Jon May

Bluzeplayer: As a fellow Electro player (ne4) I'm interested in how the nords physical organ buttons match up with the appropriate function on the HX3. Or are you controlling everything from the drawbar module?

Cool... thanks Al. I wonder why the manufacturer didn't include a stock CC set for Nords the way they have for other clones? Too much variation between different Nord models perhaps?

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Forgive me for asking, but using the search function I am unable to find any posts by folk using this module with a Nord Electro (hx3+nord+electro returns 100 results containing any one of those terms). Would love to know if a NE (I have a 4) makes a useable controller paired with this module.

The first album I ever bought was "Sounds Orchestral Meets James Bond". I also bought the sheet music to Thunderball. The Tom Jones version was a hit at the time

Sorry, but that transcription is a joke. E minor written in E major with accidentals? I won't even comment on the rhythms or notes! Fair bust - I've never used it and just put it out there. I should have been more discerning.

4 of the isolated/combo clav parts (mp3 # 4,5,6,7) plus a pdf notation of the main part here ... http://www.propertyshoot.com/Superstition/

Perhaps they had once belonged to Nooky Green? (a favourite joke buried somewhere in the "a bit of humor.." thread)

An oldie but...? Q: If you weigh a whale at a Whale-weigh station, where do you weigh a pie?? A: Somewhere over the rainbow...

Ah cultural exchange! Before septic tanks were thought of pre-1920s),'Night soil' (crap) was collected daily by a guy in a truck or horse-drawn cart going house to house and emptying pans. Fom the pages of history ( a big book!) "...nightsoil could only be carted through the Shire between the hours of ten oclock at night and one o clock in the morning. The human waste was then to be deposited in trenches and properly covered before six oclock. The washings from pans also had to be deposited in trenches and covered before eight oclock.[10] Properly covered meant a layer of earth not less than nine inches in thickness was to be placed over the mess." A young gel remembers... "At the back corner of the yard behind the shed was the toilet, a building about 5 feet square with a seat along the back wall and an oval hole cut in the centre. Below this hole was the metal pan, about 15 inches in diameter, and a little more in height. It would hold about 6 or 7 gallons. There was a little door at the back through which the pan was removed. I cant recall how often the Sanitary Collector or Dunny Man called to collect our offerings. I was often fearful that he might call when I was there. We used to leave him a present on the seat at Christmas. He used to wear a padded leather shoulder piece coming up towards his cap. We used to worry that there might be a spill downs the drive, not thinking of what that might do to him. He used to drive a horse and cart, starting off with a load of cleaned empty pans smelling strongly of phenyl. Instead of toilet paper, squares of newspaper were cut up and using a bag needle string was threaded through so that the newspaper squares could be hung on a nail in the wall." A stock-take is that activity carried out by most businesses from time-to-time, that of counting items in stock. Ah - same as 'taking inventory'? ("... we got us 4 Nord Stages, 2563 git-ar picks...") And now you can read the joke again and quiver with new found mirth :-)

<> Reminds me of a supposedly true story, back when "night-soil carts" would travel around the neighbourhood collecting cans of - human waste from each home. One night a truck takes a corner too fast and overturns, spilling crap EVERYWHERE! The police arrive and one says to the driver, "Looks like you had an accident". Driver says, "Nah I'm doing a stock-take and I'm two turds short!"

Man I just listened to that into. I'd forgotten it was so...demented! I don't have a spare week in which to work it out. Sorry! That first Chicago album was a teenage favourite of mine when it came out.

You have a Hammond?! Actually, that is a cool story. I had an "Awwww" moment !

I'm Jon originally from Auckland New Zealand. I'm 52 this year so grew up as a teenager on Cream, Blind Faith, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zep, Iron Butterfly. I learned classical piano for 8 years but during the last few of those years I realised I could play by ear. I remember asking my classical teacher for the intervals between chords in the intro to Proud Mary LOL! In the end it was a fight between Sweet Child In Time and Rondo a la Turk. Once I figured out a few blues licks and progressions I was done with classical(hey, I'm 17 at this stage). My day job is high school science teacher, but I've often been a weekend warrior band member. Because of the musical period I experienced as a teen I love the sound of the old ELECTROmechanical keyboards, and of course the Hammond. Guess what I own now? (It's red!) I've been travelling light this past year as I've been teaching in the Bahamas and jamming on Electro and KC60. But in storage I have a JC-120A amp and a Motion Sound Pro3T. Soon I'm moving to Brisbane Australia and hope to be gigging before too long.