[quote=travlin'easysummer. I just go with the flow, so to speak.

Cheers,

Gary [/quote]

Gary,

Bladder problem now hey.... don't so much before gigs..

All joking apart, I do hope you are OK, health is very important, more important than bloody kids toy I Pads, I hate Apple rip offs, they spend more time in court than making big screens that people want. Too highly price also. Come to think of it how many of you have an Apple PC, haaaa gotya, you wouldn't even dream of it, because you can get the same for 1/4 the price.

Cheers Gary

Wow Gary, that's a really old picture of me. I no longer have that keyboard, the Peavey Escort, the 16" laptop, or the semi-beard for that matter.
DonM

You look very well turned-out Don, is that money in the gold fish bowl??? and Gary does on the Piano, Gary's got no dots, looks like his party has all gone home..

Cheers

Yes it's money. I tip the customers to not leave.

DonM

Whatever works for you, Donny.

Some of us prefer to still look like MUSICIANS, not data entry office workers, tho...

LOL!! That's a bit harsh

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!'

Yeah I guess, Diki fair points you make...but I tend to focus more on what the artist is doing rather than what they are using...