It's like being a hooker, if you give it away tooo often, you find it hard to get paid when you need to pay the bills. Even non-profits have to come up with something. Everybody else gets their share, the printer,the non-profits staff members, the caterer, hell, even the janitor! Why should the musicians be the ones on the short end? Is it because we "PLAY" for a living? Granted there are occassions when a donation of services is appropriate. But just remember what Woody Guthrie said when a woman asked him to play for a "good cause". "I don't play for bad causes."

Mark Ross