From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017092322032343089-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Mac.   
      
   > Think Different.   
      
   I do, and I Totally HATE Monopolies!!!   
      
   > pssst ... there's a reason a grat many musicians use macs ..... it's that   
   > they work.  Pc's can work too, but you need to be far more of a techie to   
   > keep that going.   
      
   I don't mind being a techie ;) But my church got me the machine I'm   
   currently using, and it came with WinBLOWS 10, because if I had built it,   
   and I'm still planning on building one, it'll have LINUX for the os, which   
   is Very Reliable.   
      
   > Mac's are built with the idea that the user doesn't know shit about   
   > comupters.   
      
   MicroCrap Monopoly software is designed with the idea that USERS SHOULDN'T   
   KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THEIR COMPUTERS!   
      
   > It better work, and work reliably, and do that without needing any   
   > specialized knowledge on the users part, 'cause typically they aren't   
   > gonna have that.   
      
   IDIOTS shouldn't use computers, or drive vehicles, or do ANYthing which   
   Requires Knowledge and Thinking!!!   
   I sure miss DOS and command line prompts :(   
      
   > Pc's are a different beast. Just as powerful, or moreso, but requiring   
   > technical expertise to keep that way.   
      
   That's what I LOVE about them, and particularly building one!   
      
   > Exacty.  That music has a place, it's just not a place where we are.   
      
   Nonsense material has it's place all right...Flushed down the toilet where   
   it belongs!   
      
   > I've heard it said that they'll dance to anything.  Implying we can play   
   > whatever crap we want and it'll be fine.   
      
   Just  so long as it's played well.   
      
   > Well, that's just not the case.   
      
   Depends on what it is.   
      
   > Wanna be a failure as a dance band ? Or a cover band ?  Make up a setlist   
   > of songs that weren't hits or popular or dancable.   
      
   That or not read the  Vibe.   
      
   > :-)   
      
   I gather that you've had problems with temperamental singers too.   
      
   Well, I'm not like that at all...and temperamental singers get on my   
   nerves...they always want things their way, and the easiest way...FOR THEM,   
   NOT for the musicians who have to keep changing things to make it easy for   
   them.   
   Sometimes, I just want to tell, or yell at them, JUST SHUT UP AND SING!!!   
   Sometimes they can be such big babies!   
   Just put a mic by my piano and I'll sing, and WITHOUT all the nonsense...and   
   I'm sure if it ever comes to that, they'll be telling how they want me to   
   sing, just like they tell me how they want me to play....and I'll do it,   
   because I can...without being temperamental about it...which is why I keep   
   saying let the musicians who want to, sing...things will go a LOT smoother   
   that way.   
      
   > One size never fits all ...... exactly.  What key one singer sings a song   
   > in is irrelevant to what key I might sing it in.   
      
   I prefer Versatility, the *ability*, even if it's Acquired, to improve one's   
   range. I'm willing  to work at it, just like anything else in Music, or   
   anything else in anything.   
      
   I guess I just look at things differently, perhaps a LOT differently ;)   
   particularly in view of how I was deposited on this Miserable alien planet   
   and what it's taken to survive over 61 trips around the sun, and that's   
   based on an attitude of rising to and overcoming or at very least taking   
   control of challenges on a constant basis. Sure, I can understand wanting   
   everything to be as easy as possible and therefore choosing the *easiest*   
   key for an individual to sing in, or for that matter similarly choosing the   
   key in which to play that will result in the easiest fingering of an   
   instrument - but that's NOT what living, and certainly Versatility, is   
   about!!! It's about not only being able to do something less than 'easy',   
   but actually DOING IT, often, and regularly, because just like anything   
   else, the more Practice being Invested in an activity, the  EASIER it   
   becomes and the BETTER the results will be, and the  more Versatility the   
   performer will ACQUIRE in the process...which makes it all the more   
   worthwhile!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)