Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-08-10 07:48
If you should think that's me, fine, but please say so. If you take issue with things I've said, ok, but say so.
I put myself to the microscope with no less----actually more acuity that those I call to task.
If your refer to today, and think David Blumberg posted interesting things, that's your right. I think he posted contradictory things, which can lead to misinformed consumers. David wasn't challenge because of his ligature choice, in fact I've so much as said Silverstein makes great (albeit IMHO overpriced) ligatures.
David was challenged because he sought to set the record straight about endorsement, claiming himself at the highest endorsement artist's level (which I was not bothered by in any sense of bragging,) and detailing all the compensation given to such people, only for him to have to correct both points later.
Performance compensation wasn't a "new topic," as some have suggested, just another form of previously undisclosed artist compensation: the initial post, which it failed to jibe with.
Greg Smith's, Buffet's absence and the rest: nothing to do with it.
Celebrating the clarinet..okay. One way I do so is to let the average player know the hype from the substance so they best advance with their hard earned dollars.
If people want to call my pointing out those who knowingly mislead abuse, which it's not, I can't stop them.
I am certain Ken that the entire premise of your points wasn't [or at least shouldn't be] directed at me....maybe only some of it, maybe little or none.
I happen to hate the group/herd mentality that has people jump aboard the hate wagon if all that awaits them is a sense of belonging, not fact.
That could be Buffet, Silverstein, Martin Frost, Vandoren, me, or others.
By the way, we are not all a mix of real professionals. Many of us come here for informed opinion--all the more reason misleading ideas should be avoided, and challenged when they appear.
Post Edited (2017-08-10 08:04)
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