Gary, sadly, you're in the majority. And, I'm convinced that there's little or nothing I, as a pretty "hard liner" can do to change your mind.

But, man, JUST LISTEN to what's out there!

It does a major number on me, in the HUMBLE department.

Every time I do a $400.00 corporate or government dinner party, I'd trade it in a heartbeat for a $75.00 jazz gig. Every time I cash a corporate $25,000 check for an industrial sound score, I just shake my head. At least, per the attached sample rough, you sometimes get a little "wiggle room".

Yea, in an imaginary world!

Sadly, if I don't watch it, I continuously play myself out of a gig.

Russ (proud "hard-liner") Lay