From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:201702250934198621-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Hey, good morning.  I was up late, a big storm came thru around midnight,   
   > so that kep me awake.   
      
   Yeah, good morning from one time zone to the west ;)   
   Seems you're getting the crap weather over there. We've got ugly clouds and   
   almost a dusting of snow...a very mild winter over here so far but as   
   always, the sooner it's gone, the better - who needs winter?   
      
   > A basic theme of your response seem to be to challenge my judgment on   
   > quitting the " real band ".   
      
   Not challenging your judgment, but rather questioning it.   
      
   > Was it as bad as I say ?  Could we have made it work ?  Did I just panic ?   
   > All the same sort of things my cousin might ask.  So here's the deal, just   
   > to cut to the quick. What you should do is get out there, get in a   
   > position similar to where we were, and see how it really works. Then   
   > succeed past where we went. I'm sure it can be done :-)   
      
   I'm planning on getting there, and I'm expecting trouble - because trouble   
   is all I've ever had starting literally from day one, which also means I'm   
   prepared to fight...yet again.   
      
   > No, seriously, we were as far as we could get, with the people we had.   
   > Bands are group efforts, and so the whole thing matters. Actually more   
   > than that. There are people past the band, managers, agents, producers,   
   > wives, girlfreinds ... a bunch.   
      
   Sure, there are Needless Extras, particularly Parasites, and/or Manipulators   
   that must be dealt with all along the way.   
      
   > That I'm alive it directly because I walked away from that crazy   
   > situation.  No doubt.  I don't have to kill myself prove I'm mortal.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Maybe getting into the  'big time' was never something you really Totally   
   aspired to, or maybe you aspired to it a little but decided that it wasn't   
   worth the struggle after all, but you never mentioned that part of it, only   
   that you basically feared for your life, which you believed would be   
   seriously at risk if you continued onward.   
   Maybe I have an advantage there of sorts considering how I entered this   
   alien world...seriously at risk and then minutes later, actually in the   
   process of being put to death by asphyxiation but being rescued at the very   
   moment I would have otherwise become dead. As a result, I perceive things   
   differently than most and feel I'm constantly in a borderline state between   
   life and death, which really makes for some interesting perspectives to say   
   the least ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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