I hear you loud and clear, guys... Point one, OF COURSE it's better to play with a great who is sober than jacked up... but I'll still take one of those over a lump that can't play sober or not

And point two... Nothing wrong with being a sellout... as long as you realize it All to often we get sellouts that won't even acknowledge it, then it's all kinds of excuses to justify it. Own up to it (I do mine!) and recognize it as it happens, and you are a LOT better prepared for it's consequences, good OR bad...

But, all in all, as per my original post, I just worry about how much self-justification goes on here by belittling those some of us may have played with in the past... Without any acknowledgment of PERHAPS we are not the saints we would like to make out. Either in our playing skills OR our personal and professional habits. Oh for the forum where we could go and listen to these guys talk about US!

I'd be surprised if it was anywhere NEAR as good as we bill ourselves...