It happens every so often that I have to lay into somebody in the blog, and invariably it causes much distress... to myself and the victim.
You ever see The last lecture by Randy Pausche :
For sure worth watching... I mention it because in the lecture Randy talks about his life dreams and what he learned achieving them or attempting to achieve them. One of his goals was to play football in the NFL so he went out and was playing for the school team and one day the coach was really hard on him, kept working him over and over and as he walked off the field one of the assistant coaches noted that the coach really gave it to him, but then told him that that is good, because it means the coach still believes in him. The life lesson is that when you are screwing up and nobody is saying anything then you know they have lost faith in you... when you do something badly and nobody is bothering to tell you anymore than that's a bad place to be. He never made it to the NFL, but he learned a lot and did a lot of his best thinking walking in a field with a football in his hands
Unfortunately a lot of people go into art and/ or music so they can just do whatever the hell they want and not answer to a "Boss"... i have seen too many talented people pass on greatness because they couldn't be told anything by anyone. Now i don't feel like a Boss but i do have to look out for the people i have invited out to play. Lets create a hypothetical scenario... Say i were to invite a flute player out to play some tunes then i would feel responsible to make sure that the drummer doesn't play at 2 Million decibels so that the flute player can have a chance to shine. So if the drummer were to play at 2 million decibels, clearing the room for fear of ear damage... and then after the show happened to say... "oh well i guess i got a bit excited, and i had been drinking all day so you know shit happens". That person would need to be called out, or never called back for what they did to everybody involved... because it's not teamwork. As they say there is no "I" in Team.
The pattern has always been the same when the blog has gotten me into hot water... It's one of the people that's in the crew who spends time talking about how we are trying to build something here and that we should put on more shows and "make things happen", but yet come show time they do the thing they do that puts the rest of the team in peril and downs the plane...
Everybody has their strengths and there weaknesses, and at some point in time you need to figure out what are yours and how to play to your strengths and minimize your weakness for the good of the team.
It's not about me... i believe i have called myself out many times for "mind boggling errors", horrible singing and just plain "sucking turtle cocks".
It's OK to fuck up at the SRSS, just don't keep making the same mistake, or try to blame the mistake on other things. I think it's great fucking up trying to do something unique... better than regurgitating some common pap plucked from the tree of commercial success.
We are a collection of people, and we count on each other to do right and be better. Putting on a live show is different because things happen on the fly... you can't always have somebody giving you the green light or the red light. At some point in time you have to know the right call and make it, or we should just cancel the whole damn show and take up watching TV because that doesn't hurt so much.
When you play, or are even part of the audience at the SRSS, you have a very rare opportunity to affect the direction of the show... not a lot of people putting on shows will give you that opportunity. But with that opportunity comes a responsibility to use that power for the greater good of the show and all involved.
In the end it's all just memories... lets make them memorable.
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