mellowgerman said:
mgod said:
mgod,
it seems that everytime you post i become really jealous... either it's about your billion guild basses or your friendship with jack... you are one lucky guy. :wink:
So as not to feel completely odd here I'm going to say a couple things about myself. I met Jack when I was 14 by hanging out outside a stage exit at the Academy of Music in Philly in the middle of a freezing night. I waited a long time (made my friends wait too), but I was determined to learn some things from the greatest. Met Phil in a somewhat similar way a few years later, by being determined to learn. Its not that I wasn't intimidated by approaching them, its that I wasn't going to let my fear of that stop me from what I had to know. They had the info, I was going to learn it.
Everything I do has been determined by staying very focused on something often to the detriment of other more reasonable things, but many of those have happened anyway. The old "life is what happens while you're making other plans" thing. Jack pursued what he wanted, who was I to do any different? Its not luck, its determination, focus and learning. It seems easy to fold, but then you have to live with that. Jack's Mrs., Diana, told me that she sees him open up to anyone who really wants to know. That was my experience.
DS