Re: [Harp-L] Subject: Bruce Willis - Harmonica player and non-SPAH attendee

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/11/05 1:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, EGS1217@xxxxxxx 
writes:


> * Further, this ludicrous Nyah-nyah 
> thread  about who could or couldn't have gotten him for SPAH is reaching a 
> new  
> low.  The reality is Bruce Willis' celebrity raises security issues  
> wherever 
> he travels and anyone not recognizing that fact is wearing  blinders; SPAH 
> could have ended up being overrun by Paparazzi (as he well  knows)and 
> perhaps he 
> doesn't consider himself skilled enough on the harmonica to  be "guest 
> harmonica star" at a SPAH convention. Further, to show  up as an attendee 
> could (in 
> his experience) encourage other  attendees to focus their cameras and 
> attention on him...he does not know just  how cool most attendees would be - 
> "most" 
> being the operative word,  since there will always be one who could ruin it. 
>  
> Since none of  us have walked in his shoes, to carp at one person for not 
> having 
> "gotten Bruce Willis" for SPAH is becoming exceedingly  childish, 

You have such strong opinions and you are entitled to them, but you are way 
off the mark regarding how it could be handled at a convention. You are 
assuming too much of the outcome in your imagination. Besides, no one is talking 
about  <not having "gotten Bruce Willis" for SPAH>. Chris is referring to his 
Minnesota World Harmonica Convergence.. 

At least get your facts correct before slapping wrists.

How much experience have you actually had going to and/or coordinating a 
harmonica convention? (Just curious, because you seem to have a lot of implied 
authority regarding these matters and are quite judgemental, IMO.)

The Iceman