Gary I know that feeling.
One time I was doing a job and right in the middle of a song while I was singing this woman stands right in from of me and starts waving her hands. She got me so damm mad that I actually stop playing. The dance floor was full. Over the microphone I said nice and loud, "lady what the hell do you want? I can't sing and talk to you at the same time. Can't you see that I'm working and have a full dance floor. What's so important that you couldn't wait until I finished this song?"
Well she turn around and meekly walk back to her table. And guess what...the audience knew how rude she was and gave me a round of applause.
Then I continued with the song and finished the job.
I've never done anything like that before but this was a frustrating situation to say the least and the audience understood.

P.S. The job was a success!!

Peter

Hi

While I agree that it would be some more stuff to haul around, just think of all the tube heads out there these days. I used to eat in a sports bar that had no less than 25 TV's! It just gives people something to stare at.

On the other hand, could you have imaginined someone like Liberace performing so you couldn't see his hands? That was a major portion of his show. And what was he really doing most of the time?, playing a bunch of arpeggios up the keyboard and then lifting his hands off the keyboard in his theatric way. The audience thought he was a genius, and while he was very good at what he did, those arpeggios were simple and used for flash only.

Since I don't sing, as of yet, and actually probably don't need to, I think if anyone would benefit the most from a monitor it would be the instrumentalist keyboard player.

Probably just a player going tinkle, tinkle isn't going to make it worth it, but if you're a player that has some fingers and/or at least a flashy way of moving your hands on the keys and controls then that could make it more worth while.

Anyway, just wanted to check in with the gang. Sounds like a little more work than I want to do moving things, unless I was the "house band" on a long term engagement.

Best
Scott Langholff