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What's different between that and any other Ma and Pa business? I used to eat at an Italian Restaurant, Papa was the chef, Mama was the hostess, ran the register, and waited tables, and the kids waited and bussed tables.



Huge difference Notes. Anybody can learn to be the hostess/waitress/cashier at a restaurant but how many average girls can learn from nothing how to front a group as the girl singer? That is obviously a highly desirable skill/talent set. And, btw Bob I am highly jealous of you. Leilani must be a heckuva cool lady

My point with all those websites was not to show they're not making any money, it's to show how many good players and bands there are. There's so many great players who have graduated from music schools all over the world in the last 20 years that the chances of making a living are even less now than the already slim chances it's always been. Heck, I was much more successful than most and I know what it takes. I was on the road for 6 years. We were booked by one of the largest booking agencies in North America, MusArt Corp, with the owner Bob Vincent being our personal agent. I saw him on Star Search in the 80's as a celebrity judge. I worked in every state in the country including Hawaii twice in the big "A" rooms. Pat Benatar was our last girl singer before the band broke up and she went back to New York and became a star. The previous one wound up at Cesears doing a show with Sinatra. I was close man, real close but no cigar.
At the time it was like you said, I was making at least the same if not a bit more than I could make at a regular job at the time. I don't think that can be done now but I don't really know for sure because I'm not in it anymore, I resigned from AFM 20 years ago. And yeah, I was actively trying to hook up with a girl singer to be able to do what you are now doing. Give Leilani a big hug for me and tell her if I had been around at the time you wouldn't have stood a chance...

Bob

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