Well, Ebbie and Callie, and the rest of you who condescend to allow us to use our music--I am truly curious about how much variety there is in your performance material--are you among the hordes who "know" three hundred songs and one arrangement?

Maybe I should come to listen to you with my red pencil, and note everytime you have fudged the real melody and sung a chord note instead--or the times that you stuck a measure in between phrases, or played the wrong chords, because you didn't really know the melody when you worked them out--or twenty other things that people who don't look at the music, don't count the beats, and figure that their version is as good as anyone elses, and better than mine, because I have the music--

As a disabled person, for whom musical notation. fake sheets, lyric sheets, etc are necessary assistive technology, I regard these persistant and unyielding remarks as offensive--it has been explained why these things are necessary, and you keep pounding away--

Would you say that I shouldn't come onto the stage until I can do it without my cane?