Hi gang, actualy, Janis postulated the exact minimum I concider for the band, if I can't put a fidler guitarist and me on stage, I have to cancil a booking, which to my mortification I have had to do enough times that I find it very hard to book. The idea is that for me to shift from whistle to pipes to vocals, I need an instrument such as the fiddle to cover the changes and keep a thick sound - and make the music which you hear on the CD. Live, three musicians give the sence of the music one hears on the CD. In fact, a lot of the CD, is just Mazz and me. But, when it gets to the point I can't depend on two other people, it is time for a change. Bunches of folks result from getting several folks to cover the fact that I can't get the simplest coment from ONE let alone three, then when they smell money, the whole pack begins to circle the carrion. What makes me sick about it, is folks who tell me they believe in the music and causes and still don't committ. Isn't that why this country is in the shape it's in folks? Yeah, I believe we should not take land from Indians, destroy the environment, kill Roma (Gypsies) Shoot Black folks, remember firefighters, be brave in the face of terror ... I just don't want to commit a day a week to practice to promote music to that end, or in fact do anything else but say I am behind you... guess what, you aren't.
Well, I will let you all know if we hear from the band in New Jersey. I am completely ready to abondon New York, I think it is a city that has becomed damned. Unfortunately my wife wont consider it.
Back to busking... Larry