Kind of a "last member standing" You should see the Tempations. They kind of become the grandsons of the sons of the Tempations, three times removed.

Hey, rock and roll is a pretty hard life. So a lot of these guys die out. But here is an interesting factoid from the touring groups this year. I was reading where a lot of record labels are complaining they can't get current rock or country acts on the big stadiums and arena tours because of the "Old Dinosaurs of rock" acts that are drawing all the big crowds. Aerosmith, Stix, Kansas, Kiss, Springsteen, Dylan, etc. are all out there, breaking box office records.

I was just in Fla, where Willie Nelson, John Cougar Mellencamp, and Bob Dylan, were playing in front of 15,000 people in a big outdoor amphitheater. My friends who went, said Willie was good, Mellancamp was GREAT and Dylan was the weirdest they had ever seen him, even weirder than they had ever seen him and they were Dylan fans. Most people left four songs into his set. Of course with Dylan that was probably forty minutes.

The next night Chesney was there and did great. Then the night after that, Counting Crowes cancelled due to lack of sales.

So it is a weird trip out there.

MAB