This turned out to be a very timely thread ...
Today I played 1 1/2 hours at the annual family picnic sponsored by our Church ... The past few years I have played for 3 hours, but this year our Pastor told me that 2 young (high school) church members had asked if they could volunteer their time to play music to promote their DJ business ... The Pastor wanted to know if that was ok with me - (I also volunteer my time for this function, as I am hired for other gigs during the year) - I said it was ok and the DJs and I split the time - I played the first 1 1/2 hours and they played the second 1 1/2 hours ...
I played some 50's and 60's, Beatles, Eagles, Sinatra, etc. ... I got quite a few compliments on the music ...
The kids did a nice job, playing a mix of top 40 and 'dance' tunes from the past few years, and while they had about 4 times the speaker power I had (I just used my 2 Podium 10s), they did not blast anyone out of the field ...
At the end of the day, guess who got a booking for a wedding next May ??? ...