Ed, I'm glad you enjoyed the demos. They aren't at all polished recordings. They are just live recordings at a local bar so what you hear is really just us all playing together in the corner of a bar. No overdubs, no second takes. I was just using a PSR-550 at that time playing it as a straight keyboard without any accompaniment of course.

The thing I like about the band is that we will all try to play almost any rock song ( if we like it ). The MP3s on the website are quite old now so I guess we should record some of the newer stuff we now do as well. Because we play local bars we also have started adding more modern rock selections for audiences that are younger than us We do a great version of Red Hot Chill Pepper's "Aeroplane" and have a new bass player that can really slap a mean bass. Fountains Of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom" is just lots of fun ( though it does sound like they were listening to The Cars just before they wrote it ). We also do some Foo Fighters, Green Day, No Doubt and Alanis Morrisette. Most bar audiences enjoy our rendition of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" run into "Back In Black" and somehow Mark our singer manages to pull off the falsetto screaming vocal for AC/DC. So for a bunch of geezers we are quite capable of playing rock/pop to pretty much any audience. And we are just as comfortable playing Led Zepplin, Santana, Lynard Skynard, Black Sabbath, Van Halen and Cheap Trick.

We are playing a private 60s party soon and will be pulling out our Elvis, Beatles, Monkees, Stones, Kinks, Hendrix and Steppenwolf songs.It is just fun being able to shape the sets to suit the crowd we find ourselves playing to. And having both a male and female lead singer we can be very flexible about trying to play almost any rock/pop song. So there even is some Bonnie Raitt, Divinyls, Heart, Missing Persons and No Doubt material in our set list as well. If something doesn't click with the band when we play around with it we don't fight it but just move on as there is always plenty of choice of cover songs to learn.

I have always loved playing live with a band. I'm lucky I don't rely on getting my income from the band because a 6 piece unit makes it hard to make a lot of money. OMBs are really the only way to make a living nowadays as many on this forum already know .... but I do still love the buzz I get playing with a full band. And this lineup has been together for 4 years now with no ego problems which is quite a feat for such a large outfit.