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| >>>I have a full time job for a fortune 500 company (9-12 hours a day), play music and record CDs on the side, coordinate projects and event, and raise a family with two 14 month twins that get up at 5:30 or 6am in the morning. I can still find the time to send encouraging and useful emails to LD. I don't buy the time argument, because everyone has an issue with time, not just professional musicians. It is about priorities. If a professional musician makes it a priority to proactively get engaged with a community, they will do it, period. Heck, I know folks who sync their email up and do all their correspondence on the plane. And I'm not talking about sending hundreds of emails, but at least a response or comment once in a while so that we know that they are real people who communicate with the external world, and not abstract deities who only communicate through the press and their agents..which seems pretentious as hell to me. Personally, I think fame gets to the heads of some people in the entertainment industry.<<< Kris, you're absolutely right that it's about priorities, and for people for whom music is a hobby, a love, a past-time, their relaxation, sitting chatting about it with a bunch of anonymous emailers is a dream come true. If the rest of your time is spent talking about musical stuff, dealing with music related questions, playing gigs, organising gigs etc. etc. etc. the last thing some people want to do with their free time is talk about music. The one thing that LD has over a lot of other lists is that the level of the discussion is often worth reading. Most music related lists are appalling. I contribute to quite a few online bass forums - partly cos I enjoy it, and partly cos I can write it down in my own mental time sheet as 'promotional' time. But the vast majority of the discussions on the forums a) don't need to happen cos Google has the answers, and b) are of such an inane level, that I really don't have the time or inclination to get involved. When I first got onto LD 7 or so years ago, the level of conversation was consistently high - smaller group, more movers and shakers, and a young list so all the good topics hadn't been exhausted. It's fairly rare that a topic comes up on here that really floats my boat. That's not to say it's not good stuff, just that it's not good for me. So yes, it's all about priorities, and a lot of people's priority structure doesn't include chatting online. that's cool. Steve www.stevelawson.net - site www.stevelawson.net/zencart/ - shop www.myspace.com/solobassstevelawson |