From: kerry.beach@gmail.com   
      
   As mentioned, I have read this newgroup for years and occasionally   
   commented but in the old days, it was so easy to get flamed for the   
   most innocuous comments that I found lurking safer...   
      
   I really relate a lot to what you two guys discuss.  I have performed   
   steady since the middle sixties and seen tons of changes and yet I am   
   still playing - not because I am remotely better than the ones who have   
   quit - I just kind of have rolled with the changes, embraced the ones   
   that worked for me and kept plugging.  In those years, I have worked   
   with groups as big as six pieces while at the same time kicking bass   
   pedals with a korg electronic drum as a single.    The reasons for   
   keeping going have changed over the years but the one constant has been   
   that I love to play - its who I am.  That is why it doesn't bother me   
   at all if I use live, or I do tracks on garageband or logic.  If the   
   people at the dance are happy, it is a success.  If not, I try   
   something else.  I have just never been a purist...  In fact, in the   
   70s I even played some rocked up disco (I know - now I am banned   
   forever...) - I did it because the people loved it and I loved watching   
   them love it...   
      
   Its nice to see that there are those out there that put the audience   
   first and ego second.    That is hard to do because we wouldn't be in   
   this business without a pretty healthy ego.    Now, back to lurking for   
   me...  ;-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)