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Re: a cautionary tale

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>> She was better at last nights gig. A little testy during setup, but 
>> then ok during the job. I pretty much ignored any attitute things she 
>> had. Just focused on the job at hand.  Afterwards she was ok.
> 
> Hopefully she's coming along - detoxifying as it were ;)
> 
>> What I have is a woman who is used to " being the boss ", in her 
>> business and personal life.
> 
> I'm not sure that would apply to her old bands' over-loudness, because 
> being too loud was probably someone else's idea rather than hers and 
> she's only used to having learned to go along with it - just as 
> hopefully, she's learning to unlearn that and adapt to lower sound 
> levels and higher quality gig levels.
> 
>> She's finding it hard to let go of that.
> 
> That's to be expected. But so long as she ultimately does let go of it 
> in favor of something better.
> 
>> Which she has to some, since simply stated, I know a lot more about the 
>> music business than she does.
> 
> What's really to know? Noisy, deafening dangerous sound levels at crap 
> gigs, or safer more pleasant levels at better gigs.
> 
>> Oh, and we were asked to do the square dance gigs again next year. 
>> Rehired.   Yipee.
> 
> What kind of sound levels do those have?
> 
>> We have a few months of summer to play some other things and do 
>> whatever, then we'll be back at those most of next year.
> 
> 
> JimD
> 
> I think she's capable of adjusting over time so time is quite probably 
> the most critical factor.
> 
> Ouisie


My reference to her use to being the boss is in her real business .... 
not the band.

Yeah, things may come along. It's been a struggle, as she had a lot of 
bad habits to overcome. And a lot of nar do well friends handing her 
bad advice.

JimD

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a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-10 23:52 -0400
  Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-11 10:14 -0400
    Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-14 17:24 -0500
      Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-16 12:55 -0400
        Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-16 14:38 -0500
          Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-18 12:05 -0400
            Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-20 19:29 -0500
              Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-21 10:01 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-21 13:21 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-22 15:02 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-22 17:08 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-23 19:04 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-24 08:41 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-25 12:08 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-27 20:53 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-28 13:23 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-04-28 18:46 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-04-30 16:56 -0400
                Re: a cautionary tale "Ouisie" <someone@anywheret.net> - 2019-05-01 07:44 -0500
                Re: a cautionary tale Jim D <Not@ThisAddress.com> - 2019-05-13 10:49 -0400
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