Can I post here if I am a juggler? Or a lion tamer? Or a card trick guy? After all, these are all 'entertainers', too

Or is this a forum for people who PLAY the arranger?

Nice try, Froggy, but once again you demonstrate you don't know me at all (and never will, if I have anything to do with it!). I play by ear 99% of the time. I never had any formal pop or jazz training. Yes, I did do classical (t'bone was my major), but knew from the start I would never make a living playing it (nor wanted to). Yes, I read charts. Yes I read Nashville. They are basic needs for session players and people that back 'entertainers' (who don't have the skill to back themselves).

I don't put down those that can't read. I put down those that can't PLAY when all they seem able to do is denigrate those that CAN. But, all that aside... c'mon. Let's hear it. SHOW us just how irrelevant our skills are. Post some music. Wow us with your programming. I'm getting pretty tired of you acting the 'expert' on so many things, without a hint that you can actually back it up. Talk is cheap.

Juggling, card tricks and karaoke are subjects for a different forum...