I am way sure to tell you that I do not wish to have a band going right now.I would prefer to sit in with someone else's band,do two numbers and go back to the hotel.I have more than paid my dues there.If you can get four or more people to pull in the same direction on a thing for six months you are doing pretty good.Live venues for bands are shrinking away.Even a total dump has got fifty bands that would play there for draft beer.The new generation for the most part is not inspired by a live performance.They want a DJ and pre-programmed music.I have seen this before and it is no big deal.It will pass.Karoke to me is so idiotic.That is a thing one would do in the privacy of their own home.I am going to pay hard earned money to go to a club and listen to amateur singers?Yes every now and then you get a good singer,1 out of 100 maybe... yet singing on a professional level is an aquired skill and most people can not sing as well as they think they can.So they have got to get drunk to do it.Hopefully the audience is drunk too eh?