Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Get a career!

[Bradford Trainham <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right!!  I wasn't fair about the cat... but I was probably dead
on about the girl.
Brad Trainham
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:52:15 EDT, you wrote:

>Brad:  I just recently saw a video I think was from the previous  Rockers in 
>the Rockies seminar (not sure) - on the Rockers myspace  page ...probably as 
>they were finishing up...with Michael, Jason and Chris  Michalek rocking out 
>for their students.  Michael really lets loose to a  very appreciative audience, 
>proving your statement, below.  I hadn't seen  (heard) him let his hair down 
>quite this way before ;)
> 
>P.S. No..All Persian cats aren't dumb!  My first cat was a red Persian  who 
>was one of my most intelligent kitties, ever. <G>
> 
>Elizabeth
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>"It sounds like she was drunk;  She fixated on your shirt;  She  had
>nothing real to say beyond that;  
>It's up to you to decide what  constitutes a career for yourself,
>right? 
>I've never heard you play, but  around Austin, people use words like
>"genius" and "unbelievable!" when they  describe your playing. 
>So, maybe she's a genius at drinking and seeing  shirts.
>Tell her you love her, but from a distance... and go right on  making
>your own career.
>Brad Trainham
>
>P.S.
>She's probably  related to the girl/girls who get drunk at some of my
>gigs... and come ask me  what I think they look like. 
>(I'm blind... and hence, a novelty to  them.)
>Nice perfume, but dumb as a Persian cat!!
>Don't share that with her  lest she perchance hath long fingernails...
>Whew!!  Too Much  Coffee!!
>Brad Trainham
>On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT),  you wrote:
>
>>Last night I played Antones in Austin.  My band  Sick's Pack (checkout 
>myspace for Sick'spack and/or Spyder the drummer for  samples) played and for a 
>portion of the show, we backed up a burlesque  show.  The leader of the burlesque 
>troupe is Sick's girlfriend, so we have  often double billed with them, but 
>this is the first time we've backed them up  except for one song.  Anyway, the 
>show went great, about 400 people  there.  (All for the headlining band, MArch 
>4th, but that's what opening is  about)
>>   
>>  Before the dancers came on stage, I  wore a button down shirt.  When they 
>arrived I took off the top shirt to  reveal a Rolling Stones t-shirt, all 
>black backround with a huge tongue all over  the front, the better to suggest 
>ogling the dancers. 
>>    
>>  Walking home I passed by a 21 year old (estimate) woman who  seemed 
>slightly inebriated, but certainly capable of holding a conversation,  which went 
>like this;
>>   
>>  Her: Why do you have a  giant mouth on your shirt?
>>   
>>  Me:  Well,  first, it is a Rolling Stones, the band, t-shirt.  Next, I was 
>playing  music backing up a burlesque show.  Do you know what a burlesque 
>show  is?
>>   
>>  She:No.
>>    
>>  Me:  Well, it's essentially strippers, but they're  theatrical with humor, 
>it has roots in vaudeville.
>>    
>>  She:  Why don't you get a career?
>>    
>>  Me: (Shocked into the not able to form the proper arguments quick  enough 
>state) Playing music is not a career?
>>   
>>   She: For a BURLESQUE show?
>>   
>>  Me: Well, why  isn't it a career?
>>   
>>  She: Because it is not a  career.
>>   
>>  At this point I walked away.  I  have since argued with in in my head.  
>First, intellectually I know not to  take it personally because it is her story 
>she is telling, not mine.   Emotionally, I feel angry that she has the nerve 
>to make assumptions and judge  me on the assumptions.
>>  I inferred that she assumed that was my  only gig.  Then she saw it as 
>either not serious work or morally  wrong.  I extended her comments to not just 
>be about burlesque  musicians,but musicians in general.  This went straight to 
>one of my big  buttons.  I can't tell you how often someone will ask me what I 
>do and then  say, "but what do you do for a LIVING?"  So Blah.
>>    
>>  Any thoughts?  
>>  Michael Rubin
>>   Michaelrubinharmonica.com"  
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