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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (41397)	12/21/2001 2:33:14 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

He was a very pleasant fellow. He was a lot more than that. He was extraordinarily generous with his time and resources. Not the least bit jealous or self-inflated. Heard me in an obscure performance at an obscure folk festival (Niskayuna, NY, and that's not the right spelling but it was decades ago) and invited me to join him on a couple of the Clearwater tours. What an experience performing with him. I was never good enough to make a career out of it, never even got my own record (and back then it took some doing to avoid having Front Porch or Nonesuch or one of the others cut a first record!), but he was so encouraging and positive that it was a joy just being on stage with him, and feeling the glow of appreciation and applause from the audiences. A real high. If I'd been independently wealthy I might still be doing that. But sadly I had to stick with my teaching to eat, so could only perform seriously during the summers, and had to find time for both folk and classical. Then after a few years I got a full-time job and that was the end of my professional music career. Have played in local groups, pit orchestras, etc. since then, but only on an amateur basis.