In a message dated 1/31/2006 12:07:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, charel196@... writes:
I heard last year that
Hawken barely touched the Tron provided and used samples mostly)
Yeah, that's true. It was my Tron. I had to twist his arm for the thirty seconds or so that he played it on Hero and Heroine. Otherwise he used Pinder samples. But he had been rehearsing with the samples for months and had a far greater comfort zone. Plus, he hadn't played a Tron live for thirty years. And further, he had rearranged many of his parts and they wouldn't fit into the 35 note limitation anymore. He would have had to relearn them all over again.
Regardless, I agree with your point. And at 53, my age as well, I don't necessarily feel like I could haul a B-3 around anymore. I still haul my Tron(s) around a fair amount. With the anvil case for one and the bondage cover for the other(s), it works out OK. I sometimes need help getting them in and out of my basement and into and back out of the back of my Expedition, but I always have plenty of help at the venues, unloading, setting up and putting them back in the truck. And it is loads of fun to hear them live through a big sound system.
If I was in a working band and had to do this all the time, I'd either buy a van with a handicap lift, or a Memotron or some other sample playback device. More for the logistics than anything else. The Trons have never let me down.
Frank