January 5, 2005
advice to a young musician (cont.)

Probably the nicest thing that happened on gapingvoid in the last wee while (as far as I’m concerned, anyway) was when a certain Clementine asked me (and anybody else reading this blog) for any advice on offer re. what to do about her remarkably-talented-musician son’s college plans.
Well, I for one was blown away by both the quantity and the quality of the advice offered up by y’all. I had never come across Clementine before, nor do I know her or her son, but… it was a good thing.
It’s hard to know what to do when you’re that young and talented. The world really doesn’t give you a lot of roadmaps to go by for that stage of life. And I was quite touched, frankly, that so many of my readers would take the time to put some thought into it.
Anyway, I hope you’ll go visit the blog entry (here it is again) and add any contributions that you can, if you haven’t already. Thanks.
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well, if you ask so nicely, here
I have three sons 22, 20, 17; all three awarded free rides to good ol’ State U. Real high numbers on SAT scores. All artists outside their academic fields– in their own right not necessarily in the art fields: sports, computer, music.
C’tines son is fifteen. There’s still a bunch– a whole bunch– of changing and rearranging that will happen. Believe me. You have time yet. Let him play all the possibilities in scholarship, trade skills, and art. Don’t limit yourself (sheesh, in some cases-I’d say don’t ever plan) till you absolutely have to. I’d even recommend you go out and buy him a welder. You’d be amazed.