01.20.10
Posted in Instruments at 2:41 am by Administrator
..a move to New York spells the end of stringed instruments for a while..with one final trade (for the time being). Arriving in the Empire state with a Wurlitzer piano,the P Bass (and the $ 29.95 Gianini nylon string guitar from Joyce “The Guitar Lady” LaMotta, it was time to get a real electric guitar. Luckily, my buddy Kevin was looking to get a Wurly and offered me his white Fender Strat in trade. But this was clearly the “Dawn of The Synth”..and drum machine. I was recording demos in an 8 track studio on 38th street and 5th avenue with some of the most amazing musicians…Ray Gomez, Fernando Saunders,Andy Newmark, Steve Ferrone, Tinker Barfield,Steve Skinner,Chieli Minucci, Michael Shrieve,David Frank,Mic Murphy,Fred McFarland..to name just a few. So I got to see the cool new synths as they were coming out and hear some ridiculous players.The crew from “Change” and “The BBQ Band” left behind an Oberheim OBX at the studio and someone else let us use their Linn Drum..and I was hooked.
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Posted in Logic 8/9 at 2:28 am by Administrator
..the deafening “white noise” blast that came unexpectedly out of Logic…I hope they fix this bug soon…any musician with headphones on would have been on the floor crying.
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01.18.10
Posted in Logic 8/9 at 10:10 pm by Administrator
It’s a whole new decade…and with it, a new Mac (iMac,that is…souped up with lots of power and RAM),a Duet Audio Interface and Logic 9.
It’s pretty great..all of it..and the audio stuff that you can do is amazing. The changeover from my G5 PPC Mac Tower took some doing but the software manufacturers were all amazingly helpful..except for MOTU..still waiting to hear why “ETHNO” isn’t working.
I’ll pass along any rants and raves as soon as I get to using it a bit more..so far, it’s stable and running like a racehorse.
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Posted in Instruments at 9:42 pm by Administrator
So why no post in so long? As you can see, I was waiting to get the PERFECT pic of my P Bass..and no, I wasn’t drunk when I took it. It turns out that the resolution on my digital camera was set on high, so all you would have been able to see was the neck.So…it’s back to the camera phone.
What you CAN see in the pic is that the original owner painted the pickguard white, put in a new bridge and got rid of the original knobs. What you CAN”T see are the various “Initial” signatures that he carved in a few places..and the huge hole that he drilled in the underside to accommodate an XLR jack.
The sad thing is that this bass sat in its case from 1965 until 1978 IN PERFECT CONDITION until this “creative” 15 year old decided to “customize” it….oh well..bottom line is that it plays and sounds great…just needs some new strings.
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