Anyone out there ever heard of Murphy's Law? Two keyboards, two speakers, two amp heads, spare mics, spare light bulbs for the music stand, spare midi cables, spare everthing. Yep, it's a big load, but over the past decade I've had several cables go bad, a blown speaker, an internal battery failure on a keyboard, a mixer channel died twice, a mic dropped dead in the middle of a song, and a drunk staggered into the keyboard stand with a pitcher of beer in his hand. The beer sailed over my head and landed on the dance floor, the drunk laughed like hell and there were two keyboards in my lap. Just another fun night at the American Legion.

If you don't pack a spare keyboard and other essential spares with you on the job, it's like playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun--it just ain't smart. "Oh I really sorry Mr. President, but I guess your $500 a plate fund rainser just won't have any music this time because the one keyboard I brought just doesn't seem to work."

The bottom line is "If it's electronic or mechanical or a combination of both, such as a keyboard, one day it's gonna' fail. Murphy's Law always prevails"

Gary