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Complete with attractive young female to hopefully make us disregard our reservations.

Yes, I have seen ads for keyboards at a stupid low price on FB also. Those are easy to stay away from. I think they scammers had tried to tie that to Sweetwater also, IIRC.

Last night an ad appeared on my Facebook page, purportedly from Sweetwater, with some outrageous discounts on UAD software, their Rhodes software for $50 instead of the usual 300, for example. After the instantaneous ignition of the GAS effect, it occurred to me that anything that seems to be too good to be true usually is. I called Sweetwater and they confirmed that this is not a deal from them. Just wanted to put this out as an FYI in case this ad appears in any of your feeds.

One YouTuber I have followed switched his channel to a service called Rumble. It looks a lot like YouTube but supposedly doesn't track users & posters as aggressively as YT. I can't verify this since I haven't really surfed the channel but it may be a possible alternative.

Is that one of the Korg forums on Facebook? If it is/was an independent forum I wish I had known about it.

52 years with the same guitar player. We don't get to play as often as before these days but did get to tonight (03/01).

Sorry, sounds like hammered dogshit. I'm also sorry I spent the whole 13+ minutes waiting for it to miraculously start sounding good.

The Korg Nautilus will do this. Probably a lot of other brands will as well but the Korg is the only one I have a working knowledge of.

For pure piano only? There were no Rhodes, Wurli, etc. demoed and I didn't spot any mod/pitch wheels. Makes me wonder how deep its controller capabilities go.

Not a solo, but Herbie's background clavinet in Sly is all the way past wicked into full-blown evil. Especially on his Rhodes solo starting at 5:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1wCLEVdWI

I saw that group. This was during my Long Island phase of living locations. A Hammond through effects pedals into a straight amp, IIRC. They played a bar in Amityville (Yes, that Amityville) called The Daisy. I didn't think they were crazy loud, but the owner pulled the circuit breaker to the stage. A back room shouting match ensued and Billy eventually came back onstage, finished out and was supposedly promised a few more appearances there, although I don't think that actually came to fruition. From what I've heard in the past Billy supposedly really hates this part of his history and has tried to keep this music suppressed but certainly don't know this for a fact. The drummer, Jon Small, was really good and had been in a previous band, The Hassles, with him. The album did get some play from the album-oriented rock FM stations in The City also.

Anti-elitist elitism. I've never heard that before but think it's a great phrase.

"The Anti-Keyboardists" Yeah, and they all end up making their wishes come true by becoming sound-men. 😀

I agree with marino on the preference of the 2 options. Parts of the 1926 sound a little out of tune with the rest of the piano however. But, hey, whad'ya want for free??

There was a British group who's guitarist got killed from a zap. It was late 60's or early 70's IIRC. I'm fuzzy on the details but it may have been Stone the Crows.

I happened upon it by chance. I usually listen to WWOZ around lunchtime (EST) but have been missing it too many times lately. However yesterday was a get-to-listen-to-it day. I don't know if it was just my system but the actual piano playing was very low in volume. For those who missed it, the station does archive all its programs for 2 weeks so you can still check it out at your leisure.

Herbie's sound on the Fat Albert Rotunda album and his slightly different sound on the Head Hunters album. Stevie's sound on Sunshine of My Life. Those are relatively early Rhodes sounds that have a lot of "thonk" on them. Bob James sound one the One album for something different from the more organic sounds previously mentioned. Chick's sound for something with a more "cool" (temperature-wise) sound. Richard Tee's sound was great too. It was better for chordal work and comping. Trying to solo with that sound is a little too undefined. Actually, another accidentally good Rhodes sound was on Cedar Walton's Animation album. Some of the notes were out of tune but in such a way that it tweaked your ear in a good way. I haven't cared much for some for the more heavily processed Rhodes sounds but that's just personal preference and we're all going to have our likes and dislikes.

At home - mostly streaming lately. In the car - A DAP set to shuffle, connected to the aux in on the stereo.

Same as most - Jazz jobs sitting. For the bands I will sit on some songs & stand on others. Purchasing Mr. Doerffler's organ type bench from the classifieds gave the ability to set high enough to do both with minimal transition and I added a purchase of the Knox Gear stand discussed in the latest keyboard stands thread a few weeks ago. It gives me a stable. yet higher, position for the board* The reason for the asterisk is that I just received my second one today. One of the bolts that holds the top part of one of the lattices had broken off last Saturday. Thanks to Amazon's generous return policy I was able to get a replacement with no hassles. Now let's see how long this one lasts.

I was thinking the same thing as time4jazz and sunspot but I kept diving around in the section where you could ask a question & there was an answer there that put the final achievable height well above that. Check just to make sure though; don't just take my word for it.

Oops, not Ornithology. Shows how much of a rush I’m in now.

Only have a quick second to glance t it right now but see Charlie Parker's famous Ornithology lick to start it out.

Yeah, even to this day if people call it out in a jam session or “casual “ job they just play the first section. Probably just as well in my case since I’d totally pooch the second section 😉

I was lucky enough to see him when he was breaking this album. I lived on Long Island at the time and he played a club on the North shore called My Father's Place in Roslyn. Got to see him twice that week. They also did some stuff from the Thrust album, namely Actual Proof. Like Eric, I really like that period, including Fat Albert Rotunda, which was before his Mwandishi phase. Love the Rhodes sound he was getting at that time!

I was able to get them all. but for the ones who didn't, don't feel bad - it was a bit flawed in that either he played along with the track or did it on his own, which made it it sound a little different from the original, Dancing In the Moonlight being a prime example. Also, sometimes he didn't play the tracks long enough for them to reveal some of the Rhodes-iness or Wurli-ness of the instrument that were on the recordings.