The Logic Off Topic list

Tony Thompdon wrote:

>I have been astounded
>at some stuff he has passed on  - for instance, he brought the family over
>to stay with my parents in the Scottish Borders. drove out with them to a
>local castle and took pictures of them in front of it, as one does. My
>nephew took the resulting photo of himself in front of the castle to school
>and showed it to a teacher (presumably an educated woman) who asked him very
>seriously if that was his ancestral home!

The first time I went to school in the UK, little nipper that I was and 
having freshly arrived 'from the colonies', my school-teacher -- also 
presumably an intelligent person -- said to me 'Ooooh, you DO speak English 
very well', and she then proceeded to seriously ask me if I had learned my 
'beautiful English' 'on the plane, on the way over'. I ignored the question 
and presumed that one day I would meet an intelligent Brit.


>As for sociology and the relevance of class to music business success, ...
>... for me what counts is personal skill, attitude and motivation,
<snip>
>If I was looking for partners for a project or people to employ for a session
>I would be thinking 'Can this guy's playing cut it? How does he handle 
>disagreements? Is he reliable?' and I wouldn't care one small bag of 
>monkey vomit what per capita income his father had or the sort of school 
>he went to.

Good choice of criteria. Smart moves. Intelligent decision-making.
Neither I nor anyone else is seriously suggesting, not in the least, that 
you adopt any other strategy. Nobody is seriously suggesting that you do 
anything else.

However ... just look at what you say next ...

>It is inevitable in
>the music business that you go for the people that you know, as so much
>relies on personal relationships.
... and ... just who would those people be, most likely?

>The people who have the technical and
>personal skills _and_ bother to get to know the right people
... and ... who would those 'right people' be, most likely?

>  _and_ manage to
>get the strokes of luck make it,
... and ... just who would those people be, most likely?


>and you can't apply the same procedures as
>if you were hiring clerical staff for a government department.

Totally and 100% agreed. And you'll get absolutely no quarrel from anyone 
at all about that.

But then again ... when you want to hire clerical staff, who would those 
people be, most likely?
Presumably, they'd be a bunch of people who have the relevant technical and 
personal skills and who have _bothered_ to get to know the right people for 
that kind of a job ... and ... who would those people be, most likely?

... and ... when you're looking for some new band members, who would those 
people be, most likely?
Chances are that they'd not be the kinds of people who've spent their time 
developing skills to work in a clerical department, and chances are they're 
not from backgrounds where working in a governmental clerical department 
was regarded as a right-on life's ambition.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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