<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 3/6/03 4:04:02 PM Central Standard Time, barbonestreet@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Like Jim, our band does not expect to be tipped has no tip jar, and does not remotely solicit tips, but we are always<BR>
appreciative when it occurs.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Perhaps I misled you. Yes, I never expected a tip with a request however on my regular gigs I shamelessly had a tip jar. I was ways of focusing attention on the tip jar that really were gauche'.<BR>
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Still, I never would have offered a tip or a drink with a request even if it was for some low rent band like say, Bob ringwald.<BR>
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Jim Beebe</FONT></HTML>