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Originally Posted by bufflehead
I'm trying to imagine Bruce Springsteen on stage with an iPad. I guess there's a point where I'd want my money back.
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Yeah, well, nearly every pro you've ever seen has had a prompter hidden someplace, as can be seen from stage photos going back to the 1970s.
Go watch Chris Thiele in Live From Here's archive, and you'll see him deftly wrangling both folio size sheet music and a teleprompter, and in later seasons an iPad
One of Barbra Streissand's concerts filmed for TV, there's a point in the show where she's doing some very heartfelt patter between songs. The director, whom she must have pissed off royally, cut to a shot of her prompter, built into a floor wedge, where every single word of her "heartfelt patter" was displayed, word for word as she read it.
I figure Barbra's made a few bucks at this music thing, so she must know a thing or two . . .