Folks, it just doesn't matter. (One guy's opinion.)

If others ignore us insignificant fish swimming in this little pond of ours, that's GREAT from where I sit. The more we can avoid the knashing teeth of the gears of show-biz, it's just that much better. As long as you can swim to the surface, sing your song, and go home with the rent and groceries, be happy. There's no better way to preservre that which you love than to stay below the sight lines and out of Flashy Gordon's "Death Ray From Space". Really, its best to be where you can be left alone to function on yours and your fellow singer's own terms.

As Bob Franke said in one of his best songs, "As long as sentimental super salesmen make it big, and tell it wrong, I will make it small, and tell it right."

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