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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 14, 2018 8:27:12 GMT
Brooklyn! Another fellow musician on the board! TOO funny that the accordion was your first instrument as it was for me as well! My mom used to play and I found this big heavy case one day when I was around five or six and it was “on” from there. In school, I started with trumpet, played it for a year or two, moved on to clarinet (HATED that and only played it for a few months). From there I went to French horn before finally settling on trombone which I played from junior high on. In the meantime, friends were starting to play guitars and like most bands, we had three and a drummer. I reluctantly agreed to be the “McCartney” and switched to bass. I also had a LOT of free time in high school which I spent most of learning and playing the piano in our auditorium. I was born with “the ear”, as they say. Never had one lesson on any instrument, couldn’t read sheet music if you held a gun to my head, but can literally listen to a song once or twice and play it the third in just about anything I put my hands to. I have a Yamaha baby grand in the front room of my house and a mini-studio corner in my basement with amps, PA and somewhere between 10 - 12 guitars (acoustic, electric and bass, 4, 5, 6 &12 strings). While I am primarily a bassist / lead vocalist, I have also played rhythm guitar and sang in a number of groups. I have NO ability to “shred”, but can manage some easier lead guitar solos. I’ve played in bands and bars since I was in high school, did a couple of demos in the studio and even got to sing in front of @ 15,000 with Chris Daughtry and his band a few years ago when they were here in Cincy opening for the Foo Fighters. That was pretty cool! Still kicking my own butt for not taking one or two of my axes with me to SoCal back in the early 80’s. Spent most of that summer on the strip when bands like Poison, Crüe, LA Guns, Ratt, Warrant, Guns N‘ Roses and most of the other “hair” bands were just getting started. Saw dozens of playbills posted on telephone poles, bulletin boards, etc. looking for players / singers. I definitely had the “look” with long blonde hair to my shoulders, 6’3” and skinny as a rail. Plus I had the chops. I coulda’ been a contender!!! GO DODGERS!!! Killer post, JR, great stuff. Gotta play some instrument in my old age. I like to eat a bit, how about the spoons??? One of my last posts on old board was this, stoked by it. HOW ABOUT THAT ACCORDION?  For you and Bklyn!!!!! I do love me some- Pickin' and Grinnin' and these boys can pick and strum Jerry Reed, Buck Owens & Roy Clark I swear this YouTube is amazing! |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 14, 2018 11:51:46 GMT
Killer post, JR, great stuff. Gotta play some instrument in my old age. I like to eat a bit, how about the spoons??? One of my last posts on old board was this, stoked by it. HOW ABOUT THAT ACCORDION? For you and Bklyn!!!!! I remember seeing this there. Totally rocked it! GO DODGERS!!! JR - - Impressive dude very impressive You've got to be kidding LOL...I received my German pearl red accordion when I was 4 years old and I learn to play O Tannenbaum. I must say, I don't meet many people that play the accordion outside a of German, Polka band or, Lawrence Welk You got some nice equipment there JR very nice My very first lesion which was in a Lutheran Church where my mom had her Nursery school she came from Austria where she was very well known playing for royalty and my first lesson was on Clavicle and later I had an old Spinet Upright Piano at home. Keyboards; I have an Vox Continental which allows me to play "House of the Rising Sun" and mimic Alan Price or, Put a Rhodes Bass on top to play mostly any Ray Manzarek Door's tune:) and Korg Kronos full key electric piano. I have a old Fender Elec-Bass, but my first guitar was Gibson J-200 a solid instrument, Gibson Es-295, Gibson Custom 12 string Double neck metallic Blue EDS-1275, Ovation 12 string Fender Strat and some other stuff. You know, I always wanted to play sax and I don't know why I never did, however - My uncle played trumpet with Count Basie for nearly twenty years. Foo Fighters Never saw them but very nice and Ratt - Round and Round now, I saw them in 1984 and Poison Bret Michael. Did you take voice lessons ?? |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 14, 2018 12:36:20 GMT
Excellent, these are some of the great masters Steven Stills under rated guitar player in my book and I remember seeing him with the Buffalo Springfield at the Trip, I love his pull offs they are so crisp, The Wolf Man ah yes "How many more years" that dude got million hits. Slow Hand Clapton with Cream at Whisky and the Shrine Auditorium saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience at Anaheim Convention Center with the Monkees, Lovin Spoonful at the Whisky here and in Greenwich Village NY, Ringo with Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl 64. Yeah, I took classical Piano for 7 years, classical guitar almost 4 years, i also can play The drums - no lessons, by ear The Accordion (the fist instrument I ever received and played) harmonica that I got out of a Cracker Jack box:) I really wanted to play sports Baseball, as I always wanted to play for the Dodgers! IS that the Hammer of the BROAD STREET BULLY Dave Schultz?. Wonderful stuff. Yep, that's Shultz, thought of him the other night when in gdt with Puigout. I'll add I took a couple drum lessons as a kid, I was like 13-14. Had the pad and sticks and my teacher was cool. It was strange in that he had a limp, and in the middle of my set of lessons, he got drafted into the Army for Vietnam. Made no sense to me, a first real dose of life's realities. Fyi, speaking of no sense "the paradiddle" absolutely befuddled me, thought no f'n way can I play that fast. Couldn't remember the sequence. lolol. Drums didn't take. I play a mean jukebox though. Neil: Neil Young the last couple of concerts of Young's was Rust Never Sleeps and Everybody rocking Shocking Pinks tour. It's just a pattern start Left and you end up two Right Clap your hand , and tap your feet; drop the needle / and you can't be beat" 10,000 hours of practice ,,,,,,,,,,,you;=) |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Apr 14, 2018 17:56:30 GMT
I remember seeing this there. Totally rocked it! GO DODGERS!!! JR - - Impressive dude very impressive You've got to be kidding LOL...I received my German pearl red accordion when I was 4 years old and I learn to play O Tannenbaum. I must say, I don't meet many people that play the accordion outside a of German, Polka band or, Lawrence Welk You got some nice equipment there JR very nice My very first lesion which was in a Lutheran Church where my mom had her Nursery school she came from Austria where she was very well known playing for royalty and my first lesson was on Clavicle and later I had an old Spinet Upright Piano at home. Keyboards; I have an Vox Continental which allows me to play "House of the Rising Sun" and mimic Alan Price or, Put a Rhodes Bass on top to play mostly any Ray Manzarek Door's tune:) and Korg Kronos full key electric piano. I have a old Fender Elec-Bass, but my first guitar was Gibson J-200 a solid instrument, Gibson Es-295, Gibson Custom 12 string Double neck metallic Blue EDS-1275, Ovation 12 string Fender Strat and some other stuff. You know, I always wanted to play sax and I don't know why I never did, however - My uncle played trumpet with Count Basie for nearly twenty years. Foo Fighters Never saw them but very nice and Ratt - Round and Round now, I saw them in 1984 and Poison Bret Michael. Did you take voice lessons ?? No voice lessons. Started singing in grade school & was told back then I had the “voice”. After that, our music teacher would “audition” us in duos & EVERYBODY wanted to duo with me. It’s funny - a few of decades ago my aunt bought me a book about a guy named Ferrington that hand made custom guitars anywhere from @ $1,500 - $3,000. At the time, I was like “who would ever pay three grand for a guitar?”. I think over half of mine were that or more. Just in basses I have a ‘79 Rickenbacher that I purchased brand new that year, a custom one of a kind hand made Warrior Soldier 5 string and a late ‘60’s Hofner that I basically stole from a guy in England via eBay (he had NO idea what he had or was selling). My high end regulars consist of an Ibanez JPM200, signed on the headstock by its namesake John Petrucci of Dream Theater, an original Takamine Garth Brooks electric acoustic (#13 of 100 and the same model he still plays on stage - the newer one are being mass produced and are not even close in quality or sound of this one), an early ‘80’s Charvel 5B (made in Texas before Jackson sold out to the Japanese) and a first production purple roundtop quilled Peavey Wolfgang (which rumor has it may have actually been played by EVH - he was said to be VERY controlling when he signed with Peavey, was at their plant almost daily & would literally try to play every one that came off the line. Was ESPECIALLY partial to the purple models). It’s hysterical that you mentioned playing sax because it’s the one instrument I never tried but always wanted to play. But after my clarinet experiment and knowing the sax used the same type of mouthpiece and reed, I didn’t want to go down that road. I used to have all of these and more, plus four amps and a small PA crammed into one of our ten by ten bedrooms along with tons of memorabilia, NASCAR diecasts, etc. I totally ran out of room and couldn’t even get in there to play. So we decided after 20+ years to finish our basement which ended up taking over two years (freakin’ contractors!). I now have that nice little corner I mentioned plus all of my other “goodies” including a set of blue stadium seats from Chavez and an orange set from Joe Robbie in Miami, close to 100 die cast in mirrored cases, signed photos, posters, baseballs, bats, helmets, hockey pucks - you name it - I got it. Friends we have had over think we should charge admission to see it. The pièce de résistance is in the back room - my regulation 4’ x 8’ Dodgers billiard table, complete with flying ball logo cloth (which was damn near as much as the table itself!). It, like the piano & guitars doesn’t get played on nearly as much as it it should, but it’s great to have for parties and family gatherings. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 14, 2018 23:59:44 GMT
JR - - Impressive dude very impressive You've got to be kidding LOL...I received my German pearl red accordion when I was 4 years old and I learn to play O Tannenbaum. I must say, I don't meet many people that play the accordion outside a of German, Polka band or, Lawrence Welk You got some nice equipment there JR very nice My very first lesion which was in a Lutheran Church where my mom had her Nursery school she came from Austria where she was very well known playing for royalty and my first lesson was on Clavicle and later I had an old Spinet Upright Piano at home. Keyboards; I have an Vox Continental which allows me to play "House of the Rising Sun" and mimic Alan Price or, Put a Rhodes Bass on top to play mostly any Ray Manzarek Door's tune:) and Korg Kronos full key electric piano. I have a old Fender Elec-Bass, but my first guitar was Gibson J-200 a solid instrument, Gibson Es-295, Gibson Custom 12 string Double neck metallic Blue EDS-1275, Ovation 12 string Fender Strat and some other stuff. You know, I always wanted to play sax and I don't know why I never did, however - My uncle played trumpet with Count Basie for nearly twenty years. Foo Fighters Never saw them but very nice and Ratt - Round and Round now, I saw them in 1984 and Poison Bret Michael. Did you take voice lessons ?? No voice lessons. Started singing in grade school & was told back then I had the “voice”. After that, our music teacher would “audition” us in duos & EVERYBODY wanted to duo with me. It’s funny - a few of decades ago my aunt bought me a book about a guy named Ferrington that hand made custom guitars anywhere from @ $1,500 - $3,000. At the time, I was like “who would ever pay three grand for a guitar?”. I think over half of mine were that or more. Just in basses I have a ‘79 Rickenbacher that I purchased brand new that year, a custom one of a kind hand made Warrior Soldier 5 string and a late ‘60’s Hofner that I basically stole from a guy in England via eBay (he had NO idea what he had or was selling). My high end regulars consist of an Ibanez JPM200, signed on the headstock by its namesake John Petrucci of Dream Theater, an original Takamine Garth Brooks electric acoustic (#13 of 100 and the same model he still plays on stage - the newer one are being mass produced and are not even close in quality or sound of this one), an early ‘80’s Charvel 5B (made in Texas before Jackson sold out to the Japanese) and a first production purple roundtop quilled Peavey Wolfgang (which rumor has it may have actually been played by EVH - he was said to be VERY controlling when he signed with Peavey, was at their plant almost daily & would literally try to play every one that came off the line. Was ESPECIALLY partial to the purple models). It’s hysterical that you mentioned playing sax because it’s the one instrument I never tried but always wanted to play. But after my clarinet experiment and knowing the sax used the same type of mouthpiece and reed, I didn’t want to go down that road. I used to have all of these and more, plus four amps and a small PA crammed into one of our ten by ten bedrooms along with tons of memorabilia, NASCAR diecasts, etc. I totally ran out of room and couldn’t even get in there to play. So we decided after 20+ years to finish our basement which ended up taking over two years (freakin’ contractors!). I now have that nice little corner I mentioned plus all of my other “goodies” including a set of blue stadium seats from Chavez and an orange set from Joe Robbie in Miami, close to 100 die cast in mirrored cases, signed photos, posters, baseballs, bats, helmets, hockey pucks - you name it - I got it. Friends we have had over think we should charge admission to see it. The pièce de résistance is in the back room - my regulation 4’ x 8’ Dodgers billiard table, complete with flying ball logo cloth (which was damn near as much as the table itself!). It, like the piano & guitars doesn’t get played on nearly as much as it it should, but it’s great to have for parties and family gatherings.
GO DODGERS!!! Dude, you got a Rick!! I wanted a 12 string Rick, I like their bright and clear sound. I try playing "Eight Miles High" on my Gibson and to me it just doesn't sound as good as it would on a Rick, that is if you're trying to copy Roger McGuinn from the Byrds. Ibanez makes some solid stuff, I fooled with a few in the store a few times, but instead I bought a Blue Robot Auto Guitar! Sax, love a good sax ala Boots Randolph, Maceo Parker, Junior Walker, Red Prysock, Big Jay McNeely the pride of LA oh my god...I could listen to them all day and that is another mystery to me why I didn't play it - I guess I was so impressed with others doing it and playing instrument, subconsciously I decided not to...!! Amps, I have gone mini - I love these Mini Micro Marshalls Amps...although I do have an old Vox, Amp and Waha, waha peddle, Amp and Gorilla Amp! You place sounds like a "curiosity shop" love it:) |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Apr 15, 2018 2:15:20 GMT
I hear you on the downsizing. I’ve been trying to sell my Trace Elliot stack (4 - 10’s w/ 2 horns sitting on top of an 18” w/ another horn powered by 800 watt head. I never had the master gain over 1 1/2, and that included playing at Bogarts, a pretty decent sized club up by U.C. that holds a couple thousand.
I still have a small 4 channel Peavey PA with 2 15” Cerwin Vega cabinets and to go along with my Wolfgang, a Peavey 5150 II head sitting on a slant 4 - 10” Celestions). But for my bass, I picked up a Markbass w/ 2 - 10’s” and it FREAKIN’ cranks while only weighing about 20 lbs. My Trace head weighs TWICE that and the cabinets are close to 100 lbs each!
I was playing a cheap Gibson SG knockoff (Lyle) bass and I kinda dropped it accidentally on purpose so I could get the Rick. Both Geddy & Chris Squire of Yes (two of my favs) were playing a black with white pickguard model & I luckily found one at a local shop a fellow player and bud of mine owned & still owns. Think I paid $795 with a hardshell case - that was a LOT of bucks for a guitar back then.
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 15, 2018 15:48:37 GMT
Nice...Cerwin's are sturdy, I have a Peavey "Dirt Dog" lead cruncher switch. I look at my equipment and it mostly all vintage stuff ... Oh, I do have Vox AC10C1 Tube and last year I bought a Roland cube battery Roland M-CUBE-GXR Micro Cube rechargeable nice sound and no cord!
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Post by jrgreene6 on Apr 16, 2018 6:29:33 GMT
Nice...Cerwin's are sturdy, I have a Peavey "Dirt Dog" lead cruncher switch. I look at my equipment and it mostly all vintage stuff ... Oh, I do have Vox AC10C1 Tube and last year I bought a Roland cube battery Roland M-CUBE-GXR Micro Cube rechargeable nice sound and no cord! The original cones were both blown / cracked when I bought them and the four channel from a bud. I just had them both rebuilt a couple of years ago and they sound phenomenal. Not that it makes much difference - but I had the wrong band Daughtry was opening for - it was the Goo Goo Dolls, not Foo Fighters. I always seem to get those two mixed up for some reason. There was actually a third band on that bill called Plain White T’s and they impressed the hell out of me all playing acoustic guitars w/ upright bass & snare w/ symbol only. REALLY excellent four part harmonies. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 16, 2018 18:57:47 GMT
W I remember seeing this there. Totally rocked it! GO DODGERS!!! JR - - Impressive dude very impressive You've got to be kidding LOL...I received my German pearl red accordion when I was 4 years old and I learn to play O Tannenbaum. I must say, I don't meet many people that play the accordion outside a of German, Polka band or, Lawrence Welk You got some nice equipment there JR very nice My very first lesion which was in a Lutheran Church where my mom had her Nursery school she came from Austria where she was very well known playing for royalty and my first lesson was on Clavicle and later I had an old Spinet Upright Piano at home. Keyboards; I have an Vox Continental which allows me to play "House of the Rising Sun" and mimic Alan Price or, Put a Rhodes Bass on top to play mostly any Ray Manzarek Door's tune:) and Korg Kronos full key electric piano. I have a old Fender Elec-Bass, but my first guitar was Gibson J-200 a solid instrument, Gibson Es-295, Gibson Custom 12 string Double neck metallic Blue EDS-1275, Ovation 12 string Fender Strat and some other stuff. You know, I always wanted to play sax and I don't know why I never did, however - My uncle played trumpet with Count Basie for nearly twenty years. Foo Fighters Never saw them but very nice and Ratt - Round and Round now, I saw them in 1984 and Poison Bret Michael. Did you take voice lessons ?? Hey CK...We need a little Garage Punk from LA's very own Music Machine! |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 16, 2018 19:06:04 GMT
Nice...Cerwin's are sturdy, I have a Peavey "Dirt Dog" lead cruncher switch. I look at my equipment and it mostly all vintage stuff ... Oh, I do have Vox AC10C1 Tube and last year I bought a Roland cube battery Roland M-CUBE-GXR Micro Cube rechargeable nice sound and no cord! The original cones were both blown / cracked when I bought them and the four channel from a bud. I just had them both rebuilt a couple of years ago and they sound phenomenal. Not that it makes much difference - but I had the wrong band Daughtry was opening for - it was the Goo Goo Dolls, not Foo Fighters. I always seem to get those two mixed up for some reason. There was actually a third band on that bill called Plain White T’s and they impressed the hell out of me all playing acoustic guitars w/ upright bass & snare w/ symbol only. REALLY excellent four part harmonies. GO DODGERS!!! All acoustic nice, although it's like a piece of furniture, there is nothing like an up right "Bo Fiddle" that you can slap and if you do plug in, use try to use amps with tubes I'm a believer warmer more natural sounds..... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2018 19:22:49 GMT
Lazy Bones. Saw Deep Purple, Buddy Miles and Jo Jo Gunne at the Long Beach Auditorium, a very small venue, with old time balconies, and festival seating. A great concert somewhere in the early '70's. Long version, of course.
Posted to wrong thread. Got past the mod without edit/delete, smh. Self delete works fine.
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 18, 2018 19:37:01 GMT
Lazy Bones. Saw Deep Purple, Buddy Miles and Jo Jo Gunne at the Long Beach Auditorium, a very small venue, with old time balconies, and festival seating. A great concert somewhere in the early '70's. Long version, of course. Posted to wrong thread. Got past the mod without edit/delete, smh. Self delete works fine. Well alright now....Excellent LP massively Great Highway Star, Smoke on.... I gotta chance to play with Richie Blackmore when he was with Rainbow.....and this group....ah Food's here One for the road great band with Dino Valenti we miss you D |
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 18, 2018 23:44:38 GMT
Lazy Bones. Saw Deep Purple, Buddy Miles and Jo Jo Gunne at the Long Beach Auditorium, a very small venue, with old time balconies, and festival seating. A great concert somewhere in the early '70's. Long version, of course. Posted to wrong thread. Got past the mod without edit/delete, smh. Self delete works fine. Love that Icon of Harvey as it reminds me of Groucho ...LOL I just finished listing to this entire LP on Vinyl on my 40 year old Kenwood Turn Table and it sound delicious! TY CK |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 2:02:33 GMT
Yeah, Harvey Korman cracks me up, as does Madeline Kahn, and throw in Gene Wilder. Mel Brooks is a genius.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 15:45:05 GMT
A request has come in, from Puigout. The magic music machine answers. It's not a matter of White and Wong.
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For you and Bklyn!!!!!