Carol,

It doesn't really matter what you play, as long as you are playing for the Lord;-) Many of those old revival songs, particularly the Salvation Army songs, were lifted directly from the English music halls and other wanton and sinful places--Those strip club bands, which tended to be the "bottom of the barrel' jobs for musicians, have all been lost to DJ's--

Any one ever play for political fund raisers? When I played in "the saddest little country band in the world", our leader got us on at the top of the bill at a huge fundraiser at one of the automakers union halls--it was supposed to be "great exposure",(as you know, "great exposure" is another term for "no pay") and it was reported that the hall had in fact been sold out--well over a thousand tickets--We were so excited, we'd even chipped in to get the drum kit out of hock!

We got their early and set up on the big stage, while a thousand folding chairs were set out, thousands of steamed hot dogs lined up next to tons of potato and macaroni salad, huge kegs of beer and mountains of potato salad and piles of chips and soda bottles.(sorry to tell you this, DougR, but as you may have guessed, it was a Democratic fundraiser)

The doors were to open at 6, and we were to open, play while people ate, then the speeches, and then they'd clear the chairs and we'd play for dancing--As an added surprise, a couple of good friends had also been recruited to play, and the drummer and I would back them up, since they were concerned that their acoustic duet sound wouldn't fill the hall--

At six on the dot, we broke into our cover of "The Monkey that Ran for President", and the doors opened. At five after six, we realized that no one was coming( in Michigan, and, at least then, everyone had supper at 6 on the dot. since there was nothing to do but eat-- if they weren't there, they weren't going to be there). And we, along with the Political Volunteers, hit the hot dogs and beer(I was a vegetarian at the time, so you know how upset I was)--

Having nothing better to do, Dan and Nelson played all their New Riders, the Greatful Dead, and the Flying Burrito Brothers stuff(guess when this was) which none of which the guys in my band had never heard of before--and we played things like "Please Help Me I"m Falling" and "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" and "Heartaches By the Number" which they had never heard--