If you WANT your record expunged,
honestly, WHAT is the big deal to the RC,
that they won't just accommodate.
Its less useless unwanted papers and used computer memory for them anyway.
Scope of ability and general all around musical fluency and knowledge
does IMO make for the difference between a Musician and .....
a spoon player,
a cellist (person who plays the cello)
a singer,
a stage entertainer whose show includes music,
a DJ,
a rapper,
someone who reads and plays notated...
And when I used to describe my own personal interpretation of Christianity,
I was told over and over again that I wasn't a Christian at all.
Finally I just handed them back their title.
Honestly, it's just a word that's really not of any great importance to me.
I am who I am.
That is enough.
Well hopefully this win will set a new precedent.
Sometimes it just takes a small handful of people
willing to fight the fight,
to Set a larger change in motion.
The RC is arrogant. (and certainly in this regard)
I personally like to see arrogance dethroned.
But electricians are licenced and certified and (hopefully) qualified to do an entire electrical job on their own.
(because they actually and competently know their trade).
Many (so called) 'musicians', are not musicians at all.
If there were certifications tests,
they would not even come...
I would say a musician is a person who is fluent in and comprehensively knowledgable of
the language and construction of music. Including harmony, melody, rhythm, and compositional techniques.
Many of the mainstream ... ummm.... performers... in today's music industry
should not be called...
This is largely why I don't refer to mySelf by any group used labels Christine.
I don't call mySelf a 'this' or a 'that' because people then associate
all kinds of things with me, that don't reflect a thing about me at all. :shrug:
(and often exactly the contrary).
I like your "follower of...