Hal, I don't think the keyboard is the problem. There are lots of styles that can be used for younger audiences, but younger audiences are not the ones who frequent upscale restaurants and nite clubs, mainly because they don't have the money to do so. In Baltimore's Fells Point, where the younger crowds tend to congregate, they have lots of heavy metal bands - 4 to 6 piece bands that play head-banging rock at ear bleed volumes. As an OMB entertainer, we never competed with them, and never tried to compete with them - it's just not our thing. Those bands, and my son used to have one, make $450 to $600 a night, based upon the gate charges. More often than not, his band got 60 percent of the gate. Upscale restaurants and bars don't have a cover charge, don't hire DJs, don't hire heavy metal bands, and get away with paying chump change for a OMB entertainer, or a piano player that may, or may not, sing. Nothing has changed here.

Cheers,

Gary