Telluride Daily Planet letter to the editor (TBF content)

[pennm]

The letter is bogus.  My old friend and year-round T'ride resident, also a KOTO DJ, says that the T'ride merchants clear 10% of their year's profitability from TBF. He's lived in T'ride since the early 90's. 
~Penn

[Auntie Hope]

The letter is bogus.  My old friend and year-round T'ride resident, also a KOTO DJ, says that the T'ride merchants clear 10% of their year's profitability from TBF. He's lived in T'ride since the early 90's. 
~Penn

Baked in Telluride would have gone under the first year open after the fire haditnot been for the bluegrass crowd. That was according to the owner Jerry. 

Auntie Hope

[ShatteredArm]

I always chuckle when someone who lives in a town with a tourism-based economy complains about tourists. I guess he would prefer to go work in a mine?

[Telluridin]

Everyone has a right to complain I suppose, but TBF had already been going for 20ish years before this guy got there, so he really doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Aside from that, the only reason I don't go to Telluride every year is because of the cost.  The financial argument is ludicrous.

The reason that I would go every year if I could afford it are:
1.  World class music.
2.  World class people.

Not necessarily in that order.  What I loved about the Dead (somewhat depending on venue) was the sense of community, togetherness, and brotherhood and sisterhood that developed from it.  That feeling of "group", for me anyway, is the best high there is.  When I drive into Telluride, that feeling washes over me, and it makes me tingle.  I KNOW that if I need help, I will have it.  I KNOW that if my neighbor needs help, I will provide it, and neither will need to be asked for.  NEVER have I been in a group of people that size and experienced that level of civility.  That's not really the right word, because it stretches far beyond being civil to each other, it's being GOOD to each other.  Good FOR each other.  So why Bluegrass?  That's why, Mr. Nelson.  Come hang with us.  You'll be a better person for it.

[TheLorax27]

Everyone has a right to complain I suppose, but TBF had already been going for 20ish years before this guy got there, so he really doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Aside from that, the only reason I don't go to Telluride every year is because of the cost.  The financial argument is ludicrous.

The reason that I would go every year if I could afford it are:
1.  World class music.
2.  World class people.

Not necessarily in that order.  What I loved about the Dead (somewhat depending on venue) was the sense of community, togetherness, and brotherhood and sisterhood that developed from it.  That feeling of "group", for me anyway, is the best high there is.  When I drive into Telluride, that feeling washes over me, and it makes me tingle.  I KNOW that if I need help, I will have it.  I KNOW that if my neighbor needs help, I will provide it, and neither will need to be asked for.  NEVER have I been in a group of people that size and experienced that level of civility.  That's not really the right word, because it stretches far beyond being civil to each other, it's being GOOD to each other.  Good FOR each other.  So why Bluegrass?  That's why, Mr. Nelson.  Come hang with us.  You'll be a better person for it.

VERY Well said SIR!

[Australian fan]

Everyone has a right to complain I suppose, but TBF had already been going for 20ish years before this guy got there, so he really doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Aside from that, the only reason I don't go to Telluride every year is because of the cost.  The financial argument is ludicrous.

The reason that I would go every year if I could afford it are:
1.  World class music.
2.  World class people.

Not necessarily in that order.  What I loved about the Dead (somewhat depending on venue) was the sense of community, togetherness, and brotherhood and sisterhood that developed from it.  That feeling of "group", for me anyway, is the best high there is.  When I drive into Telluride, that feeling washes over me, and it makes me tingle.  I KNOW that if I need help, I will have it.  I KNOW that if my neighbor needs help, I will provide it, and neither will need to be asked for.  NEVER have I been in a group of people that size and experienced that level of civility.  That's not really the right word, because it stretches far beyond being civil to each other, it's being GOOD to each other.  Good FOR each other.  So why Bluegrass?  That's why, Mr. Nelson.  Come hang with us.  You'll be a better person for it.

That describes it perfectly