Scott,

Although I don't have an iPod Video as yet, I just purchased 3 of those suckers for my teenagers as Christmas gifts. You are right, they are wonderful devices. They can't live without them and I'm getting very envious of them. I use an older Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 which has 5200 songs on it. It is the size of a regular CD player and doesn't do video. I can see where the video would come in handy.!!!!

Gary: You must be an old boy scout - BE PREPARED! That's the great thing about getting old, you get so much the more wiser. I too have backups out the wazoo. Although I don't have a backup Tyros2, I do have the Korg Triton and a Yamaha P250 just in case.

I use a music book when I perform which has some charts, lyrics, etc. My backup for this now is loaded on the Tyros2. If it's a dark room that I am playing in, I will use the Tyros2 LCD screen to view my charts, if it's a very sunny day and I can't see the Tyros2 screen, I'll use my music book.

Also, one of the reasons I use a powered mixer with two speaker units is that it is also a backup PA system for the band in case the main system decides to fail. It's a 10 channel board, so it will and has done the job quite well. As a matter of fact, we played an outdoor wedding this past summer and it started to rain. Water started to drip and get inside our PA system and burned out the Mixer. We were able to replace it with my Powered mixer in less than 5 minutes salvaging the gig and preventing serious legal consequences.

I'm a big fan of backups!!!!

Great point Gar...