From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:201706251045023555-email@nowherecom...   
      
   On 2017-06-25 11:30:57 +0000, Ouisie said:   
      
   > It's a new day.  Was kinda wondering if there'd be any response to last   
   > night's feeling sorry for myself post.  It was a moment of just letting it   
   > all out.  Might as well just vent then :-)   
      
   Not really venting, just being a bit disappointed ;)   
      
   > At fridays band gig, while we were setting up, two older ladies came up to   
   > me on the stage, one ask if we'd play Wipeout. I smiled and said jokingly,   
   > " well, that's a lot of work on the drummer " .. ....  right off the other   
   > woman, the one who didn't ask, put a big scowl on her face and said " well   
   > don't bother then ", turned and walked away.  What a strange reaction.   
      
   Nothing like people like that, Bummer!   
      
   > We did play the tune, and on break I happened by the table where these   
   > ladies were setting. The one who asked thanked me for doing it, and was   
   > all happy. Said we didn't play it long enough.  I said we were happy to do   
   > it, replied that's up to the drummer how long it goes, and made my way   
   > off.   
      
   Sort of one those 'left-handed' things, where even if they have a   
   'compliment', they're still not satisfied.   
   That's yet another reason for doing Originals, because you'll get fans who   
   want to hear you play like you, not someone else doing someone else's   
   material.   
      
   > Over the years I've had, or heard about indirectly, about three times some   
   > ( nasty ) women in the crowd at band gigs have an issue with me.  One time   
   > two women came up to band girl after the gig and were all angry that I   
   > seemed to be " bossing her around ".  What had I done ?   
      
   It wasn't what you'd done, it's what they were doing, being Obnoxious.   
      
   > Apparently said no to some song she turned and ask if we could do.  They   
   > heard the no part, likely didn't hear the question, and had no idea why I   
   > said no.  It was only the " no " they managed to take in.  Bnad girl told   
   > them there wasn't any problem, that we do or don't do songs on the fly all   
   > the time, depending on circumstances.   
      
   > So, at the risk of sounding all whinney, yes, there are people out there   
   > who are just looking for something to bitch about.  And I'm an easy target   
   > at band jobs.  At solo gigs, I'm the only target.   
      
   That's it, and all my life, I've been singled out in one way or another, and   
   almost always not for something good - wrote a song about it on the 3rd   
   album Through The Eons:   
      
   9. State Of Mind   
      
   verse1   
   remembering way back when it all had begun   
   too early to be anything that I'd done   
   yet nonetheless being treated unkind   
   a slow painful path to a grim state of mind   
      
   why would it be so and what was the cause   
   not enough time for to break any laws   
   unspecified and not even defined   
   just a confused and perplexed state of mind   
      
   bridge1   
   desperately struggling trying to cope   
   grasping at straws and still daring to hope   
   of finding the answer before it's too late   
   to making the horror abate   
      
   no time to wait   
      
   verse2   
   many years painfully forging ahead   
   things could be easier going instead   
   ever the closer to feeling resigned   
   a depressing and frustrated sad state of mind   
      
   why does it seem like there's no end in sight   
   holding to faith trying to fight the good fight   
   seeing how much has already declined   
   a struggle for keeping a right state of mind   
      
   bridge2   
   trying so hard to abide and endure   
   wishing and praying that there'll be a cure   
   to end this disease and be soon getting well   
   and finally escape from this Hell!   
      
   breaking the spell   
      
   verse3   
   continuing on with persistent resolve   
   no matter what happens what it may involve   
   to rise to each challenge and leave it behind   
   constantly seeking a good state of mind   
      
   hoping its substance will soon realize   
   and the sought after dream will materialize   
   keeping the faith for to finally find   
   the joy of a fully renewed state of mind   
      
   > This brings up manners, polite behavior in public.  I've noticed, very   
   > definitely over the last two to so years, a distinct hostility in people.   
   > I attribute this to the national mood. To the hostility of our national   
   > politics. Manners seem to be a thing of the past. Replaced by segmented   
   > groups, who very much don't like each other.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Good manners are a thing of the  past, but I attribute all that hostility to   
   overpopulation - people are sick and tired of having to keep putting up with   
   too damn many excess people, they're constantly in the way, everywhere, all   
   the time, and a needless, useless, stupid nuisance, an ever expanding horde   
   of human locusts, the very worst kind - but the Idiots keep overbreeding   
   anyway.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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