El Lobo

Nord Electro 5D, White Grand. It has a fuller, more detailed sound than the other choices, but is also bright enough to cut through in the mix of a blues/rock/R&B band. To me, it sounds more like a piano than all the other piano samples available to later Nord models. For electric piano sounds, I always come back to Wurly. I have tried ALL the Rhodes sounds but none of them work for me as well as the Wurly, especially in terms of how they cut through in the mix. I'm just a Wurly guy and have been since the 70's.

There were aspects of the movie that were very well done, especially Bradley Cooper's makeup and looks and his imitation of Bernstein's voice. It was almost uncanny. Still, I was bored through the middle of the film. Focusing on Bernstein's marriage and personal life was an interesting approach and made for some good story-telling, but it wasn't good enough to keep me involved in the story so I was surfing the internet during the middle section and towards the end. If it had said much more about Bernstein's musical accomplishments, I would have been more engaged. He was a musical genius, as a composer, conductor, teacher. I remember his voice talking to us about "What is jazz?" and explaining and singing the 12-bar "Macbeth blues" - take any Shakespeare couplet, repeat the first line, then the second line: You know I will not be afraid of death and bane I said I will not be afraid of death and bane Til Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. I learned a lot about music in the 10 or 15 seconds it took him to sing and play that on the piano.

Please excuse my very limited way of thinking about it, but what I see is that, against a C7 chord, you're playing all the black keys (all the sharps or flats in the key) plus the 1 and the 3 and the 6. I have to give that a try.

Kudos to all the wonderful players posting in this thread. You are experienced, skilled, yet you acknowledge the music that trips you up. I'm impressed. I'm a barely passable blues/rock keys player, good as rhythm but extremely limited. I'm mainly a sax player. I grew up on 50's and 60's and 70's rock and R&B (especially New Orleans) so that's what I like to play. My dad liked early jazz (what's now called trad jazz) so I like that. I didn't grow up on bop so I don't like or listen to it; can't play it even on sax - don't want to. But I like and can play some of what's called soul jazz. I like reggae and ska and other world beat stuff - I play sax in a world beat originals band. But real latin is damn tricky and I think you have to grow up on it to get the rhythms right. I love Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and other classical. The classical music station is always on in my car. Can't listen to most opera. I like traditional country, hate modern country. I love some disco because of the production (Disco Inferno) and even Bigfoot can dance to that 4-on-the-floor beat. I wish I could play Steely Dan music convincingly but I know I never will -- it's beyond my ability and musical comprehension. I like and can appreciate almost all music even if I can't play it. But not rap. As Randy Newman said, it's like playing tennis without a net. Maybe if the lyrics were really great poetry, like Shakespeare sonnets set to a beat or Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias. But alas, that will never be. Or will it?

Agreed. But Brock sure is Purdy

The 49ers (10-3) and the Ravens (10-3) play on Christmas Day. That could ruin a lot of Christmas dinners.

I'm too old for this. YMMV, especially if you're much younger and really wanting the band to get gigs, etc. But for $50 and 6 or more hours of my time, no way. If I just have to show up an hour before downbeat, then maybe. How close is the festival, how much travel time? I've turned down gigs for hundreds of dollars that were 100 miles away. Then again, I've been gigging for 60 years so I just don't do this anymore. How badly do you want to play? How much do you like this band? Those things figure into the equation. You have to decide how much it's worth and how much you want it.

Thanks for that. Very funny. What an idjit.

I stand. I'm doubling on tenor sax so I pretty much have to stand. I'm 78 and have arthritis in most of my joints -- except hands and fingers, probably because I use them all the time. I use a tall stool when I'm playing keys so it looks almost like I'm standing.

Just sat in on sax for a couple sets with a friend's band. Everything was groovy as long as I was there and playing. Home now. Ouch.

Thanks for your thought. Keyboard in 1 band is a single Nord 5D + tenor sax. Other band is only sax, but I carry tenor and baritone. The bari is a beast but gawd I love the big sound and the huge low end.

I'm 78 and playing in 2 regularly gigging bands. I have arthritis in my knees, hips, sacrum, shoulders, neck. Everything hurts, all the time. I load in sax, keyboard, 2 speakers, stands, etc. I'm looking down the road when I'm too old for this crud. It may be coming soon. I'm grateful to be playing live music at what I call my advanced age, considering the alternative. I know several musicians who can no longer physically play, some because they are dead. Playing music is the best pain killer I know. As long as I'm playing, I feel no pain. The next day, however, I pay for it. I've had cortisone shots but the more you have them, the less effective they are. I have an appointment with my doc next week. There will be more x-rays and we'll see what kind of treatment plan we can come up with. I can't use ibuprofen or naproxen because I have chronic kidney disease and all NSAIDS are hard on kidneys. My dear friend, a wonderful singer, calls what I'm doing right now, the "organ recital." It's what old people do. I'll keep playing music as long as I can -- it's what I do, who I am, what keeps me alive -- but the end of the road is out there and I may be arriving there in the foreseeable future. I'm just now experiencing the end of GAS. Instead of acquiring gear, I'm giving it away. I'm giving my old Nord to my son and also one of my 3 tenor saxes. I have more keyboards and horns and mixers and speakers and wind synths and guitars and other stuff than I can ever play or use. I have backups for backups. It's time for somebody else to use them. Be grateful that you still get to play music.

Walking out on Tedeschi/Trucks after 1st song is hard core. But if it's too loud, it's too loud. Any professional band, major name or local heroes, needs to deal with this and figure it out. I hate it when name acts have bad sound/too loud. It means they don't know what they're doing.

Not in my experience. You lock the width in place with the knobs and the accordion keeps it there. The flat bar legs that it sits on do not move while you're playing.

I have the Gator stand and never had stability problems with it. I now use the Knox stand which is lightweight, stable, easy and fast set up and take down. Also inexpensive. I don't know what it is in Oz. Mine was $40 in the US, as Jwave said above.

Thank you for that. Made me laff. Very important.

This reminds me about the rules for being a successful musician: be on time, be easy to get along with, and I forgot the rest. Those first 2 will get you most of the way there.

I think you have to be out there in order to meet other musicians and for them to know you're out there. It's a cliché but it's all about networking. Go to jams. Go out to see and meet other bands and get to know who the good players are. Be in a band, even if it's sucky, so you get out there and gig and learn about the venues, where the gigs are, who's playing them, sub in other bands, start your own band, do whatever you can do to be playing and gigging and performing in some capacity. I'm 78 and I'm in 2 gigging bands -- each one once or twice a month. I'm a very basic keys player, much better sax player, and the people I play with are all similar -- pretty good to very good, but nobody's knocking people out with their talent and skills and nobody's a poor player. I always say I'm grateful to be playing a lot of live music at what I call my advanced age, and playing it with good people. I know a number of musicians who can no longer play, several of them can't play because they're dead, others can't play for physical or health reasons. I'm looking down the (very short) road at the time when I'll have to stop playing (the "I'm too old to do this shit" moment) but I'll keep playing as long as I can and that other people will let me. All I can say is get out there and do it. The more you do it, the more there will be opportunities to do it.

Fun video. I'm guessing that those of us who got 2 of them wrong (including me) probably got the same 2 wrong – they were unusual Wurly sounds that I thought had to be Rhodes because they didn't sound Wurly-ish enough. What's interesting to me is that most people in this thread, as well as the guy in the video, are Wurly people (again, like me). I had a Wurly in the 70's (gave it up in the divorce) and it's the go-to sound I use on my keyboards, especially my gigging Nord 5D. I always try the many Rhodes sounds but they never satisfy. The Rhodes sounds never quite sound like the Rhodes I hear in my head. But when I play the Wurly sound, it sounds like what I want a Wurly to sound like and I settle in and just play.

A friend was a very successful musician – recorded and toured with Big Names, did commercials and soundtracks, etc. He once told me that if he knew how to do anything else, he would. Me, I'm happy being a weekend warrior for the past 60 years. I had some small amount of fame as a youngster but I made a decision not to try and make a living as a musician. I'm old – 78 – I don't have a studio but I'm playing in 2 regularly gigging bands. I'm good with that. And my house is paid off.

42-10 final

42-10 and another interception

49ers are 4-0. Nope, nothing to see here. Move along. Go look at some other teams.

I've played Autumn Leaves and Europa with same chord progression, although Autumn Leaves also has a bridge that Europa doesn't have. I think m7b5 is perhaps my most favorite chord. I play Autumn Leaves in both Em and Am. If you play a diminished chord F# A C D#(Eb), then you can just move the C down a half step to B for the next chord (B7). You can also play the E instead of the D#(Eb), the m7b5 chord, so then you move 2 notes to get to B7. I like the sound either way, although in Am the m7b5 chord is Bm7b5 which is all white notes and fits so comfortably under the hand - B D F A

I think you're right. Interesting - it's not on Amazon but appears to be readily available other places. $129.