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I like Joey D's old setting , used with or without persussion I would say... 686000000 , there may have been a 4th DB also but the main idea he said was to lession the heavy bass effects of the 1st and 3rd drawbar,,, where they clobber the 2nd DB sound sonically and the second is a strong even harmonic.... this he said will give a more transparent sounding setting in an ensemble or lighter solong but strong none the less....... I started using 686000000 as an alternate to my standard 888000000 as base setting starting point. Even adding higher DB. Really worked in louder contexts against guitars or other solo instruments, freed up the midrange for the other instruments to solo.. o glarring looks back you were coming in comping with to thick a sauce ... goos also for my RH to solo even up a few octaves using the idea on my LH .....Bless Joey D...

I think poly AT makes normal playing sound 'richer' ...because ever envelope for each finger press will have a slightly different pressure response ... it's subtle but I think it sounds better..... or more interesting. More variations in how the envelopes responds for strings,woodwinds or brass etc ...... doesn't have to be a solo line, deep depression of the key.... - yes!

That's gonna work great for CS80 software...... with its Poly AT....

I can see Sammy in my mind so clearly from years back, .. he was often in the Forest Hills SA store and the original store out in Hempstead in the old old days ... I lived close by then in F. H. in the 80's, around the corner from Paul Simon's family home in S. Flushing...easy treak up to Queens Blvd and Sam Ash Forest Hills....he really looked like a rock star when he had long hair way back..... he passed away young... RIP Sammy.

Yuengling Lager (America's Oldest Brewery) ... taste like 1770 to me and it's inexpensive and I like it!

Hot Buttered Fresh Bakery Chocolate Chip Scones and Coffee ....they re huge also... a half is enough... I can keep going with other foods... They were just what I brought back from the Hometown Bake Shop in Centerport LI yesterday! Really the best Scones I have ever had ....toasted/some butter! Ouch . they're so freakin good ..I strategize my carb intake a save it up for them .... w/a hot cup of Chock Full of Nuts....

doubles as a long dining table for the Frankenstein's Castle .... with built in piano accompianiant ... does sound spine tingiling in the end!

Good luck with the GSI Burn for me but haven't used it live on a gig, just home recording with it with my B3 , I take a line out with Trek II OBL-2 box. Never owned a Vent but many other simms throught the years for live gigging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNz78jdBEg track .... '!0 The Inning Stretch'

When I played this tune with the band in the 70's I used my RMI Clav patch with a Wah Wah pedal and ran that thru the PA with a bit of slap back echo and reverb to give it some ambiance and fatten it up a bit ....about as close as I could gt with the gear I had then.... fun song to play! Hard to get that exact 'clavy' vibe though

Plantation Tours, Tipitiana's, Burbon Street, River Tour, ... Bordellos if your looking for love, (watch Easy Rider !!) ...... and the food!

Read Read Robert Persig's on this point , just a suggetsion... 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' and 'Lila' ... he says the world has no forward 'rachet lock' to go to because all the institutions have become putrified by thier advance vanguards of change, sound familiar... either way also...a future shock like apiral, so the world tries to go backwads to the last rachet lock, the Victorian era and straight up .... but that's 'gone'.... and not so good things latch on to this negative flow, sounds like GhostBusters .... he said the hippes movement was the the most advanced movement to date....

mine is almost there, all I want for xmas is two replace my piano.... and I'm just about done....the feeling has been around for a while now...who knows though ... I don't put piano in the same catagory as the rest of my upset stomach.... for some reason! , piano is more like personal business.. been feeling alittle bit underwhelmed by the idea of axes in general and now just post notes and small transcriptions on my FB page..... I guess I'm going through a thing you might say about hardware in general ..... 'noteland' instead of 'nutland' ... this may fade! Don't know! Not just hardware either ... non musical related stuff to ... cars, blenders, .... gadgets, phones anything that buzzes, chimes or rings that effects me like pavlov's keyboardist or driver, encoders, ...plastic. Tired of mfg goods ....I want wood or dirt! I want to play only plant based instruments from now on or something like that and drive a bamboo car and go on a vacation and have some mushrooms ... that's my GAS now baby! 😆

RIP Anthony Dominick Benedetto , Astoria's finest ..... my 1st music teacher came from that neighboorhood, about a 20 min drive... know for music 'in general' even in the late 50's because of the neighboorhoods European roots.... Steinway right there...they are all linked in my brain... I still go there all the time... my farther-in-laws favorite vocalist probably tied with Frank and he was Irish..Tony new how to song a ballad really really well beside everthing else musical about him....had 'the rapture' ... he could ride emotional/feeling arc .. just had it

Heard him live many years ago at Lincoln Center, went with my wife ... NYC loved Andre ... it was packed to the gills.. RIP!

Long Island, NY... I'm doing solo piano at cocktail hours before weddings at at upscale wedding hall but I make it a blowing gig as much as I can get away with for a few improvised chorus, I like playing my own gigs I must say the phrase 'where's there 2, there's trouble" can be very true, but mostly it's just basically simpler as 1 ..so gig that and also heading to a very good Jazz jam once a month in Queens in my old neighborhood ...held in a national historic jazz venue - Flushing Town Louis Armstrong Jazz Jam. Pop's daughter was there 2 jams ago, now moving to Vegas to retire! I miss playing blues and even rock sometimes but I've made a vow to stay away from louder and stupider music and what comes along with it, some of it is OK... Sounds snobby I know but hey, I want to go out my way, I'll be 70 soon!...Want to play jazz before the Beatles were on the E.S. show... trying to be more discerning of scenes in general i get involved with and I play and work more at home.. I'll be 69 in Aug. (yes that number again). In regard to loud guitar volume I don't mind jazz guitar at all in jazz settings... even with a little drive...But jazz piano or solo piano being my main goal now, I play organ and synth too piano now is my main thing at this point.... hard to find solo piano gigs, I'm lucky to be someone's backup who has a steady 4 weddings a weekend spot... he gets a lot of other work out of town and is a pro so I play fairly often, house doesn't mind the swaps, Jack Hotop being one of the other subs .and Christopher Clark who on tour with Jon Anderson Band now... 2 times a month minimum in the summer, I turn down a lot but he knows a lot of pianists so I'm not on any hook, it's perfect...I have built up to 55 solo jazz and American standard tunes or so, some Beatles tunes! The Jazz jam really is helping ...that's a pro level jam..... paying dues and chasing the Bird at 69 can be still fun... also no late gigs if I get any others ... I hope I can remain an idealist!

I like his counterintuitive Leslie speed switches beside everything said here....don't hear to many of those anymore in R and R. Like he said in one of his YT videos, his parts are basically all pretty dumb stuff.... it's how he lays it out that makes it brilliant!

😭RIP Tina .... Considering her trajectory through Ike as bad as that was for her... a pretty big piece of modern American music heritage passed with her .. if you factor in her stage performance/vocals and Ike's writing and arranging going back to '54 ... and in terms of pure 'show' .... he did write Rocket 88... and was considered one of the initial purveyors and inventors of rock and she was married to him, that's American music history in the can... her performance connection to Mick's thing was/is real.... always sad to see sources pass.. mark was left though, what an unforgettable woman..

early early on- from 5-15 : Dick Contino on Accordion in the late 50's Nat King Cole on piano (watched a lot of his TV show in the late 50's in rerun w/ my folks, I was mystified by Nat's mirror behind the piano keys - what a conundrum to figure out!) Errol Garner, - piano ( mostly early TV) Felix Cavaliere, B3 (All the Rascals albums, my bro/I had all of them) Al Kooper, B3 (Live Adventures of Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield Live in SF was the 1st LP I ever bought with my own $) Alan Price, Combo Organ (from the Animals w /Eric Burdon, my brother's album that I ruined) Classical Music (mostly listening, did not study classical piano until my 20's but studied Accordion and played piano/organ 2nd to Accordion initially by ear, there was a piano in the house in the shared basement so I was jumping on that and adjusting to it at about 12.) 2nds: Ray Charles European keyboard music or transcriptions ( Waltzs, Jigs, Polkas, Traditional, Popular etc. ) - I liked all that stuff as a kid pre Beatles! I'll be 69 in a few months ... And of course more modern Rock, Blues and Jazz as time moved on... I feel the real catalysts for me musically in terms of my musical make up were forged somewhere between the ages of 5 to 8 in a purely musical drive sense ...so I quoted the early stuff as honestly as possible. Trying to keep that little boy in me alive has actually gotten easier with time and regular tending to thankfully.... funny about that stuff in life, the good stuff, - shit happens there to .. if you keep yourself buoyant enough and have the luxury of the time to dig in a bit ...

I had watched this also just 2 months ago on YT ... found it somehow! Altered Scale Vid:

I'll never forget talking with Barry Harris at the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village after his show there only a few years back, we sat immediately behind him, almost on top of him in tight seating...and how in conversation Bud's Powell's tune 'Oblivion' came up and how he said the word to me..... 'Oblivion' in a way - like imagine 'your nothing, not here', it was profound the way he said it, he was up there even then (about 8 years back)....he played his last gig where I've been going to a monthly Jazz jam since February @ 'Flushing Town Hall' in Queens NYC. which is down the block from my alma mater- Flushing HS ..... 😥 it's a good jam, Louis Armstrong's daughter ( but not from one of his 4 marriages) was there last month as an honored guest ...Louie's home / museum just a short throw away down Roosevelt Ave. to 108th street .... "He last appeared in public less than a month ago, at a concert celebrating NEA Jazz Masters at Flushing Town Hall in Queens. Harris played two pieces by Monk and sang the blues with his dear friend of 70 years, Sheila Jordan, a Detroit-born singer He also sang one of his most radiant compositions, "The Bird of Red and Gold,".. " Barry Harris

Study be-bop with my teacher we went briefly through some simple substitution scales at 1st. he said on any Dominant 7 you can play the diminished scale a half step above the root of the dominant you are playing .. the diminished scale is a 9 note scale but actually very close to super Locrian in it's 1st 4 notes.... the tritone notes will be missing though but it is also an effective substitution on I have found over any dominant and very close to a Super Locrian in feel and tension ...

Modes are wonderful I have really got into them the past few years but straight Western Harmony is much more powerful in terms of modulation and harmony as my old piano teacher used to say to sort of temper my excitement about them .. they are wonderful things but I believe he was correct... just some perspective .. not to bummer the thread... I do love using them myself now that I understand their usage better . . . less power doesn't necessarily mean less beauty....

I think we paid 650 in late 1968 also for my original new 145 w/o the combo preamp! But that was a Manhattan price at the old Silver and Horland in downtown Manhattan ... my brother bought his cymbals there , we drove in from Queens but Dad grew up there.... they had a 145 on display when we walked in I believe...with a combo preamp, I was 14 and pretty much melted just being that close to it - defiantly my Xmas story BeeBee gun .. I'm not all a-gass-ed to make a pun about the 7K price on the new one, I understand to a degree, modern world and production, market specifics etc...I was a systems analyst in Sales and Distribution for many years. I was really almost more distracted by the factoid of the price just by the mere passage of time / and Leslies and all that! Especially when in the 80's folks thought Hammond/Leslie's were almost dead as modern instruments with the advent of synths for more than a few years..... still, I know I'm a real old timer by-crackee! Glad they made a new one actually, it lives on....but I already have 3 old school in the house! I'm good!

No it probably sounds really good, but after gigging/hauling and maintaining Leslies since 1968 and them being readily available at market prices of arguably $1000 to $2500 in various models more recently... 7 K seems a lot! But I'm sure the Churches/Institutions and individuals will purchase them also ... but damn!

I don't know, 7 grand for 10 extra watts ... seems not worth it ... watts being a unit of power