Sorry, yes... well, a bit tongue in cheek, maybe. By SZ standards quite mild!

I've worked both kinds of gigs, Dennis. No charts at all, and bigband with huge books. I guess on the type of gig that it's appropriate for, nothing wrong with a chart, or iPad, etc..

It's just that, more and more, I see them starting to be used on gigs that, in the past, the performer would NEVER use charts. Maybe with the iPad/Pod/Phone-crazed world it has apparently turned into, when the kids see an iPad on stage they go 'Wow! Look how cool he is... he's using an iPad' whereas, when I was a youngster, we would go 'Wow! Look.... he doesn't know the songs!'