[Harp-L] Re: Reality check?

[Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am still out here practicing and breaking reeds on this thing  
called classical music!!  It is getting tougher to to make a living,  
but I still have live gigs with symphonies that pay a lot.

I, like Larry, and everyone else in the biz, question if anyone cares  
anymore, that is until I play the next concert and the audience is  
still there going nuts.  I can pull in on spending and still make  
ends meet on concerts playing Harmonica concerti.  Lots of the side  
stuff has dried up - jingles, teaching, B'way, ASCAP, film work - but  
who cares.  Let's all live poor for a while and make music for the  
real reason we are alive in the first place.

Screw it.  If I am going to go down, I am going down blowing the  
Harmonica.  Larry, think of it this way.  The rest of the world works  
their ass off at jobs they hate in order to save up some money for  
retirement and buy a house, and then they watch it all go down the  
tubes when these jerk offs gamble everything away on credit swaps.   
It's a great time to be poor!!!

Harmonically yours,

Roberto
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com