• Recording workshop makes dreams come true • Argument for AJA baseball strikes out Recording workshop makes dreams come true In regards to an article written by The Garden Island on May 31, 2015, “Recording workshop now open,” I lived on Kauai
• Recording workshop makes dreams come true • Argument for AJA baseball strikes out
Recording workshop makes dreams come true
In regards to an article written by The Garden Island on May 31, 2015, “Recording workshop now open,” I lived on Kauai for a number of years. I just recently moved to the Portland to start my path on a music career. Most people would scoff at the idea, but because of Russell Faraldi’s Kauai Island Recording Workshop, I am already plugged into a recording studio. His certification program is the best thing this thirtysomething musician could have done.
I recommend Kauai Island Recording Workshop to any musician. It doesn’t matter if you want to “get into” recording professionally or not.
Rusty will teach you how to best utilize your time in a studio as well as miking techniques, tracking, recording, and everything you need to know to get things started.
Russell has vast knowledge and is eager to share it with everyone. He has given me the tools that I have needed for quite some time to pursue my dreams.
Jonathan Fisher, Portland
Argument for AJA baseball strikes out
I appreciate the mayor or a member of his “team” responding to my latest AJA baseball letter, (Jan. 8, TGI). But with all due respect, he is way off base (no pun intended) in his response.
The mayor was a jock just as I have been a jock most of my life. If Bernard had a son who had some skills in football and just needed added experience at the high school level by playing in an off-season league to possibly get a scholarship to U of H but could not participate in that league due to a racial problem, wouldn’t he be outraged?
His analogy that “some leagues require that members be part of a specific labor union, work in a particular geographic location or have attained a certain age” is comparing apples to oranges.
Being in a labor union or living in a certain geographic location or age restriction has absolutely nothing to do with their race or ethnical background as AJA baseball does. If there are such leagues then their members are not restricted to play because they are black, yellow or brown only that they have the skill to participate.
I said it before and I will say it again that I applaud the organizers of AJA baseball for keeping it going in the Hawaiian Islands for 86 years. But no matter what term you want to use for prohibiting any person from playing baseball because of their race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or color it is discriminatory.
The mayor says, “I don’t view the AJA as being racially discriminatory but rather one that pays tribute to a long standing tradition set by their fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers.”
Once because of “tradition” women could not vote, African Americans were slaves and until Jackie Robinson came along “tradition” or “culture” kept this fine race of people out of organized baseball. See the movie “42” about the hardships that Jackie had to go through to crack the color barrier in pro baseball — truly amazing. Or that mixed marriages were looked down upon or prohibited; that homosexuals were barred from military duty or kicked out if discovered — at a time when some were our best combat pilots and interpreters we badly needed; or same sex marriage that gives equal rights to everyone.
In one of its saddest hours our country “discriminated ” against the total Japanese race by putting these American citizens into camps (a recent fine story in TGI) after Pearl Harbor was bombed.
The mayor goes on to say what a fine outstanding citizen Tom Shigemoto is and I certainly take no exception with that. He had some fine sons that excelled in baseball at Kauai High School and as the official arbitrator and scorer for the KIF I told him so.
My only question to Tom, our mayor or anyone else who wants to keep AJA baseball segregated is why not open this league to anyone who can compete?
Professional baseball and particularly the major leagues are better, stronger and more competitive (attendance and salaries are off the map!) due to the influx of worldly players being signed.
Even if AJA baseball is legally correct in their operations, they certainly have a moral and ethical right to operate their league so that no male or female is ever left out.
Glenn Mickens, Kapaa
