Jeopardy Music

The beach. A mostly hot, crowded, and dirty place where you leave with your skin burned and sticky with sand. A place where otherwise intelligent parents haul their whining children across country to complain about the heat. For the life of him, John could never see the attraction of it all. It could be because he was relatively pale and out of shape. The beach was nothing to him but a place to work. Jealous of the buff beachcombers he found it much easer to scoff at them than join them. Oddly enough there was a time when surfing had his full attention, but that was mainly to get chicks back in high school. Now he was dealing in the real world.

The Sundowner was located on the busy corner of High Tide Drive and Cactus Avenue nearly seven blocks from his office. It attracted a good mix of locals and curious tourists. The locals were the mainstay but a few tourists stumbled in from time to time for the good seafood. The shrimp was the specialty for the cook and part owner, Norman Old. He had hired John's band after hearing a garage made demo tape. The other owner was John's long time friend and keyboard player, Brad Carrey. The two men bought the place as sort of a joke from a woman who had the place, at one time, in money making condition. She enjoyed a steady flow of regulars and a killer house band. But she suffered through a bad divorce and the place had to be sold. Brad and Norman picked the place up and had been doing pretty well themselves.