Dude, I haven't heard the name "Blotto" in almost 20 years!  Didn't they do a song about James Bond as well?  I remember those guys from the Hudson Valley music scene in the 80's.  Cool that you're gigging with one of them.

I'd like to have Anton Fig's gig.

Playing with top-notch studio and stage guys as core band everyday.

Able to pull off any of who knows how many songs at the drop of the hat and whim of the band leader.

Perform live with just about everybody in the business.

House band at R&R Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Nuff said?

I know they tape twice in one day, second taping being at 5pm. There's 2 hours, maybe another 2 rehearsing that day's guest. Sounds like a lot of time left over for appearing on everyone in town's albums. He even had time to put his own album out, which if you've ever tried to do, work only gets done if you do it, take a day off and the project comes to a screeching halt.

Network Payroll.

Super High-Profile.

Enough of a sense of humor and stage presence to be part of the show (sounds like me).

I think I could deal with that.

Well I agree Anton has a nice groove going. He plays around town here backing a number of different artists, along with a lot of great players, like Will Lee.

Anton is a pretty low key guy but the thing I like about him is that he plays with a lot of artists for not a lot of money (live anway- I would imagine the studio is a different story). Both he and Will, who could pretty much command what they want on the circuit often play out in small venues at a very, very reasonable price.

They do it because they like the music...How many pro baseball players get off the bench for the love of the game anymore?

I recently got to play at my dream venue, the legendary Balinese Room.  It was the swankiest club in the 40's on the Texas Coast with a lot of history and nostalgia.   It was my first big show since my hand surgeries.  I got to play on Duke Ellington's piano, and drummed on the same hardwood floor stage where everyone from old Blue Eyes to Peggy Lee used to play.   It was so awesome.

The place is haunted, you know.  It used to be run by mob gangsters, where they had illegal gambling.  The club is 600 feet out into the water,  built on a pier, so by the time the Rangers could make it in to bust the place, a buzzer would sound in the back and all the gambling tables were already folded away into secret compartments in the walls.  It got shut down by the Rangers, then torn up by Hurricane Carla in 1960, and just recently opened.  ZZ top wrote a song about it.  "Down at the Balinese..."

But, our equipment fell off the 17ft. Seawall   Our equipment, unbelievably, escaped unscathed, <landed on concrete and sand> except for the snare hard case.  Some think a ghost pushed the dolly.  Other than that, and a few other supernatural experiences which scared 2 of the band guys, we had a great time at the Balinese.