Live & let live & be happy
If you are good enough at whatever you do there is always somebody that will be prepared to pay for the service
look on a karaoke night as being some sought of talent contest
where the owner of a club or whatever the venue knows that he is going to make good money from such a night
now he knows he can supply the backing for the so called up & coming talent by just using tapes/mini disk/cd/smf now there is no way the guy is going to go out & hire himself a band to perform this service, but if he is organising a dinner dance or some other classy function that requires live music then I am sure he will push the boat out.
50s.60s.70s.80s.90s.are decades in the past this is the new millennium & there will be many,many things that we do not like it is one big competitive world we live in & "he who pay's the piper calls the tune"
Johnnie