I've just concluded a wonderfully memorable time with Andrea Rotolo (Dreamer) over the last 3 weeks of his vist here in California, from Rome, Italy. This included showing him some of the local sites of the Berkeley-San Francisco Area (which included an Italian-American Street Fair in SF which included music by Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums: http://www.luckylounge.com/swingin.html
, showing him our local Guitar Center Store ), sampling a wide assortment of California foods (chinese diem sum, fresh californian salmon, japanese sushi, indian mango lassi to brazilian & south american faire), hanging out & partying with friends, discussing culture & music, and most FUN of all, playing lots of music together (jamming). Andrea, being an avid bicycle enthusiast even helped me shop for a new bike (hybrid road/mountain type).

I just posted (on my website) a short 40 second Movie Clip (Windows Media Player format) of Andrea & me informally playing together the Cole Porter classic: "Night and Day". It was recorded with my digital 'still camera' (Canon G2), not a video camera, so is quite limited in both video & audio quality, But I hope it still will give you a sense of what is was like jamming together.

To view the video, go to my website:
http://scottyee.com

and then clik on the link to the "Song Demos" page.

It's also been great finally meeting in person, Synthzone members: Bebop, Clif, Tom, & Andrea, and I hope I have the opportunity to eventually meet other forum members (in person) as well. I realize how difficult it's going to be to plan my next vacation now, because it's going to be hard to decide which Country/State to visit, because I really want to meet so many of you.

Scott

Hi Scott,
glad to see that it really happened. The way I feel now, the last 3 weeks could have been just a fruit of my imagination.
I think that you should give credit to Alexander too: his whistling is very expressive indeed.
Going to sleep now.
Andrea

Scott,

Very Very nice! The video is very Kool to see you both jammin along together. Its like being there for sure. Thanx for sharing.

Donny nj

Ps.. by the way the Rhumba Bums Rock!!

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Here's a shot of Andrea w/ Alexander: http://www.pbase.com/image/2788972

Hmmmm - Heard the music but the picture wouldn't show. Weird stuff.

Weird stuff ?!
Are you trying to tell me that the audio sounded really 'weird' or just saying that you think it's weird not to be able to view the video portion of the clip? Donny & others were able to both 'see & hear' the video & audio, so I suspect the problem may be on 'your' end. You may want to check your Windows Media Player version & possibly upgrade to a more current version: http://www.windowsmedia.com/download/

Anyone else here (with Windows Media Player) having trouble viewing my video clip?

Scott

No problems here scot!, plays on the second link from were i am ("Video Clip: Windows Media Player: 56k Modem, 30kbs 'Streaming' Video"), but not the first one. It is very good. Maybe UD's way is the only way, so everything else is kinda weird hey UD

Anyway, just like to say the other tunes i tried were good as well (all on the KN5000??? - sound better than my "EX" KN6000

Anymore where that came from Scot

J5.



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Relax ..... of course I meant "weird" computer stuff. Sheeesh.

Ok - now it played. The weird thing is that I HAVE a cable modem. Cyber Gremlins??????

I have cable too and can't get any picture????

Try the 56k setting .... worked for me & J5.

Hi Scott,
seems you had a nice time together with Andrea in Californie.
Regards ,
Notlos www.mp3.com/dirkbaert http://www.geocities.com/notlos/notlos.html

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Dirk (Notlos): Yes, Andrea & I both had a blast making music together. It was so cool to be able to just 'start playing (jamming)' the moment we met (with no prior rehearsal) and and make some pretty decent sounding music. We seemed to click musically from the start, both playing/singing classic standards like: Girl From Ipanema, Arreverderci Roma, Meditation, Just the Way You Are, Beatles, Latin, & Blues tunes, Misty, I Left My Heart in SF, and Route 66, just to name a few. I think we both learned a lot from each other during our time together. I showed him the jazzy rootless chord voicings (which he can now subsequently play on his SD1 ). I was impressed how he was able to pick up on the harmony of most tunes pretty quickly (by ear). This has encouraged me to focus now on improving more in this area as well.

One thing both Andrea & I noticed right away: After hearing each other perform live for each other, and then comparing it to our MP3 recordings posted on the web, it became 'immediately' evident that compressed MP3s do NOT do justice to the original performance. Mp3's really kill the spark & excitement (rhythmic groove that breathes) present originally. I remembered hearing some of Andrea's MP3 tunes over the internet thinking they sounded good (but not great), but now hearing them played live by him (in person), they now sounded terrific, like "Night & Day", (oh yeah, yet another song we enjoyed playing together).

Dirk, realizing what a jazz/latin afficiado & excellent kb player you are, I hope to someday have the priviledge of meeting and possibly playing music with you too. I think we really need to organize a European Synthzone get together now. I need an excuse to finally travel to Europe, or how about Brasil, Mexico, Louisiana, NJ, Alaska, FLA, Santa Barbara, LA, etc etc.

Scott


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Hey, what do you mean "they sounded good but not great?"
Wait until I come back to Berkeley...

why.....iiiiiii..oughtta ......

Scott

I loved hearing about your event - The pictures and videos were great !!!
Hope I can make it next time!!

Take Care!

UD......
Was this your impersonation of Ollie Hardy? I hope you flicked the tie and wobbled the belly while you typed or it won't work

ttfn
Tony
(who is often mistaken, albeit on dark nights for Kim Novak.)

Of course ! Was I being disrespectful to the LIVING now??????

Hi Scott, I rate your website as a "save and return often". Keep up the music demos and the professional subscriptions to the Forum. Particularly liked the new video of you and Andrea but was far too short!!.:O Wonder if you also would have been happier to have faced each other during the performance - or is that too horrible to contemplate.
cheers Eddie from Rotherham www.yamahakeyboards.info

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Eddie from Rotherham
www.yamahakeyboards.info

Eddie, Scott actually proposed me to move his Steinway to the opposite side of the room, but I told him that it was fine having his back turned at me.

He was "Dreaming" of playing "Bach"



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