I expected to make a living by playing drums with a band. I was wrong. You cannot make a living playing drums in Sarasota, Florida, because that’s where everybody goes in the winter in show business. And I played one job at Lido Beach. I played with a band that was led by a man who happened to, in the summer, be traveling with the Ringling Brothers Circus. He didn’t give me a job, but I played that night, played well. About two weeks, three weeks after that, we were subscribe to a show business magazine, and there was an ad in the show business magazine that we got, wanted, circus drummer. I had played with the previous circus, a smaller circus, and I played for some period of weeks with that circus band.
