Originally Posted By: Dnj
Restaurant background gigs are like playing in your living room compared to performing alone in front of a 300-400 pp high energy "dance crowd"an Arranger in that scenario alone ain't gonna cut it using just styles & vocals in today's world............


Obviously there is no comparing those two scenarios, but that doesn't mean all restaurant gigs are 'background' either ... in a couple of weeks I will be filling in for another OMB at an upscale (great food, high prices) Italian restaurant in Massachusetts ... after about an hour of bossas, ballads, light 'jazz' tunes, I will be expected to get people on the dance floor ... now I will admit, it's not a large room - about 75 - 100 people or so, and they will not be looking for me to be performing top 40, floor thumping music, but 'background'??? not really ... and I will be mixing it up with self made backing track mp3s and a few midi files, but mostly it will be me PLAYING and singing ...
_________________________
t. cool