This is impertinent to the topic, but to answer BossX's question, I do about 40 jobs a month, so about 480 jobs a year. My jobs are almost all one hour nursing home, senior gigs at $85-$150 an hour. I average just over $100 an hour. I really don't have the breadth of repertoire to do weddings or clubs, nor do I want to be around alcohol. I'm a teetotaler - into Eastern spirituality. The alcohol/smoking gigs would unsettle me, but the nursing home/assisted living gigs are just my cup of tea. It looks like if I went the Uncle Dave rout - if I were as talented as he was - I could double my income. Hopefully, I will get my act together with my songs (where I feel I have a lot of talent) and someday make an income with those.

On a pertinent note, I would like to belatedly thank George Kaye for making his report and acknowledge that I might be prematurely condemning the GEM Genesys keyboard. If the sound does go toward the audience, and if the voices are that incredible, then it might be an option for gigging musicians - perhaps slightly more muscular ones than me. I will have to hear the Genesys some day - several months from now when I pass by the Sound Post in Skokie, IL.

Larry