Yoyoyo!
Sup my name's jimmy, wow this thread is interesting! I don't know why anyone would want to know my stuff but...
I'm just a youngster - 18 - but it's really kewl to see so many - er - more experienced guys here! I'd love to hear some of you play that's for sure!
I started piano pretty young and did all my classical grades and stuff, then learnt to read chord charts and stuff at church. A mate of mine lent me a Rhodes for a while - i thought it was an oldskool piece of crap! - but it got me interested and i started playing keys in the school jazz combo. not a lot of influence on my playing, mainly ripping solo ideas from rock bands like The Living End, but finally got playing with some better cats and gigging heaps and now i just finished my first year doin a BMus in jazz at uni! Yay. I've been working as a composer for an independent software company, mainly using reason although i'm not the greatest sound guy.
I'm playing in a real hot funk band at the moment, a kinda jamiroquai thing (Toby Smith is the man!) but i've gotten sick of borrowing boards so scraped together a little cash to buy one; they're real expensive here in NZ! Checked out all these back issues of Keyboard Mag and that led me to here... and it's a wicked forum! I've always been a bit of a synthhead-skeptic, but this stuff is really interesting, i wanna learn more! So much to learn...
I finally settled on a Kurzweil ME1 module, running it off a Roland RD 700; both real simple (and cheap) just perfect. Where the hell do you guys get so much denarii????? $$$$$ Also have a real nice Kawai upright (i know they make some pretty average ones) i love it, and on the side running a De Armond Les Paul rippoff and Fender Princeton Chorus with an Ibanez TS 808. For fun!
Cheers guys this place rocks. Laters!
