It's a problem for me. I'm from Italy. I am sorry.

Great question Steve!
I remember, in 96, we hosted a conference with Marc Dupony (Mantle of Praise) and Delirious (Cutting Edge Band at the time!). Martin Smith, of Delirious, spoke passionately about worship as an outstanding evangelistic tool. He reminded us that the best place for worship is outside of the church. We took this to heart and formed a band to take Christian music (amongst other expressions of worship) out of church and into the 'public domain'. We played gigs in schools, pubs, open air, festivals all over the place and the response was outstanding. One of my outstanding memories was playing in a pub using the, then popular, Kevin Prosch song "Show Your Power" and seeing people literally dancing on the table and singing along to the simple chorus (secretly thinking that it'd be fun if God actually did!)
We encourage our teams to play in as many contexts as possible and to join bands outside of church, Christian or not, and make friends with people while using their gifts. That's what this is about in my opinion.

Here's a question to us worship leaders who have a vested interest in the meetings as a comfortable context for our giftings. Do you see a wider move to 'be' church outside the meeting rather than just 'do' church inside? How are our teams gearing up for Church in the marketplace, on the streets, at the dinner table, in the pubs? So often what we do in our meeting is incongruous when done outside, but that's where most life is and where Jesus went. Where does our musical talent fit in this context?

I was the first contemporary worship leader and musician in my assembly since it's foundation in 1936. I was on my own for some of the time. But in the last 17 years, I have nearly always worked with another singer. Today, I handle 4 instruments simultaneously, layering sounds and producing percussion at the same time. Myself and my singer can set up everything and soundcheck including PA inside 30 mins and be packed up in 10. We often visit other places, so we have to be efficiently set up.
I know it's hard for a single musician with so much at his fingertips to blend in with a band. But in a group, Grace is sometimes a hard lesson to learn! But actually, it's great fun. I last played in a group where noone had ever met let alone practice! A lot was improvised and yet, it was one of the best nights of inspired worship and playing I ever had.
I guess we have to learn to splice excellence away from method, because the excellence seems to emerge as I relax and just be who I am? There's no formula. I feel that to be taken up with method is to cause God to loosen his hold on a person or a group.
Just a few thoughts....ciao mommas.
ps: It IS possible to install a V8 Cobra car into a gospel song ;o)

A team of 5 people who rotate the picking of songs but then we share responsibility for the direction of the musical bit during the service by communicating throughout it. There's usually at least two of us singing during an event.
We then have a vocals team of 12 people who rotate in groups of 5 or 6 on a normal sunday.
We have a guitars team of 10 people made up of 7 rhythm/lead and 3 bassists.
There are four keyboards players.
We have 7 drummers (makes for a loud rehearsal!).
In terms of acoustic instruments, it's two trumpets, one sax player, two flautists and a violin. We also have a trombone player who plays at events where we want more of a horns type sound and another trombone player who is joining us to rehearse and see what happens after a few weeks of playing with the band.

As you can see, it's a real mixed bag of musicians and singers which makes it good fun but also makes the management of rehearsals very difficult - volume control is often a problem!!!
It all adds to the fun though!!!

two leaders (both on guitar)
two drummers
one lead/bass guitarist
one keyboard player (when he's home from university)
occasionally a clarinet player

Just wondering, do you count tambourine dancers as part of your worship team?