<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 3/7/03 2:34:10 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">There is no need for us as musicians to feel like whores if we get a<BR>
tip. Or even if we ask for one. Whether right or wrong, the richest and<BR>
best educated folks in the world do it, albeit a lot better and a lot<BR>
more brazenly than we do.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Sorry Steve but you are not making any sense. A tip to a band from a customer is not an employee bonus. If the tip or money came from the club owner that I guess it could be considered a bonus and not a tip.<BR>
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Jim Beebe<BR>
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