We've spent the last couple of nights at St. Pete Beach, Florida at the Don Cesar Hotel, it's a beautiful hotel on the Gulf. There's plenty of entertainment daily including a jazz quartet(piano, bass, drums and sax) Thursday thru Saturday evenings. The pianist gets to play the 7 foot Yamaha grand in house. Outdoors this afternoon at poolside and the beach bar there was an acoustic guitarist/vocalist singing and playing.

Some comments, there were about 5 of us in the lounge last night listening to the quartet. The remaining 25 or 30 people were at the bar watching baseball and/or football.applause for the quartet was practically non-existent. Earlier in the evening I spotted the drummer unloading his drum set from a circa 1997 Ford Aerostar van. Put new meaning to the following that has been posted here in the past

Musician is someone who loads $5000 worth of gear in a $500 car/van 100 miles to a $50 gig.

As far as the acoustic musician he played 4 hours on the pool deck all the songs sounded similar. He got more applause than the jazzers did.