I also consider the bands. Blood Sweat Tears, Chicago, all of the best, they eventually break up with hard feelings. Did all of the Beatles stay friends? I don't know. The horn players where I lived were not crazy about the Beatles. They put us out of work.

How log were the other two groups I mention here last. There's no longevity in it is what I think most of us OMB guys consider. We can play what we want where we want and when we want. I was called a few times to play a gig the morning of the day of the gig because the drummer for the band got sick.

Geez was he the only drummer in town that could hit the 6 licks that the guitar player knew. Do you think the whole band with Les Paul stuck together for all of the folks that they worked with over the years. It's just a big task to make it all work with a bunch of cry babies. LOL! Tony if you guys lasted 20 years, you were the exception and not the rule friend.