Klarinet Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2006/02

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] That's music?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:08:20 -0500

Mark,

I'm am truly sorry if you see me a snobbish and boarish, but my taste in
music hardly runs higher than anyone else's its just my taste and you can
take it or leave it, all I want to do is to tell others about it, the same
way I want to tells others about the Torah and ethics.

I don't want to shove anything down any else's throat, or appear higher
and/or mightier than anyone else, that's not at all what I am about, and if
you think I am just look up Rommel John Miller on a google search and see
what you get. I mean everything and everyone should be taken with a grain
of salt and by the content of their heart. At least that's what I hope.

Shalom,

Rafi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] That's music?

> Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller wrote
>
> >I mean playing bass as a pick-up in a
> >Bluegrass band when you're a trained blues or jazz bassist is just going
to
> >bore you to tears probably, unless you have eclectic musical interests.
And
> >not everyone has. I know I don't.
> >
> >
> Well, it didn't bore me to tears, since that's exactly what I did. It
> payed the bills, I met great and horrid people, played studio gigs,
> whatever. I was no dilletante ... I was making a living. No eclectism -
> playing a solid bass is what I was paid to do. If I didn't want to do
> that then I shouldn't have been in that position.
>
> The music biz is the same as any other biz - I've been working in big &
> small business for the last 25 years and I;ve met few CEOs or
> presidents that I would consider "nice" if I were their competitor.
> Everyone's got to learn to hold onto their wallet.
>
> I think the rest of what you've said stinks of snobbishness to high
> heaven - you look down from your high and mighty seat and say "look at
> those people ... my, but don't they realize that I represent 'goodness
> and light' becuase my taste in music runs 'better' than theirs".
>
> And then you wonder why no one comes to your concerts.
>
> I've played "Stairway to Heaven" and "Cocaine" and "Play that Funky
> Music" and "You're Cheating Heart" and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and
> the "Beer Barrel Polka" and a ton more songs more than any of you have
> played the Nutcracker, I'll bet. And if I looked bored or tired I'd be
> booed off the stage and out of a job - there's nowhere to hide up there.
>
> That's the difference between working musicians and wannabees. I decided
> I couldn't survive as a working musician and it wasn't going to kill me
> to stop playing, but those that survive do what they have to. There's no
> pact with the devil.
>
>
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