Talk:James Booker
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Archive Talk Page #1, 7-9-2007
While much good work has gone into this article, I'm not sure I like how reference to his drug use and problem has almost been completely removed from the article. I think in Booker's case his drug situation was not just a bit of personal trivia, but at least in his later years a central part of his life and career which needs to be discussed for any understanding of Booker. I think his career would have gone much further had he been able to reliably perform like his better days. Some of the live recordings show how he could play some amazing stuff while pretty wasted, but remember he also had days when he was so off his goard he couldn't play shit, and places like the Maple Leaf that hired him regularly knew they had to put up with that sort of thing, which other venues would not. -- Infrogmation 15:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyvios from allaboutjazz
Last July, user:Adidonna heavily revised this article ([this is a before and after diff), copying sentences and entire paragraphs verbatim from http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=5177. This site is copyrighted with all rights reserved, meaning its text cannot be included here. With this edit, I've deleted the copied material but have tried to preserve additions made since then. allaboutjazz.com certainly can be (and is) used as a reference, but not as a source for large chunks of text. -- Rick Block (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)