JohnH

The DX7 ( as well as MIDI) was announced at winter namm in Jan 1983 so it is now almost 41 years. I just got through this chapter in the Dave Smith book. Very interesting.

Don't put up with this. There's no reason in hell why guitar players and bass players get amps and we are supposed to be in in ear hell or just have one tiny monitor. It's total BS! I have a full stereo rig. I have had to get into it with soundmen sometimes who give me that deer in the headlights look when they see my mixer I bring and monitors. I subbed in one band four years ago that everyone had amps and the drums were full loud acoustic, but I was forced to be in ears. Ridiculous. I don't have to play loud to hear myself either and nothing ever sounds as good as my rig. "Robby has his amps and I have mine"- Ray Manzarek.

Have had mine for 16 months. Not a single issue with the keys. So this is not an epidemic. This has become my main second board at most gigs, so it's out on the job every weekend.

Santana And Doors- I sit, like Gregg and Ray. The rest standing always.

Correct, up to 32GB only.

I've started buying Verbatim drives. Can't go wrong with them. They work on every Yamaha product, from my older stuff- MotifXF to S90ES and my new YC61. This is what I buy and use: And up to 32GB should work too. (nothing above 32GB). https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-4GB-Store-Flash-Drive/dp/B000FFLWLQ?th=1

I am glad you are ok and wishing you a speedy recovery.

I did a gig in august on keys and there were way too many tracks. I learned Get Nervous for the gig and setup one of my voices using an arpeggio I made for Blondie's Call Me and just changed the tempo. Of course, we could not play the song because "oh we don't have a track for it." Ridiculous. I guess I should have spoke up, don't need a track, that's what I'm here for. But, not my band, I was just the sub. NightRanger are one of the best live bands in the US, but now even they have backing vocal tracks for still rock in america and Sing me away. I can tell those are tracks, because the backing vox are just fake sounding. Way too big and processed to be real. And ten times louder than the rest of the vocals in the set. Since Glenn Hughes did the backups on SRIA, I guess that's the only way to replicate the voice of rock. On top of that, on these canned back up vocals, there were members that stopped singing before the last few words and there was no volume or voices dropping out- a sure sign it's fake! Here's RIA from the show I saw. They only did it on these two songs.

Disable the auto off. If it still does it then that should not be doing that and it needs service. If it's not the auto off- please go here to find the nearest servicer and you will need a copy of your receipt for the warranty repair: https://www.yamaha.com/paragon/servicerlocator/

I went to Nightranger two weeks ago and there's no doubt, they are using canned back ups for Still Rock In America and Sing Me Away. I went on You tube and found a show a year ago, and it was the exact same perfect backups. I guess that's the only way to mimic Glenn Hughes (who sang backup on SRIA), make canned back up vocals to get the same power! Those back ups were just way too powerful and clean to be anything other than fake. They were way louder than any other song too. Thankfully, the rest of the show was all live and it was just these two songs that had it.

Yeah, I had to go binge a bunch of Toto after hearing it again on Beato. Sorry, it just isn't for me. I've seen other articles and people on my FB that don't like it either. There's not any wrong or right reaction. It is all personal taste. It does make me realize, there's not going to be any kind of magical finds or discoveries, such as a lost Revolver album or Golden Slumbers, it's done. That's great they did this and to each their own. What they should do is go fix the other two songs now that the technology to do this has gone into the stratosphere from the 90's.

Loved playing mine in a Doors tribute for over 15 years. Unfortunately one of the tuning cylinders is currently broken- it stripped while trying to tune it, so I need to get it to Ken Rich or similar here in LA. It is awesome. It is a thrill playing those songs on it.

Paul Stanley said it best a week or so ago. If it's not the original band, and Kelly Hanson is a replacement and says he doesn't want to keep doing this, then why aren't they just hiring a replacement for him? - My comment- How can I fake touring band do a farewell tour when there's no originals? This lineup is really good though, saw them in 2018.

Yeah, another thing- For years I could have sworn that is Myron on drums on that song as it sounds like him and I just assumed it was. I never googled it, I talked to Roger Capps about it and he told me no that was not him. Roger said that drummer couldn't cut it on the road due to tempo issues so they hired Myron and the rest is history.

These lists are just stupid and I stopped looking at them awhile ago. There really is no such thing as greatest/best ever musician. Like saying who's the "best ever" race driver? There cannot be.

Yes Tom is not out of the band, just on leave from this.

Funny how the Mandela effect works. Last week I was checking out clips of The Doobies at Laguna Seca Rennsport. The bass player looks like Tom and the video is kind of blurry, so I only assumed Tom was in the clips I was looking at and there wasn't enough of China Grove for me to notice. Tom is not back yet after all. Terrific car and racing event put on by Porsche every few years. I think the only reason Saturday sold out was because of the Doobies. ( The event was totally packed the other days also). Now I am not so bummed I could only go on Thursday and Friday. No Tom is a bummer for me too.

If you want the three pedal in the US you buy the step up model, the P225. The 145 isn't sold in the states. The 143 is the P45 successor in the US and the 45 did not offer the three pedal either. I don't know why this was done either, there wasn't a P43/45 situation when the 45 came out.

Ive been on a Steve Morse Band and Dregs binge the past few weeks as I've had car trips to Reno and Monterey. Had this one on a few times in past few days. That Bring Em Back Alive album has a magic sound and vibe that captures my imagination and blows me away every time.

Yeah YC is super fast as opposed to my Motif XF which is 45 seconds.

I learned about 30 years ago from a cruise ship guitarist I eventually worked with on another ship, your ears are not at your knees. He would put his amp on milk crates. I've put my guitar amp (2X12) on a rack for 20 years and sometimes bring another small cabinet that I aim up at me too. I had a guy in our band that I ended up replacing as the guitar player that just could not hear himself. It turns out he sold all of his loud gear and just had a solid state amp on the floor, aimed at his legs with a Fractal pedal plugged into it. He's the only guitarist I ever met that couldn't hear himself! And he actually was a world class player, probably one of the greatest unsung no album release and unknown guitarists there ever was. His stuff is on the internet. He wanted me to crank him up in the PA so he could hear himself. Jeez. I also have a floor monitor and hotspot and have mic' d my cabinet for years and sent myself a feed of it slightly in the monitors. He could have easily done something like that too.

Reminds me of the Dumble guitar amp a friend posted about on FB recently. $235,000. I know those were great, but that's insanity. I am not even aware of a celebrity playing the one that was for sale either.

And Sailing, as well as the rest of the first album, is Tommy Taylor, later of Eric Johnson on drums , not Jeff Porcaro, who did visit the studio during the recording and supposedly did attempt to play it but it didn't work. He did provide Tommy some tips on it. Tommy has explained this multiple times on his FB page. And this was actually supposed to be a band called Christopher Cross, the way Ozzy's was and of course got turned into a solo artist with sidemen. And yes to the EJ connection, this is just one of them.

If I wasn't out of town last week and having trouble ordering I would have already ordered the Iph15 pro max w 512GB. Very fed up with my 64GB Iphone pro max, the speaker volume is too low (already checked everything- it's just broken) and the speed and lack of storage is horrible. Hopefully can get this done today, also moving on from ATT to Verizon or TMobile, because ATT hardly works everywhere, and I can't take it anymore. It's never gotten better, whether the Apple phone I get is brand new or not. They just do not upgrade their network.

Not drinking, but too much sun with no sun screen. And Margaritaville commonly shows up on those bar band burn out lists, but I am weird, I still love it - on vocals and keys. Just did it yesterday at a pool party jam. And I heard it and played it almost every day for 8 years when gigging with three bands on three ships on Carnival. So I should be sick of it, but I'm not. Also was our opener in cover band for almost 20 years after that too. One of those ships we were in Key West every week for a year and a half, that is a cool place!