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b3fiend

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About b3fiend

  • Birthday 01/19/2022

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    gear, and learning how to play it.
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    Mankato,MN,UNITED STATES
  1. Hatricklov, this is your boss. I want to see you in my office first thing on Monday morning to discuss the long lunch breaks you've been taking.
  2. OK. After almost 100 posts, I think its time for me to quit avoiding this thread and actually be sociable. I gotta say this board is a daily stop for me now. With as rare as it is to find other keyboard players, it is so refreshing to be able to have such a treasure trove of talent, experience and knowledge to draw from here. Not to mention, you all seem so damned cool, even for geeky keyboard players. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/cool.gif Real name is Gregg Anderson. Born in 1967 in Minneapolis, grew up in a suburb called Burnsville. Moved an hour south to Mankato, MN in 1995 to transfer colleges in my mid-20's, (computer science) Here I hooked up with an established local band bleeding with talent, and this is where I finally got a real job as a systems admin, and bought a house to plant my roots. I studied classical piano and theory at The MacPhail Centre for the Arts in Minneapolis from the age of 7 until I was 16 or so. I also took private lessons in college. I got interested in synths back in the late 70's as a kid when the radio started playing the first synth songs, such as ELP and Edgar Winter. I was also fascinated by Boston, but didn't know at the time that it was a hammond making those wonderful keyboard sounds. I bought my first synth, a Yamaha CS-40M analog when I was about 16. It was the first real thing I bought with my own money. I learned a TON about synthesis playing with this CS-40 with no manual, and played a few party gigs with friends that same year. By the time I was 19, I had assembled a nice arsenal, including: - Rhodes 73 stage - Korg Poly800II - Roland SH-101 - Korg Poly61M - Ensoniq Mirage - Yamaha CS-40M - Yamaha FB01 module - Korg SQD-1 hardware sequencer - Yamaha 16 channel board - Eden PA cabinets (2x18", horn, tweeter) At this time, I rarely played with bands. I spent all my energy sequencing these synths into my SQD-1 sequencer, including sequencing full classical orchestral scores. About this time I also got heavily into Yes, Asia, Toto, and Styx. I sold off EVERYTHING when I decided to get out of debt and go to college at 22. It was hard to do, but I was soooo far in debt that I had to do it. after almost 10 years off, I mentioned to a buddy at work who was in a band that I used to play keys. He invited me to join right then and there. I've now been playing again almost 3 years with this band, and am working hard to learn my chops and a whole new style of music. Going from classical to a 10-year hiatus to playing by ear in a rock band was quite a big leap. The band plays every weekend except for those we choose to take off. (which is a lot this summer) We are in the lucky position of not having to have made a phone call to book a gig in over two years... we turn down as many gigs as we take some months. We are the normal mostly-covers bar band, but have had a good following, and make sure our shows are a lot of fun. We have released one studio-recorded CD, but the recording quality sucks. In the last 3 years, we have also opened up for Styx, Kansas, Creedence, and Starship. We had to turn down regional touring offers because some of us have real jobs and mortgages. Last year, the band built our own rehearsal/recording studio on the guitar players' property. We are starting to outfit it to do our next CD almost completely ourselves. We have started with a Pro ToolsLE / digi001 setup, and will grow from there. My current gear: - Kurzweil K2500XS - Hammond XK-2 (almost getting traded in for a Korg CX3) - (2) Korg G4 Leslie Simulators - Yamaha W5v2 - Alesis QS8.1 - Yamaha PSR-510 (for home computer stuff) - Behringer 12-channel mixer - Crown 250w power amp - EV Sx100 series monitor - custom-built 4-channel Rapco rack-mount DI box My Next planned purchase is an Andromeda this year. After that, a rack-mount Kurzwweil K2600 early next year. I may also throw in a Roland Ax-2 strap-on for doing some cheesy 80's covers. http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif ...now I just gotta learn how to PLAY these contraptions. This is getting too long, so I will go away now. Thanks for reading. -Gregg This message has been edited by b3fiend on 08-25-2001 at 01:31 AM
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