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Yes, this is my main gripe with them also. It has supposedly been requested by users but it seems like every review, when they come out with an update, mentions that they have ignored our wishes again.

Complete with attractive young female to hopefully make us disregard our reservations.

Yes, I have seen ads for keyboards at a stupid low price on FB also. Those are easy to stay away from. I think they scammers had tried to tie that to Sweetwater also, IIRC.

Last night an ad appeared on my Facebook page, purportedly from Sweetwater, with some outrageous discounts on UAD software, their Rhodes software for $50 instead of the usual 300, for example. After the instantaneous ignition of the GAS effect, it occurred to me that anything that seems to be too good to be true usually is. I called Sweetwater and they confirmed that this is not a deal from them. Just wanted to put this out as an FYI in case this ad appears in any of your feeds.

One YouTuber I have followed switched his channel to a service called Rumble. It looks a lot like YouTube but supposedly doesn't track users & posters as aggressively as YT. I can't verify this since I haven't really surfed the channel but it may be a possible alternative.

Is that one of the Korg forums on Facebook? If it is/was an independent forum I wish I had known about it.

52 years with the same guitar player. We don't get to play as often as before these days but did get to tonight (03/01).

Sorry, sounds like hammered dogshit. I'm also sorry I spent the whole 13+ minutes waiting for it to miraculously start sounding good.

The Korg Nautilus will do this. Probably a lot of other brands will as well but the Korg is the only one I have a working knowledge of.

For pure piano only? There were no Rhodes, Wurli, etc. demoed and I didn't spot any mod/pitch wheels. Makes me wonder how deep its controller capabilities go.

Not a solo, but Herbie's background clavinet in Sly is all the way past wicked into full-blown evil. Especially on his Rhodes solo starting at 5:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1wCLEVdWI

I saw that group. This was during my Long Island phase of living locations. A Hammond through effects pedals into a straight amp, IIRC. They played a bar in Amityville (Yes, that Amityville) called The Daisy. I didn't think they were crazy loud, but the owner pulled the circuit breaker to the stage. A back room shouting match ensued and Billy eventually came back onstage, finished out and was supposedly promised a few more appearances there, although I don't think that actually came to fruition. From what I've heard in the past Billy supposedly really hates this part of his history and has tried to keep this music suppressed but certainly don't know this for a fact. The drummer, Jon Small, was really good and had been in a previous band, The Hassles, with him. The album did get some play from the album-oriented rock FM stations in The City also.

Anti-elitist elitism. I've never heard that before but think it's a great phrase.

"The Anti-Keyboardists" Yeah, and they all end up making their wishes come true by becoming sound-men. 😀

I agree with marino on the preference of the 2 options. Parts of the 1926 sound a little out of tune with the rest of the piano however. But, hey, whad'ya want for free??