[78-L] The economy is Stan Getz's fault!

[David Lennick]

And if Orson Welles had accepted that offer to run as Senator from Wisconsin, 
instead of Joseph McCarthy....

We've changed our minds. Go back 60 years, step on as many butterflies as you 
like, let's see what happens.

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> The daily Stockholm newspaper?Dagens Nyheter Oct 14 2008 edition, concluded that Stan Getz was ?partly to blame for the financial crisis now plaguing the world. The ?reason: After an article in the New York Times
> ?"Taking a hard new look at a Greenspan legacy"
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em
> 
> ?The Swedish paper concluded that things might have been different?had Greenspan pursued a musical career.
> 
> ? Turning to music and baseball
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Then, I decided that baseball was my thing. And I??
> was actually getting very good, but at the age of 14, I hit a??
> plateau and I never improved.
> 
> ?JIM LEHRER: You were a left-hander, first baseman, right?
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: I was a left-handed first baseman. I hit the ball??
> pretty well. Then, I got into music, and I became a professional??
> musician for a couple of years.
> 
> ?JIM LEHRER: Played the clarinet...
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Clarinet, saxophone, flute, bass clarinet.
> 
> ?JIM LEHRER: Which one did you enjoy the most?
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: I actually enjoyed the clarinet the best, but I was??
> a fairly good amateur, but a moderate professional. But what really??
> did me in is I had, as an amateur, had to play next to Stan Getz. I??
> was 16; he was 15. I decided, "Do I really want to be in this??
> business?"
> 
> ?JIM LEHRER: Why, because he was so good?
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: Oh, my god.
> 
> ?JIM LEHRER: Was he really good?
> 
> ?ALAN GREENSPAN: And he was one of the really historic famous sax??
> players. And the best economic decision I ever made in my life was??
> to decide to leave the music business and go into economics. 
> 
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
> Origin Jazz Library
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