Tony
Hopefully my health stays good and I can be any age I want !!
Good points. Preception is a big part of it. People think because your a certain age you just play a certain type of music. Its hard enough getting new gigs without the stigma of age thrown on top.
Still I can look back and say I've had a good run at a good time so I should be satisfied. Thing is I still have the desire to schelp the equipment and do gigs. Not so much the money although it is nice but just the satisfaction of a job well done. I hate the booking part and thought by this time I'd be established enough to just have the phone ring or be the regular in some nice place. Moving twice in five years ruined that.
Best quote form a guy who called himself "Crazy Hughie" down the Jersey Shore.
"You don't leave the business it leaves you"