RE: MOST SOUND MEN ARE....

[Frank Gerace <seahorse@channel1.com>]

And all of this begs the question...are musicians failed sound
engineers?


Frank
www.dreamchildmusic.com

At 04:23 PM 7/20/01 -0400, you wrote: 

> ** ya know  . . . it was just
> pointing out the fact that the sound people that are being discussed  - -
> and dissed - - may be players whose day job is doing sound. someone else
> called them "failed musicians" and i pointed out that many
> people here could be considered to be failed by similar criteria. 
>
> i have a day job and don't consider failed myself, ya know? so why would
> i consider ives to be "failed"  - - or mussorgsky, or myriad
> other people who have had families and day jobs AND did music. 
>
> (for that matter, most musicians who play for a living ARE doing a day
> job, they're not doing THEIR music, they're doing someone else's. some
> teach or write about music, it's all cool by me.)
>
> the short answer: NO 
>
> stig 
>
> would you consider Charles Ives a "failed musician"
> then? 
>
>
>   ** ya know . . . almost everyone on this
> list 
> > who has a day job could be considered
> a 
> > >  "falied  musician" - - glass
> houses and all.