Take care Eddie. As we both understand that the time left is valuable, best go do what ever pleases you the most.

Times change, people change, music changes. I think in general the older we get the less tolerent we are of the changes.

About ten years ago I stopped flying airplanes because of age and health. My ability to play guitar has decreased to the point it is not very much fun any longer. So I get it, stuff we use to like to do is just not the same.

There is an issue to solve when we stop doing something we have spent countless hours doing. We need to find something new to replace it. For me, I find that to be damn difficult if not imposable. I have only been able to spend more time doing other things I have always liked.

For me the really fun stuff has always been flying, fishing, and music. Age and health have caused flying to stop, playing music has gotton to the point is is not very much fun, and I really don't know how many more trips out in the ocean I have left.

I still find some reasons to come to the P G Music forum. But in many ways the reasons have little to do with music. After a number of years here there are people here you get to know. Some of them produce interesting music, some have interesting things to say, some I just like, and a few just irritate me. Such is life in the digital world. It does give me some sense of being connected to the wider world.

I use to have a lot more friends to fish with but they got old and died just like my musical friends. Like the people who play music the fishing world has changed. Now we have "iron ships and wooden men". The new generation gets sea sick, can not get up that early, is fearfull of the dark, and has to get permission from their wife to go...lol Oh, they don't know much of anything, due to the fact fishing can not be done on a smart phone...

Well Eddie, you have my phone number. Call anytime you feel like it.

Cheers,

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”