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Lou Gehrig Charles

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  1. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Dual Casios last night at a local beer garden/restaurant/brewpub. They placed us on the porch at the very last minute due to the imminent threat of rain but that meant we were REALLY close together since no one wanted to be out from under the small covered area. I think the drummer was close enough to reach the higher end of my boards! I couldn't even step back far enough to get my sweet Z stand in the shot! Fortunately when the rain did come it wasn't windy enough to get us wet but I was ready with the stack of napkins at the far end of the keyboard. Just in case.
  2. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Well..... Wish us luck. We play our very first show tomorrow, outdoors at a bar/restaurant. Technically it's my first show; a few of the others have played out before. My biggest concern is that the outdoors ambiance will mean my sound gets totally lost and is unheard. Well, that's the biggest concern besides the usual concern about playing the wrong notes of course! LOL Maybe it's better if I can't be heard!
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    "Beggin'" by Maneskin..... Apparently it's an old Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song. I have to play it on Saturday and I've been working on it for two days already! LOL Just two more days to go!
  4. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I've always marveled at that lens when I've seen it online or in the Nikon catalog. Nice to see all those detail photos which I've never seen before! Maybe we can each go in for half and can share it....
  5. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I saw the Drive-By Truckers at Chicago's Vic Theater in about 2006.... I probably would have enjoyed it had I known some (any) of the material, but I didn't. That plus the fact they were totally deafening. It was as if they'd brought a sound system suitable for an outdoor arena show to the much smaller theater venue. I've seen my share of very loud bands but this one stands out for its extreme volume which seems just odd for a southern rock kind of band.
  6. Lou Gehrig Charles
    A quick note about the Summit Inn: It shook me back into reality, seeing it going up in flames on the national news that day, because it was the first and so far only place I ever recognized in all the countless California wildfire coverage I've seen. Too bad they couldn't save it. Glad you got the photo! It's more than I ever got.
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    Mine is here! W00!!! Maybe I'm the first! Looks good at a quick glance; I'll have to give it a better look in a few hours. It's piano practice time!
  8. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I'm probably fortunate I didn't go down the Guitar road; I'd be in the same boat as you most likely! But I do admit they would look cool hanging there on the wall.... Hmmmm. I'm still thrilled to be finally using an 88-key KB after moving up from my 61. But the GAS thing rears its head in other ways - I probably have 30 cameras, for example. And four bicycles. And four cars, which is probably about three too many for someone who is single and lives alone. Having two keyboards seems quite reasonable in comparison.
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    +2 I owned a P-125 for about four days and promptly returned it. The standard piano sound was fine.... I just couldn't get into any of the organ, synth or EP sounds at all. I couldn't even find a second one to set as a preset.
  10. Lou Gehrig Charles
    +2 We're learning "Rich Girl" by Hall and Oates.... Nice prominent electric piano sound, interesting rhythm, etc. Then the guitar player decided it needed more guitar so he found a fast ska/punk version of it with NO discernible keyboards. "Oh, but you can still play it! It's the same chords!". Sure, but no one will hear me.
  11. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Our sound guy has temporarily assumed the role of playing drums also, since our regular drummer is pregnant and is out for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, seated behind the drum kit he can't hear any of the rest of the mix. We practiced Saturday and I was certain I wasn't loud enough.... Confirmed afterward when the guitar player told me he couldn't hear me at all. I'm going to have to be more assertive this week!
  12. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Grace Slick being the only one on both records though..... Interestingly, Bernie Taupin was a co-writer on "We Built This City". That I never knew!
  13. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Everyone, or just the guitar players? 🎸
  14. Lou Gehrig Charles
    They can't even find it in their hearts to pony up $75 per band to give to charity? That's the lowest part of this story in my opinion. I've been to In-and-Out.... It's like watching a machine printing money come lunchtime.
  15. Lou Gehrig Charles
    +2 The only "unplayable" keyboard I ever tried to play was a child-size toy which had keys narrower than normal. All my "muscle memory" was useless on it. LOL
  16. Lou Gehrig Charles
    It's a slippery slope. Next you'll need a taller garage to park your new truck in.
  17. Lou Gehrig Charles
    My order's in.... As of, oh, about a minute ago. I can't say no to good Rt. 66 stuff.
  18. Lou Gehrig Charles
    There's one large popular venue near me that has a very large "Lite" logo on the wall at the back of the stage.... Lite, as in Lite Beer from Miller. The running joke is that if your band doesn't have a banner, they get dubbed "Lite" by default. Our band is temporarily going by the name of the room we practice in. Coincidently, it's the same name as a certain other band that is much more talented and well-known - Chicago. Something tells me we should fix that before even thinking about a banner.
  19. Lou Gehrig Charles
    That describes my parents exactly. Even well into young-adulthood, if there was something I really wanted I learned to just save up and buy it myself. Often they'd get mad afterward, saying I should have told them I wanted it so they could get it for me for Christmas... Sure, but it's June! And they'd just look up the item in the store and buy one three rungs further down the pricing ladder instead. I've only been back into playing music for about five years now, but for much of that I was using a $170 Casio CTX-700. Sure, the keys are springy and squeaky but I like many of the sounds it has. Enough so I bought another Casio when it came time for a fully-weighted 88-key board. I keep the old one though for those songs I need a second board on.
  20. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I could see Yoko doing this as a cash grab. Heck I'm honestly surprised Paul didn't put together a "historic Beatles reunion" at some point in the last twenty years, just him and Ringo + a bunch of session musicians. But I'm a cynical old bastard.
  21. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I am realizing that my problem is I can't hear myself as well as my bandmates can. I need my own monitor.
  22. Lou Gehrig Charles
    My keyboard hero is Don Airey, so if I could just play like him.... I wouldn't mind being in the background! 🎹
  23. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Like one of those extension arms that can hold a laptop? Or maybe that might be too flimsy....
  24. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Southwest Airlines, MDW-ATL from $79 each way....
  25. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Ahhh, the pitfalls of "people" photography. Reminds me why I like to take pictures of things OTHER than people! I am one of the official photographers of our car club (bet you didn't know there were clubs for the Pontiac Fiero). Shooting the cars is easy... But when I have to shoot one of the members (or candids of the members at an event) it could not be any more stressful! But I did get a magazine cover photo last year, so that made it fun.
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