Let us begin - I have spent a good portion of my life, (youth and adult), giving deep thought to the condition of the music scene in South Carolina and I have to say I have come away with as little understanding today as I had in 1978. At best I can say that the years have revealed to me some truths and some lies about how original music has been cultured, channeled, promoted, and crushed both historically and present day throughout the Midlands and the state as a whole. To p