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"Sugar Sugar" has 12 notes?



More than that - but a lot of them are the same ones played over and over again

Sure, I'd rather play "Prokofiev's 4th symphony", "Night In Tunisia", "Hotel California", "Sway", "Desifinado", "Beginnings" (Chicago), "Straight No Chaser", "Another Star", "Marche Slave", "Isle of the Dead", "Some Skunk Funk", "Locomotive Breath", "Danse Macabre", "You Can't Lose What You Never Had", "Layla", or a number of other songs, and there are plenty of songs on each gig that I really want to play, so if I need to play something corny, I just put on my corny 'hat' and have fun with it, if I need to play something worn out, I just try to play it as if it were still fresh and have fun with it.

It's give and take. Give them the songs they like and if placed properly, they will take the songs you like.

And if "Blue Rondo ala Turk" is over the heads of the audience, and "Sugar Sugar" isn't, it's more fun to play "Sugar Sugar". Each gig and each genre of music allows me to express a different side of me. I even enjoy "Yakety Say" once the music starts, although I would never call it and only do it on request. And that's the most worn out song I play.

After all Peter, as you say, "Have fun!"

If you can't have fun playing music, then you shouldn't try to make a living playing music.

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