There is a huge dichotomy here, the woodstove in the arena, the guys wanting to scoop a girl to skate with and whatever else, no way at the arenas they were playing CCR. It was waltzes, and old stuff. So us hockey types hung around arenas, and outside dances. I guess that the influences varied, and guys with half their teeth missing waiting for ice time to play hockey kinda liked the female skater types.

Then when | quit the gas station asst. mgr. job and moved to Toronto the hippie scene was in full swing but my girlfriend was at the Royal Academy of Music and I started hanging out at the old music library and at one point did every Bach cantata at a record player with earphones and the entire score in front of me. Then I went through Mozart piece by piece, again with the score. I couldn't tell you much in the way of popular music. I have noticed that many of my 'crowd' like the 60's stuff, and they are often the staff at the nursing home, where the residents may not know that they are there. I think I ended up playing staff arrangements and Danny Boy 3 times.

I look at the stuff I bought recently on CD/DVD and it's all Buble, Krall, Rod Stewart's great American Songbook, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Satie, with a few opera cd's for good measure. But I have lots of old folk music, Don Messer and even Walter Ostenak. hm....

If I don't play too loud at this 'gig', no one really complains anyway, I was just thinking about things in general. Probably everyone in the room had the motto "My Way". LOL

John Conley
Musica est vita