Re: [Harp-L] Hill Country Fans Burn Gindick At Stake

[Paul Marconi <pmarcons@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nobody is burning anyone at the stake and no one is getting flamed...I
frequent both boards and have read all the posts......Quite civil I'd
say...most people are trying to understand BOTH sides.  It's unfortunate
that two friends have come to this impass but both are making business
decisions that they feel they must.  I hope that "down the road" you will be
friends again.

Paul

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, jongindick@xxxxxxxxxxx <
jongindick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> ok, it's not that bad...
>
> If people are going to write about me on any forum, they should hear the
> other side. Many of you know me. Someone posted the last post about this on
> Adams Forum and I hope they will do again cause naturally I can't post
> directly there. This is my livlihood and my reputation.
>
> Of course, I am in a state between high giddy and skin tingling anxiety:
> Fight or flee. Horrible, and so I am laughing my ass off at same time
> cause it is so absurd.  With Jam Camp in three days. and that's a three
> ring circus for 5 days worth of hi anx for lo key me. I'll probably back
> down because I am pragmatic but maybe it will bring us all together in some
> way positive.
>
> Or at the very least get to tell the jam camp story.
>
> The fact Jam Camp is a thou seems to piss some people off. I get it. Thing
> is: I PAY PRO HARP PLAYERS REAL MONEY every day for 5 days. And I have a
> lot of coaches.  So these people who think I am some kind of rich snob are
> actually saying harp players shouldn't get paid. I paid Adam $250 a day for
> 10 straight camps. I wish I can pay Adam and all my coaches more. They
> deserve it.
>
> But after 10 camps, Adam didn't notify me of his plans to do his own event.
> After 10 camps, I found out about in a press release that said Hill Country
> was the only Miss Harp Event. Think I wasn't threatened? This was while
> Adam was still booked to coach my next camp (late March) and which I still
> let him coach at and paid him the $250 a day for two to three days.
>
> Trying to make lemonade, I was supportive. He took me aside at camp and He
> was worried about his attendance, and you know, trying to be a friend, when
> I got back, I stupidly bought a plane ticket to attend as a attendee, and
> to announce it on my website and newsletter, to help.
>
> Brian Purdy and I were going to meet there and attend. He called me and
> told me not to come. His brand. I would stifle him. Ruin his camp. What
> about my Mississippi Jam Camp Brand? The camp he teaches at? I didn't say a
> thing,
> although he did tell him I had bought the ticket, so he knew.
>
> Trying to make lemonade, I decided to go to C'dale and hang out by myself
> cause I love it there, and I had that nonrefundable ticket, but driving to
> the airport,  the thought of many of my friends -- like you--100 miles away
> at a harp event I was banned from, I turned around in the car when I hit
> LAX and came home. Nice feeling.
>
> So, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons, and follow through in my
> plans to do a late May Camp as I want to expand to 4 a year and this seems
> like a great idea, and yes, in some way face saving. I admit it.
>
> When I told  Adam IN ADVANCE of my plans, he told me not to, said it would
> make us enemies, told me to wait a year. And after sending him a snippy
> e-mail, I thought, this is my chance to build something bigger than Jam
> Camp and I don't care what Adam thinks. Now, it's at this state, and I'll
> tell you what, I am going to make some lemonade out of this. Somehow...
>
> Anyway, if you got this far, I promise I will try not to post to you guys
> any more. Unless you like soap operas. I just don't have another way of
> protecting my reputation from what he and other have been writing about my
> intentions and who zoomed whom. And it's my livlihood and, I hope you are
> my friends, as well as Adams.
>
> Maybe I am wrong, I am often am, but there is a context here. Your feed
> back appreciated, and hope you'l give feedback to Adam too.
>
> That's it, baby. THANKS!!!
>
> Jon
>
>
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