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He's also singing his ass off on that track!

Near our family ranch we got about 8 inches in 24 hours, but all seems pretty good. There were some road repairs that were still needed from last years rain, and those are now worse, but in the canyons of SoCal we're faring pretty well.

Joni's resurgence has been in no small way encouraged and promoted by Brandi Carlisle. The few performances she has done prior to this were around Brandi gigs and at her prodding over time with Joni. I think this was only her third (?) such appearance.....one was at the Hollywood Bowl, one was at a festival last fall, and then this. Having heard the other two on YouTube, she has gotten much better in terms of the strength of her voice. Amazing that she's still with us, and wonderful that she's making these appearances. A national treasure for both the US and Canada!

Tracy's been getting ALOT of mailbox money lately with the success of his cover. Good for her! Billboard estimates Luke Combs' cover of the song resulted in around $500,000 in global publishing royalties between March 17 and June 8, 2023 alone. The bulk of the cash comprises on-demand streaming payments.

Great LA story!!

Wow, I didn't even know they made a SC X2? I was working retail in college when the original Rivera Super Champ came out. Wow, have they gone up!

I really hope they'll consider a 76 as well, although it feels like that may not be in the cards......:(

I happen to think Kurzweil has some great Wurlie patches, some (or many) of which were created by forum member Dave Weiser. I favor them over my Nord Electro 5D. If I'm not bringing the real Wurlie, the Kurz one/s get the most use by far for me....

Yup, I concur with Jim. Perhaps someone is going to spend a lot of time with one of the third party keybed folks to get close with the action, weight and resistance, and then make the molded plastic top, same legs and sustain pedal, speakers etc. and license or create really great samples of all the different models that have come out over the years. It still might be pricey, and even potentially cool, but I can't imagine someone actually making a real recreation of the original. Maybe someone could contract with a Chinese piano manufacturer to get it done, but man, that's a heavy lift. As an FYI, Alan Lenhoff's exceptional book "Classic Keys" goes into great detail about the manufacturing history of the pianos, and the decline of them near the end. I thought I knew a lot about them, but the level of research Alan did is really remarkable. The price of the book is worth it just for the chapter on the Wurlies.

I wonder if GC will be doing the same for their purchases of used gear?

It's worth mentioning, a re-do of a Wurlitzer is a much more complex undertaking than a Rhodes.

Around that time I got one here in LA in the Recycler for $150! When things got tough during the Great Recession I had to sell (Dave Bryce helped me out with that!), and was stoked I got $1500 for it! Fast forward to two years ago when I finally had the scratch to get another, I was pumped to find one via Facebook Marketplace for $2500, a relative deal considering what people are asking now. I only had to drive to Modesto (4.5 hours) from SoCal - argh. It was worth it though. I'm hoping they will get a bit more reasonable over time for those looking to get one. There really are a ton of them out there, but with the interwebs it's so easy to see what some are going for for prospective sellers.....

Me too Dave! I think these are going to be very successful....

I wonder if the new Sweetwater gear marketplace will be doing the same? If not, that's a big reason to go over there....

Whomever registered the website is in Germany. Might be licensed from Gibson? Or the name acquired? Whatever patents existed on the piano itself would have long expired, but I assume the name still resides with Gibson? Or perhaps not?

I was another who loved the Artis 7 (and still do) but hated to the highly sprung keybed. Like AnotherScott and Tom I got the lighter springs from Syntaur and it makes it an absolute joy to play. I wish manufacturers would say what tension they use and allow us to alter it. A dream of course, but it can be a deal killer for me if it's too tightly sprung. And I did notice the 61 version at NAMM (albeit a prototype) was pretty stiff...:(

Ahh...I was standing in front to the 61 when he told me that...I thought it applied to both.

I got the impression they haven't decided on the keybed? Thankfully has internal power supply!

Really interesting....thanks for sharing!!

The late/great Mike Finnigan from the live Dave Mason album on "Feelin' Allright". His solo kicks in around 2:30...

I was trying to make out what the hell those big Fender speaker cabinets were that he is playing through in stereo. Fender "Public Address" speakers? I had never heard of them nor ever seen them. But here they are: https://reverb.com/item/26781532-pair-of-fender-public-address-7001-c-speaker-cab-enclosures Wild...

I've certainly seen pictures of them, but never one in the flesh. The combo organ heaven website has great info on them: https://www.combo-organ.com/Kustom/index.htm

Huge fan here...thanks for sharing! I hope he brings it to the US?

I second the D50, and add the Korg M1 (the acoustic piano sound!), and have to mention the Wurlitzer 200 series electric pianos. The D50 was the first new keyboard I purchased, and with the built-in effects (and as mentioned earlier great action) the thing sounded amazing out of the box. My next keyboard was the M1, also with built-in effects and what seemed to me then to my ears an amazing acoustic piano sample! Love both a ton... And of course, the Wurlie still is maybe my favorite keyboard of all time......still awesome..

For those of us that started playing keys in an era where almost all keyboards had an internal PS, the subtle move over time to more and more keyboards having external PS is disappointing. To me, it's understandable for a lower priced instrument - say south of $1K - to have the external. I get it, and have worked in CE manufacturing where we utilized them for many products that were relatively inexpensive for both economic and time saving in the production of said goods. They make sense for sure at certain low price points. And I will recognize that what we get for keyboards in these lower, entry-level-ish price range is pretty astounding compared to what things cost in the 80's let's say. Improvements in manufacturing and computer chips have been a boon for people like me who drooled over a Prophet 5 or other similar unobtainium instruments back in the day. But my frustration comes when something like a Kurzweil SP7 Grand with a MAP at ~$2K still comes with a external PS. I know all of the major players play follow-the-leader in these categories (not to pick on Kurzweil here), but to me that's a category where it's mainly geared toward "pro" players, and therefore should really have an internal PS. I don't know what the cutoff should be, but I'll say anything above roughly a MAP of $1500 should really get into internal PS territory.