Song80s Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 How did it happen ? How did we become afflicted of the varying degrees of GAS ? Understanding a problem is the key to solving it. ( how much credit do I have on that 22 % Guitar Center credit card ? ) Here is my theory on the keyboard/synth/computer/recording version of GAS: -saw all the girls screaming at the Beatles - Emerson and Wakeman had great sounding instruments - if I had 2 or 3 hit singles I would be set for life - creative types are prone to obsessive/compulsive activities - Yamaha/Korg/Roland developed their product marketing - Internet enables anything new to be circulated in a day - eBay What did I miss ? Why fit in, when you were born to stand out ? My Soundcloud with many originals: [70's Songwriter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIDIdiot Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Greg, all so true! Maybe add: - never wanting to have to work for a living Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mound Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 - creative types are prone to obsessive/compulsive activitiesI think that's the real source of it ;-) "You look hopefully for an idea and then you're humble when you find it and you wish your skills were better. To have even a half-baked touch of creativity is an honor." -- Ernie Stires, composer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DafDuc Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 I think the guitarists helped push us into it - who here WASN'T impressed when they first heard about Rick Nielsen's ridiculously large collection of vintage guitars? I remember, in the seventies, despite our stacks and stacks of keyboards, that very few guys had an Arp AND a Moog, or a Prophet AND an Oberheim AND a Korg: We kinda picked our sounds and went with it. Key case in point was Zawinul and his twin Prophet-5's Ein and Zwei. Even in my ridiculous (18 boards) collection, there's not a lot of duplication - only 2 of my boards do GM, and I'm dumping one of those. One analog poly, one analog mono, one digilog, a digital piano, a weighted controller, an unweighted 2-octave controller, a lot of old one-flavor electromechanicals (Rhodes, Clav, SE-4, Hammond), pair of 6-op/sine FM modules (I could dump one, I guess), a 4-op/8-waveform FM module, an early 90's digital that I may or may not keep, and a couple of piano modules that could go away without me ever missing them. And the stuff I would buy is definitely to fill holes: a vector synth, a modeling synth, a sampler... ...an accordion... Daf I played in an 8 piece horn band. We would often get bored. So...three words: "Tower of Polka." - Calumet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIDIdiot Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Quick, we definitely need some group intervention for Dafduc, has anyone ever seen a case of GAS this severe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song80s Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 Daf, quick ! Call the GAS Anonymous hot line. Sure signs you have an addiction is denial and ' justification' plus having over 6 keyboards. A sure cure is to ship us all your boards and go cold turkey with only 1 GM module. LOL I blame Rick Nielsen for making me deaf in 1 ear but thats another story Why fit in, when you were born to stand out ? My Soundcloud with many originals: [70's Songwriter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyote Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 I've never been impressed by collections. I used to collect stamps when I was a kid, and then one day I looked at the book full of stamps and said to myself "WTF am I doing???" I immediately sold the valuable stuff and gave away the rest, and haven't been a collector of anything since. And I consider mere ownership of a collection of stuff to be an absolute waste of time, energy, and $$$. Originally posted by DafDuc: I think the guitarists helped push us into it - who here WASN'T impressed when they first heard about Rick Nielsen's ridiculously large collection of vintage guitars? DafNOt a bit of my music gear represents a collection; if I can't use it I don't buy it. Some gear occasionally gets put aside for a time, but comes back out when needed. And "collecting vintage gear" is just stupid; I mean, what the heck is the point? I used to think I was Libertarian. Until I saw their platform; now I know I'm no more Libertarian than I am RepubliCrat or neoCON or Liberal or Socialist. This ain't no track meet; this is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DafDuc Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Originally posted by GregC: I blame Rick Nielsen for making me deaf in 1 ear but thats another storyHey, I'm deaf in one ear too. Just happened this year... I blame Satan, but maybe they're the same guy, LOL... I played in an 8 piece horn band. We would often get bored. So...three words: "Tower of Polka." - Calumet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DafDuc Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Originally posted by InTheDark: Quick, we definitely need some group intervention for Dafduc, has anyone ever seen a case of GAS this severe? I didn't even mention my 13 mics... I also collect hymnals, have about 60 of those. I really am pathetic, aren't I? I played in an 8 piece horn band. We would often get bored. So...three words: "Tower of Polka." - Calumet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marino Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 First, the admission: Like most keyboardists I know, I have GAS. There's no denying it; for example, I've bought an Andromeda being basically broke. Let's go on. In case you're interested in a partial/temporary cure for GAS, here's one: Take one old synth, one which you haven't programmed in a long time, and start making sounds on it again, from today's updated point of view. Almost invariably, you'll discover that you haven't considered a lot of its possibilities. You will be happily busy for a while making useful sounds, and you'll consider that at least 70% of the possibilities hidden in your rig of synths are still, well, hidden. So hopefully, you'll be driven to do the same with your other machines. However, as I said, this cure is just partial and temporary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Song80s Posted August 26, 2004 Author Share Posted August 26, 2004 hey daf, heck I think you can get a lot of $ on eBay for the hymnals Marino, you are 100 % right. The gear we have bought some years had a lot of merit. To be away from it for some time and then return is like a musical vacation for the mind. I think creativity has a lot to do with the current frame of mind and emotion. Sometimes we limit ourselves unconsciously. Why fit in, when you were born to stand out ? My Soundcloud with many originals: [70's Songwriter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartolomeo Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I spend too much money on CDs and sheet music. Does that count? Over the years a lot of the stupid stuff I bought was to try to make do since I didn't accept that I really had to spend the $$$ to get something that would really work. Cheap microphones, cheap mic stands, cords from Radio Shack. None of that stuff is worth a dime because none of it will really, genuinely, do the job that it purports to do once you get out of the garage. A recent example is that I bought an old accordion on eBay about a year ago. I put on some new straps and fiddled around with it long enough to figure out that I'm not going to play an accordion, even a good one, and ended up selling it for less than what I had into it. I have always been a sucker for musical trinkets, and so I have a bunch of recorders, harmonicas, maracas, a tambourine, two pennywhistles. I also have a guitar I bought for $50 at a second hand store in rural West Virginia. And a harmonium (stupid move). I suppose the banjo from Sears Roebuck would count as gear retention syndrome (GRS) since my father bought it and I have never quite seen fit to either dispose of it or give it back to him. Bartolomeo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Nice justification for Gas you guys. I take a simpler route. I have a "home" set of instruments, ones that I will never take out of the house again. Then I have a portable set. It doesn't matter that I can make a patch on one of my "home" set instruments. If I'm looking for a sound that I want to put in a sequence and I don't have it in my portable set, then I buy another instrument for my portable set. NO, it doesn't matter that my Moog or Arp Oddessey can make that sound, they're not in my portable set....that doesn't count. It's a good thing I'm not married.....she'd never understand. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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