I don't mention this a lot, but when my wife and I first married, I was a pro musician. I didn't make a lot, but enough to do it full time. This shot was taken in a night club in Beckley, WV. My wife was a photographer and had been hired by another venue, Charleston (WV) Colosseum, to shoot a show there. I was playing in a club along her route home, so she stopped in and got a few of me on stage. I know she was using a Canon 35mm film camera, but not sure which one. I do know she was using a 200mm lens and 1000 ISO film, but that's about all we can remember. Hey, I was a musician in the 70's and 80's, so I fried a few brain cells, LOLOLOL! This was taken late 70's/early 80's. That fedora hat I'm wearing was my grandfathers.
BTW, that tube you see running up my mic stand goes to a device called a "Golden Throat" which allowed me to make my guitar talk 🙂
Great image and carries a lot history and memories - fried brain cells accepted! 
Ernie is apparently quite a musician, so you may be able to explore some common ground with him. I admire anyone who plays an instrument. I would love to have learnt when I was young, but never got the opportunity. I tried to learn the guitar but had to sell it to get a motor bike so I could got to college! I did sing until my voice broke though...
Still, I am quite content to explore my graphical artistic side - it keeps me off the street (well on it sometimes too) and means I have no money spare for booze, drugs, hot cars, or fast (or slow) women.
@Tronhard wrote:Great image and carries a lot history and memories - fried brain cells accepted!
Still, I am quite content to explore my graphical artistic side - it keeps me off the street (well on it sometimes too) and means I have no money spare for booze, drugs, hot cars, or fast (or slow) women.
That's where I ended up, as a graphic artist and cartographer. I've had so many jobs since those days, from derrik hand on an oil rig, a land surveyor to draftsman where I learned to use computers, which landed me in IT. I did all of the graphics for the company I worked for along with my networking duties. I used CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator for logos, presentations, etc. Then started working from home in 2007 (I did that for 10 years) using AutoDesk Land Development Desktop, and that's when I took early retirement. What luck, and I say luck because one company split into two, and company two took me with them on my condition that I work from home. No bragging, but I was very good at what I did and they agreed, so hard work DOES pay off. Working from home allowed me to regain interest in photography. Although I had deadlines, they were just that, a date with no daily progress reports, no questions. I would send my check plots to their plotter or printer along with a PDF for the signing surveyor to "mark up". Since I used Acrobat Pro, it would pull the marked up PDF's into AutoDesk as an overlay. Pretty slick. But I digress, LOL!
*EDIT* I left out the best job. Until my wife retired from photography, I was her part time assistant for quite a few shoots, it didn't pay well, but had great fringe benefits 🙂
Greetings,
Here's to happy memories 
Peter Frampton was the master of the Golden Throat.
Anyone interested can see that here. Starts at about 5:40
