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Mark, as a teacher, this is an interesting argument, -I don't think it's necessary to separate the idea of music with compensation. -In other words, to say that because one may think about money, they must not be thinking about music or vice versa. -Hopefully I'm reading you right. Anyway, I play and I teach, and I very much expect some compensation for my time and efforts, and am completely OK in doing so. -By this, I mean, I may not always get it, but I'd hope people around me would feel that what I'm doing is worth while enough for it. -and not because I feel that that's how I should be repaid so to speak, but because it's just a simple fact that people demand money from me in the world we live in, and I provide something. So I feel that I should be repaid for it. -otherwise, I'll starve! lol! -and then I won't be doing anybody much good, now will I?! lol! Anyway, I've learned and practiced and such, for a while, and am OK hopefully at what I do. So, with this in mind, I don't feel there's anything wrong with asking for something in return. Now, re: the music itself, when I play, or try to teach someone something, I'm not thinking of the money at all. I'm totally and completely focused on the idea at hand, and doing well by the music, -my student, -myself. -the idea itself... I try to deal with the payment issue before or after. -just my thoughts, -thought I might chime in... -Have an awesome weekend!, K? Smiles, Cara At 01:49 PM 5/22/03 -0700, you wrote: >I may be half the guitarist, but I gladly trade that for the ability to >make music with no expectation of compensation at all. I couldn't do a >wedding band thing. Music is too precious to me. Instead, I now do >media design. Total sell out, but they don't touch my music. > >Good luck Andre. I want to believe you'll succeed. In a way, you >have. On the fringe your either 1) a hack or 2) too advanced to be >understood my most. Either way, it sucks, but I think we can all agree >that you're not a hack. > >Mark Sottilaro > >On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 12:25 AM, ernesto schnack wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 May 2003 23:11:22 -0700, Andre LaFosse >> <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote: >>> Now, that's a better fate than assembling Nike shoes for $2.00 an >>> hour, >>> or crawling out of rubble in Baghdad right now. But when I think >>> about >>> all the traffic going through my site, and how little of an impact it >>> has on my actual day-to-day existence, it makes me wonder how much >>> time >>> I may have wasted by focusing so intensely on the EDP, as opposed to >>> more bread-and-butter things that might actually lead to my generating >>> some income from the music-related skills I've been cultivating for >>> about 25 years. >>> > > --- "The only things I really think are important, are love, and eachother. -Then, anything is possible..." http://home.earthlink.net/~thefates Please visit BadFiction and The Guitar Cafe. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/badfiction http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-guitar-cafe