RE: [Harp-L] Drinking and Performance

["Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also, with the harp specifically, wouldn't the various sugars and such
corrode/corrupt your instrument after a while?
Brad Trainham
 

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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bill Kumpe
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:01 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Drinking and Performance

Most of our club meetings are held in non alcoholic venues because booze
just tends to complicate matters.  We like for our folks to be able to bring
their kids if they want to.  And, while I don't know and don't want to know,
I'm pretty sure that we have some friends of Bill W. in our membership. I am
an ex drinker.  For many years I was a professional marketing rep.  I
noticed that I had fallen into a pattern.  A drink or two after work with
the guys in the office, a drink or two when I came home, maybe even one with
lunch once in a while.  I handled my booze well. It was a qualification for
the profession back then.  But, I eventually noticed just how much booze I
was consuming and realized that I was not far from the place where some of
my family members had lived their entire lives ... never really drunk, fully
functioning and functioning pretty well but almost always buzzed, especially
by the end of the day.  I can see how a professional musician could fall
into the same trap.  Booze is just part of the scene and almost part of the
job.  But, it can be a part of the scene you're not involved with and a lot
of folks are better off that way.

Bill Kumpe
Tulsa, OK  



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