If I'm booked on a gig where I don't sing, but play the piano, such as a jazz gig, etc. then I enjoy comments on the piano playing.

However, if I am booked on a gig that requires me to sing, as well as play, then the comments are always all about the singing.

I think this is a matter of audience perception.

Actually, I think -- no, I KNOW -- that all of music performance is a matter of audience perception.

An older and wiser man once told me to never pay attention to what the critics are saying or writing.

"No pubilicity is bad publicity"

It is just publicity.


--Mac
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"Keep listening. Never become so self-important that you can't listen to other players. Live cleanly....Do right....You can improve as a player by improving as a person. It's a duty we owe to ourselves." --John Coltrane

"You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything." --Branford Marsalis