{"id":2686,"date":"2010-11-11T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/?p=68"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:30:37","slug":"entertainment-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/friends\/tommyemmanuelinterviews\/entertainment-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Emmanuel in The Entertainment Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tommy Emmanuel in The Entertainment Business\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2eGHF-rJbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMatt: I love what you just said before. You\u2019re still looking? Because I bet, you know, everything is going down, hasn\u2019t it? I mean, you still coming out with stuff.<br \/>\nTommy: I\u2019m working on it a lot, absolutely. And,(Strumming the guitar). They never see anybody do that stuff, you know? And it\u2019s just that\u2019s why I\u2019m looking forward because everything I do is should be musical, entertaining, and a surprise\u2026<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: You know? I\u2019m pulling rabbit out of the hat every 5 minutes on the stage, you know? \u2018Coz I\u2019m in the entertainment business, and I don\u2019t care if what people think particularly musical snobs, you know. I had guy actually saying to me one night, it was a bit entertaining.<br \/>\nMatt: (Laughs)<br \/>\nTommy: It was a bit entertaining.<br \/>\nNeil: Do you expect any part of him or something\u2026<br \/>\nTommy: You know, he\u2019s opening line and I thought, oh well, I mean,,,and I just want to say that it was a brilliant show, but it was a bit entertaining.<br \/>\nMatt: (Laughs)<br \/>\nNeil: It\u2019s like nice try\u2026<br \/>\nTommy: James Marcy gets the same thing. It\u2019s actually the same thing, you know? Because, it\u2019s like, I don\u2019t what they think we\u2019re doing. Do they think we\u2019re being disrespectful to the music by making it fun and entertaining, because we\u2019re not. We\u2019re in the entertainment business. People paying money, they come, they wanna be entertained and it\u2019s our job to take those people away. Not last but the night before, I saw a more smiling faces in one room than I\u2019ve ever seen in my life, and everybody was smiling the whole night. I though, \u201cWow! This is incredible!\u201d Every time I looked over the people beaming back at me, you know? And it just drove me on, you know? And it was a beautiful night. And that\u2019s more important. I wanna give life enjoy to people and I do it with my every ability and every available thing that I can master up, I put it out there, you know?<br \/>\nMatt: This little bit that you\u2019re learning that you working on the style thing, is that something that you gonna incorporate, you know\u2026<br \/>\nTommy: I\u2019ll find somebody to put (laughs).<br \/>\nMatt: And I wanna be there.<br \/>\nTommy: Someone who\u2019s gonna watch this will do something better with it.<br \/>\nMatt: And that\u2019s why they\u2019re gonna buy your next album because you never know what\u2019s show off.<br \/>\nTommy: There\u2019s a lot of stuff on that one, yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2430],"tags":[2443,9,315],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tommyemmanuelinterviews","tag-entertainment-business","tag-interview","tag-tommy-emmanuel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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