IN THE GROOVE INTRO 2

It would be late in the evening, maybe a couple, three songs left to do. The dance floor would be packed and if the stage was slightly elevated I could look across a sea of heads bobbing up and down and twirling round’
Everyone would be all liquored up by then and trying to lock down a date if they didn’t have one already. Soon the party would be over. I’d feel a little disappointed, I’d be ‘zonin’. My fingers would be on autopilot, gliding over the fret board, in sync with my voice and the message of the song, sort of wired to my soul. A perfect union of entertainer and audience. I must tell ya people, it was like dope. For me, it was what it was all about.
These are the memories I have of the last working band I was in. “In the Groove” was the name of our group and having been together of about 9 years we were “tight” and experienced. Our song list numbered close to a thousand, which worked well on request night. No matter what room we were playing, the three types of music that always worked well were the Blues, Country music and Cover tunes. Let me try to explain what I mean by “worked well”