If you're a member of a not-too-ambitious weekend rock band in a Great Lakes city like Milwaukee, Chicago, Toledo, or Detroit, the handwriting is probably on the banquet hall wall. There are only so many bars, coffeehouses, and clubs that book live music. Playing for an audience, any audience, and earning a little cash may inevitably mean hitching your sputtering star to the wedding reception circuit. That's a decision with repercussions on your repertoire. To get the oldsters out on the floor, you need a few pop and soul songs from the Sixties and Seventies. And to get those job offers rolling in from an ethnically diverse population, you'd better have mastered a few Greek, Latin, Arabic, Balkan, and... More >>>