Chas, I WAS making a living as an entertainer long before Arranger keyboards became available. I was a good-looking, young kid fresh out of the U.S. Navy, owned a 6-string guitar that I purchased from a pawn shop along with a Fender amp and a Shure mic and stand. I sat on a stool in a honky-tonk bar, played nothing but country and light rock, sang to the ladies and made a whopping $50 for 4 hours work. Back than I thought that was a damned fortune. My day job then only paid $100 a week for 40-plus hours and I was considered among the highly paid workers for Bendix Field Engineering Corporation, traveling around the world setting up satellite tracking stations for Project Mercury. That was more than a half-century ago, though. So, if keyboards no longer existed, I guess I could go back to that, but I damned sure don't want to - I'm having too much fun with the keyboard and singing to the young ladies.

Cheers,

Gary