scooter
Gold Meritorious Patron
Went to see my nephew and his band play last night. We had a great night and thoroughly enjoyed watching them interact with a late-night drunken audience. Music was great, performance brilliant for their first real live gig for over a year (the last one I went with Carmel and Tim to over a year ago.) Even more, most of their songs had the audience singing along loudly enough that the lead singer was shutting up and holding out the mic for us to shout to. Spent a lot of time afterwards chatting to the band and got home after 3am this morning.
My nephew lives music. He flew back to Sydney today, drove home, dropped off his electric basses, picked up his acoustic bass and headed back to the airport to catch another plane to go somewhere to do a concert with Australia's best-known jazz trumpeter. Then he'll fly back to Sydney tomorrow, get into his car and briefly go home then drive up to near Carmel's place and do another gig with another group. Plus he's built his own studio at home and has mates drop around for jam sessions all the time, the bands he's in rehearse there and he records his own stuff too. He just doesn't see much else in his life.
But since Senator Xenophon's speech and my subsequent appearance on media, he's done his best to keep up with what's happening on the cult front. And he made a very astute comment to me about the cult last night that other people have echoed but not as succinctly as he put it.
It went something like this - if they really had all the answers they wouldn't spend so much time trying to attack the critics but would just ignore them and show all the good things they could do.
If someone as busy as he is can see that, what hope does the cult have of convincing anyone that they are actually a force for good and that we are all scum?:confused2:
Fail cult is fail.
My nephew lives music. He flew back to Sydney today, drove home, dropped off his electric basses, picked up his acoustic bass and headed back to the airport to catch another plane to go somewhere to do a concert with Australia's best-known jazz trumpeter. Then he'll fly back to Sydney tomorrow, get into his car and briefly go home then drive up to near Carmel's place and do another gig with another group. Plus he's built his own studio at home and has mates drop around for jam sessions all the time, the bands he's in rehearse there and he records his own stuff too. He just doesn't see much else in his life.
But since Senator Xenophon's speech and my subsequent appearance on media, he's done his best to keep up with what's happening on the cult front. And he made a very astute comment to me about the cult last night that other people have echoed but not as succinctly as he put it.
It went something like this - if they really had all the answers they wouldn't spend so much time trying to attack the critics but would just ignore them and show all the good things they could do.
If someone as busy as he is can see that, what hope does the cult have of convincing anyone that they are actually a force for good and that we are all scum?:confused2:
Fail cult is fail.
