Don, based on your last post, I wouldn't say you were old, I would say you were wise. I agree with 99% of everything you said (the 1% being that I was talking about you ). I not only respect you as a very good musician but also as a consummate 'pro' who is also capable of writing an intelligent, insightful, post without immediately going into 'attack mode'. There is a strong tendency here to immediately go to Def-Con 1 whenever anything is posted that is deemed to be even slightly negative to anything 'Arranger'. Usually, the meaning and intent of the post is largely ignored and it's immediately taken in a different direction, usually one that will provide plenty of 'red meat' for the true believers. It is always accompanied by it's own facts and it's own reality. But hey, that's what fandom is all about, right? Abacus keeps pointing out that Arrangers are designed for and marketed to, home players (even if a handful of full-time pro's use them in certain specialized venues), but the 'faithful few' can't even acknowledge that. Look, if I belonged to a forum on RC model planes and said that I didn't think that flying them completely emulated the experience of flying a real plane, that doesn't mean that I hate RC model planes. It also doesn't mean that real pilots can't or shouldn't fly them. Ok, now I'm starting to ramble, but then I'm old too.

Hey Don, no harm, no foul.

chas