My 50 year date is coming right up. I got my first guitar (Yamaha GC) in 1968. I've only reluctantly set it down since, though the only reasons I really performed and did session work were income related - except for a naive point at the beginning and currently. I was retired for most of a decade, just sitting a few gigs with friends. I spent that time 'playing for myself.' (Which I doubt I have to elaborate about, if you've been playing that long.) Earlier this year, a friend conned me into going to do a fill-in for a band with much, much younger members. They asked me to form a band and mentor them. I told them they were right out of their fucking minds and to never talk to me again. Then I said I'd think about it. Maybe a week later, I started laying down the ground-rules and what was once a one-year project now looks to be three years to indefinite. I've just concluded that I absolutely suck at being retired. We're *strictly* regional and *strictly* covers. We are higher-end production with things like a laser show, a projector that can handle live feeds, etc... I've got it pretty cushy, for all the pissing and moaning I do. I don't even usually load my own guitars. I don't even help lug equipment. I do a lot of the work a manager should be doing, so that makes up for it. I also have a firm rule. I will not spend more than one night in a hotel room. That seriously limits us to a specific region - and that's exactly what I want. My area had an empty niche, and we've filled it. Higher-end production, covers, goal being eventually renting civic centers and halls, doing our own promotional work, and the band making musicianship their sole source of income. Which is a bit of a novella, but I figured I'd explain. I don't actually see your username very often, so I don't actually have a clue who you are. (Nothing personal, of course. I bump into a whole lot of people and smoke a lot of pot.) What are you doing tonight, at 20:00 Eastern?