Ever feel like a buggy whip maker?

Thing is, no robot will ever replace us... the robot is WAY too expensive. While OMB's and OMB/DJ's are willing to go out and play for peanuts, while karaoke gets the audience to entertain themselves for free, who's going to pay a fortune for a robot?

Thing is, in any recession (and don't let them kid you it's over, it's only over for the execs and Wall St.) discretionary spending is always the first thing to be cut. This is going to be a few more years, I fear. Anyway, how many of US are actually playing anything the kids WANT to hear? You can't blame the live venues for passing us by if we don't play anything from this millennium!

And looking to a jazz program as some kind of indicator of how healthy the scene is is absurd. All they are studying is how to remain unemployed! Where are all the jazz clubs for them to play in? You know, the ones where experienced older players can't find gigs any more?

But all this comes and goes in cycles. I remember when disco in the 70's had us all scurrying... It got better. It will get better again. You just have to ride it out.