I wish it was about Luck! For, I wouldn't have had to go though ALL the ups and downs, the learning by mistakes and times when it was not a mistake, just having the goods yet. I wish it were luck for not having to go through ear pain to not play for a year,,,only to come out of that year better than ever in every way, (for some reason)???How;d that happen? I KNOW HOW! I was THINKING and BEING in music, DESPITE the time away form the instruments! Luck did not have me think or BE music still! I wanted my thoughts to be in music, DESPITE!

Luck did not have me go the Philles Ballpark with CD in hand to TRY to give it to someone there with hopes of it being played before the Home Opener. Luck did not have Greg Luzinski there to give it to,,,for he had been there since day ONE a few years before, and I KNEW it! NO one can call anything I ever did as being lucky. Luck did not have me work with 2LT or Sub, or Mike Appel as in now. He's not even lucky,,for he went through many before me through the decades. We all choose things and people. NO luck in that!

If I play a lottery and win,,,yeah,,,,that is LUCK. (FOR THAT IS OUT OF MY CONTROL other than walking into a store and handing them a dollar and say, "Quick Pick Please"!). But, anything any one of us have done that led to whatever success we had? THAT, as you all know, is everything but LUCK! Our work and trying this and that were things we had control of.

Here is what I think of those that claim we are just lucky:

They use luck as a way to explain why they didn't work or learn enough to gain any employment of even part time status. ANYONE who doesn't do the needed work and learning process will NOT even be able to say they were lucky,,,ever! They will say they were UNLUCKY. I wonder WHY!???? LOL.... Yet, they will point to us who are doing something in music and point to us as being lucky. NO<,,,we are just not excuse makers for our own lack,,,for we don't have lack for learning and great determined effort. I never gave up when pitching. I got beat, sure. But THEY had to do that to me, unless I was wild. But I wasn't unlucky if wild, and I wasn't lucky if we won any game. We all did things to put the ball in play or not! To make the plays or not. To show up for the next year or not! I was NOT lucky to get selected by The Phillies at a tryout. I worked my ass off since i was 8. While doing the same in music since 7. Before that if you count paper drums and a tiny plastic accordion! Luck my ass!

Excuse makers, if they think we are lucky and they are not.

That is Just Plain BS!


Got it!?! smile


Progression is based on cause and affect.

So is digression, (or not being lucky! smile

Thankful for my dedicated work and all the others who recognized that to help me gain steps.

Still climbing, and NO THANKS TO LUCK! But to all others and me.

Actually a Member Since 1996 or 97 (Number One Hundred Something).
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