[Dixielandjazz] Smart or intelligent

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Larry,

What you say below may or may not be true.  However, it has nothing to do 
with Steve's comment.  He said that the Dixie Chicks are smarter, or "more 
intelligent" than most humans on this planet.  I simply asked him to qualify 
his statement.

--bob



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
To: "1-DIXIELAND JAZZ POST" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; "Robert S. 
Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Smart or intelligent


> Bob - Actually I have found most musicians to be fairly bright people 
> which has nothing to do with how open minded or closed minded they are 
> about political  or other issues.
>
> Success (Monetary) is a lot like training chickens to peck at a the 
> correct button to get a grain of corn.  Once you have the correct buttons 
> under your fingers success follows.  Success has more to do with how 
> persistent you are.  A lot of things are like a maze with a lot of wrong 
> turns.  If you try one thing and it doesn't work you keep trying.
>
> I'm going to tell you right now that over the last 50 years as a musician 
> I have seen many better players than I just go away.  The reason is that 
> it just got to be too much of an effort to keep trying new things or they 
> failed to network or did something else stupid like think they were too 
> good to stoop to mere mortals level.
>
> Everyone knows an incredible musician that plays better than anyone else 
> they have heard but he is playing in a bar somewhere making 50 bucks. 
> Obviously that guy hasn't punched in the right combination.
>
> Someone compared Mariah Cary's brain to a brick but she has obviously 
> punched in the right combination for her.  Was that combination supplied 
> by others?  Quite possibly but at some point she made some smart decisions 
> as to who would help her..  A case of putting yourself in the right place 
> at the right time to meet the right people.
>
> Rarely does someone become a star or successful (money wise) without a lot 
> of hard work.  The basic talent someone has may not appeal to us as 
> individuals but it's hard to argue with success.  The music field is one 
> that your daddy can't buy for you although it helps if your family has 
> become successful and can help you find those right buttons.  I have a 
> sort of hobby and that's finding someone in commercials that are family 
> members of otherwise famous people.  A well known case of this is Peter 
> Fonda's kids.  Jane (Now there's a case of gigacide) and her brother both 
> had a leg up in the industry and got a chance to give it a try.  I did a 
> gig this week with Russ David's Kids.  (Russ was a local star who died a 
> couple of years ago)  They are still at it and do quite well here in St. 
> Louis.  They learned the business at their dad's knee literally and the 
> name opens a lot of doors.
>
> In any form of sales, which is what basically we are talking about, you 
> have to have a product that people want and a distribution system to 
> deliver the product.  I suspect that a lot of  successful singers ( 
> instrumental musicians too) are multi talented people who are able to 
> present themselves in such a manner that people will buy their product and 
> are able to attract the people that can do it for them.
>
> Is this smart or intelligent?  I think that there is a difference by the 
> way.  That's up to you to decide but no matter what, these people are 
> doing something that regrettably, many aren't able to do for whatever 
> reason.
> Larry
> St. Louis
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:01 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixie Chicks
>
>
>> Steve Barbone wrote, regarding the Dixie Chicks:
>>
>> They are far from stupid and in fact, more intelligent than most people 
>> on
>> the planet.
>> (snip)
>>
>> the rest deleted
>>
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