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‡ Mensah Wali: [Laughs at the recollection.] Well… I can’t give you the fees per se because I wouldn’t want to put that out there. But the admission was $2 and if we got 150 people in there that would be an overflowing house, so you can figure that math out. I was telling someone a few years ago that we had ‡ Sonny Rollins in there for two nights and what the percussionist with ‡ Sonny [Rollins] gets paid today is more than what we paid the band for two nights.