Why I Am; Why I Am MyGigNet

I make my case here, not for any special place, not that I am any more special than anyone else. I deliver an appeal as an average guy, but with one key, conscious difference. I argue that I, indeed, do have something special that needs to reach out, communicate and connect. I argue that so do you, each and all.

I am the poster boy for someone who knows a lot, has experience in even greater abundance, is willing to share it, but needs help. I need help in organization, not that I can't organize. Keeping up with it is a bitch, with gigging, looking for gigs, talking about them, and just living; the hope is to have enough life to have a life. There is a need to connect, but there is a more immediate need to survive. I have a family that struggles, but that gives me purpose. I have to outlive the odds for their sake.

I have songs that I have written, but have yet to be recorded. I have other songs, still yet to sing. I have friends in the same boat. All of it. Some are just beginning and a lot of them have been at it "too long". We're stuck in it -- both blessing and curse.

And there lies the point. We are cursed by the blessing of our common gift: the song, the anthem, the symphony. It moves us to action; we want to share it. But the imposing power of others, and the opportunism that they take advantage of, has caused too many of us to protect our offerings and, thereby, take away the power of our significance. This is the curse.

Who we are and what we have, by sharing, harnesses our creative and experienced energy and moves it toward a directed, ethical use, whose integrity is shown in the prosperity that it generates through cooperation and collaboration. This is the blessing.

I am old enough to know what the "old dogs" in the industry know and how they use it. I am not unlike any other who has been disadvantaged by it. I have seen others royally screwed, far more than me. But I have seen it. I am, also, old enough to know that the youngest of us knows a lot. It's a different knowledge, but it is the knowledge of the verging world. It's their world. I can learn much from them, as they can from me. Technology drives their muse, but they still have to feel the strings, touch the keys, move the pipes. And they love old guys -- like me -- a lot more than many realize.

We have much to learn from each other. We all have much to learn from each other.

We have much more to gain.

I am no different than you -- average and special.

David Kahl
President, CVO
MyGigNet.com