn't they?

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

You quoted raubre saying that Y108 and Froggy are "fake" and "corporate crap", and Toby Keith is just a " just a novelty country wannabe", and you agreed 100%.

That statement was strongly critical of the evolution that's taken place.

And while agreeing with it may not be directly critical of those who like Keith, or those stations, it infers that their tastes are somehow inferior to yours.

Name one time where I called a poster a name here! C'mon do it!! Posters are free to critique country music if they don't like it, but don't call posters who do like it country bumpkins, hillbillies, stupid (defining denigrate)...

I can call Nashville music "corporate crap" because it IS! Toby Keith is a wanna-be rap artist! Froggy is FAKE when they are playing pop music disguised as "country music"--it's not country music--it's pop music! You wouldn't catch Haggard or Jones singing any of that crap. I can critique any type of music I want to. What I didn't do was call posters on here names for liking what they like. To each their own taste and critique it all you like, but refrain from calling one another names...ie: country bumpkins, hillbillies, referring to them as stupid in defining terms!