Bill-The only people under the age of 65 I'd say that night were me and the bartender, lol...

Don-That's the fall back plan. What I have to say is that I felt better driving home from the club last Saturday than I have a long, long time. My wife said she never saw me this pumped up after a band gig...ever, lol...

As I said, the Commander came up to me and complimented my work that night. I honestly can't remember the last time one of the officers came up to me to say "good job" when the band played..

It went well...I'll keep gently pushing more modern things in that have a really good solid dance beat and I suspect it'll work out.

I've tried the midi file thing and I can't get comfortable with it. I feel like I'm waaaaaay more dependent on it than I do when I play with styles. heck, I don't even have to play the chords if I don't want to. I personally don't feel good about noodling over this awesome sounding midi file. Some guys are great with them...not me. I find styles that are suitable matches for the songs I want to play, then create exactly my own arrangement, and it works for me...