Diki.......I disagree with this statement.

The "body of your enemy" will take many different forms....all assisted and made workable by technology. You will be waiting a long time just to define the enemy....forget about waiting for it to "float by!"

As for DJ's vs live bands vs Karaoke artists, garage bands, etc

I've lived through it all. The way I see it was...

....it started with 80's music becoming rather difficult to reproduce live. Couple that with the price difference between a DJ and a live band....it was a no-brainer for club owners and general events. The more the DJ's proliferated, the more lazy the bands got about "keeping up." That was the status quo until literally no one wanted to hire a band anymore.

Now, because of the economy, the DJ's are being taken over by garage band enthusiasts, Karaoke wannabe's, and technophobia geeks.

That will soon be replaced by streaming music via the Internet into your club or wedding.

And soon THAT will be replaced probably by a Home Entertainment Center that will play DVD's and MP3's, Karaoke files, a Home arranger application programmed by a nerd, and a projector that will project music video's onto the wall!

We asked for the benefits of technology, but it's not a one-way street. You pay a price for everything. The price we're paying is loss of jobs that will never again return to the workplace and loss of craftsmen and professionals in many, many fields including music.

The toothpaste can not be put back into the tube. With the advent of technology, everything moves in one direction now...forward!

Waiting for "the enemy to float by was possible before all this." Now it will just keep "morphing" into different forms fueled by the "bottom line."

Mark