Talk:John Valby

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Though John Valby may incur the wrath of the "family values" crowd, his brilliant, albeit risque humour, is not without its merit. Firstly, by smashing through the social norms, Valby encourages more societal criticism and allows for genuine truth to show through all the lies. Secondly, Valby targets mainly those that deserve it. In doing such, he does society a great service in exposing the hypocrisy of contemporary moraise. Lastly, John Valby is just that damn good. He is capable of playing the piano as well as any romantic composer while maintaining a wider range of profanity than a sailor. I would like to see your contemporary rock groups top that! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.122.44.131 (talk • contribs)

Hmmm... I myself don't seem find his piano playing better than any others. In fact, he sounds remarkably worse than a drunken professional piano player acquaintance of mine. And, all other things aside, this sentence is a stretch:

From Hispanics to Irishmen, Polish to blacks, Arabs to rednecks, Republican and Democrats alike, no person and no group is safe from his wit and his piano.

"wit"?!? I hardly think so. FunnyYetTasty 09:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I've never had the pleasure(?), but you have to wonder whether 131.122.44.131 isn't Valby himself. The original version of this page was very close to Valby's website, so it is pretty clearly a self-promo. I edited it pretty heavily, but it could certainly use more. -- Mwanner | Talk 14:01, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

If you think the country has gone to Hades in a politically correct hand basket then you need to see and hear JV sometime. It was many years ago in Buffalo, NY when I first saw him perform and I was probably the ONLY person who didn't know the words and sing along, on cue, to EVERY song he played. I went to several of his shows after that and sang at the top of my lungs until my voice actually had that great raspiness that is John Valby. Curt P Jan 10, 2007