drawing the line tangent

[TomP317 <TomP317...>]

I was asking someone about music he played for weddings in London (who does 
mostly rock, including the latest Kylie Minogue hit, but who told me he does 
about ten minutes of Israeli music as the bride and groom are to be seated. His 
complaint about performers today is that there's lots of karaoke-style acts - 
booked singers crooning along to an accompaniment - or just straight miming: 
there have been occasions when he's heard hushed sounds creeping out of a 
guitar's pick-up that are quite different from what's coming out of the main 
amp. One example he offered was a wedding in Israel where the drummer alone 
would be playing but somehow Count Basie's band was still playing along with 
him. And the drummer would go to wipe himself off with a towel, which, my 
source later learnt, was an excuse to change the track on a concealed minidisk. 

I'm wondering if correspondents have seen acts doing this kind of thing? I 
hadn't heard of it, but have been told it's quite common. 

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