guitpic1, you're the only one on this thread besides Eddie Shoemaker who's paying any attention and making comments that make sense. If you are enjoying what you are doing I'm elated for you! Really I mean it. That's the most important part of entertaining, isn't it? Myself, I had speakers, keyboard, the whole subang. I can't afford the 3 lb bose system. My speakers weight 30+ lbs I think along with extra gear for my sax etc and it got to be too much work for $50. I raised my price to $75 and I played maybe 6 or 7 gigs for that and the phone quit ringing.
Thanks for having the balls to tell the truth. Some people live in La La world and don't have a clue of what's happening outside of their little cube at the VFW hall. Ha ha. I thought of moving to Kentucky and playing with Russ for just the fun of it and maybe something to eat.

The same goes for my buddy SonnyG out in California. Oh and let's not forget about Chas! The same goes for him. It would all be great gigging with those guys and any others of their exceptional talents in the music profession, not just midi DJ entertainers. Anyway they (the Midi & DJ guys) don't want a sax player who can only play one note at a time on the same bandstand with them, ha ha ! Boy this is going to stir up a hornets nest. Ha ha. Now I'm having fun again.