Pubs Are Always A Touch Classier Than Other Establishments....Plus They Have My Kind Of Beer...

     When you are out at the bar having drinks, how much of what goes on in the room do you see??

     Did you ever stop to think.....What do the musicians see all night long?? 

     We are out here doing what everybody does when they go out at night for dinner or drinks.

    While we sit here and they wait on us and bring us what we want to eat and drink and all the extras we can think of to ask for while we are there having fun drinking and dancing and eating and talking to each other and..... socializing.. ..basically.

     Now....what are the musicians doing? I hate to bust anybody's bubble but they are working.  They are doing what they do…. to the best of their abilities....for however many hours...2 or 3 or 4.      

    Sometimes they do not even take any breaks in that length of time. They just work straight through.

     Now you have to realize that according to physiologists the work a musician does on a stage is like 8 hours of work for every one hour they are on that stage...the amount of expended energy is tremendous compared to most any other kind of work, especially in that pay category.

     These people do not have a job.  They do not go to work.. They live work...they do not "do" something.  They "are" something.  Music is what they are.  They live it, breathe it, eat it, sleep it, and do it.  It is their God given talent, and if they pursue it and embellish it with many, many, many, years of perfecting their ability then they become very good at it.      

     They have given up a normal life of living in the audience where people wait on you and give what you ask for.  

     They have moved into the realm of being something.  Something God gave them, so they could “be” a musician.  And live out of the realm of the normal.  And in this different realm of frustration and emotion and thoughts put into a different language than others put their thoughts into, musicians still have to have their language understood.  So now somehow they have to also bridge the gap between their language and the other one that most people speak.

   Yet this is what musicians do....but they see everything that goes on in the establishment all night long...they may not see it with their eyes but they hear it.  This is just as good as hearing something to a blind person.... So much more is heard by a musician than a non musician...as also a blind person.  

     They hear music............and everything else.