Old school fads and New school fools!

The title has little or nothing to do with this topic, but it related to one of my gigs this past weekend.
As a musician we have our ups and downs, good days and bad days. Some days we are happy with how we sound, other days we wish we never were born! At the very least we try our best to have what we produce be acceptable to our audience. Sometimes it is understood and appreciated, and other times it is completely ignored.
A few weeks ago I played with a Metal-jazz fusion trio. It was a great performance, and after the gig some people came up to the band leader and told him tht i was one of the best drummers they had ever heard. A few days later another group of people said the same thing to him. What was funny about the whole thing was that no one came to me and said anything, nor did anyone come up and say good job. Everyone kind of trickled out of the stage area with thier beers and went back to slumbing. The averages were between 21 and 30.
This past weekend I played a very smal musical review written by a church. they hire me every year to come in with a pianist, listen to about 13 songs ( i never have any music to read from) and memorize them in 2 days. The Pianist always calls me because i have a musical memory and can remember tempo changes, time signature changes, and I always end right when the pianist does even though I don't know the song. ( Lots of years playing with unorganized band leaders). So I went to 1 rehearsal and played 2 shows this weekend. It sounded like we rehearsed for weeks. Our grooves were locked and you'd have no idea if we were faking or reading music. It was great. The point of all of this is that, I was enjoying what i was playing. It was a small room with horrible acoustics, the singers had no mics, but I still held it all together without drowning them out. At the end of both shows I felt good about my performance, and taking that It was just a small musical I wasn't expecting any praise. i was off to the end of the stage behind the grand piano. I'm packing up my drums, and i tell you, every single person in that audience came up to me and told me how great of a job i did and how musical i was and how I was a very "un-obtrusive" drummer. Both nights this happened. The crowd was about 70 people. The average age? Between 40 and 70.
The point is that it seems as though people around my age tend to take for granted the work it takes to create a "good" performance. Older people appreciate what you have to offer. they will actually tell you you did great, and mean it. So that was the gig, and it made me feel good. haha, that's all!!