Don I agree with you. A successful entertainer MUST have a sense of self-worth (and a little ego) or he'll never make it. You have to believe in yourself. Tearing down and belittling a fellow who thought enough of you to ask and to hire you to work for him is neither class and/or dignity. Yes, even if he is not very accomplished. A class act would be to fulfill your commitment if you made a judgmental mistake and bow out at the first opportunity. Then you would have merited some dignity among peers not to mention the ethics that you so earnestly desire to attain. Scott and I have bent each others noses in the past. I really don’t dislike or have anything against him. Our only conflict was that he changed keyboards because he deemed one to be better for his kind of work than the one he had. That is as it should be. The choice he made was not the irritation. Coming to his pervious group of KN players and pointing out how much better his was than the choice we made and at a much cheeper price was his prerogative. Still nothing so bad. His incessant, unrelenting attempts to do this at every opportunity that presented itself is what made me and others feel like our noses were being rubbed into our poor choices. Sad, but that is the whole story. Scott has not done this anymore and I thank him. He has much to contribute and I will say his remarks on this matter appear to be of insight and good advice. Every one has some faults. My hope is Dave would consider what has been said.

So Don these are my thoughts on class, dignity and ethics as they rub up against yours.

Doug