I used to be a news editor in a former life, a journalist, and they always made me interview country music stars when they came to town to perform. Over time a huge life lesson I learned... the rising stars, even the real popular ones with hit records, were arrogant, most of them, would make you wait two hours for them to emerge from a motel room with a glitzy blonde under each arm and actually hold interviews as they walked to their car, one owned a Delorean I recall, there would be ten reporters skipping and running and tripping with camera equipment juggling notebooks and microphones and they would just answer questions calling them out rudely over the shoulder. but the big stars... the huge superstars... oh man, you should see how they treat people, their fans, reporters etc. Even George Jones, a stone alcoholic just out of rehab... I had to stand beside a fence waiting to get into the press interview and people were actually climbing the fence and dropping packages over to me begging "will you please give this to him for me??" and some would be old people and i would feel so sorry for them. They would say "I drove 1500 miles to see him, tell him that, give him this quilt I made for him" and I would just think what idiots. then in his bus, it was like interviewing your neighbor. He offered us coffee, let us sit around the dining table with him. He was polite and listened and answered sincerely. Then I stood just offstage and he hurried out and without speaking did the first song, some huge hit. a young drunk guy ran at him and jumped on the stage and security grabbed him and george intervened, reaching to shake the guys hand, telling security, "dont hurt him," then at the end of the second song, he has an assistant run out on stage with armloads of packages and he takes every one and holds it up and shows it to the audience "I just want to thank Edna and Ralph, for driving 1500 miles to see me today and making me this beautiful quilt" holds it up.... spends about a half hour doing that, thanking people for coming to see him, for buying his records. I have noticed in life the best people, the superstars who really know their stuff and have nothing to prove to anyone, always possess humility, no arrogance. anytime you think someone is an expert and they are arrogant and condescending its because deep down they KNOW they arent so hot. I just wanted you guys to know that! Horse people are like that too. The really big ones who have nothing to prove always seem to care way more about horses than trying to impress people. Like parelli. he is such a showman. but when you see him in person he just exudes genuine concern for the welfare of the horse and a desire to give away what he has learned so you can have a horse relationship too. Then the rising stars, the ones who want to get rich, they are behind the barn abusing horses so they wont look bad in front of the crowd. this doesnt mean big stars dont make mistakes. it just means watch out for egotistic selfish people when shopping for horse help and advice and seek out the ones who are genuine. you never see any old footage of einstein out hollering I AM smart! I am a genius!! I know a lot about PHYSICS! and if einstein was alive and came on this horse list, he would explain perfectly the physics behind horse movement and then a thousand dunces would rise up and say he didnt know what he was talking about. wouldnt they! just my saturday editorial. janice
-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
