Obviously if you can make your own tracks and your singing with a trained voice you are a musician...The Karaoke guy is someone who can only perform with the discs...I know a couple of them ,they try to get up and sing w/a band and they simply cant do it. They cant stay in time without the words on the screen also they are continually waiting for all of the cues from the record in order to start their phrases they are unable to listen and make music with other people....I consider myself a musician and I do perform w/backing tracks just like you....either of us could go to a karaoke night for fun if we wanted to but we are musicians who know how to create music vocally and also with an instrument we can use backing tracks that someone else created if we want to , we can make our own if we want to, we can also make music with other musicians...I'm sure you know as well as I do that a lot of time and effort goes into being a musician. So just buying a machine that plays karaoke discs or showing up where there is one is not the same as actually being a musician who uses backing tracks. So clarify Mike you and I are not a karaoke guys. But they do exist and I like to see a real musician like yourself perform when I go out to hear live music...I actually enjoy listening to someone do a single with backing tracks, especially those created by the performer....Ive been to karaoke nights before and most of the time I feel like I'm watching learn how to sing while intoxicated. I hope you don't think I'm calling you a karaoke guy:)

...........Jeff......