Love it, love it, love it. The groove in the first video is exactly what we try to get late into the gig. The difference is that we don't have a Eric Marienthal (Sax) and I'm definitely no George Duke (I am in my head but the fingers don't always cooperate ). Hard to believe that players of that caliber can barely make a decent living while the Taylor Swifts of this world become billionaires. Harder still to believe that (unless you're stuck in C&W hell) anyone would prefer playing solo on an arranger to playing within a group like that. I'm not talking about the economics of it, just the musical side of it. If you're in it as sole-source income (and not an a-lister), I can understand the economics of going the arranger/OMB route.....but man, talk about living in two different worlds......

chas