[Dixielandjazz] Tirade by Mike Vax

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Well Gus,  that is entirely a DIFFERENT CAN OF WORMS TO OPEN :))

Most music educators, even the ones sitting around offering private 
music lessons on craigslist every day consider themselves to be 
"Working" musicians,  in any avenue they can find to produce revenue.

Unfortunately there are more than likely, more of them teaching than 
there are those who actually have and play anywhere as many gigs as 
they do lessons.

In my opinion they would do more good going out looking for gigs and 
creating them than sitting around all day teaching somebody else how to 
do what many of them will never do.

Those who do  DO and those who cannot Do usually Teach  in far too many 
situations,

Mike Vax being an excellent exception to that rule, and fortunately he 
is also not alone, there are some fine teachers out there, but there 
are some real Turkey's too.

Me,  I can't Teach, Therefore I have to PLAY  :))   Well that's not 
entirely true, I did teach myself how to play for whatever good that 
did :))   I guess learning it all wrong is better than not learning it 
at all, and in some cases experience may not be the BEST Teacher, but 
it may be the ONLY ONE.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: Talegatorz at aol.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:25:38 EST
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Tirade by Mike Vax

   .
I wonder how many of these music educators were ever sucessful working
musicians in the first place?

Gus Bloch
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