I'm with DIKI and Zuki on this one Chas. If you can play, I am going to listen. I don't care if it's an arranger. DJ's make me want to puke. They look pathetic IMHO. To me it is like they are saying, "I tried the Trumpet but I couldn't hack it so, I play recordings and BS the public." They (the public) think I'm a musician.' They (the public) are so stupid and drunk and doped up they will never figure it out."

I've said this before. I played with a steel guitar player that could improvise with anyone you can name on straight heads-up jazz. I mean real progressive jazz not "FUNK" only. He made his living playing CW.

Hell, I really, really enjoy listening to DonM do his guitar licks. This is no pun. He's the best at doing this and I can appreciate his talent for accomplishing this, and he does it on an "ARRANGER."

Man if some one can really do something and is exceptional at what he is doing, you have to appreciate it. If you can't, there's no doubt you're shallow. I mean really really shallow.

For example:
I have friends that do art and take 6 months to do what "Bob Ross" does in half an hour and most of the time in that half hour he's tapping and cleaning his brush to change colors. Also to add insult to injury, he can do more with his putty knife on the canvas in 10 seconds than my friends can do with a paint brush in 6 months. They adamantly claim that he is not an artist. You can see the redness and jealousy in their faces when I mention his name.

Some folks got it and some folks don't. Most people will never will be able to do what Dexter Gordon could do if they played sax for 20,000 years, and avoid eating and sleeping and just practice all day. He had it and they never will.

Some of us can sleep all day without even trying. I can't stay in the bed for more than 6-8 hours tops. Some of us have it and most of us don't.
I'm not prejudiced I hate every body.