From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017082210121189009-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > If someone hires you to bake a cake for their daughters birthday, and it   
   > has to be delivered tomorrow ... what if you decide you want to use some   
   > special ingredient you don't have on hand, but can order from a supplier,   
   > but that won't arrive to you until next week at the earliest ????   
      
   If that ingredient happens to b e Talent, I'd say don't wait for such a   
   situation i.e. don't be LAZY! Practice all the  time and don't stop...THAT's   
   what'll prevent such situations.   
   Otherwise, allow enough time for working on the material, and then LEARN   
   from it, i.e. don't wait for getting caught with one's proverbial 'pants'   
   down in the future!   
      
   > Do you insisit on that ingredient and fail to deliver the cake on time.   
      
   Depends on how much, or how little the cake Needs the ingredient.   
      
   > Or, do you use ingredients you have, make a cake, and make the little girl   
   > happy ?   
      
   If she'll be happy without the ingredient, then it's probably not very   
   important to begin with...but if she'll be disappointed without it, then   
   what?   
      
   > We actually play jobs.  Spending all or most of our time on songs that   
   > won't be ready when we have to perform is bad business.   
      
   That's why PLANNING AHEAD is so Critical...and I *know* you know about that   
   because several times you've mentioned being booked for as long as a year in   
   advance - More than Plenty of time to be ready!!!   
      
   And if after that long time, something falls through - someone dies, the   
   business goes out of business, the wedding is called off etc...you'll still   
   have material to use elsewhere and will never have to ask yourself if all   
   the effort was worth it!   
      
   > well, at least we agree on this point.  Attitudes of " perfection or   
   > nothing " certainly will break up bands.   
      
   The perfection issue is a simple one - just eliminate Fallen Flesh, where   
   imperfection comes from - yeah, just try - so  very many have tried so very   
   many times...ALL with a One Hundred Percent Failure rate....which means,   
   forget that part of it and just DO YOUR BEST!!!   
      
   > But there's less of them out there when the roads are empty :-)   
      
   Jim   
      
   I know there are a lot less of them but even one is too many for me now that   
   I'm constantly putting up with them!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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