Thanks so much, all. I may have lost a couple of rounds, but the fight is NOT OVER!

I have a country club job in an hour. Tomorrow, I'm in Louisville on a film score that will consume 48 straight hours, with a few 2 hour breaks. Monday night, I'm back working on the patio of a restaurant.

I can see the future. The guitar will be gone this year. I stopped a lot of upright and electric bass jobs when I got cut a few years ago.

Walking left-handed bass will go next.

I'll probably start adding (ugh!) arranger jobs later this year...try it out on my existing jobs to see how it goes.

I just hate using one for my purpose, which is to cover up an infirmity.

DAMN, talk about bad timing. I've never had more satisfying good paying work...trips to Dubai and Australia...demoing for a boutique jazz amplifier manufacturer...a pending deal for a guitar manufacturer, 5 films and scores for fortune 500 companies on the books for 2013...

Trust me, I'll tough it out as long as it is physically possible and I don't embarrass myself.

NO WAY AM I READY TO CALL IT QUITS!

Thanks, all for the encouragement.

Russ

And Gary, I'll have to draw the line at Jimmy Buffet music, My crowds would chase me off the bandstand if I did something like that. Many bosses tell me they hire me because I DON'T play Buffet music and the like. That's all they get-and similar stuff-from most of the "pickers and grinners" who try to get work. The pay isn't that great, but I really don't have much competition around here.

58 years on the bandstand at least 4 nights a week, with only 9 weeks off in all that time.

STILL LOVE IT!