Retirement? What's that? To each his own and it seems like Eddie is perfectly happy and that's great. For me? I would go bat**** crazy lazing around the house watching TV all day. As a tax guy I have enough clients and outside consulting work to keep me busy enough and have plenty of time for music.

On the music side, I'm constantly focused on the next gig, I rarely practice scales and things like that, I practice on things I'm actually going to play on the next gig. I like playing difficult stuff that I have to seriously focus on. Right now no gigs so I did tune up my piano and I'll play some things but not a whole lot. That's just not me. I'm not that interested until the lights go on, the crowd is ready and the bandleader goes OK, 1-2-3 and off we go! That's what I live for musically, I'm a performer and I need to perform.

I like having 2 or 3 people standing next to or behind me watching me play keys and making comments like you're the best man! They push me to perform better. I love that especially if they're young ladies. No, no, no get your mind out of the gutter. I look at them like my daughters. I just like the attention, what can I say? It doesn't matter if I'm doing Misty or Wave on solo piano at a private house party and someone stands next to me saying I love that song or I'm rocking out at a July 4th festival gig. It's the same vibe and I'll keep doing it until I physically can't any more. Music is not a job that I can't wait to retire from.

So no, I'm not retiring from that. This virus will pass and we'll all get back to gigging but unfortunately I agree this year is probably toast. I have the same four gigs booked just before and including New Years. Maybe those will still happen. The next few weeks will tell us a lot about people gradually getting back to work in certain areas especially Boeing. They have 27,000 workers who just want back this week. Don't know how many but it's a fair number of them.

Bob

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