[Trombone-l] Boos

[Daryl Burch]

Good words, Dan. Good on ya for adding that.

-D-


On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Daniel Pliskin wrote:



> 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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