How many song books to you bring to a show?

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Bi-Polar Bear

I keep carrying my 4" binder humoungous books even though they have a bunch of dupes and are a pain in the neck.

Reason? People decide on how good you are largely by how you look.

I disagree with this. People will judge how good you are by 'how good you are'. I have literally seen very successful shows that purposely run no more than 1000 songs - carefully picked by the history reports of their software programs (praying Hoster adds this to theirs) so they can see what is popular & what is not. This particular show is packed every karaoke night & the book is literally 1" thick. The host is very attentive to the sound & can keep the crowd entertained. Now is this the norm, probably not. Would I attempt to cut my 11K book down to 1000, most likely not. But the size of a book has nothing to do with how good you are.