From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:20170906232152298-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > So what are you saying ? Don't play any covers ?   
      
   Not at all. Covers will always be there and I doubt there's even such a   
   thing as an artist or band that plays absolutely no covers at all.   
      
   Playing covers is not the problem, but rather playing Nothing but covers.   
      
   > As it happens, I know someone with that mindset.  And songs on the radio.   
   > And guess what, he can't find any musicians to play his " originals only "   
   > gigs.   
      
   All that means is that it's not easy - What it? Rather, it means that just   
   because it's not easy doesn't mean that it's not possible, but it does mean   
   that it will take Effort...something the terminally Lazy don't even want to   
   try to understand.   
      
   I wrote several songs about that situation - they're encouraging, like   
   "Opening A Channel (Icebreaker)", "Ignite The  Sky", "Go For It', "All Right   
   (I Will)", and "A-OK", to name a 'few'.   
      
   > So he just had to cancel one.  The one and only gig he had, as far as I   
   > know. And it would have payed real good.   
      
   Clearly, he aspires to something far greater than so much more BOTTOM   
   FEEDING!!!   
      
   > Didn't matter, all he could find to build a band out of was guys who know   
   > the standard bar setlist ... Sweet Home Ala, Brown Eyed Girl, and whatever   
   > other worn out of rock tunes they can play easy.  They weren't able, or   
   > interested in learning his material.   
      
   Don't you suppose that Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Morrison, and so very many if not   
   ALL the others had Exactly those same kinds  of problems?   
      
   > So how's that work then, if you can't find anyone to play with ?   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   You do what ALL the big names did...IN ORDER TO *EARN* THOSE BIG NAMES -   
   YOU *RESOLVE* THAT *FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION* and YOU KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU   
   DO FIND THEM!!!   
      
   Here's the attitude in song from the second album, Ignite The Sky:   
      
   10. All Right (I Will)   
      
   verse1   
   I'll see how this works this way   
   but I don't know if I'll try it out today   
   yes I will and I hope I'll Love it more tonight   
   'cause I've finally got it set and I want to think it's   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   verse2   
   that's the way it's always been   
   needin' every effort gettin' out or gettin' in   
   but I will no matter how intensely fierce the fight   
   'cause there's no second place and I wanna make it   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   bridge   
   plowing out the path of another day   
   'til it's finally enough to go ahead   
   wishing for a pleasant and better way   
   enduring constant hardship instead   
      
   where others are fearing to tread   
      
   forging ever onward at every chance   
   no matter what the risk or the cost   
   in spite of all the feelings of hesitance   
   at every new bridge to be crossed   
      
   still yet another chance to be lost   
      
   verse3   
   so be it if that's my lot for now   
   but it doesn't have to stay when I discover how   
   and I will 'cause it's time for heavy hearts to be light   
   to be rid of all the pain and finally come to know it's   
      
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
   all right   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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