Jon's Teleprompter

I don't get what the big deal is....if you went to a show and he flubbed the words, folks would complain. Would you rather that be your experience?

Incidentally, he's 51 for crying out loud. Being close to that age I can tell you...the mind isn't what it used to be.

Just curious - How much of the music itself is on the teleprompter? It seems like having both lyrics and music written out would be like having two different languages to read concurrently - that's a lot to focus on while performing.

There's no music/chords/tabs. It's just lyrics.

I'm not surprised at all. I was very close at my show, and Jon dropped a lot of words, at the end of some lyrics. So, others in the rest of the band had to be filling in for him, and/or they were using backing tracks, etc. It was too obvious.

I think a lot of fans would be very surprised at what is under the stage. At my recent show I ran into Richie's guitar tech and asked him about the teleprompter, he just said it's sort of like karaoke. I told him that there was a lot of discussion online about whether it was a teleprompter or an iPad. He seemed a bit surprised by that, but glad that it got people's attention or something to that effect. (Glad people were talking about the band, in general, I think is what he meant. It was so loud, at that point, that I had trouble hearing him.)

I remember seeing lyrics taped to the floor, but these days the guys could not see lyrics taped to the floor. (Too far away.) So, the teleprompter allows them to adjust the size of the words, the spaces between lines, etc.

That's only one small piece of equipment that the band uses. And, I'm sure that, even though it's always there, each member of the band, does not need it for every song.

I SEE nothing wrong with the band using them. I do wish they would switch to iPads though, and wonder why they don't?

Because ipads are the biggest waste of money in the world.

Is that anti-apple or a generally anti-tablet? I can see anti-apple, but tablet computing is the future man, and it's awesome.

Should have made myself more clear. anti apple for sure.

Tablet computing sucks and that over-sized ipod touch called ipad is terrible. Won't ever be the future unless you have a dock with a keyboard, too unconfortable and you can't work/play with it.

Have you ever used one? I mean beyond trying it for 2 minutes?

And if you dock the tablet and add a keyboard, it's just a PC. No point in going backwards.

Ice

Only the lyrics on the teleprompter... But on my papers there is everything