From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018083122522753760-email@nowherecom...   
      
   On 2018-08-31 17:28:10 +0000, JimD said:   
      
   > played to almost no one for almost 3 hours.  Luck of the draw with these   
   > pub gigs. Some nights downtown is busy, sometimes it isn't.  Tonight it   
   > wasn't.  Something else was going on, somewhere else.  Football game or   
   > something.   
      
   > Eh, whatever.  We got thru it.   
      
   I'm getting depressed just thinking about it.   
      
   "Luck of the draw"? Sure, *unless* you do CONCERTS!!!   
      
   I knew there were some good reasons why I'd rather do concerts ;)   
      
   No lack of audience.   
   No playing for a bunch of drunks when there is an audience.   
   No dancing.   
   No sports.   
   No other Distractions and Diversions to prevent Totally getting into the   
   Music!!!   
      
   > Tomorrow midday I have one of my old solo gigs. This place is fading, not   
   > as a place, but as a place I play.  Gigs come and go. In business they   
   > call it churn or something.   
      
   More like turn-over.   
      
   > Eventually even long term customers are lost, so the trick is to expect   
   > that, don't get too upset and be always on the lookout for new places to   
   > play.   
      
   Maybe Boring, Old, Worn-out, Stale Un-Original material has something to do   
   with it.   
      
   tomorrows gig is fading.   
   It went from once a month to 5 times a year, down to 3 or 4 now. And   
   the actual dates keep getting moved. My challenge tomorrow is to do a   
   good job and stay interested.   
      
   > In other news, I had a chance to talk about this volume nit picking issue   
   > with " other guy " tonight.  No point keeping it a secret. He's as in the   
   > band as anyone.  Talking let me vent a bit. He had a simple, quick answer.   
   > We ( some of us ) should quit listening to other musicians about how we   
   > should be doing our gigs.   
      
   Almost sounds like one of those so-called 'no-brainers'.   
   Aren't some, if not a lot of those other musicians also potential if not   
   actual competitors for the same gigs?   
      
   > So I have a plan.  Once a gig is over, I don't want to hear about problems   
   > that nothing can be done about at this point.  Issues that can be   
   > prevented from happening again, ok. But things that can't, that are one   
   > time problems, I don't want to hear about. And ..... and this is more   
   > important, we need to accept that at live gigs things won't BE perfect.   
   > Just play the job, do the best we can, then move on.  Diriving me crazy   
   > with nit picking the mix is getting old.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Not doing one's best in the first place is the number one problem.   
   A combination of Laziness and Greed practically guarantees a Crap   
   'performance' from the band!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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