On one hand I agree totally with Donny's original post. However, given the following factors, such as growing older, the business changing, family needs taking over, ect and ect, it is different at least for me today. I had the B 3 and I once thought that if we could sound like the Vanilla Fudge, we could rule the world. Those days are gone. Like Gary, I play hundreds of gigs per year with the arranger, I make a lot of people happy, and quite frankly I'm happy with that. I gave up my last band because we had so few gigs I could never get the same players each time, so eventually I could do more with my arrnager than with a pick up band.

Joe