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Out takes with my partner Jessie...This was recorded at Dave's studio on a Saturday morning..If I recall..it was SH101 for lefthand bass, and TR707 with custom patterns for drums...I think we used whatever Dave had set up for Rhodes (Casio)...No sequences , and no arranger...

All are gone now...including the girl and my one summer beard..

Wow - memory lane .... back then, we actually thought those drums sounded good! LOL
That 707 ride cymbal sounds like bacon frying! Hahahahahahahaha......... glad we never knew better. In fact, there wasn't anything better except a live kit.

Quote UD " That 707 ride cymbal sounds like bacon frying! Hahahahahahahaha......... "



Dave,


That’s what I said about speakers, we don't know any better now our ears are gone, 40 years on, when did you have yours tested last, set your Kb on a good high pitch, pull out the 1ft only Hammond sound, shift up octave as high as it will go and the play the upper keys, if you can hear them all you are OK most people our age can't. If you have been subject to loud noise all your life your ears will be damaged, unless you wore ear defenders. Lots of band musicians have hearing damage, they just think there kb sounds good.

I had hearing aids fitted two years back and I didn't know, its freq loss not sound power loss, these are far different!

Dave , do you remember what the top keyboard, the rhodes sound came from? I thought it was a Casio..maybe it could have been a Juno2 I had, but I think we used your stuf to record on...

Jessie was sick that morning too...she was a trooper..BTW: you weren't to kind to her...with a dry mic...

It's great to have recordings like that ... we have some recordings of our band that I made on a cassette recorder back in the day ... only good for nostalgia, but great to have ...
BTW ... made me realize how old "Just the Way You Are" is ... still on the playlist though ...

HOW COOL!

Now, it's amazing that we actually played with that equipment and did a pretty good job, all things considered. I particularly liked the soft focus on the promo photo...something a lot of us did then and need more NOW!

Keep "rockin" Fran!

R.

Soft focus?!? ... Russ, put your GLASSES on !!!

Tony put your glasses on. I got mine on
bebop

The lady is very beautiful, I guess you were OK too fran.
:-)

Hmmmm, Might have been a U-20. I don't remember using a Casio for Rhodes sounds.

You look very lovely Fran...the lady does too.

Those old pictures are so flattering.

Nice music as well.

Ian

Maybe the Casio was up there for the brass sound...I don't remember..was it a real Rhodes at the time...I know I didn't use a transpose

PS: 2-3 years too early for a U-20..maybe a Juno2..

25 years ago around the time of the TR707 the only acceptable digital Rhodes emulations used were on the DX7. The Casio wasn't really good for that type of sound.

And the DX-7 didn't have transpose...so that may have been the one used for the EP.

Ian

When I was with Jessie, I primarily used a JX10 with a Yamaha TX81Z(for EP)..I also used 2 Juno2's with the SH101 for a short time....The drum machines were the TR707, RX120 and SR16...

The recording session at Dave's studio....we used what was accessible at the time ...

Yep the Yamaha TX81Z would have added the same FM tine type of Rhodes emulation as the DX-7. It would have blended well with the JX-10 for EP sounds. The JX-10 would have added that warm thickness that tended to be missing from the FM tine patches.