[Dixielandjazz] Follow-up on Volcanoes musician search

[starwater_music]

At Bob's suggestion, thought I'd share this with the group. I assume everyone is familiar with the solicitation from the Volcanoes baseball team looking for free professional musicians, and Bob's terse reply. 

This is a follow-up to that. 


> Hi Bob, I think you and others might get a chuckle out of this - feel free 
> to share it.  Out of curiosity I sent the Volcanoes guy an e-mail from a 
> different account inquiring if he'd gotten any bands to fill his dates - I 
> didn't elaborate as to how I'd heard about it.
>
> The following is his reply.  Sounds like he got the message.  Hopefully - 
> perhaps more importantly - the people he works for did too.  It sounds 
> like he's actually just a lackey.
>
> I simply asked if he'd found anyone, I didn't even say I was a musician. 
> He just assumed after the barrage he apparently got over it.  Seems the 
> sentiment among musicians everywhere was the same. Yours was probably 
> among the more civil replies he got.
>
> Robert
>
>
> *******
>
> From: "Jerry Howard" <J.Howard at Volcanoesbaseball.com>
>
>
> Thank you for your inquiry.   I appreciate it, and the civil tone.   After 
> I put out a request, being a novice and never having done this before of 
> trying to line up pre-game music without a budget, I received a plethora, 
> a landslide of vulgar, hateful replies, some two pages long, asserting 
> what a rotten, cheap SOB I am for asking.   Mail from France, Brazil, 
> California, Florida and many other places.   So I abandoned the idea.   I 
> absolutely, certainly did not intend to demean any musician, and yes, I do 
> realize they are professionals, and great advertising or exposure "does 
> not pay their bills".
>
> I do appreciate you inquiring very much, and the day I am given a budget, 
> I will revisit my project once again.
>
> GOD bless, and thanks.
>
> Jerry Howard
>