And so what do you do, Larry? You continue to plug on, looking for other audiences, finding other places to break into, and creating your own set of fans and venues. You are the prime example of my point. What is the alternative? Quit playing? You could no more do that than quit breathing. Is it unjust? Yep, lots of stuff is. Unfortunately in this world, try though we might (and I have made a career of trying), we cannot stop the bullies from knocking us down. But we can damn sure keep getting up, and trying again. I have a very clear picture in my minds eye of what I would like it to be like in music circles, workplaces, and all the other things we run into. Trouble is all these other damn people don't have the same wonderful view that I do (he says tongue planted firmly in cheek), damn fools that they are. And so we just find our own place. Or change the one we don't like.

Mick