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I remember if you continued your membership after fulfilling the initial obligation you would get a free record album for every two you purchased at regular club price which never exceeded retail price. You could also get something like three free records for getting a friend to join the club. If a friend signed up through me he could choose from a much greater selection of records from the club magazine rather than the limited selection listed in the ads. I did find if you had the catalog numbers from the club magazine you could order almost anything that was available using the application in the ads.
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I joined them all in the 60s, Columbia, RCA, and Capitol. I also got LPs from Records Unlimited which was a division of Columbia but wasn't really a club but more of a discount selling service. You had to be a member of all these because you could only get Columbia and Epic from Columbia, and you could only get RCA and Capitol from their respective clubs. They all carried a wide variety of other labels. Anything I couldn't get from a club I would buy at a store when they were on sale. Within a couple of years I had a about two hundred albums. I still have all those albums and it has grown to over 700 in the intervening years. I joined a couple of CD clubs in the 90s but now I don't buy records or CDs any more with all the content available on YouTube. For listening I use Pandora on the TV. I can get it to play deep cuts I really like which I never hear on Sirius.
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I talked to a guy last week who damaged a few of the tuning coils in his G101 while trying to tune it with improper tools. Lucky for him he had a G201 parts organ that has the same coils. Many organs can be tuned with a screwdriver or better yet a non-metal TV/Radio Trimmer Alignment tool. The G101 requires a Allen hex driver or wrench. I tuned my G101 recently and found two of the coils needed a different size hex driver than the rest. I had a hex driver that came from an electronics tool set I got in the early 70s that happened to be the correct size for the Gibson coils except for the two odd ones mentioned.
Manzarek took the RMI 300A on the 1968 European tour. It can be seen in photos on stage to the left side of the Gibson. It is also used as a prop in the "Hello I Love You" promo video which was filmed in Frankfurt, Germany. I can't identify the RMI being used on any studio recordings but it might be on a couple of bootleg live recordings. Ray was reportedly not a fan of the RMI which was purchased by equipment manager Vince Treanor on his own initiative without asking Ray if he wanted it.
When this customs list came out a few years ago Robby was able to get the serial number of his Gibson SG Special which was stolen from The Doors Workshop in Hollywood, CA. This guitar was used on the first Doors album and Robby put out the word he wanted the guitar back. I don't think it has turned up yet despite Robby offering an enticing reward.
Manzarek didn't join the Butts Band. In 1973 Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman sent Krieger, Densmore, and Manzarek to England to check out Howard Werth of Audience as a possible replacement vocalist. Ray's wife Dorothy was pregnant at the time so he returned home by himself to be with her. In 1973 I was playing on the Queen Mary in Long Beach and ran into Ray and Dorothy. A couple of weeks later I read in Rolling Stone that she had given birth. Robby and John stayed in England and formed the Butts Band which included Phil Chen on bass before he played with Jeff Beck on Blow By Blow. Chen was playing in Robby's band until his death in December 2021.
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Came across this today. It includes schematics.
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From early in their career The Association had a close working relationship with Clark Burroughs of The Hi-Lo's vocal Quartet. Burroughs did vocal arrangements on many of the band's recordings including the hits "Cherish", "Windy", "Never My Love", and "One Too Many Mornings". Burroughs as well as a female vocalist and others sang backgrounds on some recordings. While the band used session musicians on studio recordings they did demo recordings of their originals and came up with instrumental parts which were reproduced by the session players. Burroughs continued working with The Association until the Waterbeds in Trinidad album which was well after their hit-making years. Brian Wilson was also a big fan of The Hi-Lo's.
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Summer 1993 I was living in a house in Lincoln Park, NJ that had a Hammond C-3 in it. It was across the street from former Young Rascal Eddie Brigati's family home. One day Eddie's brother David called me and said Mr. Shaffer is here, can we come over. I wasn't sure who he was talking about but a few minutes later Eddie, David, and Paul Shaffer were at the door. Paul was obviously a Young Rascals fan. He played a few Rascals songs while Eddie sang. Then they let me play a few Doors songs. After a while Eddie pulls out a bag of marijuana and I thought "Wow, I'm going to get to smoke one with Paul Shaffer". Paul had just become a father and declined to smoke so Eddie put the bag away.
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Haven't seen any mention of the passing of Terry Kirkman who was a founding member of The Association known for their lush harmonies and great songs two of which, Cherish and Everything That Touches You, were written by Kirkman. The band played Monterey Pop in 1967 along with many other artists who became legendary. Jimmy Webb wrote MacArthur Park to order for The Association but they declined to record it. Terry sang lead on some of the bands hits as well as playing trumpet and recorder.
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There are lots of Liberace transcriptions on YT. Too much work for me as his arrangements are quite demanding.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=liberace+piano+transcription
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Been listening to Focus albums since the 70s. Here is Thijs van Leer playing flute with Uriah Heep (Ian Anderson also sat in with them occasionally).
Here he is playing Sylvia and Hocus Pocus with Transatlantic:
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Christopher Cross wasn't the only guitarist to sub for Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple. In 1972 Blackmore came down with hepatitis before a show in Quebec. The band got Randy California of Spirit to do the Quebec show and then canceled the rest of the tour. I remember reading about this at the time probably in Rolling Stone. Though the quality isn't great that show was recorded.
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Since the root is moving chromatically from C up to D I would consider this to be a C#-7 with an augmented or #5. If you look up this chord you should find an example with at least the same upper three notes.
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The "Orchestra Hit" or something close to it was originated by The Moody Blues on the song "Question". It wasn't digital as on a sampler but was a composite of Mellotron sounds.
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I never paid much attention to timing until the mid-70s when I got into a band with twin brothers from Puerto Rico. One brother played drums and the other bass. They were experts at Latin rhythms and really got down on me about timing. Ever since then I have received many compliments about my timing especially on gigs where I played bass guitar.
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The thing about most vitamins is that the source or how it was processed is almost never listed on the container. Unlike food vitamins seem to be exempt from listing the ingredients. That alone would put me off on using supplements because I always read the labels on anything I eat or drink. Instead of taking a pill I recommend using nutritional yeast. Yeast is usually grown on a medium like Sugar Beets. Since yeast is natural grown it contains almost all B vitamins in their balanced form along with some protein, and several trace minerals. Typically yeast contains B2, B2, B3 (not the organ), B6, and B12. B12 especially is rarely found outside of animal sources. Minerals in yeast include Zinc, Selenium, Manganese, and Molybdenum. It also contains all nine amino acids so is a non-animal complete protein source. There are different strains of yeast and each has a distinctive flavor if you want to use in it flake or powdered forms in smoothies or as an ingredient in other foods. It also can be found in capsule form for those who prefer to take pills. Yeast derived foods include Vegemite and Marmite which have long been popular in Australia/New Zealand and Britain respectively. Many people add yeast to their pet's food. Most dogs seem to like the taste and will often eat it alone. I've topped our cat's food with it and he eats it.
Another natural supplement is kelp powder. Several types of seaweed are widely used in Japanese cuisine. Kelp is one of the few reliable sources of Iodine which is necessary for proper Thyroid function. Kelp is abundant in every known trace mineral including Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium. It also provides vitamin B12, Omega 3 fatty acids, and anti- inflammatories.
Kelp can be found in several forms but the most convenient is kelp powder which can be used unobtrusively in combination with many other foods. It is also available in capsule form.
I have been using both yeast and kelp since the late 70s with no ill effects.
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It's a Beautiful Day played in my home town of Salem, Oregon around 1971. I can't remember why I didn't go as I was a fan of the band at the time. My brother did go and waited outside the venue to meet Mitchell Holman. My brother played bass guitar at the time and had a 1957 P Bass that he took along to show to Mitchell. Mitchell offered to trade his bass for it but my brother didn't take him up on the offer.
I did get to see them in Portland a bit later but by then Hal and Mitchell had left the band. Their replacements were Bill Gregory and Tom Fowler on guitar and bass respectively. The band seemed to be moving in a harder rock direction. I still liked them but I preferred the more melancholy sound of the earlier line-up.
Several years I ago I purchased several autographed CDs that David was selling on eBay.
I remember an interview where Justin Hayward was asked if there was any band he would like to play with other than the Moody Blues. He said they had done tour with It's a Beautiful Day and that they were so great that he wished he could have played in the band.
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Over the years little has been heard from keyboardist Linda LaFlamme who was married to David from 1963-1969 and co-founded It's a Beautiful Day. Richie Unterberger tracked her down and interviewed her in October 2020. If you are a fan of It's a Beautiful Day and the 60's San Francisco music scene this may be of interest.
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2009 in Vigo, Spain I played a room that had at least a ten foot high stage. There was a crane at one end of the stage to lift the band gear up and down. The band was barely visible from the bottom of the stage. We are playing and into the third song when the guitar player is in my face yelling at me to stop. I didn't see it happen but our singer had fallen off the stage backwards. We didn't know if he was going to survive but there happened to be someone there with medical training that checked him out. The singer was taken to the hospital and found to have brain hemorrhaging and some broken bones. That ended our tour and the singer spent a month in the Spanish hospital. He did recover but has some lingering minor problems. Shortly after that Steven Tyler and a couple others fell off stages so it seemed like a trend developing.
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Singer/violinist/guitarist/producer of the late 60s/early 70s San Francisco band It's a Beautiful Day has passed away. He was one of the first to introduce the violin as a featured instrument in a rock band. Their recordings like "White Bird" often border on soft rock but they were a real jam band in live performance. Their jams were more structured than other San Francisco bands and always interesting.
From the German Beat Club show in 1970 with David in a rare performance playing guitar.
Tanglewood concert 1970.
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An interesting thing about amino acids is they exist as L-aminos and D-aminos. The carbon and hydrogen building blocks of amino acids appear to be abundant throughout the universe. Amino acids have been found in meteorites and possibly in asteroids. Traces have been found in moon rock. None have been found on Mars yet.
The L and D aminos are identical except they are mirror images of each other. L-amino is also known as left-handed due to the way it's inner structure is arranged and D amino is considered right-handed. The big mystery is why only the L-amino is found in life on Earth.
Sugars are also found as mirror image forms being otherwise identical. What correlation this may have with amino acids is another mystery but only the so-called right-handed sugars are found in life on Earth.
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The oldest known form of life on Earth is a bacteria-like organism called Archaea. These were discovered in the last fifty years or so but their significance has become more apparent in recent years. I believe info regarding Archaea has been suppressed for the time being as it could make all our current knowledge of evolutionary biology obsolete and require re-writing of textbooks on the subject. Up until recently life on Earth has been thought to have originated in the oceans. Archaea have been found near hydrothermal vents in the deepest parts of the ocean. They have also been found around geysers and volcanoes on the Earth's surface. It appears Archaea originate from deep below the Earth's surface. Some Archaea consume iron and and as it passes through their body it is converted to magnetite. Other Archaea break down and convert other substances but info regarding what they produce is sketchy at the present time. The discovery of Archaea is the main reason Mars missions since the late 90s have had a strong focus on digging down into the Martian soil in search of similar organisms. The discovery of the alleged Martian meteorite in Antarctica that appears to contain bacteria-like organisms is also a factor for searching below the Martian surface.
Since Archaea are found in the most extreme environments on Earth it is speculated they could form on almost any body with significant internal nuclear forces. With their ability to breakdown and transform elements they may play a key role in creating a suitable environment for more complex lifeforms.
In the 90s it was discovered that the human brain contains a significant amount of magnetite. It is also found in many other creatures. In the human brain there appears to be two types of magnetite. One type is speculated to come from pollution in the environment and the other is naturally occurring. Studies are ongoing so there is no definitive answer yet.
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These days you don't have spend a thousand dollars or more to get a good playing guitar. Yamaha guitars are very good for beginners and entry level models start at around $200. Also brands such as Alvarez, Blueridge, Eastman, Epiphone, Seagull, A&L, and others make guitars that are relatively inexpensive but play as well as some higher end guitars.
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A piece of rock history is up for sale on eBay. You can own this priceless collectible keyboard for only $2999.99. This one is probably an early version or prototype as it doesn't look like others I have seen. If anyone is interested they can have my rare RMI 300A Electra-Piano and Harpsichord for only $800. It can be seen on page 3 of the KC Classifieds. Also on eBay is an extremely rare RMI 600A Electra-Piano and Rock-Si-Chord in poor working condition and no Sustain/Volume pedal for $4275.
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The Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano was introduced in 1904. Unlike earlier player pianos it recorded dynamic information and allowed for a more realistic rendition of what was played.
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In 1972 I went to see Deep Purple in Salem, Oregon. No opening act had been announced prior to the show and I was blown away when they introduced Curved Air. I had heard some of their songs on the radio and really liked them. They were the first band I ever saw with a synth of which they had an EMS VCS3. I was impressed with Francis and remember him running back and forth between keys and guitar. Here is a quote from Francis regarding the EMS:
“I was fortunate enough to have had the use of a VCS3 since 1969, when my flat-mate Robin Thompson (who was in Intermodulation with Andrew Powell & Co) got hold of one of the first. My experience with Moogs has not been so good — I always thought the Minimoog far too limited after the VCS3, and even the big modular affairs fail to impress me, though it’s true Keith Emerson got a monster sound out of his.”
Here he is on Top of the Pops with his band Sky:
Here he is with Curved Air in 1972:
India Gives Social Media Platforms 36 Hours to Remove Deepfakes
in Craig Anderton's Sound, Studio, and Stage
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Somewhat relating to India. A bandmate of mine died in September. Within a day of his death there were at least three videos on YouTube of Indian news commentators as well as websites reporting his death with a very detailed history of his life. He was not known in India at all so it is a mystery how this came to be especially so quickly after his death. Anybody know anything about this?