Has not been my experience, Bob, and you KNOW I used to try to go out amongst 'em.

Only accepted up to a point, and that was only because I was the guy trying to make any inroads there. The only guy, of either race.

Some would let me jam with 'em, none was even remotely willing to hire, or even to consider such a thing, actually.

Many were sincerely skilled players, which at one point in my guitar playing life was very important to me, but there was always this invisible and often unspoken line which I could not/should not cross. I suppose that many of them thought that just my being there was proof of a nonproblem or the likes, that alone actually speaks volumes for itself.


--Mac