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Bobby Simons

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  • Birthday 01/01/1872

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  1. I see my old store - Huntington, Long Island, is on the list. Not surprised, it's been ages since they had anything resembling a keyboard department. I'm left with fond memories of being a keyboard salesman there in the mid-late 70's when everything that was anything was put out on the floor. Also I'm happy to now live within easy driving distance of Chuck Levin's, who (for the time being, anyway) is bucking the trend and filling every square inch with quality keyboards and other equipment.
  2. It's a Hammond Solovox. I had one on my very first Rhodes that an old club dater gave me when I was 15. I consider it my first synth.
  3. Mine was lost/stolen during a loadout probably 25 years ago. I agree - can't believe these aren't back in production. I used to load it up with a KX88 on the lower level and a clavinet above. Rock solid.
  4. In the 80's I gigged extensively with my Emax HD which was well over 3K back then. I don't know what that would be in today's dollars. OK, I just looked it up, apparently equivalent to 9-10K now. Funny thing is that buying it wiped me out to the point that I couldn't afford a case so I padded the box it came in and used that. What the hell was I thinking?
  5. Lost in the glare from the shiny new Korg stuff, Pteq 8.2 arrives. I didn't know I needed it, but they are to be commended once again for the constant improvements. Of course, it will never be good enough for the ardent naysayers, but that club is slowly shrinking. Revoicing of all 11 modern grand pianos. Fret buzz sound added to the Classical Guitar instrument. Two new tunings for the guitar: EADF#BE and DADGAD. MIDI sequence transposition added in the sequence context menu. New midimapping for changing the tuning root key.
  6. LOL, I thought it was just me who couldn't always tell. I did pretty well here, got Dancin' in the Moonlight wrong. (In my defense, I'm listening on my Mac mini speaker.) Funny how Rhodes and Wurlie patches on most digital boards are miles apart from each other, no mistaking those.
  7. Born in '52 and just love where that placed me in the scheme of things and the musical life I lived. Of course, that makes me older than dirt now, but what the hey. . . .
  8. Jeez, his dad Jerry just passed away a few months earlier. I was a keyboard salesman at the Huntington, Long Island store in the late 70's and Sammy was in often. I remember him being obsessed with drum machines, which were progressing rapidly around that time. Jerry was a stern, unsmiling guy that we tended to steer clear of when he came in, Sammy was a bit more personable.
  9. While I never had the opportunity to lay my hands on one, I was always impressed at how all those guys played their asses off on the previous model (A88 MK1?) in all those Keyscape demos some years back. Crisp, clean and nuanced playing, it had me as interested in the controller as I was in the software. If it had the knobs and buttons the new one has I would have chased one down.
  10. Just illustrating the knee-jerk level of GAS I live with.
  11. Well. . . don't know about you, but I've seen enough - take my money! 💰💰💰
  12. I apologize if this has already been reported. Sale ends tomorrow (8/21) https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/B3XPlug--ik-multimedia-hammond-b-3x
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