J. Dan

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That's you in the video I posted? Nice work - I'd be interested in you shedding some light on exactly what you had set up as far as splits, layers, and anything else going on to accomplish all the parts.

I really want to rig up some robotic birds and legs, leave the stage, and do Herbie Hancock's Rockit. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBOBpLJeOb4 I could have a camera offstage pointed at my hands and put it on a little B&W TV onstage. The opening scene with the milk bottles would be me kicking the damn beer bottles off the edge of the stage.

There was a group of gals looking over the stage as I was loading the set list in my keyboard last weekend. I just figured they were checking out the giant rubiks cube or other 80s paraphanlia on stage. Then I hear one say "there it is" and I could see the mischievous looks of a girl contemplating jumping on stage. I just gave them a "don't even think about it" glare. One of them says "I'm a tambourine player".

Any clone would be better than the triton. It has some ok organ sounds and the Leslie sim isn't bad, but there is just no comparison to a clone. I have a triton and thought the organ sounds were good until I bought a CX3. No comparison. I feel like I can't find a good organ to save my life on the triton now. And the cx3 (used, purchased from our own Hookie) was relatively cheap.

This one may hav already been on here.... C, E-flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, "sorry, but we don't serve minors." So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough. D comes in and heads for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second." Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, "Get out! You're the seventh minor I've found in this bar tonight." E-Flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, "you're looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development." Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au natural. Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.

-5Celsius more like 23 Farenheit. BTW, Celsius is the "normal" degrees. Oh, Americans........ Oh how wrong you are. I was joking, but for the record, Tf = (9/5)*Tc+32. So Tf = ((9/5)*5)+32 In otherwards, 41 degrees F. So my off the cuff estimate of "around 40" was pretty frickin close, but who's counting? ...wait a minute... you have MINUS 5, I thought he had 5.... BIG difference. Well, if it's 5, I'm right, if it's minus 5, you're right. How's that? EDIT: I just went back and looked. On my screen, the minus was at the end of the line, and the 5 was on a new line, so I missed the minus, sorry.

5C? What is that in normal degrees? Like, 40 or something? Who has a 5 ft deep pond at their house, anyway? I'm surprised you didn't tell us it was 1-1/2 Meters deep or something? Glad you're OK!!! The stories I hear on here never cease to amaze me. Beats a desk job any day, doesn't it? BTW - you could probably almost fit your hobbit house in that pond, eh?

Yeah, I'm on week 2-1/2. Honestly, it's probably a bit above my normal ability level, but I'm one of those guys who, if I practice it enough, will eventually nail it. People think I'm better than I am because of stuff like that that I've taken the time to nail.

Since I've started speeding it up to "boston speed", I've noticed some of my voicings aren't working so well. I've made modifications that probably aren't right, but then again maybe they are. As far as slowing it down, you read my mind, I was thinking of doing that and transcribing it note for note. I'm probably currently more accurate on the hard parts than the easy parts because I just skimmed over the easy parts and didn't really transcribe, just to get it down to where I could play it through. So far, the way I'm playing it (right or wrong), I can pretty much do it almost mistake free at about 3/4 speed. When I get up to full speed, it's sloppy and full of mistakes. But I'm getting closer.

I've been playing it 888420000 just because it seems like the higher parts are missing a little sparkle when it gets going, but I agree that at the very beginning 888000000 sounds about right.

You look a lot different that your foot with the expanding eyeball! Your singer doesn't speak European in Europe? Last time you were in my neck of the woods was a weekend and I was playing, but the time before that was a Sunday at Broadway Oyster bar I think (or maybe BB's, I don't remember). I had just (re-)joined the forum and didn't think as much of it. Next time you're in St. Louis area or Central IL and it's not a Fri or Sat night, I'd love to check you out!

WOW, that's really interesting! I had ALWAYS heard that he did that with the motor break. In fact, I read a CX-3 review that criticized it because the recovery from the brake was not fast enough compared to THAT song. Not that I don't believe you (I do), but can you cite sources?

Yes hookie, as you can probably tell, I'm enjoying it immensely. I need to do that, I just didn't have one handy to hook up. I also want to try hooking up a pedal to do the motor break like in Boston's "Smokin". Unfortunately, I won't be playing this out... it's 1976 and we do all 80's. I'm just learning it because I always wanted to play it. Maybe it'll be my sound check song

If you're talking about the part that it does twice - once at the end of the "verse" before the second scale down, and once at the end before the slow part, I just play different inversions of Bbmin, Gbmin, Dbmin, and the last time it goes Bb, Ab, Gb, Gb, Fsus4-Fmaj Now if you're talking about the very end where it lands on the Bb Major and then does it's thing, it holds the C in the bass and does: Abmaj (with the Ab on top) Move the Ab up to Bb, whatever that is B minor diminished (B on top) D minor diminished (D on top) C sus 4 to C maj (Top is F to E) Hold the C and let go of everything else Ok, I'm getting tired of figuring out these chords (I'm not very strong technically as you may tell), so here are the notes bottom to top: (while holding the high C) C Eb Bb C F A Db F Ab Bb Db F G Ab C E G

I'm just sorting it out, but I came up with what's in red.... Then of course there's the variation on the "verse" that does: (main lick) x2, then: ||: F Ab F Eb C Ab:|| x3 ||: Db Bb F C Ab F Bb Gb Db Ab F Db G Eb Bb A F C Bbmin :|| Actually, being an organ novice, what I was really looking for on YouTube was an idea of the volume pedal, drawbar, and leslie operation. There are times that sound like a leslied palm gliss up, but I think it's the guitar going through a flanger. Also, it's pretty mellow sounding in the beginning and I got a great drawbar setting for it, but when he goes up higher it sounds brighter and I don't know if it's a change in drawbars or just the result of the higher volume giving more overdrive. Also, I'm playing LH bass through it which makes it hard to change the leslie speed. I don't know if he manages to hit the switch quickly between changes or if he isn't playing LH. EDIT: Actually, at the end of "verse", I'm playing F major, so A instead of Ab. I actually haven't listened to it for a while. I picked through it and once I got enough to start playing, I just went with it. I may have changed some parts up inadvertently along the way.

I've been learning Foreplay by Boston and am getting pretty close, so I thought I'd compare how I'm playing it to some Youtube videos for kicks. I came across this guy doing in on a Lowry Prestige, which is kind of one of these Mall organ store, auto this and that, sort of things. I was impressed - he nailed a lot of the parts including guitar and bass parts. The drums have to be sequenced unless he's triggering them like an arpeggiator or something. But either way, pretty cool for a mall organ. [video:youtube] EDIT: Read some comments by a poster of another video and looked more closely. He is using his right foot to hit a start/stop switch for the hihat/cymbals, and you can tell at the end that he's triggering some drums with his right foot as well.

Have you tried Parts Express ?

On Friday nights during the summer months at Busch Stadium, they have local live bands play before the Cardinals games - we've done it a couple times. The stage is in the corner of the stadium in a big plaza at the outfield. There's nothing but a tall ornamental Aluminum fence between the back of the stage and the street. But do they put any kind of gate there? no. You have to call the person in charge to have a security guy let you in one of the gates 1/4 way around the stadium. And then there is not parking - you have to go pay the $20 or whatever that everybody else pays who are going to the game. OK, so that's bad enough, but we were there once when it was REALLY hot, and we were geting occasional showers. They had one little canopy that was big enough to cover the drums. I brought tarps. We were actually setting up in the rain (it was dry when we loaded in and then started raining). So I'm actually under the tarp plugging in wires. It stops raining about 5 min before we are supposed to start, and the sun comes out in full force. BLAZING hot and ridiculous humidity. We play the whole show with no rain. As soon as we start tearing down - MASSIVE downpour - rain blowing sideways. EVERYTHING got completely soaked before we could get it in the cases. Because of the parking situation, I threw my rig in the drummer's car with his stuff. I didn't get a chance to check it out until our gig the next night. My keyboards were still wet in their cases. I let them set out and dry for a while before I turned anything on. Everything worked fine.

In my duo back in the mid 90's, we played a place where you're up overhead in a little kind of loft overlooking the bar. To get there, you carry your stuff DOWNSTAIRS to the kitchen, then into a little kind of freight elevator, up 2 flights to the loft. Kind of weird. Not really all that horrible, I've had many worse, but usually comparable to most of the other stories here. I also played a boathouse on the Missouri River. The estate was up on a cliff and the boathouse was down on the water. I'm thinking, crap this is going to suck... until they showed me this little trolly thing they had. It was basically just kind of a platform that is lowered down my a cable on a track (we took the steps).

That sounds interesting... do tell!

Plastic Fruit Arrangement (PFA for short) I can't take credit, a buddy of mine had this for a band name back in college. I came to this thread late and actually read ALL of it to this point to make sure mine wasn' here. My head hurts. And so does my Butt. I'm not sure why.

New Element Discovered Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

Using GOOGLE - click "Advanced Search" and under "Search within a site or domain" type / and run your search. It will only return results from the MusicPlayer forums.

Karl, Good to see someone else from St. Louis on here. Not a lot of us (well, there are a few, they just don't live here anymore).