A friend and old bandmate of mine, Wil Seabrook, is one of the 15 finalists on the CBS show Rockstar: INXS.
It will be interesting to see how he does. We watched the first episode last night and they didn’t show much of him….but he did make it to the next round. We’ll see more tonight! Go Wil! WOOOO HOOOOO!!! GIT ER DUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man tonight I got up on stage at the Daily Grind. I played three original songs on acoustic guitar and sang to them. What fun.
I wish I knew more “entertaining” stuff on acoustic guitar. We’ll see if I can’t learn more. It was alot of fun. I know I’ll be back again, and I better have more material.
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For those following it, there are new practice recordings and pictures up on scribblinmusic.com. Mark works at Photo WORLD-WOrld-World-world…. and develops color photos, this time to the benefit of Scribblin’.
My brother came by and helped me tackle my first soldering job in over 15 years. I had to reconnect a broken connection on one of the pins on the leslie cable I bought recently.
I was a little worried I would mess it up, but it went fine. The leslie cable works perfectly now. There is some interference noise when the leslie is at tremelo speed, but not at chorale speed. I’ll have to investigate that.
OMG. I haven’t laughed this hard in a loooong time. This guy Steve is a fantastic writer. On his blog, he has a section called Steve, Don’t Eat It!, which is fscking hillarious! I highly suggest the quick read. Wow.
We all know that the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, was finally backed out of a sand dune. But I recently ran across some time lapse movies of the event.
Very spectacular stuff, I must say! It is so neat that we are at a point in human existence where we are exploring spaces that are not on Earth. Could we have comprehended such tasks thousands of years ago? Could we understand advanced alien technology today if we were exposed to it? Crank up your walkman, or iPod, and think about it.
Blackcat FMOS (Featuring Members of Scribblin’), has changed names. In a gesture of good will, the Members of Scribblin’ have accepted me into their tribe as one of their own. We’ve dropped the Blackcat name, and rather than be called “Featuring Members of Scribblin'”, we’re playing under the abreviated name:
Scribblin’
As with any band starting up these days, the first thing to do is register a domain name, even before learning any songs. In an effort to “go international”, we’ll be starting up scribblinmusic.com and posting some pictures, biographies, music, and contact info.
Stay tuned for more from Scribblin’!
When I sold my Hammond Organ, I kept my Leslie 145 speaker cabinet. And part of the payment for the organ was a Leslie Combo Pre Amp.
This will allow me to play my midi keyboard/computer through the Leslie 145. It will also allow me to change speeds on the leslie with a foot switch. I’ve got some good virtual tonewheel organ instruments on my laptop, so I’m interested to hear how it sounds through the Leslie speaker.
I’ve got a 6-pin leslie cable coming from California, that I won on an ebay auction. Once that gets here, I’ll be able to test it out, and I’ll let you know how it sounds.
Well, I finally did it.
The Fender Rhodes and Hammond Organ which I bought separately years ago have moved on. I was lucky that a wonderful studio-session piano player from Nashville bought them. They will be used well.
These instruments were needing repairs and I was unable to invest the time and money needed to keep them in order. I also rarely afforded myself the opportunity to play on them, so they were gathering dust.
Here’s a picture of them a few days before they moved away.
Some day I may own vintage keyboards like these, but I choose not to take the time to care for them at this point in my life. I most definately have better things to do <cough , kids, cough>!
This weekend, my oldest daughter and I went to a Guitar Center in Raleigh and checked out the M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 they had on display. I wanted to try it before spending over $500USD on it, and boy am I glad I did!
This keyboard’s action is horrible. I sat down at the thing and started to play something in C major. So far so good. All the keys felt good and the hammer-action weight was nice. Then I switched to an F# key and was caught by surprise. The white keys felt fine, but the black keys were unacceptible. The black keys on every piano, vintage electric piano, organ, and midi controller that I’ve played NEVER depress to where the top of the black key is level with the white keys!
However, the top of the black keys on the M-Audio were level with the white keys when they were depresses. This was a deal killer. It was so very different from what I was used to that I couldn’t force myself to buy the thing. I play guitar and bass too and wanted to describe what this felt like for guitar and bass players. The closest thing I could think of was that it felt like when pushing down a string on a guitar, you were always directly above a fret. It felt unbalanced and out-of-place, clumsy and inarticulate…much like me trying to describe this feeling!
If there are any piano players out there, who grew up playing your mom’s “real” piano, I think you would be very dissatisfied with the M-Audio Keystation Pro 88.