Mark
Thanks for the supportive words. You really hit some points dead on. Your right, sitting around here in this long winter I've even lost the desire to spend time in my studio and just play. Good to talk to those who understand.

Just talked to a friend of mine in Northern NJ with whom I used to trade jobs with. He's from Nutley and between he and his wife's family he has a ton of big time connections. He's very good too so he's worked steady for years. In this economy he's still doing 2 - 4 gigs a week but most are restaurant jobs that don't pay near what he gets for parties so I think everywhere you go its the same story to a degree. He ditched his keyboard years ago and just does a Kareoke / DJ thing now. I don't think he even has his wedding band anymore. He makes most of his own backing tracks so he does sound different and high quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8fKR8peQVg

We've both talked about someday winding up in the "Villages" in Florida someday. Talk about a Gold Mine of musical opprotunity !!
http://www.thevillages.com/

LOL !!!