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> From: Michael -nil-x [mailto:nil@...]
> Hey, that's weird, I know that guy. Not by his music, he lives in my town.
I used to work at Sam Ash in the keyboard section and he came in quite a few
times. Really nice guy. One of these days I need to go out and catch him, he
plays in town at least once a month.
Plan on it. You will not be sorry.
> We talked about how a real b3 was to play in comparison to the korg cx3
and the native instruments b3. He complained that beyond the sound
differences, the
midi would not actually keep up with his playing speed and causes him some
problems because of it, only a real b3 would do it. Knowing that the delay
is like 2-5ms that's some pretty fast playing.
His speed is amazing. But, his style and ability to play a completely
independent and complex bass part at the same time just blew me away.
Another thing that blew me away was the instrument. Tony was playing the
Hammond "new port-a-B" It is black with a very nice metal support system.
It breaks down for transport and all the parts together weigh in at only
about 170 lbs. I will say to those that think Roland and Korg are making
good B3 clones, they are still short of what Hammond is doing with their
latest generation of keyboards. I could not believe this was not a
mechanical tonewheel organ. The only thing that threw me was the built in
console reverb, which he abused only infrequently during his show.
Larry