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|    Ouisie to JimD    |
|    Re: it's hard to see your own faults    |
|    17 Nov 16 20:38:50    |
      From: someone@anywheret.net              "JimD" wrote in message news:20161117095159765-email@nowherecom...              On 2016-11-17 14:05:39 +0000, JimD said:              > Ok, I'm back. The deal is, I started playing music because I enjoyed it.       > Somewhere along the way the business part crept it. Now, we're seeing       > that aspect begin to move us in a direction we don't enjoy much.              Then move back in the right direction and play what you enjoy!              > We're very likely to do what so many musicians before us have over the       > years .... give up the chase to stay current, and just play what we enjoy.              If 'current' means CRAP, then that shouldn't even be the last thing you ever       want to get into.              > And do that as long as we can, as long as we still enjoy it. It seems a       > natural progression.              With Originals, you can't lose!              > I was wrong. Those old rockers that threw in the towel and quit learning       > every new song, each one less and less connected with their life and       > experiances, had a point.              The point is that they know what's good and that it's what they enjoy.       That's not throwing in the towel, that's throwing out the TRASH!!!              > Band girl doesn't want to be a grandma up on stage wearing a mini skirt       > and singing songs about being a spoiled rich girl upset that her latest       > male " friend " is screwing one of her girlfriends. And, then how she's       > gonna key his truck, set his house on fire, shoot him with a shotgun, and       > more importantly, stay friends on Facebook with the other woman :-)              > In other words we down't care much about how hard life is for those       > spoiled, pampered little snowflakes. And so we don't relate to their       > music much either :-)                     Jim              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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