{"id":4639,"date":"2018-04-10T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:08:20","slug":"secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4639","title":{"rendered":"secret weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t recall what his final mark was but the marking system bugs me, flawed, suggests if you fail you aren’t someone who could be successful or if you get a high mark you should be but that isn’t reality. Better to just be pass\/ fail or even just drop marking altogether. Pourquoi pas? \u00a0You sign up to take the course, that’s good enough. After that school year, I invited him to come sing on a record I was producing, he came and was like a secret weapon. \u00a0Adding improvised parts, adding counterpoint I never asked for, riffing off the lyrics. Couldn’t ask for more. \u00a0Then disappeared. Wrote him three times during the year to say hello and remind him anytime I would help record or assist whatever he wanted, he did previously say he wanted that. He only wrote me back once acknowledging my position and offer, it was over a year ago. Another weird thing about that guy, seriously, he liked Elton John. He performed I’m Still Standing when they had to do a cover. Broke my heart but I tried to keep my mind on the bigger picture, his talent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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