... If someone requested a song, he had to go through 8 huge loseleaf binders to find the sheets, which often took up to 5 minutes to accomplish. He no longer plays at these locations, and for that very reason.
All the best,
Gary
Gary ... Someone should have taught your friend 3 things:
1. NO ONE needs "8 huge looseleaf binders" on a gig;
2. He should have set up all his songs by genre - Ballads, swing, country, Latin, etc. ;
3. And within those genres, the songs should have been filed alphabetically.
Then it might have then taken him 30 seconds to find a song - which might be too long if people are waiting on a dance floor, but at least he might have still been working ...