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I hereby take back any and all comments I have made about the un coolness of the keytar......

Jan Hammer....to this day my all time favorite lead guitar player.....

I do miss "The Shack" and their "Wall of Connectivity".....I used to joke that with stuff from that wall you could figure out how to connect a bathtub to a Volkswagen.....

Ok, dude.....how did you manage to get in my house?

It occurs to me that if YouTube had existed in my younger days I would have been demoralized enough by all these incredibly talented kids to have resorted to bagging groceries to pay rent.....just amazing the amount of young talent out there, and back in the day unless they managed to hook a record deal we'd never even know about them....

My Rhodes (back in the day) wasn't TOO "severe".....horrible, terrible, sluggish, wrist killing action, but at least it wouldn't stay in tune.......

At least on swing tunes, I get a ton of mileage out of the Count Basie lick to end songs. One night we're doing Fly Me To The Moon and at the end I look over to the sit-in drummer and say "Basie ending"......trainwreck. When we went on break he came up to me and said, "Sorry about that man....I had no idea what a "basic" ending is...."

Me too! The one I have is....ok, but the wife just bought a whole slew of new bath towels and there's not enough room to hang them all on the existing unit.....

Yes. I'm looking at getting a 10 channel yamaha mixer with USB out, and that will act as a 2-channel audio interface. Yep me too. I'm needing (If I EVER get back to gigging) a small mixer with a couple of mic pres and a couple of stereo channels. Since my recording Mac Pro went belly up a few months back, I thought I'd get something that has a USB ouput as well to record a few things into my laptop.....two birds with one stone, and all that.....

Dumb question, but a small mixer with USB output would do the trick, yes?

My last gig was March 14. I've REALLY tried to keep some sort of practice schedule, and I guess I've been (semi) successful. I hit a little bit of piano and sax 6 days a week, usually not more than an hour or so though....haven't practiced my flute in nearly a year, except for tooting a note here or there, and I haven't been singing at all.....I'm expecting those first few gigs back to be a bit rough....

I've got a few of buddies around here who gig pretty much exclusively with a looper, especially in these Black Plague 2.0 times. A couple of them are guitar picker/singer types, and one dude is an EXTREMELY talented multi instrumentalist (Sax, EWI, guitar, bass). Before lockdown I would go see them playing around, and the necessity of every tune having a 2-3 minute buildup of the background elements before the actual SONG started, for me at least, got a little old after a while. I found myself coming away from the performance more admiring how clever the concept was rather than how great the musical experience was....I think in small doses interspersed throughout the evening it comes off better.....

The one situation I can remember never actually got to the audition stage for me. I was living in Atlanta, and a great local band, Starshower, was looking for a keyboard player. I went to the band leader's house and after listening to about 10 minutes of their demo stuff I found I was self aware enough to not even waste their time with an audition. I knew wasn't in the league those guys were in.....probably still not, 40 years later.

I've binge watched The Sopranos a couple of times, and that theme is one of the few I don't fast forward through (only other one is Mad Men)....

I've been using an app called Drum Genius (for practice only) that's kind of interesting. I could see maybe using it on some gig situations....

It's........the lyrics, in particular that "One phrase" that everyone wants to sing along with.....there are exceptions. I just found out about this (apologies if I'm late to the party) but evidently if you're Down Under and Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina comes blaring through the speakers, like, ANYWHERE, everyone within earshot does THIS:

I'd say that if the piano and alto guys were successful in negotiating getting payed by the note, they're makin' more money than Van in that video.....

Man oh man......put me on that flight with my Ska version of "Come Fly With Me" and I would have been a member of The Mile High Club for sure......well, at least in my dreams......

I've played Moondance for maybe 45 or so years now, and it never occurred to me to cop the piano solo......but that says more about me, I guess......

I bet Jeff Labes' reply to this thread would have been more......you know, just.......more...... :-)

Any Pavoratti recording of Nessum Dorma......

Why do you guys suppose this is such a popular thing? There are MANY more songs with this than these guys name as well.....

Kind of hurts my heart to think that the original owner (jazz organist) went from a C3 to this, though.....not that I have anything against the DX7 but man that's a leap.....

Still have a pair. They only come out of the basement when I have to do "PA on a stick" for a BIG room, and they've never let me down. I like to use a graphic EQ to tame the low mids, which can be pretty nasty, but once I do that they sound just fine......

That might have been an interesting read, had all the popups not loaded, leaving me about 1 square inch in the lower left of my laptop screen.....