Love TOP but they have a ton of new members too. There was a show a few years ago, their 45th anniversary reunion or something featuring everybody who was ever in the band. That was about how many were on stage too. A slight exaggeration, it was maybe 15-20.

Are we feeling like our parents yet? Remember them talking about how the big bands were the end of an era, the last of "real music" etc, etc? How Elvis, the Beatles, Santana and everybody else was pure crap? Lamenting when those guys started dying off?

Funny how everything eventually comes full circle. Another 10 years and all these groups will either be gone or in nursing homes. At least I'm having fun right now. My jazz gigs have been drying up for the last few years but I'm in a couple of classic rock and blues bands doing screaming B3 and rockin piano stuff.

An example of changing crowds I did the Catalina Yacht Club in Avalon on July 4th. They did want the usual jazz dinner set so I did it with the sax player but while we were doing the last song the Commodore came over to the bandleader who was sitting right behind me (who can't spell the word jazz) and said literally "You're going to be loud right? We want you to blow the doors off." Opening song? Gimme Some Lovin. And the last song of the night? Innagaddavida. In the middle was Joe Cocker, Santana, the Stones etc. When's the last time anybody heard that in a yacht club? I've almost forgotten how to play Green Dolphin Street and instead I'm digging up Iron Butterfly and the Doors.

I was totally burned out on that stuff in the 80's but now it's kinda fun.

Bob

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