Yeah, there comes a point where we all have a "then", doesn't there? My Motown band from the early 90s was THE band to book and when the weather got nice enough to play outside we played doubles every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until the weather got bad again, so mid-May through about the 3rd week of October. Weddings were booking us a year in advance. And we got a lot of "rich people" weddings. New Year's Eve we booked in January.

I remember one of those "rich people" weddings. It was in June of 1992, at the height of our popularity. We played our ever-lovin' hearts out for them. A soft set of light jazz-ish songs during dinner, then 2 sets of "right cross to the face" power Motown after. After the reception they they invited us to the after party at a meeting room at the hotel where the people were staying So we packed the gear into the truck and headed over to that hotel. When we walked in, in our black satin band jackets, of course, they CHEERED for us! We made something like $3500 for that wedding ($700 per man!) and you know, that cheer kind of meant more to me. The idea that they though enough about us as people to invite us....