This morning I saw a container of chocolate pudding in my Ice Box (grin), it was sealed and nicely packaged. My thoughts traveled from packaged pudding-- to instant pudding-- to stirring that great stuff on a burner in a saucepan. You had to keep stirring and made sure it didn’t overcook. Then you got to like the pot. Ahhhhhhhh.

Tell me we have not lost something --- Yes, instant made things easier and packaged pudding made it ever so convent, but we did lose something. What that something is may be different for each one of us.

Live acoustic music – to bands with amplifiers – to lip sinking – editing film and sound tracks – to editing the qualities of a voice – to back tracks – to karaoke, and the much more. What we see and hear may not be what is.

No condemnation here, this is progress and we have been given so much, I’m thankful – but if all you can see is what we have gained and not what we have lost, I then would have to consider the mind to be closed and limited.

No all this stuff is not bad, it’s great, embrace it, but please leave room for the whole picture. The word Karoake has so many meanings to so many and those opinions are all are valid in their circle.

Me, I like it SMF – but I love to play live, it’s mostly me. I have downloaded midi files and spent a lot of time reworking them. Not bad, at least they are more of me. BUT – It took so much time away from my playing, I was beginning to forget why I bought the keyboard.

In My Humble Opinion, John C.