audient incidents

["samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>]

  If musicians play slack cause the turnout is light,I'm less likely to 
support them in the future.There are other factorsif I know them I'll 
complain for sure.. But I'm more interested in the art than the glory. 
Once 
I was playing a reggae gig,with a brilliant Jamaican bass player.The venue 
was a little sports bar with a TVs everwhere you looked and less than a 
dozen people all at the bar in the other room, ignoring us.  Reggae is 
simple enough that you have to put your emotional energy into it ,or it 
can 
get boring.We played for the joy of it-the music was great,world class,and 
we were having a ball.In the last half hour a young couple came in,didn't 
even look old enough to drink,and  danced in such a purely blissed out 
state,that we all felt like it was totally worthwhile. We could clearly 
see 
that what we were doing really really meant something to these folks,and 
of 
course they said so after. That makes it totally worth it to me. You never 
know wether there's someone in the corner who  you didn't even notice that 
loves what you're doing.Or maybe it was Ahmet Ertegun ,and he decided the 
performer's couldn't deliver the goods, cause their attittude was more 
important to them than the music.

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