Lou Gehrig Charles
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Act quickly, just two spaces left! Who's going to get them?
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We were briefly "Crapulent" for a time. But officially we're "Friday Practice Band".
It's a name sure to pack the house.
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I would sit if it were up to me..... But it was expected of me that I needed to stand. So I stood for all two times I have played live in front of other people.
And it was at those times I realized I need a spacer of an inch or two to bring my lower board up to the correct height! That'll be for next time.
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Cool! "Perfect Strangers" is on my short list of songs I am trying to get my band to learn. We'll get to it eventually, once we learn all the grungey songs the 30-somethings want to do first!
Thanks for posting!
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"Now the seats are all empty
Let the roadies take the stage"-
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49 minutes ago, MathOfInsects said:
That image is so fake Milli Vanilli just reunited to sing a song about it.
With AI doing the vocals (or the dance moves?) or... whatever would be Rob's part? 🤪
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For anything work-related or related to any hobbies or activities I'm passionate about, I'd rather just buy the stuff myself. Gift cards are good!
I used to drive my parents crazy when they asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I'd ask for socks and underwear.... Then I'd go out and buy myself some toy or something with my own money. They'd ask, why didn't I put it on my Christmas list? Because they're likely to get me a lesser, cheaper version of what I really wanted. This continued well into adulthood and I'd buy myself some fancy piece of camera gear (or whatever) and I could never let them see it.
Musical gear would be the same issue I am sure!
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Oh, cool I'll look on Flickr. Are you Ken Lee there?
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11 hours ago, RABid said:
How good can it be if you have to play it with sticks?
Speaking of which - that guy's other hand is bigger than his head!
In all seriousness..... My dad worked for General Electric when I was a kid, and everything in the house was from GE. I am sure if GE made musical instruments we would have had them. Come to think of it, a GE organ is somewhat more believable than a Rheem organ, so who knows? Maybe they did.
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Awesome! I'm so glad you posted these; I had seen a few of Tim's but they were on Facebook and I am unable to leave comments there. This must've been the full moon where we were supposed to be in Georgia.
You shot this one at the right time. Dig that texture on the front of the building!
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8 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:
Back then there were other similar businesses like “The Book Of The Month Club”.
I remember it also was back in the days of "allow four to six weeks for delivery". Imagine if that was the norm nowadays! Now, when I order something I get annoyed if I don't get a tracking number later the same day. How things have changed!
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All the best for a speedy recovery! Your post reminds me I need to get on my doctor and/or Walgreens to refill my BP meds, which are supposed to renew automatically but all too often don't unless I make a few calls. It's not supposed to be that way!
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If it gets cold enough, I wear my Carhardt coveralls, but they're the total opposite of "packing lightly".... They're super bulky!
I also have one of those yellow High-Viz parkas. If I wear that plus the coveralls, I look like I'm just a guy from the city or the gas company, checking on the utilities. It's the perfect disguise, which sometimes comes in handy if I'm shooting in some place I'm not supposed to be.
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I never got involved in these programs, but used to pore over the ads and look at the albums. Remember the ones that had the little "postage stamp" sized stickers you could fasten to the order form? I turned them into posters for the buildings on my HO scale train layout.
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On 11/8/2023 at 3:52 PM, Baldwin Funster said:
Ah Tormato. I think that album was released direct to the cut out bin. I remember having that on cassette.
I actually like it.
Years ago.... Well, close to forty.... radio station WWCT in Peoria IL had a contest where listeners had to keep track of 106 album names (because it was 106 FM - get it?) announced at random at various times of the day, and then send in their lists for a chance to win a Cobra sports car replica. I've forgotten most of what was on the list but "Tormato" will probably remain in my memory forever, mainly because I didn't know how to spell it and had to check at the music store so I would know what to write on the list. Looking back, the contrarian in me would have chosen "Drama" instead, but whatever; at any rate I think it was the only Yes album on the list. At any rate, I didn't win the car, and neither did my friend. But we did try to improve our odds by hand-delivering our lists to the studio and they were nice enough to roll out the red carpet to us and give us a tour of the place. I miss that station.
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We played Friday night.... My first time indoors at an actual bar (and not outdoors on a porch like when I posted my last picture). First time on a real stage.
We're still setting up here so the teeming crowds haven't arrived yet. Drummer is invisible in the darkness to the right. I have now learned not to wear a black shirt - I am invisible in the videos! So is the drummer.
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50 minutes ago, Jose EB5AGV said:
Yes, there will be people around also involved on the video, and we plan to have our song playing in the background... But a modern keyboard is lifeless without some lights on it and a powered up display 😉. That is my complaint here
Does it have the ability to run on batteries? My Casios do..... But I doubt the Junos do that the school provides for the kids. AC Power only. The Junos have a bunch of lights that come on and I would not want to go without that even if I'm pretending to play.
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5 minutes ago, SamuelBLupowitz said:
I was always happy in videos from the later years when that guy (I forget his name, but it was the same guy for much of the band's run) would actually come onstage and rock out next to Brian May. I always thought "let's not let anyone see this human who is also playing with the band" was a strange choice visually, but to each their own.
LOL I'm just glad I wasn't the only one who remembered that guy. There's always a little voice in my head telling me it was something I dreamed up!
Sadly I couldn't remember his name either but I am sure I've seen it somewhere.
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1 hour ago, K K said:
Anti GAS pic ?
Having two "C"s on there seems like an extravagance, like having two "E" strings on a guitar.
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6 minutes ago, SamuelBLupowitz said:
....even Queen played a tape for the choir section of Bohemian Rhapsody onstage.
And didn't they also use a guy behind the curtain who played the piano when Freddie was away from the bench? Imagine the pressure THAT guy must've felt!
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17 minutes ago, Rod S said:
I watched my father's overall health and well-being decline because of hearing loss. I want to delay this as much as possible.
Interestingly, my dad somehow managed to keep his hearing extremely well his whole life, unlike so many older people who don't. When he eventually had health issues (cardiac issues mostly) he hated being in the hospital because the staff tended to shout at him like they did to most of the other old folks who were nearly deaf.
My mother though had the usual old person's belief that "everyone else is mumbling". She eventually got hearing aids and then decided she didn't like them so she almost never wore them.
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4 hours ago, elsongs said:
Yeah, I can forgive a band that's only using synths occasionally in their set (i.e. not enough songs to warrant a separate keyboard player) but I find the idea of doing synth-heavy '80s music or even contemporary synth-heavy pop songs with all keyboards on backing tracks to be atrocious, and even personally offensive. Like bruh, your '80s cover band (that plays the same 50 big hits of the 1980s that every other '80s cover band is playing) is doing A-ha's "Take On Me" and your guitar player is playing the minimal guitar part on the record (or doing an uncalled-for crunch guitar part, come on now - but the universally-recognizable synth lead melody of the song is coming out of thin air. Yeah, non-musicians might not care, but these same non-musicians likely don't think a synthesizer is a real musical instrument.
You're probably right; if all they need the KB player for is the synth parts in "Jump" and "The Final Countdown", that guy may as well go look for a different band! The audience probably won't notice if those are tracks but we do.
There's a local band I like that does all 80s synth-pop and new wave stuff but for whatever reason they have recently moved to putting all their KB parts on tracks. They used to have a small KB on stage that the singer would use on certain songs ("Just Like Heaven", "Don't Change" by INXS, the strings part in "White Wedding", etc etc) but now those are on tracks. I'm too polite to ask Why, but maybe I should? Maybe I should ask to join.
We are doing "Just Like Heaven" and I play it on two boards. But I don't sing or play guitar or anything else so I can devote all my gray matter to the KB.
We play tomorrow night! First time ever indoors at an actual bar. Wish me luck!
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5 minutes ago, Threadslayer said:
I was about to reveal yet again how old and out of touch I've become by asking When did colored guitar strings become a thing? I did a quick search and apparently at least 15 years.
But the newest ones glow in the dark! I have a picture I can post but it's not here on this computer.
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I use a Knox "Z" stand and it's accessory Knox second-tier stand for the second keyboard. With that said however, I trimmed several inches off the second tier so it wouldn't be so monstrously high (I used a Sawzall to trim it). Seated or standing, the stock configuration was much too tall. I'm not trying to hide that much, just a little!
Anna Indiana (AI Singer-Songwriter)
in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage
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I saw the thread title and assumed it was about a town in Indiana. Not so the case.
We have an Anna here in Illinois about five hours south of me. Far, far southern IL.