Richard Jernigan -> RE: Luthiers - can y'all help this dude? (Apr. 19 2016 0:30:04)
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ORIGINAL: pink I've just taken the time to read the whole thread prior to my last post and I've got to say that Some of the comments are pretty ungracious..... I shall stress again that this guy IS A WORKING FLAMENCO GUITARIST WHO TOURS AROUND EUROPE BUSKING TO MAKE A LIVING FROM SOMETHING HE WORKS HARD AT AND IS HIGHLY PASSIONATE ABOUT. I would suggest also that if one of our own foro 'talents' needed help then no one here would question the integrity of their request....just because you don't know someone by no way means that their plea is not genuine. He is a working flamenco whose only guitar is badly damaged and who is in need of help.....the tool he uses is fukked for want of a better expression. Are we so fukked as a group of culture lovers that we can't listen,take the time to research his credentials and then comment and perhaps help? Its hard to make a living at the best of times and anyone who has tried to make ends meet as a musician will know how difficult in particular this can be. Good find Ramzi and what a kind offer from Stephen too ...you are a gentleman! Best pink Here in Texas there has been a generational change in attitudes. It was never explicitly discussed, but it was abundantly clear to me that once I had my undergraduate degree, I was on my own, and could expect no further assistance from my family. That was fine with me. At age 19 I decided I required to further parental advice. To me that implied I deserved no further support. My family were reasonably well off, but very long lived. My father lived to be 94, my mother 97. By the time they passed away, I had become fairly prosperous on my own, with no help from anyone. The money I inherited from my parents is only about 10% of my net worth. The same goes for my brother. But my 45-year old son has an acquaintance his age, in the same neighborhood where he grew up, who lives entirely off his mother. The neighborhood has gone from respectable middle class to wealthy during my son's lifetime, but this acquaintance was one of his high school classmates. When I found that my son's acquaintance lived off his widowed mother, I made no explicit remark, but my son detected a negative reaction. He said, "Dad, lots of people live off their parents in T.[neighborhood]" "You don't." "Yes I do. Mom rents me the house really cheap. She pays the taxes on it." We bought the house for $80,000 in 1980, I gave my ex-wife my half when we divorced in 1987, it is now worth about $1.5-million. She doesn't need the money, having inherited enough from her father to live on very comfortably, and having married the only one of my old friends who is better off than I am. "In my day it was very clear that adult children made their own way in the world." "Yes, I know. I've known that for a long time. But people's attitudes have changed a lot in the last 50 years." My personal attitude hasn't changed that much. But if a widowed mother wants to support her 45-year old son, that's their business, not mine. If a legit musician wants to float a proposal, whatever its chance of success, who am I to judge? Let the luthiers decide, he's not asking me for anything. If I knew him personally, I might be inclined to lend him one of my guitars, who knows? But I don't know the guy and I'm kind of old fashioned.... RNJ
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