Playing with road bands and playing .House-gigs (16 years )

How  House-Gigs..(gigs where you play?  whatever gig,...but you are on the steady.) I started getting gigs when I was 16 ,.., , but having a gig in your pocket...set,.know your club-owners) , I was 18 or 19 when I got  a steady  gig in Lagrange , in 77-78, I talked to the club owner on a night , when the band  was really bad./So it was easy to be good  when the band he had was were amatuers, ,..so he really hired us right the

On the spot...(he had only been in buisness a few weeks) the Rainbow  Inn , Lagrange Ga ,.1978 we were calleed Toto,.., not the Toto singing about Africa, &Hold the line,.our local thugs,. as far back as 1977-79 I was pretty good, of Getting Gigs...and I was always good at having a truck, a PA, chords, mics,. and we stayed busy,me Oz, Autry,.and Mark Olsen , rock band ..Toto  went over really good in lagrange , this was about the time Jami farr future Molly Hatchet singer and his band in Lagrange , were playing at our other 2 wk on, 3 wk off  gig ..., the forum, but I pretty well knew playin gigs in Columbus wasnt really good. so I looked at clubs out of Columbus ,