Unfortunately, as more and more of us who CAN play without an arranger keep using them (and mostly in full arranger mode), where are the examples for young players to emulate..?

Here is a thread FULL of players saying they USED to play full organ (Russ excluded), but now they prefer the convenience and ease of arrangers to the pain of lugging around an organ and the skill needed to entertain well without your invisible band of backup 'beats and loops and samples, midi files, electronic this and thats'. One can hardly blame the younger generation of not learning that when we are too lazy to do it ourselves.

If arrangers had been around in our youth, how many of us would have given those up to do things the hard way? Not too many would be my guess...