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Or, you could just inherit the money as so many of the fuckheads today have. Grandpa busted his ass so William Jr. and his kids would never have to work. My favorite is to be an incompetent executive, drive a company into the ground and still collect a ridiculous amount of money, get fired, collect even more money and never have to do a fuckin' thing ever again. Seriously, busting your ass is still a key ingredient for most, I know. we all know too many of those worthless clowns.

my lack of stock knowledge would kill me trying to do that.

Mutual funds are actually a pretty horrible investment in the long run. I assume you aren't including index funds in that category. Guy Actually I am. After fees, index funds are guaranteed to (slightly) underperform the market, plus there are usually restrictions on when you can pull out. I'm not personally interested in an equity investment that is going to tie up my cash and yield a below-average return. I can see why they are attractive to others, though. many domestic index funds have fees in the .25% or lower range. here's a forum for you; http://diehards.org/forum/index.php

does this mean that the only musicians that survive on music are those that are in the educational field or give a lot of private lessons, or the few that are plugged into the system? Pretty much. To paraphrase Corey Christiansen, who I played with last December, the only way for a jazz musician to make it these days is to teach. I don't teach because I am self-taught and I don't really know how to explain the things I know. Plus there are not too many people who want to play jazz organ. Thankfully, my wife has a decent job with benefits, but even she hasn't gotten a cost of living increase in 2 years (due to poor management at the top). But that's another story. I just sold one of my Hammond organs yesterday so we could pay the mortgage. The gig scene has been absolutely awful since the first of the year. I've played a grand total of 7 gigs since 2007 started. But that has more to do with Michigan's terrible economy than anything else. I should go into demolition. I just read they are going to raze two more GM plants here in town. EDIT: To say I'm not complaining. This is the life I chose and I enjoy playing music. it's one thing to sit in a club or put on some phones and enjoy so many wonderful musics, with little or no expenditure on my behalf, without realizing this music is too often someone's lifelong passion, pain, and sacrifice. my sincere thanks, guys. stan getz said that music cost him everything he ever loved.

does this mean that the only musicians that survive on music are those that are in the educational field or give a lot of private lessons, or the few that are plugged into the system? Pretty much. To paraphrase Corey Christiansen, who I played with last December, the only way for a jazz musician to make it these days is to teach. I don't teach because I am self-taught and I don't really know how to explain the things I know. Plus there are not too many people who want to play jazz organ. Thankfully, my wife has a decent job with benefits, but even she hasn't gotten a cost of living increase in 2 years (due to poor management at the top). But that's another story. I just sold one of my Hammond organs yesterday so we could pay the mortgage. The gig scene has been absolutely awful since the first of the year. I've played a grand total of 7 gigs since 2007 started. But that has more to do with Michigan's terrible economy than anything else. I should go into demolition. I just read they are going to raze two more GM plants here in town. EDIT: To say I'm not complaining. This is the life I chose and I enjoy playing music.

Yum! Brewed down the road from here but if you buy it botteled local off-licences it's £2 per bottle. Some pubs nearby do it for 50p less than that per pint! $9.00 for a four pack. i bought 4-4's

Peer returned to Bristol, Tennessee on July 23, 1927, with a car loaded down with the latest recording equipment and set up a makeshift studio at 410 State Street. On July 25, 1927, Peer planned to begin recording music from the various groups and musicians in the area, but to his dismay, next to no one showed up. The only musicians that appeared were Ernest Stoneman and some of his friends. Stoneman was already well known to Peer and Victor, as he was one of the musicians who had travelled to New York to record music. Realizing that his sessions were in serious trouble, Peer rushed to the newspaper office and convinced them (part of the legend is that he offered the newspaper editor $100 in cash for this, although this is not verifiable fact) to run a front-page story on the sessions in the next day's newspaper. A reporter came down to the sessions with him and took a picture of Ralph Stoneman singing into a large microphone. The next morning, the article covered the front page of the Bristol Gazette. The article itself was mostly produced from Peer's description of the goal of the sessions: In no other section of the south have the pre-war melodies and old mountaineer songs been better preserved than in the mountains of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia...and it is primarily for this reason that the Victrola Company chose Bristol as its operating base But the part that really grabbed people was the section about Stoneman and his musicians that finished off the article. It was mentioned that in the previous year, Ernest Stoneman had received $3,600 in royalties from the records which he had made, and that his session musicians would earn as much as $100 a day for their work. By noon that day, Peer had more musicians on the doorstep of his studio than he could have possibly dreamed of. And they would keep coming for the next week.

unexpectedly found some 4 packs of samuel smith's oatmeal stout at the market. it's a bit sweeter than i prefer, but not a hint of a quibble here.

does this mean that the only musicians that survive on music are those that are in the educational field or give a lot of private lessons, or the few that are plugged into the system?

this a list of impediments, and certainly no guarantee of success, the broader interpretation of number seven would seem to be the correct one.

http://www.thestreet.com/_dm/newsanalysis/...n/10345796.html TheStreet.com 10 Reasons You Aren't Rich Thursday March 22, 11:30 am ET ByJeffrey Strain, Special to TheStreet.com The reason why you aren't a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it's because you aren't earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you make. It's the way that you treat money in your daily life. Here are 10 possible reasons you aren't a millionaire: 1. You Care What Your Neighbors Think: If you're competing against them and their material possessions, you're wasting your hard-earned money on toys to impress them instead of building your wealth. 2. You Aren't Patient: Until the era of credit cards, it was difficult to spend more than you had. That is not the case today. If you have credit card debt because you couldn't wait until you had enough money to purchase something in cash, you are making others wealthy while keeping yourself in debt. 3. You Have Bad Habits: Whether it's smoking, drinking, gambling or some other bad habit, the habit is using up a lot of money that could go toward building wealth. Most people don't realize that the cost of their bad habits extends far beyond the immediate cost. Take smoking, for example: It costs a lot more than the pack of cigarettes purchased. It also negatively affects your wealth in the form of higher insurance rates and decreased value of your home. 4. You Have No Goals: It's difficult to build wealth if you haven't taken the time to know what you want. If you haven't set wealth goals, you aren't likely to attain them. You need to do more than state, "I want to be a millionaire." You need to take the time to set saving and investing goals on a yearly basis and come up with a plan for how to achieve those goals. 5. You Haven't Prepared: Bad things happen to the best of people from time to time, and if you haven't prepared for such a thing to happen to you through insurance, any wealth that you might have built can be gone in an instant. 6. You Try to Make a Quick Buck: For the vast majority of us, wealth doesn't come instantly. You may believe that people winning the lottery are a dime a dozen, but the truth is you're far more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery. This desire to get rich quickly likely extends into the way you invest, with similar results. 7. You Rely on Others to Take Care of Your Money: You believe that others have more knowledge about money matters, and you rely exclusively on their judgment when deciding where you should invest your money. Unfortunately, most people want to make money themselves, and this is their primary objective when they tell you how to invest your money. Listen to other people's advice to get new ideas, but in the end you should know enough to make your own investing decisions. 8. You Invest in Things You Don't Understand: Your hear that Bob has made a lot of money doing it, and you want to get in on the gravy train. If Bob really did make money, he did so because he understood how the investment worked. Throwing in your money because someone else has made money without fully understanding how the investment works will keep you from being wealthy. 9. You're Financially Afraid: You are so scared of risk that you keep all your money in a savings account that is actually losing money when inflation is put into the equation, yet you refuse to move it to a place where higher rates of return are possible because you're afraid that you will lose money. 10. You Ignore Your Finances: You take the attitude that if you make enough, the finances will take care of themselves. If you currently have debt, it will somehow resolve itself in the future. Unfortunately, it takes planning to become wealthy. It doesn't magically happen to the vast majority of people. In reality, it is probably not just one of the above bad habits that has kept you from becoming a millionaire, but a combination of a few of them. Take a hard look at the list, and do some reflecting. If you want to be a millionaire, it's well within your power, but you'll have to face the issues that are currently keeping you from creating that wealth before you will have a chance to call yourself one. Independent market research, commentary, analysis and news. Learn more.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A North Carolina cheerleader was in critical condition Friday after being struck by a vehicle while walking outside a hotel in Fort Lee hours before the school's appearance in an NCAA basketball tournament game, the university said. Jason Ray, a senior from Concord, N.C., was being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center, the school said without disclosing the nature of his injuries. The accident happened late in the afternoon. Ray has worn the Rameses mascot uniform for the past three years and he was to have performed at North Carolina's game against Southern California in the NCAA East Regional semifinal on Friday night. Ray's parent were en route to New Jersey, the school said. "We are deeply saddened by this tragic accident," athletic director Dick Baddour said. "Our hearts go out to Jason and his family and our prayers are with them."

I have a gig in Kalamazoo that night .. Damn !!! $10? for artists like that! unbelievable

to any country fans here, wkcr radio is beginning its very fine country weekend at noon eastern. The Bristol Sessions’ Earns Appalachian Book of the Year Award The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music—that was recently named the 2006 Appalachian Book of the Year for Nonfiction by the Appalachian Writers Association East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Ted Olson and the late Dr. Charles Wolfe of Middle Tennessee State University served as editors of a collection of 19 essays--The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music—that was recently named the 2006 Appalachian Book of the Year for Nonfiction by the Appalachian Writers Association (AWA). According to Kimberly Holloway of the AWA, “The Appalachian Writers Association promotes the work of new and established authors who write about Appalachia in a variety of disciplines. At the AWA’s annual conference, the organization awards Appalachian Book of the Year honors in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s literature. This year’s nonfiction contest was quite competitive, with nominations that included nine exceptional books.” “The Bristol Sessions” is the name given to a 1927 gathering in Bristol that resulted in recordings of 19 musical acts, including two soon-to-be-famous ones--the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers--and numerous other musicians. These Bristol recordings, issued commercially in the late 1920s by the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor), continue to interest fans of early country music and to influence musicians. The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music, published by McFarland and Company, details the spark of an idea for the sessions, first-hand accounts of the music making, and the event’s place in history and tremendous influence, still felt today. An associate professor at ETSU, Olson teaches courses in Appalachian Studies, English, and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. Olson is the author of several other works, including Blue Ridge Folklife, part of the Folklife in the South Series published by the University Press of Mississippi, and Breathing in Darkness (Wind Publications), a forthcoming poetry collection. Additionally, he is the editor of several books, including CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual (Mercer University Press), James Still’s From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems (University Press of Kentucky), and Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes and Noble Classics). Wolfe, who passed away recently, was a professor of English and Folklore at MTSU and a leading historian of American music. He wrote approximately 20 books, including A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry and Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee.

thanks for posting

beautiful gloria lynne set on kcr

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....birds of a feather.........

i also heard a show on wkcr with drummer jim black hosting a show of his favorite recordings, remarkable beautifully wrought sensitive and profound pieces one will never hear anywhere else, that i would not expect to be drummers favorites. jim has a keen appreciation of beautiful vocal works, and appears to be self-effacing. i hope to hear more of jim black and his music very soon.

live on blue lake tonight. beautiful compositions interpreted by masterful tasteful musicians who have played together for years. these guys are big bigtime. thanks blue lake.

I think this has been discussed before but, there are: The two David Murrays--Shakill's Warrior and Shakill II, on DIW. There's a single (great) track of organ on Pullen's Milano Strut (Black Saint). Jack Walrath's Serious Hang. Two LPs on Mainstream by Charles Williams (I haven't seen these have on CD). thanks. the awesome track i heard was milano strut.

just heard don pullen (organ) with david murray in 1991. pullen on organ recommendations?

ernest has a website with many individual recordings available for download. i have purchased 9 or 10 and they are great! http://chi-creates.tv/store/product_info.php?products_id=215

westfield insurance company(WIC) has been fine with me, and most reasonable, for 20 years.

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