Technology is a slippery slope. Half the folks working in Lexington now couldn't beg a job before Mp-3's, sequences, harmonizers, pitch controllers, etc.

That's fine, but technology, in my mind, will never replace ability. The top folks here can really play. The rest are simply reducing price to steal the remaining jobs. Available technology means more people (people of less and less talent/ability) competing for the same jobs. Sadly, some club owners/managers don't know the difference between hackers/posers and players. Rates are the same as they were in the 70's.

Thankfully, it IS possible to combine performance, ability and ethics and carve out a meager living.

It's just getting harder and harder to pull off.

The key is to use technology, but don't count on it to compensate for lack of ability.

Thus, my "love-hate" relationship with arrangers and other "helpers".


Russ