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Those of you who subscribe to Scribd (and maybe even those of you who don't), can now access several back issues of the late, lamented B3 Player Magazine, which have been uploaded by a guy named Christian Madden. They contain an incredible wealth of useful information -- transcriptions, instructional material, interviews, reviews, etc, -- for organists from beginners to expert. I wish it were still being published. Thank you, Mr. Madden, whoever you are. And thanks to Scribd, which is an amazing resource for musicians. https://www.scribd.com/user/544296969/Christian-Madden/uploads

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- Los Lobos at the Channel in Boston in 1985: I was in grad school at MIT and heard cuts from Will the Wolf Survive on the student radio station, bought the LP and then got tickets the next day and my skeptical wife said "we are going to see a Mexican polka band?" One of the all time exciting shows I've ever seen; the energy and joy was just over the top. (It was also one of the loudest I've ever been to...but that is coincidental) I saw Los Lobos at Irving Plaza in NYC during the same tour, also because I'd heard "Will The Wolf Survive" on the radio and was curious. Can confirm that it was a stunningly brilliant show, and also ear-shattering loud (I think I actually had my fingers in my ears for much of show). It led me to take a deep-dive into accordion-driven Tejano music -- Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez, Steve Jordan, etc -- and to eventually buy a cheap accordion so I could play a bit of it (along with Klezmer music). Still love Los Lobos.

Of the many DP's -- too many!-- I've played, and owned over the decades, my GEM Promega 3 remains my unqualified favorite. Beautiful APs, EPs and other stuff, lovely keyboard, simple, intuitive interface. Too damn heavy for gigging given what I typically get paid for a gig here in flyover country, but still a joy a home. I have an RP-X which occasionally I've used on gigs, but I'm so lazy that I usually can't be bothered with making the extra-cable connections.

I discovered in high school that I could not remember tunes or arrangements or lyrics or sequences of synth patches or anything. So I became a jazz musician and stuck to playing the piano.

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Too amazing to be true, perhaps.

Looks cool, but my brain would probably have a hard time playing it.

Are you talking about this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218514522127298&set=a.1025664294855&type=3&theater Yes. In the comments that accompany the teaser for the Mojo Classic that Crumar posted today, I think that's what Marco Ballarani is suggesting. I don't know what else that organ in the foreground could be. I don't recognize it. Do you?

If you go to Crumar's FB page and look at the photo posted on February 19th, you can see part of the new Mojo Classic in the foreground. https://www.facebook.com/instruments.crumar/

This is both amazing and terrifying. The era of Deep Fakes is upon us. It will not end well.

I had similar issues with my Mojo dual. I also found that the relative clarity of various registers on the organ was often different from venue to venue, and that the on-board EQ controls on the Mojo were not nearly sufficient to get the thing to sound the way I wanted it to sound. Got myself this inexpensive Behringer 9-band equalizer, and found that it really helped make the board a lot more tweakable: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FBQ800--behringer-minifbq-fbq800?&mrkgcl=28&mrkgadid=3308753025&product_id=FBQ800&campaigntype=shopping&campaign=aaShopping%2520-%2520SKU%2520-%2520Studio%2520%26%2520Recording&adgroup=Signal%2520Processing%2520%26%2520500%2520Series%2520-%2520Behringer%2520-%2520fbq800&placement=google&creative=290335234556&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmZDxBRDIARIsABnkbYSChQZIX29WuY1OgW8wMJCC3WGnsQJ5R-2_AEsyBdD0xd1HSLAolZ8aAoi7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds It weights next to nothing, and though it feels really cheaply made, it's dirt cheap and get's the job done. I've never played the Mojo with a Leslie, but YouTube has videos of people doing just that:

Okay, I had assumed from the original post that you were interested in using the lower manual as a stand-alone controller. But from the above post I think you are wanting to play an external module from the lower manual, while it"s connected to your Mojo61. That"s exactly what many of us are doing. In my case, the module is an iPad, Check out the long Mojo 61 Review thread below. On Page 26 (by my prefs) there"s a discussion on how to set that up. Hope this helps! Exactly what I'm hoping to do. I'm going to look for your post now. Thanks!

I'm using the Mojo 61 with lower manual mostly for straight ahead jazz organ trio stuff. But I'm thinking about expanding my palette by using the upper manual for organ, and then, via an external sound module, splitting the lower manual between bass sounds and other sounds -- pianos, pads, synth, whatever. I realize I could do this using a second keyboard, but that introduces its own set of complications. Just thought this might be worth a try, which is why I asked the question.

Thanks! I messaged them about this and I'm waiting for an answer.

Thanks. That's helpful . . . but also confusing. I saw the MJU on the Crumar/G.M. Lab web site, but didn't really understand the explanation provided there. The "Project Files" for the device are completely over my head. The video makes it appear as though the MSU is an "interface" between the keyboard and the Gemini Sound Module. So maybe it is the thing I'm looking for. I'll ask Crumar/ G.M. Labs directly. It's only $129 assembled: I hope it does what I'd like it to do.

I've recently acquired a Crumar Mojo 61 along with the lower manual that Crumar sells as a companion piece. The lower manual doesn't have its own power supply: According to the manual, it's powered by the MIDI cable that connects it to the 61. (I don't understand how that's possible, but I don't understand much of anything.) This got me wondering whether I can use the lower manual to control an external sound module of some sort. I'm thinking in particular of my old GEM RP-X, but, if that won't work, then something else. Does anyone know whether this would work? Has anyone done this successfully? Do I risk damaging the lower manual, or the sound module, or both, if, as an experiment, I simply connect the two via a MIDI cable and see what happens? Thanks for any advice or guidance you might be able to provide.

"The tall upright by the wall was designed for him so he could stand while playing to relieve stress on an old back injury." Who knew??

I've probably watched this video a dozen times since first discovering it about a year ago. Here's a couple more where he's practicing or just playing for himself:

The reviews on the Amazon page to which you linked are not good.

I think that's the band's concept. Would make great backing tracks for TV commercials. Wonder if they've done that. From Wikipedia: "The band members attended University of Michigan's music school.[1] They first came together as a rhythm section for a performance at the Duderstadt Center, a university facility that houses an arts library and other resources. After reading an interview with German producer Reinhold Mack, band founder Jack Stratton conceived of Vulfpeck as an imagined German version of the U.S. session musicians of the 1960s such as Funk Brothers, Wrecking Crew, and Muscle Shoals. The idea was to channel that era of the live rhythm section." So, basically, they're a rhythm section.

The Motion Sound KP-500SN? Why don't you run your keyboards into its onboard mixer, then use the XLRs out to FOH? I use that amp with my Crumar Mojo. I also use a small Mackie mixer that has a 5 band EQ. I find that the mixer seems to boost the signal from the Mojo, which seems to improve the sound of the instrument, and that having the mixer on a stand next to me makes it easier to tweak EQ settings without having to keep getting up and walking over to the amp to tweak its EQ controls. I usually just flatten out the EQ settings on the amp and then use the mixer's EQ. Works for me. (The Mojo's on-board EQ controls, for just bass and treble, don't usually suffice to get the sound I want. Particularly the treble control -- it's really subtle.)

This is pretty interesting and informative: https://flypaper.soundfly.com/write/where-have-all-the-v-chords-gone-the-decline-of-functional-harmony-in-pop/

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