Hi Jimmy!
happy?
I am too... for you! Sometimes playing music can lead to memorable jams
with others groups or musicians.
Cheers.
J.F.
spaceanimals a écrit :
>Had a blast last night. The Space Animals played at a birthday party.
>Outdoors. Food. 2 kegs. I was a little nervous because the band
>before us was very good. Professional. They had a female keyboard
>player with this fancy 88 key Korg brand new with maple end pieces.
>Very slick. We had two drummer so Tommy decided to play congas. A
>friend of a friend had his bass and he wanted to sit in. Then crazy
>Richard showed up with his timbales and cowbells. And we want to play
>some Dead before we get to the original stuff right? We do? Cool, I
>guess.
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>None of these guys know the songs but it's only rock and roll right?
>Well let me tell you what a joy it is to play with top notch
>musicians. It was divine. Just magic. The band stopping and starting
>on a dime, slowing down, speeding up, getting quiet building up to a
>crescendo. Very cool to hear a timbale solo in the middle of a blues
>rock rave up.
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>Now since the previous band had a keyboard player, I had to show them
>what the old stuff could do so I had all these sounds coming out of
>the synth, mostly getting the filter to self oscilate and playing it
>with the ribbon controller, adding echo, and playing occasional weird
>jazz chords like 4ths and stuff. We did all sorts of extended jams so
>I could just make up this poetry to recite about poodles and goddess,
>and aliens and stuff. And of course we're outside on a beautiful fall
>evening with pretty young ladies dancing and little kids and dogs
>running around. It's a huge compliment that musicians of that caliber
>would want to play with us.
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>Rainbow Jimmy
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