(09-07-2013, 12:14 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote: Casey may have not had a clue about what he was doing (although I doubt that -- he may not have had the prescience to know "oh, this guy will invite us to Carnegie with him" but I suspect he suspected something "momentous" would occur when Haley started singing), but ultimately, it's that he made that recording and then posted it online, that made Mayfield realize that including Haley -- and, ultimately, Casey -- in his line up was useful.
And, those of you who don't recognize that, aren't quite looking at reality.
Most of Mayfield's YouTube videos have a few thousand views while the one with Haley has 132K views -- more than any of this others. I sure he noticed that
The notion of "using" Haley gets a little tricky. They booth stood to potentially gain. Of course, Irvin did use Twitter to invite Haley to perform with him, which immediately created buzz (not you Buzz). Perhaps Irvin was throwing some bait Haley's way to entice her to join the club △ (jazz community). He did sell a ticket to the show to Tusk and gained some visibility with new people.
