Music Appreciation

I had an 88 key weighted & 73 key synth action on my Apex Stand. (Allowed me to be at front of stage.)
In my rack, I had a Yamaha module that gave me FM synthesis like a DX-7; a sample playback module; a hard drive based sampler; and a digitally controlled analog synth, all networked by MIDI.
Separate volume pedals for each, so with those and 2 sustain pedals, there was a lot of the floor!
16 channel mixer (also in the rack) and a 600w amp driving a 3 way cabinet.
Quite a lot of power to go with that that Tower of Power horn patch

I used a editor/librarian on the laptop to set up all the patches, then named them after the song. I could realign them per the songlist & upload it to the master keyboard in a couple minutes. Then, on stage, I could switch all of them to the next song with one button press (maybe 2 if I had to change banks). Pretty convenient.
The other guys in that band were super solid, so I didn't need to be part of the cake; just the icing.