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Michael's avatar

“Major Dough-Mo” - off the charts for punniness, Brad!!

Always appreciate the research that highlights all the intersections that confirm the more or less insular nature of the “biz”. Talent appreciates talent, I suppose, but talent doesn’t always guarantee commercial success. Tough business.

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This doesn't exactly have anything to do with the main point of your piece- I seem to always be inspired to go off on a tangent by your writing, which I hope is a compliment (it's intended that way)- but the mention of Kansas got me thinking about something. My wife's ex-father-in-law was an original founding member of Kansas. He left before the band got really big, though I think he might have some writing credits on some of their early albums. In the meantime, he's become kind of a local legend in NW Missouri and NE Kansas, where he's made a nice living for the last 50 years as a touring solo act. I've known about him my whole life, seen him play several times, and like I said, even married his oldest son's ex-wife, but until I was reading your article, I'd never really thought about how he would make for an interesting subject for a write-up himself. I'm sure he's had a few small town newspaper profiles done on him over the years, but it would be interesting to go in-depth, to explore the reasons he left the band and his feelings on leaving right before they hit the big time, and how he feels about the nice life and career he carved out on his own. I apologize if all I'm doing is brainstorming in your comments section. I don't know if it fits in exactly with what your newsletter does, but I bet you could do the story justice if you were so inclined. If not, maybe I'll give it a shot if I ever branch out into writing music. But yeah, I guess this is a long-winded way of saying I enjoyed your piece, and that it definitely got me thinking.

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