| THE DW TIMES 2nd Week of January 2005 |
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| THE LATEST NEWS: SPA CITY BLUES SOCIETY HOLDS COMPETITION HOT SPRINGS (DWT)- On November 16, 2004 the Spa City Blues Society held its annual "battle of the bands" to determine which acts would represent the SCBS at the International Blues Challenge in February in Memphis, Tennessee. Local performers competed in two categories: solo/duo, and band. Hometown favorite, Dayton Waters, known for his high-intensity, marathon 12-string performances in nightclubs in Hot Springs and Fort Smith won the day in the Solo/Duo category. Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain won the band competition. Both acts will be sponsored by the SCBS when they compete February 3-5, 2005 at the IBC, the world's largest amateur blues competition. WE'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN WE SEE IT FORT SMITH (DWT)- "It's about damned time!" said Rob Sampson, manager of The Varsity club in Fort Smith. That seems to be the most common response along with, "We'll believe it when we see it," from Pierson-Waters Project fans when told that the new PWP cd has been completed. The cd project began 1 year ago at Wurst Studio in Branch, AR and was mastered at Fat Rabbit Studio in Van Buren. Fans have waited anxiously through projected release dates since last summer, so their skeptical response is understandable. The Pierson-Waters Project, or PWP for short, is: Grant Pierson (guitar/vocal), Dayton Waters (12-string guitar/vocal), Steve Dufresne (electric and upright bass), and Scott Sartin (percussion). Pierson and Waters have performed for almost three years as a duo and enlisted Dufresne and Jake Shaffer (percussionist) to round out the Project in December 2003. Scott Sartin joined the group in the spring of '04. The first PWP cd release party will be held in Hot Springs (now the home of Dayton Waters) at The Big Chill, 910 Higdon Ferry Road. The group expects to hold another such event for their Fort Smith fans, but date and venue have yet to be confirmed. Rumor has it they are looking at The Village Pub (where Pierson and Waters met), but insiders would neither confirm nor deny that information. |
SCOTT PETERSON - Welcome to Death Row. May you never see sunlight again, bastard. THE WAR - We gotta win this. I see the Iraq War as part of the Global War On Terror, though I know many of you don't. Regardless of how you feel about why we're there, that's a debate for historians. The fact is, we're there and failure is NOT an option. You don't have to be pro-Bush support your troops, but you have to support your troops to be pro-American. THE TSUNAMI - Unbelievable. What's more unbelievable is that the Muslim nations hit by it want our financial support, but don't want our military there to distribute aid, set up hospitals, etc. In a recent article, a Swedish relief worker commented on how he was amazed at how quickly hospitals were restored to functional when the US military arrived. Apparently, sick and injured were languishing about with no or little care because triage had not been established, power had not been restored to hospitals, the facilities themselves were filled with disease-carrying mud and filth. Within hours of our arrival, all of that had been reversed and more victims were treated in that first day than all previous days combined. Yet, even now, we are unwelcome. Colin Powell's comment about winning favor of the Muslims by rendering aid is a perfect example of why he did the right thing to step down from his position of Secretary of State. He is not capable of seeing that no matter how we try to help those people, we will always be the Great Satan to them. I say, with our troops, comes our money. Why spend thousands of millions of dollars to help a people whom we will probably have to kill one day when much of the work has already been done for us? Harsh as that may seem, those who object to our military presence (no matter how benign and charitable it may be) are potential enemies. They can somehow justify it to Allah to take our money, but having infidel feet on their precious Muslim soil is too much. Screw 'em, I say. Have your dysentery, cholera, and all the plagues that come from rotting corpses along with your bullshit religion and die with it. Rest assured, it's a much better death than if you were on the end of my knife. That's gonna wrap it up for me this 2nd week of January 2005. Check back every once in awhile for the latest rant. Hmmm... That's what I'll call this: THE RANT section. Maybe soon I'll have a place where you can weigh in, too. Dayton Waters GOD BLESS YOU! GOD BLESS AMERICA! |
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