From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017021313495854372-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Yep. It's about the dancers, or the partiers. It's not about the musicians   
   > ... at the gigs we do :-)   
      
   I could never dig being so trivialized as that.   
      
   > Wedding was full, our room was full.  Dj got paid. We got paid.   Quite   
   > well paid, in fact.   
      
   Some 'incentive' ;)   
      
   > Lots of businesses will tell sick employees to stay home. I play several   
   > times a week. Don't need to be around sick people.   He was a trouper, but   
   > he didn't need to be.   
      
   Even worse, you and the others could get sick from being around someone in   
   that condition!   
      
   > He hinted around there might be a problem.  Told us for certain a few days   
   > before the gig.  That's how " hired gun " sorta players work. I know a   
   > bunch of these guys. They take the highest paying gig, and will cancel   
   > very late in the game. Most times, they arrange someone to fill in for   
   > them. But not always.   
      
   We've got those around here too, only we call them 'jobbers'...only I think   
   of them as mercenaries!   
      
   > We're thinking ground straps on some of the gear. Or going wi-fi and   
   > forgetting hardwired connections altogether on this stuff.   
      
   Wireless is  pretty cool when it's reliable.   
      
   > Maybe it's the ghost of some old sax player .... just screwing with me :-)   
      
   Or it might be some strong EM fields interfering and causing 'glitchs'.   
      
   > We're in the music business. It's not a game. It's a business.  Have fun   
   > on your own time.  Like pro sports. Big dollar athletes are in in for the   
   > money, and they care about the money.  That's a business too.   
      
   If I was into being part of the Root of All Evil, the Love of Filthy Lucre,   
   that's all that would matter, but Thank GOD, I Love Music for what it is and   
   That is the incentive Before ANYthing else!!!   
      
   > I like paying my bills. And much prefer making my money playing music than   
   > digging ditches for money so I can then play music i might like slightly   
   > better than the music I like and get paid for.   
      
   Enjoying it is  what matters most!   
      
   > I know, it's awful to compromise, to accept " good enough " when " perfect   
   > " might be out there somewhere.   
      
   I'm not holding out for 'perfection' but I do like to be going in that   
   direction.   
      
   > We just do what they ask for. Play a lot of requests usually.   
      
   I don't mind doing that - if I know it, I'll play it.   
      
   > a bummer, as old hippies might say.   
      
   Yeah, bringers of bad vibes are always a bummer.   
      
   > And knowing what your job is ... and not expecting the rest of us to cover   
   > for work you didn't do.   
      
   There's no place for Slacker Lazy Parasites!   
      
   > Interested in the money .... not much else.   
      
   TWO Sick motives - Love of money, and without even Honestly Earning it!   
      
   > the eternal question .... is it incompetence, lack of ability ?   
      
   I'd say it's mostly the Absence of Maturity and the incompetence that   
   results.   
      
   > we see that. Add one more person into our mix, and it degrades. we do well   
   > as a three piece. we know what each can do, and we do that.  no extra   
   > person in there we have to start thinking about.   
      
   Jim   
      
   That's why it's usually easier to do a good job with a smaller number.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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