MAB rides up on his white Shetland Pony.....

Woah now, Nellie,what's goin' on here? My name was mentioned here! LOL!

I want to say a couple of things in defense of my poor little ex-pony tail wearing buddy Sir, William here.

I generally try to divide writers into "Types" of writers in ways to identify the best approach to help them and often get them out of their own way.

There are "Crumudgeons" who have a chip on their shoulder,all they want to do is talk other people down.

They usually develop from another type of writer I call "The Cynic." That is what Bill was when he moved here to Nashville. Whenever you come from a different community it is always difficult to find your place in that community. And as much as i preach the "love and brotherhood" of Nashville,there are PLENTY of people who are unwelcoming. Our crumedgeons are more likely to have been here 25 years and at one time "WERE" somebody.
They have seen their way of life downloaded away.

So there is more than enough bitterness to go around.

What Bill ran into when he hit the town was a lot of that. So it kind of sapped his energy for the rat race here and took away his appetite for music. That is what leads to all of that with any of us. there is a lot of "What the point."

I kept reading it in his posts and then started bugging him about showing up at some of the events and parties that I am involved with. That he has started doing and I will say that I am proud of him. he has even made a couple of my workshops and aside from cutting off his pony tail (I don't know if he can get into Heaven now) he is starting to make that transformation from
"God this sucks' to "You know there is some pretty cool stuff here. It still sucks,but not quite as bad."

So let's keep a little of that perspective in Bill here.


Mike, I have deleted a few posts sometimes,it is mostly because some of these arguments go no where and I just don't want to be involved any more. And when I have "dissapeared" have actually had as much to do with travel and work schedule than anything else. Sometimes I am able to read what goes on but not able to comment.

I will say that there are times my patience gets tested because so much of what we talk about here, I have to address on a daily basis,I get tired of repeating myself and when I am not being paid for it... well, I would just rather go elsewhere until the subject changes.

But one thing I would mention, if people didn't care about each other here, I don't think there would be the same outpouring of comments, passion,anger, and love that we can all read in black and white. It goes back to what a really cool place Brian and company have created here and why everyone keeps coming back even when the conversation doesn't go their way.

Good to hear from you all.

MAB