This thread & video clip demonstrate the point I've tried to make for years here, that making $ as a pro musician (and eventual stardom) does NOT necessarily mean one's a talented musician. The widely varying range of musical ability among even the pro gigging members here is a case in point.

In fact there are MANY here who may not be making $ performing music, but who I'm sure are as musicially talented and perhaps with better chops, than some of those pro performers out there today.

As a musician, it's frustrating to realize that both the media & general audiences appear more enamoured with the glamour, glitz, and hype of stardom, than the actual music. MTV has certainly changed the face of music. Was I born in the wrong generation?

Scott