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Considering Erwin Schrödinger died in 1961, that cat has to be dead by now.
Are you sure?
Cool story of the day: This morning I puty my Alesis Vortex MIDI controller and case up for sale. Now, this is pro keyboard gear, not your usual home synth stuff. In the ad I put 'will give preference to a performing musician'.
Well, 2 hours go by and I get an email from one Michael Collins of a group called Time that just played SxSW!!! Anne recognized him from a photo!!! OMG a REAL musician!
He arrived with his wife, both of them as nice as could be. He told me he had tried to get one off eBay but it was dead and he had to ship it back. He sat down and played it, loved it (and even loved the strap that I had bought) and made an offer. I took $20 off my asking price (which was dirt cheap to begin with) because I'm painfully aware of how little indie bands make, plus he's going to use it in his gig tonight in San Antonio!!! How frickin' cool is that??!?!?!?
I am beyond ecstatic. To know that I've helped a band out makes me incredibly happy, normally I hate the heck out of the human race but for my fellow musicians I'm happy to make exceptions. I get food and booze money, he gets a bargain on a pro instument, and one of my babies will see use on stage! Once I find someone that can read the flyer and find the Website I'll post a link.
I can only hope my guitar Christine finds as good a home. I'm going to be super picky, it's almost like putting a child up for adoption, to sell her. Only a musician would feel like this, sigh. :-/
Anyway, I have a nice Arrogant Bastard, some Monoplowa potato wodka, and warm happys. So glad I could help a fellow muso out. :-)
Cool beans!
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Home now. I am tired. It looks like my fish made it without me for a while. They were hungry but I fed them.
wifi was dpwn most of the day. did laundry
I hear you! I won't let go of my instruments. Gibson SG Custom, 1965-1969 - that's as close as Gibson's serial number database can get. They didn't keep good records back then. I've only seen one just about exactly like it once, all the times I've searched for pictures online. Guild F80 (I think) F-Body accoustic guitar...nice fat sound...from the mid to late 70s (bought it brand new) at Wurlitzer's in Boston, $10 below their cost. Music Man Sabre bass guitar with active circuitry (pre-Ernie Ball takeover), also bought new, also at Wurlitzer's in Boston. American Artist violin-style bass guitar, my first. Mom bought it for Christmas from my good friend in high school when was getting a new Fender Jazz Bass. Fender Rhoads 88 electric piano, bought used. Roland Juno 60, bought new in the late 70s. Roland Space Echo RE-150, also bought new at Wurlitzer's. Germeinhardt Solid Siver Flute, bought in the early 70s, used. Latin Percussion double strung chimes, bought new in the late 70s. Cosmic Percussion (by Latin Percussion) tuneable bongos. Also bought new in the late 70s. Peavey Mark III Bass amp, with 18" folded horn cabinet, bought used in the early 80s. Mesa Boogie Rocket 44 guitar amp, bought new in the late 90s. Boss Blues Driver BD-2. Vox Wah. ElectroHarmonix Electric Mistress Flanger, a re-issue of the original from the 70's/80s, in a nice wooden box with a top that slides open. A Korg electronic Guitar/Bass tuner. I even have a single bottom Marshall amp, a small one that you can clip onto your belt...runs on a 9V battery. It's cool. I think it was a limited run item. I have a saxophone shaped kazoo! Two Beyer Dynamics M500 ribbon element microphones. One Senheizer pistol grip microphone. I used to have more. I sold a Slingerland drum kit, Peavey 10 channel stereo powered (100w/ channel into 8ohms, 200w/ channel into 4 ohms) mixing board, Electrovoice Century IVa PA speakers. Sold years ago when I was in desperate need of money. Wanted to sell the Juno at one time, but nobody wanted to pay much for it, so I kept it. My friend told me years later that Weird Al wanted exactly that keyboard, but I told him, "Too bad, it's not for sale now!" Oh, I still have my first bass amp bottom, a Standel. It was a powered bottom with two 15" speakers. The cabinet was divided into two discrete chambers, one for each speaker. the chambers were ported. that thing sounded so good. The head was just a preamp and the controls. Standel was paranoid about their tech being copied, so they embedded the power amp circiut board in epoxy. When something went wrong with it, they were out of business and a new board couldn't be bought. Just like that, it became a huge paper weight.
If I can figure out the impedance of the cabinet, I could probably still use it with a power amp. Which is why I keep it. I sold the head to my friend, whose died and he needed it for gigs, long ago.
OK, enough rambling. Sorry if this bored anyone.
Dana
..wow. you could start your own band with all that.
The drum kit and PA system were from when I did have my own band!
Dana
...cool.
Over the last six decades I've had a "Flutofone", a violin, a flute, a Hammond B2 organ, a spinet piano, an acoustic guitar, a Yamaha upright piano, a Knabe 8' grand piano, and a Technics 88-key electric piano. All gone now.
I could play them all to some degree except the violin. Gave up after about a month. To paraphrase Nancy Sinatra: "These hands ain't made for fiddlin'" 
My late Dad built nine fiddles and repaired many more through the years. I still have two of them. And no, I can't play one. Dad played bluegrass style. This is what he decided to do with his retirement (he retired at 72). And those are fiddles, not violins; the difference? A violin has strings, a fiddle has strangs.
lolll
now i need to hear some CDB
what i learned at dayjob today,
this song is all the rage with toddlers
it's terribly catchy
Somebody keeps putting baby fish into my tank. It is a mystery on how they got there. I would ask the guppies but they are too busy flirting with each other.
Rock on completely!!
Yeah. Next up - sell the guitar and amp!!
I found violin terribly hard to learn. I gave up after two weeks of torturing the neighbors, pets, random birds, and innocent passers-by with my horrid screechings. If it doesn't have frets, keep it away from me! :-/
*snork* :-P
I just projectile vomited out the window. :-| Thankfully, the window is open! :-O
Another sunny day, 58f headed to about 74f. Going to be in the mid-80fs later this week and next week, here comes the Texas heat!
I need to move somewhere colder when I retire. All I need is a nice room, a bed, kitchen access and a high-speed Internet connection!
Going to send out for pizza and chicken wings today, that's about 3 days of food, then it's a grocery trip to get chicken to bbq!! :-)
Non-complaint: "It's Spring!" (up here on the top half of the world)
I suspect they somehow came in with the food. There must be something in the tank that turns fish food into baby fishes. It's a miracle!
yeah but the 3yo lil girls dancing the baby shark dance outside your window werent safe
no one dancing the mac eray nah no moars
Wheeeeeeeeee Spring!!! :-)
No kids here... at least not now... :-|
Woo hoo! Pizza, hot wings, and BEER!!! For now, life is good... :-)
edit: omg so stuffed.. wings eaten, so are Cajun dry rub fries.. omg nap time snzzzzzzzzzz
...my violin instructor in college called it a fiddle as well. She even taught me to play in traditional fiddle style as well as in the "classic" manner.