Re: [Harp-L] Professionals vs.,,,

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

I'll speak for me.  I've been a pro at times in my life, if playing for a 
living makes you a pro.  There were times when I would dread going to a gig 
because of what was going on  personally in my life, but I suffer from depression 
and I dreaded anything  involving movement sometimes.
 
     I'm lots better now Doc.....really.........I don't  think I need that. 
thorazine.
 
     Where was I ...........O yea. I'd go to the gig  anyway because it was 
my job and I didn't want to let my friends down. NEVER  EVER did I do a gig and 
not become so immersed in the jam that I still dreaded  what I was doing. As 
soon as we started playin' and I started thinking about how  to make it sound 
cool I always forgot about my problems. Happened every time.  Music is the 
best anti depressant I ever experienced. That's just me.
        Randy
    BiscuitBoy Blues
 
In a message dated 7/2/2007 1:58:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

At what  point does it just become "work", and not fun anymore? There's a 
certain joy  to playing that I'm not certain I want to compromise for the sake of 
financial  gain. Maybe not all have that choice to make. In some cases, I'm 
sure that  necessity is the "mother of invention".

Do professionals really still  enjoy doing it? Or does it just become an 
endless "gig"? Is the thrill really  gone?







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