I will always know that it was a real luxury for us in the 60s to have a place with a stage where we could do the music several nights a week and get better at it as a result of that dynamic tension. They even gave us a burger abd chips and a couple of beers----almost like we were getting paid for our music. I liked that, got used to it and kept on keeping on. As I've said, it was a bit like alchemy; we sang into the wind---and went home with the rent.

Art Thieme