My good friend Boo is doing what I do sometimes...venting on our plight as "jazzers".

In our reality, we spend years working on intricate structures and lead lines only to wake up one day and realize that we have played ourselves out of a job.

We end up somewhere in the stratosphere playing things that the general public not only does not recognize but does not like. In our minds, we don't have a choice

The options are to "dumb down" (in our opinions) and get paid to play crap (in our opinions) or STARVE.

We see some little 20 year old who knows two or three chords wiggling his (or, preferably,"her") ass and singing with an autotune making major jack.

I get mad and a little jealous.

We KNOW the deal, and we struggle along, frustrated ole "dudes" that we are.

Sometimes, as happened here, we "lose it a little" and "spout off".

For anyone I offended, I'm genuinely sorry. And To Boo,
I completely understand.

It'd be GREAT to play together sometime.

And gentleman Don, you don't have to take a back seat to anyone. If you've "dumned down", you've dumned down like a fox! You've got it together...just the right combination of musicianship and entertaining ability to get a little of what you deserve.

Be well, all!


Russ