Average Age????

[coyote]

My first keyboard gig came waaay before I ever learned how to play keys...

 

I was a 16yo drummer who went to see a friend's band. Their keyboardist got sick right in the middle of the gig, and somehow I wound up on stage in front of 300 people banging an A chord to Zep's "Rock & Roll". Some Chuck Berry & other early stuff followed. That show was recorded - somehow I didn't play nearly as bad as I had thought LOL

[Pat Azzarello]

Originally posted by SWBuck1074@aol.com:

Trivia; Can anyone identify the model organ he had? It was a double manual Farfisa, kind of a lime green color. The coolest thing about it was a feature they called "Syntheslalom". It had a drawbar that you'd pull out, hit a chord, and the notes would slide up to the notes you were playing. The further out the drawbar, the slower the portamento. I'd never seen that model before, or since. Had drawbars for the upper manual, didn't sound too bad through a Leslie. Anybody?

 

I can picture that thing (my piano teacher had one), but I can't remember the name. If I remember correctly it also had an electric piano sound that you could play on the bottom manual. The "Sustain pedal" was actually a piece of metal on the swell pedal that you kicked in by swiveling your foot to the right. Odd way to do it, but it was efficient.

[sudeep]

well my first gig infront of REAL people was when i was 3 and my parents thought it was really cool to make me sing Indian songs and friends dinner parties...i stopped doing that as soon as I realised I SUCK!!! hehehe...first real gig was as a guitarist at 15...but first gig as a keyboardist (definitely the most rewarding) was at the ripe old age of 28!!!