The vast majority of people here don't know what an arranger is. They invariably think my laptop is providing all the music. Some may give me credit for playing along with it.
They almost never ask "do you know Summer Wind?" They ask "Do you have Summer Wind in there?"
I guess it doesn't really matter since I'm working 5 nights a week, but it is aggravating.
If you use TWO keyboards on stage, then miraculously everybody thinks you are a REAL musician, even if you don't play either one of them!
Years ago I had a really big mirror behind me, tilted at an angle so the audience could see the reflection of the keyboard and me playing it. But that was an organ, before arrangers and before everybody could do karaoke on their PC.
Rant, rant, rave.
DonM