Stick around for 25 years doing something you dearly love and almost need as much as breathing, and one thing you don't lack is a sense of purpose. "We're a dance band," says Bart Rollins, bass player and founder of The 1969 Band, "We go from Frank Sinatra to James Brown to the Eurythmics to the Beatles. We try to never stop. We want to wear 'em out on the dance floor, just wear 'em out."