Bobby Simons
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My daughter lives in DC and works in Tysons Corner. If I'm being honest, I just don't really want it. My gear accumulation days are behind me. Curious that he suggests breaking it down into parts for the crime of 'one sticky key contact', whatever that actually means.
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Only 1 keyboard influence on desert island?
Bobby Simons replied to 16251's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Maurice Ravel -
I"m pretty sure I don"t have a single bad relationship with anyone I have ever played with. Haven"t liked them all for sure, but they ARE behind me after all. There are always happy memories we could conjure up. Running into then in a social situation would be a pleasure. Of course, I say that now while drinking a local 12% DIPA and watching the new CGI Lion King. I am 'feeling the love tonight.'
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He used some EP on the 3 album. It just sounded... wrong, lol. Also, I seem to remember that they used to cart one around on the road to have some sort of a weighted action for warm-up in the dressing room. If I'm not mistaken, there was a picture of him at a Rhodes in one of the Contemporary Keyboard mags from around the Works tour.
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Found it - here's the entire book: https://www.scribd.com/document/406539536/Emerson-Lake-Palmer-Book-Anthology Just noticed your email address, sent the link there too.
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I put the call out to my ELP transcription list, if it"s in one of their books someone will come through. You should have asked a little sooner. You had to pick that one, lol? Most of my group avoid that recording like the plague.
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Wow, very cool. Must've been some grooving jams coming up. Truthfully, it wasn't apparent that he would even make a career out of it back then. I recall that he spent a good part of senior year with his leg in a big cast, busted it playing school football. Maybe that's what made up his mind, lol.
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Jimmy was our bass player in high school. Damned overachiever.
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Blame it on the drummer.
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My biggest beef with Guido is his open contempt for the Mac platform. He left us stuck on VB3.1 for ages after he came out with VB3.II , with no acknowledgement of our situation.
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Your Latest Purchase (music related)
Bobby Simons replied to Justin Havu's topic in The Keyboard Corner
A minor purchase: I pulled the trigger on the new Pianoteq Harps (concert and celtic) instrument pack. They truly sound beautiful. I'm a shameless 'blender', always mixing my piano with another piano, or an EP, an acoustic guitar, or whatever to make hybrid instrument that you can still play pianistically. This is great for that. Pianoteq Harp -
I like it how, if you click the wrong box, you'll order a 30-pack of these instead of just the one.
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I thought it sounded fabulous. Product demos are sometimes so carefully and slickly recorded that I wonder if I can expect the same great sound at home. Jim"s walkthrough felt like he just turned it on and started playing while I was in the room, and I"ll get what I heard.
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Jim Alfredson is doing a live stream demo 7:00 EST tonight.
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OT - What are you listening to right now?
Bobby Simons replied to Philip Clark's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Been listening to live Steve Hackett lately. The gradual disintegration of Genesis ultimately mattered little, the essence of band always lived on in Steve's capable hands. The sound quality of this show recording is stunning. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sMNFg43oc -
Guitarist Playing Keith Emerson Solos... Heresy!
Bobby Simons replied to Synthoid's topic in The Keyboard Corner
I always thought Paul Gilbert respectfully did his homework on this one, he really lays into Keith"s solo... [video:youtube] -
What a fascinating video, something for all of us. Pearls of wisdom spill out of Victor at every question. What a musician. [video:youtube]
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Great playing. That Nord becomes an instrument and not just a keyboard in his hands, if you know what I mean. My GAS kicked in during that video.
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Trazedone - they've apparently been prescribing it since the 60's. "Safe as milk", says my doctor, who normally keeps his prescription pad tucked in his pocket. Look it up. It's classed as an antidepressant, but you take it at night and it lets you just drift off.
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I first saw Eddie Money in the 80's at the Ritz in NYC. His keyboardist, who I found to be riveting, turned out to be a relatively unknown (at least to me) Kevin Gilbert. I did not put this together until years after, when I had become a huge KG fan. Much later I was in a band that opened for Eddie at Westbury Music Fair (or whatever they call it these days) here on Long Island.
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A thoughtful assessment, I couldn't agree more.
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So was I.
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I want that bench.
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This came up in my recommendations this a.m. Such a great, musical part. If this has already been posted, let me know and I"ll delete. [video:youtube]
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I like it.
