Years ago,I was playing bass in a band on a stage about 2 feet high. Irma, a cute new waitress started working that night. I tried to look down her shirt, walked off the stage, broke my glasses, bloodied my knee and scarred up a new Jazz bass...it was WORTH it. Actually, Irma and I became, and are still good friends. I introduced her to a good friend, and they were married for over 30 years before he died.

Now, my "little" friend and I have a great time remembering!And I look at the scar on that old bass and have a good laugh.


Russ

They will get people to upgrade by introducing new features and better quality voices. They will introduce voices from the next Tyros. I wonder if Yamaha will introduce the chord strumming feature introduced by Roland.
Starkeeper

I've asked my repair guy for a complete specifications list and with luck he'll send them to me next week.

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

No way, Donnie. Some of us are NOT DJ's and never will be.

Think about it!


"Old School" Russ

Russ,

You just gave me a huge belly laugh - thanks

zuki

Back in the 70's I and another organist were the organ players for the Muskegon Mohawks hockey team. The other player was my teacher and we each took about half of the games.

Before the game people are wandering around and not really paying much attention to what you are playing. Then they announced that the "Star Spangled Banner" will be played by Tom Cavanaugh. All of the sudden 5000 people turn around and become quiet. I started to play and I LOST MY PLACE. I hung on a note at the end of a phrase for what seemed like forever, found my place and finished.

The fans would walk past the organ and say things like "what did you do with the money your folks gave you for lessions?" The theme song for when the Mohawks scored a goal was "Somethings Gotta Give". I would play that after a goal and the fans would say "You can play that but not the National Anthem?"

I practiced that tune for I'll bet a hundred times and never needed the music for it again.

Tom

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Couple of things come to mind.

One old Town Hall we played at had a sloping stage and in those early days of rock'n'roll, virtually every song was an assault on the piano. So there I am pounding away on some Jerry Lee Lewis tune and the piano gently starts to roll down the slope towards the front of the stage. It took me and the bass player to halt its progress, otherwise there could have been a nasty accident.

Another time, when I'd just got a Hohner Pianet, we were playing at a function and a couple of recording co. reps were coming to check us out. Now, the volume, or swell, control on the old Pianet was by way of a knee-operated lever suspended from the underside of the keyboard. Well, I was so nervous that my knee started to tremble uncontrollably and the volume was suddenly all over the place. Couldn't have done any harm, though. We did get our contract with CBS.

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I once hit the stage and had forgotten to zip my fly!!!

Lucily nothin popped out!

I was playing at a healing service on Monday evening, and was working my way through a set of 7 Praise and Worship songs. As I changed the registration to the sixth song my foot must have accidentally touched the footswitch (I do not use it on that song) and muted the whole keyboard. I obviously still had the default footswitch setting at Volume (I hate that setting!).

Anyway after a moment of panic I figured out what must have been the problem, pulled the footswitch plug out of the back of the keyboard, put my hands in a prayer position and carried on (much to everyone's amusement).

Graham

Got to the gig...forgot my keyboard at home !!
had to DJ & Sing for a paycheck that night usibng what I had a LT/Mic & powered speakers!!