If the folks are having a good time, that's what counts. If "some guy" doesn't like what you're doing, then that's his problem, and it's probably because he wished he could do it.

Seems to me that if you are a one man band piano player and a sax solo comes in, the audience is not going to expect it to be you (in which case you would have to play the sax by yourself with no accompaniment, or revert to some sort of already generated accompaniment).

I remember one time, using my arranger keyboard, a guy came up and said, "hey you're just pushing buttons". I responded with, "ah, but I know which buttons to push."

I guess if I had 6 or 8 arms, I could play bass, guitar, piano, trumpet, and drums all at the same time, but I think most in the audience would be more amazed at my 8 arms rather than the music I was producing. smile

If the audience came to see a one man band to play all the instruments, then that just isn't going to happen. There will always be a few folks to make snide comments; that's their problem.

And doesn't the guy that hired you know what you are doing? If he just wants you to play acoustic piano, period, he would have probably told you. Otherwise, have fun and do what you do.

John

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