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“Wednesday Evening Blues” - John Lee Hooker

I guess you can't have everything. The Reaper guys ain't all that bad. :) Congratulations, I hope it works out for the best for you. Notes ♫

As one person in the above post said, "I never Meta Bapu I didn't like."

She should find work by the time she's 10!! Thanks for sharing. Notes ♫

Doesn't bother me. I've done some playing in church for wedding services. Music is music, and there is a lot of very good church music. It just doesn't pay enough for me to make my monthly bills. - - - - - - If you get a chance to go to Montreal, Canada, check out the pipe organ and choir at Notre Dame Cathedral. The organist is outstanding, and the choir is every bit as good as the finest recording choirs in the world. During their breaks, some dude in fancy robes said something in French. I went to a mass in Vienna, Austria. There was a pipe organ, choir and classical symphony orchestra. They played some Mozart, Bruch and others. During their breaks, some dude in fancy robes said something in German. As you might surmise, I went for the music, not the ceremony. I'm not religious by nature, but I'm not opposed to those who like that. When attending their churches to hear the music, I do my best to be respectful and play along with the sit/kneel/and other rituals. After all, I'm their guest. Notes ♫

Manic Monday - Bangles

Space Is The Place - Sun Ra (Definitely not mainstream music - technically competent, but weird - nice outfit though)

When I'm done with a musical instrument, it is pretty road worn. I've sold some things on eBay in the past, and it was almost worth the effort. Craigslist often works, and there is no packing and shipping required. I've given old instruments to students, telling them what work they need to do to get it up to snuff. They often like the idea of owning a pro-level instrument and for example overhauling a saxophone costs about as much as a used student level sax, so they get a good deal. And I get the 'feel good' vibes for helping pass the torch of music to a youngster. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Chocolate is one of the 4 basic food groups. In order: Coffee (or Tea) because life begins with a nice hot stimulant Chocolate (and White Chocolate doesn't count) Pizza Everything else that is edible *** I wanted to name a band, "They're Back By Popular Demand" figuring when that ad hit the Friday section of the newspaper, it would draw people. The rest of the band didn't like it. *** I started out being a liquor salesman in bars, but I moved on to the Yacht Club, Country Club, Private Party, Retirement Community and Condominium end of the business. Now I'm anywhere from entertainment to sonic wallpaper, depending on the gig. But it pays as well as the bars, but with half the amount of nights, it's usually only 3 hours per night, and there is never a Thursday night in the bar where a couple of traveling salesmen would rather watch the TV. We do have a once-per-week 'in public' late lunch gig at a restaurant with a full bar. So I guess on that gig I'm a food and drink salesman. When we gig, we work for the house and/or the person who is throwing the party. Our job is to predict what they want from the band, and deliver that. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

More future mergers Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R.Grace Co. will merge and become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Zesta Crackers join forces and become: Poly, Warner Cracker. 3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as: MMM-Good Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa. FedEx is expected to join its major competitor, UPS, and become: FedUP. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become: Poupon Pants. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become: Knott NOW! Notes ♫

If they don't accept credit cards, I won't use them. Not many people get to keep my credit card account on file. It's too easy to get it hacked, and big targets like Ebay and even PayPal are very attractive to hackers. I protect my Band-in-a-Box aftermarket customers at Norton Music too. I have a shopping cart that allows me to delete my customer's credit card info after the product is delivered. I also don't download the credit card numbers and keep them on my files. Furthermore, the customer's address, phone number, e-mail and other data gets moved to another computer that doesn't connect to the Internet and also has an encrypted hard drive. I figure I owe that to the people who trust me with their money. Since what I sell is mostly music gear, and I don't sell often, Reverb is suddenly a better alternative. Notes ♫

Blue Bossa - Joe Henderson (written by Kenny Dorham)

I'd add Mid-Italy (Florence to Amalfi), Spain, Czech Republic, and Quebec Canada to that list. I've not been to France yet, but cooking in Quebec is supposedly fairly close. The food in China was very interesting, some of it fantastic, others, just not for me, I'm not a vegetarian. I have the teeth of an omnivore, I have the digestive enzymes of an omnivore, the acidity of my stomach is that of an omnivore, and the length of my alimentary canal is that of an omnivore. Plus, there are 7 essential nutrients that vegans need to supplement. So I figure I should honor my body and be an omnivore. I have some vegan friends who tell me that the only vegetarians are vegans, and that others are vegetarian wanna-be people. They conclude with, "What plant does cheese grow on? What plant does an egg grow on? What plant does a fish grow on?" That makes sense to me. Plant matter is very hard to digest. I look at herbivore animals and I see things like; 7 stomachs (I only have one), extremely long digestive tracts (mine is moderate), and animals eating their own feces to run it through a second time (I'm DEFINITELY not going to do that), and I think that I'm just not built to be a vegetarian. But I'm OK with others being vegans, as long as they aren't preaching to me about killing poor defenseless animals. Everybody has to eat what they like and hopefully what is best for them. There is more than one right way to go through life. Notes ♫

Gimme That Wine - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Blues For Alice - Charlie Parker

When in Vienna the highlights for me were Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra concert Seeing/hearing Dvorak's opera Rusalka I'm not usually a church attender, but they had an orchestra, pipe organ and full chorus - the priest did some entertaining in the German language while the musicians were on break Oh, and the food was very good. The people were pleasant and the public transportation was good and efficient. I don't care where Beethoven lived, but I really like his symphonies #3, #4 and #7 plus a lot of his shorter works. Notes ♫

Sounds like you need to give up your day job I've been making a living doing music and nothing but music for most of my life. There would have been more money in my pocket if I had pursued the electronics career I was also trained for, but two short-lived day jobs doing that cured me of ever wanting to be normal. On the other hand, I've made enough money to pay off the mortgage, keep the refrigerator full, buy new cars but drive them until they are undependable, and taken nice vacations every year as close as the US and as far as Australia and China. I'm not the richest cat in the neighborhood, but I have more than I need. Yes it takes an unusual person to make a living playing music. But I don't know any of us who regret becoming a career musician. Those who weren't right for this life have long dropped out, taken a day job, and perhaps became a weekend warrior. I don't suppose anyone will put a bronze plaque on my house saying "Notes Norton Lived Here" after I'm gone, but I'm sure those plaques mean nothing to Beethoven or Liszt. When you're gone, you're gone and whether they remember my name or not isn't as important as my enjoying my time on this side of the sod. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

"White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane repeated lyrics... "Go ask Alice"

Golden Lady - Stevie Wonder

Fully Groan

I've been gigging for a living ever since I got out of school. Gigging is great, except for: A**-hole Club Managers A**-hole Agents A**-hole other musicians There have probably been a number of times when I've been in group #3 But when playing live in front of an appreciative audience, it's all worth it. Insights and incites by Notes ♫