Quickly summing it up, I had a very good job at the Geary Cellar with the Three D's: scale plus and a steady job. Paul Desmond hired away Francis Lynne, the vocalist, and Norman Bates, the bassist. He would be the leader and take a group where he had a job at a place near Stanford University called the Band Box. I just remembered why it was called the Band Box, because I remembered the song that Paul Desmond had us sing: "The Band Box is the joint for you. Get high when you're happy and blind when you're blue. The whiskey is old, but the music is new at the Band Box. If the state you arrive in encourages jivin', relax on a sofa with a chick you can go fa'. That's why the proletariat make merry at the Band Box. " That's the way we'd open the show every night.  Then he gets a job at Russian River, where he worked other summers, and he says he's going there. I said, "What happens here? " He said, "We just break up, and when I get back, maybe I'll get everybody together. " The owner said, "Dave Brubeck, why don't you keep this job and get another horn player? " I would have gotten Bill Smith, because Bill and I worked a lot together. Paul Desmond flipped out, saying "It's my job, and I won't have you playing here. " So he goes to Feather River, and I'm trying to figure out, what's the big attraction to Feather River, which I can never figure, because he loved playing with this group that he's just destroying. He loved gambling more than he loved the group, and it was near Reno. He could drive over to Reno. He loved the slot machines. He was hooked. It's like a guy that's hooked on cigarettes, which he also was hooked on. That's why he did that. So I had to take another job. This was at scale at a lake about 100 miles from San Francisco: Silver Log Tavern, it was called, on Clear Lake. You can see Clear Lake. The owner of that place had the same name as the owner of the Oakland Raiders.