Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW>  You'd be surprised in my bar band days though how many   
   RW>  times I'd go to a gig to find a pickup drummer who didn't   
   RW>  have a drum key or common hand tool.s  A drum key, common   
   RW>  hand tools, and wd40 for kick drum pedals was part of my   
   RW>  gotta have it toolkit for gigging.   
      
   JB>  WD40 didn't *exist* in my bar-daze! Still, a box of fluids,   
   JB>  a box of tools, and a box of expendable were always on my   
   JB>  list. Inside one of those boxes was always a box of band-   
   JB>  aids, mole-skin and what-nots.   
      
      
              Things I've learned from studying music... you two anticipated what   
   might go wrong & came prepared.  Before Richard joined us here I mentioned the   
   Hoffnung cartoon in which the clarinet player has a dictionary protruding from   
   his hip pocket & admitted that on occasion I carried a dictionary in my purse.   
   Yes, you'll probably find a high percentage of nerds... including me... in the   
   clarinet section!  But I'm reminded also of the former student who told me I'd   
   taught him to be prepared.  At the time, it didn't occur to me to include that   
   in the lesson plans I was expected to hand in monthly to the school office.  I   
   was just being myself.  With experience I realized the majority of normal red-   
   blooded kids study the teacher at least as intently as whatever the teacher is   
   blathering about.  I reckon after a few years in my band class he knew more or   
   less what I kept in my pockets, my clarinet case, and my desk drawer....  :-))   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)