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I was working in a record store when that album came out and it was biggest selling album ATCO Records ever had. I grew tired of the song real fast, I like the original band with Danny Weiss on guitar a lot more. I used to hear the original at the Galaxy club a couple doors down from the Whiskey all the time. I saw them many years later as a power trio opening for Etta James at a bar in Venice. They were burned out stoner zombies that night it was sad they just stood there playing with empty eyes, yes they did In a Gadda Da Vida as a trio with Mike Pinera on guitar not keyboards.

My buddies and I talk about this and see it as big part of problem with so few places to play anymore, we were young we all had fake IDs or just sweated it out playing little bars and school dances and learning how to play in a group and as a group how to play for an audience. Where I'm at now only a few places mainly VFW's that have music and most have a bad reputation for screwing over bands (last minute cancelations, not paying the agreed amount, etc). The local college has band classes, but rock and instructors doing the comments don't talk stage presence, pretty much started and stopped together so your a band now. You see some of these kids play around town and just stand around on stage staring at each other, but not listening. I feel sorry for kids these days at least when I was kid there was live music everywhere even little dive bars would have live music on weekends. In school we'd go to the frat parties because they usually had good bands. We walk around fraternity row listening for a good band, then knock on the door and offer a six pack of beer to hang out and listen to the band. It was all part of learning to play.

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Lady Gaia is right and most app's aren't multi-threaded and rely on the OS to juggle the processes that can increase load on the CPU swapping processes in and out. Then memory is you don't have a lot then then processes then virtual memory is getting worked hard juggling memory which is more load on the CPU. So a lot of things come into play trying to troubleshoot processor being max'd out. That's why computers for audio need a lot of CPU and RAM as well as fast drives.

As someone who used to do sound a lot mixing for clubs and concerts, I'd say most the sound guys I hear today suck. Either they think they are mixing a record and not live sound, or they got hired because they are cheap (big problem where I live). I really hate the sound companies that no matter what type of show they have a line of subwoofers cranked to where that's mainly what you hear. Or they over power a room, the sound is suppose to sound like its coming from the band on the stage, not your system. The real name for the job is "sound reinforcement" in other words make sure everything can be heard and a good balance thru out the venue seating area. Last if the band, their manager or sound person wants the mix a certain way give it to them, when they are onstage even if the opening act it's their show for that set. That last bit on if the band wants it give it to them happen on a show I worked. ZZ Top was still fairly new and were opening for Doobie Brothers. ZZ Top's manager/producer shows up right as sound check was to start he hasn't heard the PA at all, but he start barking out EQ settings. We politely tell him you haven't heard the PA and we've worked this venue many times and know the room. He starts getting mad and starts backing EQ's settings again, again we say listen to the system we'll get you a mix up and you can tweak it from there however you like. Now he is going crazy yelling so we just say F-it and do what he says. ZZ Top sound was horrible that night and the guy didn't want to admit his settings were crap. The Doobies sounded great they were very happy and reviews said how good their sound was. So even if it going to suck, do what the band or their manager wants.

Guitar amps are for grit not what you want in most situations. A Fender Twin is a excellent utility amp a lot of power, can get gritty at high volume, but is very heavy and open back which affects where you use or place it. In my roadie days always tried to bring a Twin Reverb as a backup amp for anything guitar, bass, keyboards, even low end PA in a pinch. When I did the Yes tour we had a big and extremely heavy roadcase rarely touched, so I opened it to see what weighted that much, it had TWO Fender Twins both with JBL D120 speakers. It was the spare amps for anything that might breakdown. As a guitarist and it will probably be my approach for key's too will be multiple size and configuration speaker cabinets then a good amp head (or two). With that I can use what size or freq' range I need for the situation. With my guitars I have a 1x8", 2x8", 1x10" 1x12" speaker cabinets. The 2x8" is my favorite. Then a couple different amp heads and yes a Fender combo amp for that classic guitar sound. For key's I would probably start with a 2x10 preferably with a tweeter there are some nice bass cabinets that would do the job. Today's bass sound with the slapping and popping bass is quite a wide freg' range so there cabinet should cover key's well. Today's bass world small is the focus and you can get small very portable bass heads that even Jazz guitar players use because they have a good sound range and lots of overhead. So consider a mix and match appoach and it easy to grow with your needs versus laying out a lot of money now.

I would ask him to checkout Herbie Hancock's album "The New Standard". Killer band with Herbie mainly on acoustic piano, but reason I suggest it the material is newer songs that the student may be familiar with like Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, etc. Another album along the same lines is Robert Glasper's "Covered". An acoustic trio doing even newer songs a high school student should be familiar. I find when people know the songs then easier to get into the Jazz versions of same tunes. Plus there are a number of YouTubes with Glasper performing these tunes in the studio so student can watch him play.

I've recently purchased and iPad so this intrigued me, so I did what you said and couldn't see anything. Then I checked Apple support website and mainly generic info on older iPhones and suppose to apply to iPads too. So went back to looking closely at my iPad which is the dark Space Gray and only thing I saw looked like smudge under where it said iPad. I get a magnifying glass and with the highest magnification I finally saw some small, lighter gray printing that contained that model number and Made In China bit. It is crazy even with a magnifying glass it was still hard to see, so maybe the seller had a Space Gray iPad like me and seeing that printing is extremely hard to see.

I don't give Skype lessons but have taken many both my past guitar teacher and my current piano teacher are in NYC, I was also for a few years part of an Skype conference call with a big name sax player with people Skyping in from all over the globe. I'm in the California desert so a good internet high speed internet connection is required. Using my laptop, iMac, and now iPad for student side of Skype is okay, but on piano sometimes my setup doesn't show enough of the keyboard, so instructor will ask me to drop down and octave so he can see my hands better. I have a good USB microphone on my iMac so sound quality is very good. I used to use ECAMM to record my Skype sessions, but Skype has since added recording and it works well. Only gotcha is they only store the recorded video in their cloud for 30 days, but it is very easy to download video to your computer. The only thing I miss about ECAMM is the recording it made you could say show only one side of the call so I could duck myself out of the video and watch my instructor full screen. I have to checkout that OBS software because I would like a overhead view, or get a taller stand for my iPad to try to capture more of the keyboard. The first person I was going to take Skype lessons from also puts some of his lessons on YT (he makes sure not to say student's name and mainly only see the teacher and his piano. His setup looks interesting appears he has an overhead boom stand with a iPhone holder he puts his iPhone in. That points down so you see the top of the teachers head and can clearly see the piano. On top of his piano he has his MacBook and you sometimes can see the teachers view of the Skype session. Sometime when he's talking only he'll just look up at the overhead iPhone camera so you can see him. I think this setup looks good everything easy to see from student perspective using only his iPhone and MacBook. He's a working pro musician and well even do lessons from dressing room before or after a show so it's also a very portable setup. My guitar teacher lived in NYC but taught at Berklee a few days a week, she would just use her MacBook for lessons at home, Berklee, or even when she would be in Europe gigging, but guitar is easy to get into view of a single camera. So hope there is something of help in there about Skype from the student side. I think the iPhone on an overhead boom combined MacBook is a simple setup that give a good view of piano and teacher as necessary.

As a guitarist I have to say that is tracking great. As to the content he's playing I'll leave that to you guys, I'm still a keyboard noob.

I'm with the others power dips and/or spikes. Power conditioners are mainly for line noise and spikes, may want to look into a UPS because they have batteries they also keep power even no dips.

Just heard the legend Harold Maybern has passed. A great pianist and story teller. Thank you Harold for all your music and inspiration. RIP Annoucement about Harold passing.

Had my piano lesson today that's my latest musical purchase. I have an Manhasset conductor music stand on order, so I can have a large music stand behind my practice keyboard.

I worked in the computer / software industry for decades and holding off upgrading is a good habit to get into for all upgrades. The QA test cycle is the first part of projects time gets cut from and some companies the full functionality test is done after a product ships. Yes you are the beta tester like it or not. I can save shipping new products with bug lists still in the thousands is normal. One product I worked on shipped with 5000 known bugs, now a lot of those bugs were cosmetic, documentation, and in obscure areas of the app, but some were "show stopper" bugs negotiated down to a priority 2 bug in meetings. One of the biggest companies I worked for twice shipped with 1000 bugs. Back then lead times to manufacture CD's and paper documentation was so long we usually had bug fixes finished before a product would ship. So unless a diehard, have to have it now fanboy, always wait to installs upgrades.

Raspberry PI is a lean and mean platform towards robotic control and embedded use. So Mac OS is definitely too resource hungry for it, but Mac OS was built on top of Darwin BSD one of the flavors of UNIX and that's why Linux another UNIX derived OS work. Normal Windows like Mac OS is to resource hungry for Raspberry Pi but Window does have stripped down version I believe call Core Windows the design for the IoT development again looking at embedded or dedicated use. What I understand Core Windows only runs one app with limited video capabilities. Bigger problem audio programs themselves are resources hungry so Raspberry Pi just to small for what your thinking of, unless you're of a programmer writing lean and mean app and libraries. You would be better looking at the small motherboard computers like mini-ITX that can have the horsepower, but in small size to handle what your talking about. If you thinking of selling your idea as a product that's going to open a whole big can of worms for licensing the your operating system of choice and any software you use. I'd say build yourself a prototype then decide if all the legalities and licensing cost are going to be worth making a product for sale.

Listening to a lot of Ahmad Jamal live in Paris very cool album.

Getting late and feeling good about my practice today so checked YT and bernies bootlegs just put up the whole Lennie Tristano album called Note for Note. Digging the album so I just bought the download version. Here the link to the YT for some laid back Lennie.

I've only recently started playing piano now that I'm in the Jurassic phase of my life, I've played guitar and bass most my life. The first keyboardist to blow my mind was seeing Jimmy Smith, but I viewed him as a God so just want to listen and not try to play. Later I wanted to play keyboard after hearing The Nice (Emerson's band before ELP), Brian Auger, Steve Winwood, and New Orleans pianists, but sadly money and other circumstances it didn't happen.

Listened to Bud Powell all night what a master.

Listening to a lot of Lennie Tristano lately and started the biography on him. Dig his stuff with Lee Konitz.

I swore I wouldn't do it, but just started piano lessons and needed some form of computer over in my keyboard area so I brought a iPad (head hung in shame). So guess I'll be getting ForScore and other apps for music and practice. Going to try and keep the iPad strictly for music purposes.

YA!!!!!!!!!!!! Clippers!!!!! What news here said is Kawhi was still on the fence about the Clippers until they told him about Paul George and that all it took and he signed. Blue Collar Basketball rules!

I've heard Barry and others who know that era use the term "the hinge", and Barry say it in the end section of the video. Can someone explain "the hinge" is it some kind of pivot or connecting point??? Also interesting is John Coltrane wrote Giant Steps as a practice exercise for himself that ended up being recorded, but Coltrane only played Giant Steps live once. Part of Coltrane exploration came from that drawing found after his death of what looks like a CoF, but has additional inner and outer rings. Sadly there were no notes or comments left by Coltrane on this drawing. There are a number of articles on it on the internet. Some say this came after Coltrane and Ornette Coleman spend some time with Sun Ra and both became interesting in astrology and numerology. Coltrane mentally and musicially was a constant explorer.

Big fan of Nahre's videos always learn something. I like her video on classical musician learns.... funk, bossa and others. Then her videos where she starts reharming classical pieces. Also her videos with Adam Neely and David Bruce she's so open minded and not a classical snob.

Been listening to CTI album specifically Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay. Great playing on those CTI albums with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, George Benson and others. Also the albums on Kudo records a off shoot of CTI who Grover Washington, Esther Phillips, and others were on. What a great time in music.