[Trombone-l] Boos

[Daniel Pliskin]

>Jay, I agree with you. I don't think that people who do this have even the
>remotest idea of how much they are hurting all the artists involved. I 
>think
>they think they are being funny. They aren't.


If I may borrow something from Werner Erhard, for a moment, what they did 
was to say boo.  What each of you interpreted from that act was something 
personal, but you'll probably never know what was actually meant by their 
action.

With today’s punk kids, who have no respect for anything other than the 
acquisition of more high-end goods, they might have booed to embarrass their 
classical music-loving aunt, who insisted they go to the concert.

Short of actually talking with whomever booed at the concert, so that you 
might actually find out why that person booed, the very best thing you can 
do in such situations is to put an interpretation on it that empowers you, 
in some way.

“It wasn’t me they were booing.”

“That’s the price you pay for playing something different, for a change.”

Or, “You can please some of the people all of the time or all of the people 
some of the some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of 
the time.”

DanP

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