J Graul

The only thing perfect about music is its imperfections. That you can only get from imperfect human players on imperfect acoustic instruments. But that's my opinion.

Although you don't find much clavinet on his albums, but the opening track "Yell Help / Wednesday Night / Ugly" on Elton John's "Rock of the Westies" has some really nice clav work, especially on the third part "Ugly".

I was fortunate enough to play a couple of the Lexington Lab Band sets. I'm playing the Rhodes arpeggios, string synth, and flute synth on "I Can't Go For That". Nice to see that video recognized on here. Toto was the other set I did. What a blast!

Have you heard his sister, Dorian?

Love Roy Bittan!!!

Jealous. I wouldn't be able to talk my wife into the 2600. I can't even talk her into any of the Odysseys.

I second that...

I have the Model D. I love it but have only had a couple of live playing opportunities. Used it to play the solo in Magic Man for a concert. A friend of mine has the Deepmind and absolutely loves it. Haven't played on that yet.

Well, I just took the plunge on the upgrade. Waiting on my wife to give me hell now... Now I need to look at a good controller. Any suggestions? With the prior versions I've just been using my Kurzweil PC361, but it's been a little unstable the past couple of years.

Is v7 that much of an upgrade from v6?

Once: The Kurzweil K2600XS. My back says NO MORE!!

Where did you find these? I can't remember where they are located and lost them when my PC3 was updated.

I think it's a Nord Lead.

I use a small suitcase with casters and pull handle. Completely disorganized but easy on the shoulder/back.

I use a small suitcase with casters and pull handle. Completely disorganized but easy on the shoulder/back.

I've been using mostly IEMs for about 10 years now and the past 2 years have absolutely been the best. We're lucky to have a dedicated sound man who is a retired engineer. He's not a musician but knows frequencies and how to get a great FOH sound. He bought the Allen & Heath Qu-pac system with extra ports. It's awesome. We control our own monitors with a phone app. He also built snakes for me, the drummer, and lead guitarist. Nice setup. I think our drummer uses 8 channels including a click. We did have issues on the first three or four gigs with the wifi system due to conflicts with other close wifi routers, but he got it worked out. Not sure what he did but if anyone wants to know I will ask him. We also run in stereo and our IEMs are also in stereo. Love it! Both of our guitar players still use mic'd amps. We will never get them to using amp simulators, mostly because they can't figure them out to get good tones. I guess they also need to "feel" the amps. Bass player is all direct. The one gripe I have with all IEMs is that people dancing close to the stage get very little vocals and keys because there's no presence of them on the stage (no wedge montitors). I keep telling them we need to at least have some side-fills to get a little vocal presence.

If only the guy that wrote the lyrics were gay, I might have thought so too...

My problem with playing the song is that I haven't heard a patch on the Kurzweil that will get the staccato'd percussive jabs correctly. You can hear every note.

The Louisville GC didn't have the CP4 in. I was disappointed. Was hoping to get to play on it a little while waiting for mine from Sweetwater.

I thought hard about the MOXF8 before settling on the CP4. But since my CP4 will be sitting right beneath my PC361, I have no need for other sounds outside of pianos/e.pianos. My choice was based on the reviews here of the keyboard.

I just ordered mine yesterday afternoon. I went to the local Kurzweil dealer to check out the Artis first, only to find that they are no longer dealing Kurzweil. Was hoping to play the CP4 before ordering, but I just can't wait any longer!!