bigbaby987 Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 This has been an incredible day!!! I had the opportunity to sit down and rap with Stevie Wonder! I stood right next to him as he played some of his greatest hits!!! Incredible!! He really is incredible.. We actually had a one on one and talked about music and some of his recent colaborations.. He seems to really embrace the new generation from gospel, r&b, rap, country and more!! He's such a nice person. He actually brought his own keys with him... (Fantom X7)--probably his traveling board... (I'm in New York) I'll post some pics we took later!! Really an incredible day. One quick thing... What really got me going was seeing how he would thumb through his Fantom. It wasn't anything about what the patch title was named (of course, no wise cracks please)or even the coolness of the board in general, it was about the sound and only the sound. He played guitars and if you closed your eyes, you would know hardly (because a keyboard can't give you the total nuance of a guitar)it was someone playing keys.. of course Roland would have loved the photo opp and the sound of Stevie playing the elec. p's and giving them a whole new life.. It was a good day. Thank God for another great one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Ward MP Hall of Fame Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Damn, I think I might hate you... I met GWAR once, but I have no interesting keyboard stories... Also, I know Dick Ward from Cursed Eternity He's cool. "...Keytar in a heavy metal band is nothing more than window dressing" - Sven Golly Cursed Eternity - My Band Dick Ward - My Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Kent Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Sounds like a great time. How is it you came to be in the same place at the same time and free to chat if you don't mind saying? jk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKeys Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Sounds awesome, what a treat to sit down with a great artist. I wonder if his Fantom is set up for him. To be able to find patches without scrowling. Envy is upon me. Jimmy Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho NEW BAND CHECK THEM OUT www.steveowensandsummertime.com www.jimmyweaver.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 i'm production manager at 2 radio stations in NYC and he was here for a visit... i always get a chance to sit one on one with artists.. i've truly been blessed... (not to gloat), but i've had a chance to sit and shoot the breeze with George Duke, Bob James, and more about keys, music and more.. and not to take anything away from these cats, but Stevie has been the coolest. basically because i've been listening to his music since i was a kid.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 It IS a great day!! I know just how you feel. I met him in he early 80's. Right around - Hotter than July. He came in the Playboy in LA where I was playing. We talked for a while and then he came up a did a set by himself. Jaw dropping. I just thought of something....How does a blind guy, like Stevie, enjoy himself in a place like that. How does he see the girls? Hmmmm...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 dream.. it was cool because he know the whole make up of the board and knew how to get to it. but when it came to sounds.. he would turn the dial until he hit what would sound good... he hit all kinds of sounds until he found the ones he wanted... it was a test and choose situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Once I went to help a blind guy with some tracks and when I got to his place, he had no monitor. I'd never really thought about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangefunk Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Originally posted by linwood: How does he see the girls? Hmmmm...... Probably the same way he reads braille.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnegrad Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 and some of his recent colaborations. Such as? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Rideout Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 AWESOME! Glad you had that experience. Did he talk about his new CD with you, or play anything from it? Have you heard it? Ernie Rideout, Private Citizen Gee, that was quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnegrad Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Ernie, Any chance of a Stevie feature any time soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOPBEEPER Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 He's probably the major reason people think they look cool when they don some shades I are an *******(CENSORED) too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 That you had that kind of access to Mr. Wonder, on the eve of the release of his first album in what, eleven or twelve YEARS?, is just awesome. Two discs I have to buy tomorrow: Stevie's "A Time 4 Love" and Chick's "Live at Montreaux" with the Elektric Band. I'm disconnecting the phone tomorrow night! Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 sorry just getting back.. yes he did play a couple of tunes from the album.. he played those from a guitar patch.. man!! it was something else.. a version i don't know if i'll ever get to hear again.. well, actually i'm always running tape.. i may have a way to post some of the stuff he did live on the air... i'll keep you posted.. i must admit i'm pretty hyped off of this one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 ernie.. i just noticed your post.. (no offense) we've had the album for a few days now.. it's stevie man.. we were all agreeing listening to it that they just don't make recordings like this anymore.. btw... stevie talked about a collaboration he did with busta rhymes and how excited he was to hear the finished work.. also he work with what i concider his gospel equivalent *kirk franklin*. we talked about india arie-really loves her work, and kanye west.. he said he's digging kanye's new album.. in fact he said it's in the cd player.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnegrad Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 I remember that years ago Stevie performed "Overjoyed" on Saturday Night Live shortly before that album was released, and IMHO it was far superior to the recorded version. I'd love to get my hands on that performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELP71 Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hey cnegrad - its out there in 'fileshareland'... Weasels ripped my flesh. Rzzzzzzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 here's a pic.. me and stevie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Loving Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hey bb987 you are one fortunate guy! I tried to buy SW's new cd and it is not released until 10-18! I saw him on Good Morning America the other day and he was better than anything else I'd seen in ages - blew me away! "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.J. Lewis Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Originally posted by bigbaby987: here's a pic.. me and stevie Awesome bigbaby! ...I think that's the same outfit he was wearing @ NAMM last year. Anyone else remember the velvet maroon thing? ivorycj Main stuff: Yamaha CP88 | Korg Kronos 2 73 | Kurzweil Forte 7 | 1898 Steinway I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningbusch Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 IMO, there is no greater pop artist alive today. Congratulations. Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 thanks a lot.. i just feel extremely blessed to have had the priviledge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Lower Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Originally posted by bigbaby987: dream.. it was cool because he know the whole make up of the board and knew how to get to it. but when it came to sounds.. he would turn the dial until he hit what would sound good... he hit all kinds of sounds until he found the ones he wanted... it was a test and choose situation Yet another proof that we all tend to focus too much on the instrument instead of the music. Or, put in another way, you give Stevie Wonder an untuned Elka Syntex for a couple of hours and he'll coax a masterpiece out of it notwithstanding...who's blind (or deaf) anyway? ... "I'm ready to sing to the world. If you back me up". (Lennon to his bandmates, in an inspired definition of what it's all about). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DafDuc Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Congrats, man. That's a story for the grandkids... 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...
Cliffk Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Yeah, it's been 10 years since Stevie's last effort which, to be blunt, wasn't his most creative hour. But A Time 2 Love is a revelation. I'm a seriously long-time Stevie fan and if nothing else, this new album easily approaches some of his better 70s stuff. The production is polished without being overdone; his lyric-writing is as good as it's ever been; his vocal has a recently-acquired breathy growl that speaks of an aged, well-used but irreplaceably valuable instrument; and his playing is, of course, unique. Put all this with those characteristically quirky but strangely harmonically-pleasing chord changes, and you've got a great album. Perhaps the emphasis on love throughout the album may be off-putting for some, and seem naive to others who want to hear the rawer, funkier Stevie. But it's easy to forget that he was writing love songs as much as he was writing funky stuff back in the day. In my view, the quality of Stevie's music (on this newest album at least) hasn't changed at all; maybe we, his audience, have. (Whew! Getting all moist-eyed there... ) YouTube music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanker. Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Stevie who? Kidding of course. Man, the only cats I can think of who *might* be hipper to meet are all dead. A ROMpler is just a polyphonic turntable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica T Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hey man, that is so awesome!!!!!! Congrats. Stevie is my idol so to speak, and I dream of meeting him someday. When Kurzweil built the first reading machine, it went to Mr. Stevie. wonder if his Fantom is set up for him. To be able to find patches without scrowling. I too am visually challenged, but I'm about halfway between you guys and Stevie. On my board, patches can be accessed by number directly, so if you know which ones you like, you can enter the 3-digit code on the number pad and jump right to it. I'd be willing to bet this is what Stevie does in some situations too. Yet another proof that we all tend to focus too much on the instrument instead of the music Right on!! Regards, Jessica http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33304014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbaby987 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 more power to you jessica!!!! keep making it happen.. you're an inspiration for everyone else to understand to never give up and do what you love!!! big ups to jess!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Lower Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Originally posted by bigbaby987: big ups to jess!!! Ditto! "I'm ready to sing to the world. If you back me up". (Lennon to his bandmates, in an inspired definition of what it's all about). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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