Hello!
I`m a Classification Officer in a 600 bed maximum security Detention Centre in the Provincial Correctional system (sentences less than 2 years) here in Toronto. That means I complete assessments based on security requirements and program needs and arrange for inmates to be transferred to Correctional Centres to serve their sentences. I also occasionally act as the Deputy Superintendent Programs when my regular boss is away. All totally related to my degree in Human Geography and Classical Studies. (Ha!)
Hobbies include my 2 M400s and 8 tape racks, 5 synths, Hohner pianet, 4 electric guitars(Gibson Les Paul, Flying V, Fender Strat, Gunn Les Paul), 2 bass (Fender JP-90, 1975 Rickenbacker 4001), 1 acoustic (Takamine), drum kit (crappy), PA, HiWatt, Laney, Marshall, Behringer and Ibanez amplification plus odds and sods effects. It is entirely unfortunate that I am an incompetent musician but I have fun anyway. Prog started it all of course. I own lots of imported prog albums worth a heap. Good old Vertigo label stuff and the like.
Also I am a wargamer with about 17500 hand painted lead alloy model soldiers in 6mm, 15mm and 25mm and 54mm scales in many historical time periods. Like Chris Dale, I build miniature models (Minas Tirith is cool, plus other buildings, fortifications etc.) All this on a landscaped 15 foot by 6 foot wargames table. I painted most of the miniatures myself.
Married 25 years to teacher and author Jean and we have 2 sons (20 and 17). One, Emerson at the University of Toronto and the other, Austin about to attend Ryerson University. When the boys were younger I was involved with Scouts Canada for about 13 years.
My book shelves are crammed with about 600 books; mostly historical military history and uniform publications.
I enjoy gardening at home and at the summer cottage on Georgian Bay.
When I watch TV it is historical, romantic or fantasy mini-series (The Tutors, The Borgias, Game of Thrones, Vikings, all the Jane Austin stuff, renditions of Bronte sisters books, Thomas Hardy etc.) and some sports (the CFL-Canadian Football League, is my favourite).
It is great to have this resource to keep the trons alive and to read about other interesting instruments and personalities.
Best wishes,
Dan Miso
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Vance Pomeroy <vance@...> wrote:
>
> I'm a land use planning consultant - the zoning dude - currently mostly
> helping AT&T to get permits for towers and antennas, which they need
> desperately. I also work with property owners and builders to get
> throught the rigorous zoning processing here in most Southern California
> cities and counties.
> I'm married to a wonderful lady and have two strapping boys, 20 and 16,
> one an Eagle Scout and the other on his way. How in the world did they
> grow that much!! I'm an assistant scoutmaster and love to organize and
> go out on long backpack treks (leaving for eight days in the Sierras in
> August) and I put on The Big Ride, the largest scout cycling event in
> the western US, where I help boys ride 100 miles in one day - way too
> much fun...
> We live on 17.5 acres in the desert of Southern California with a bunch
> of critters (horses, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, cats and dogs). I'm
> a member of our local school board and do way too much
> volunteering...stretched very thin at times.
> I got into music in Jr. High with my choir teachers Mr. Roy Klassen and
> Miss Mary Kolegraff (who, in 1974, turned us onto Jethro Tull; she
> married and became Mrs. Mary Rago, taught at John Burroughs High and
> became the inspiration for High School Musical and Glee) - and then in
> High School by Glenn DeLange and Regnal Hall, who later became Director
> of Orchestras at Disney. All great mentors. It was during all this that
> I joined a rock band and then learned to play guitar, bass and keyboards
> - and was influenced by The Moodies, Strawbs, BJH, et al - and became
> interested in that "sound" - and eventually bought my Chamberlin M2 in
> the early '80's for $1500 with money I earned over the summer. I gigged
> with the Chamby at several LA venues including while we were
> headliners/regulars at Gazzarri's on Sunset. I bought an M1 with custom
> tapes from Wayne Cook (keyboardist for Player) and eventually sold it to
> Dave Kean (when he was still in North Hollywood), but not before I took
> Wayne's digitally controlled motor set-up and put it in my M2. I'm
> pretty sure Dave still has it.
> I don't get to play as often as I like and haven't been in an organized
> musical situation for too many years.
>
> Vance
>
>
>
> On 7/31/2013 8:10 AM, Tom Doncourt wrote:
> >
> > ∗ I am a senior artist for the American Museum of Natural
> > History...meaning I build and work on the exhibits there. I've had
> > lots of jobs to supplement my real life as a musician but I always
> > sought work that could be applied somehow to my creative endeavors.
> > ∗ I got my first real job in a furniture factory in 73 so that I
> > could buy a mellotron and join a band called Odyssey. I made $73 a
> > week! I then founded the band Cathedral and we made "Stained Glass
> > Stories". I've worked as a damper installer at Steinway and Sons
> > and as a production manager at Woodstock Percussion.
> > ∗ I've been very interested in building percussion and wind
> > instruments and still have a little workshop that I tinker on
> > marimbas and metallophones and other experiments. I am working on
> > a sound installation these days.
> > ∗ I founded a "production co." - Phoshorescent Records last year.
> > Right now it is only a trademark but I plan to use it to release
> > my own material and to collaborate with new musicians I have been
> > meeting in and around the N.Y.C area. I have been outfitting my
> > space "Tower Mews" to do audio and video abeit by the seat of my
> > pants.
> > ∗ I've been married and seriously involved a few times now and I
> > think I am finally getting pretty good at it and will eventually
> > get it right. I have four kids and three grandkids. One of them
> > (grandkids) is terrified of me which I find amusing but a little
> > sad and altogether understandable.
> > ∗ Most of all I love making my music and of that process I love
> > sitting at the M400 and M1 the best...those instruments never fail
> > to inspire me. The tron is the centerpeice of my work.
> > ∗
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ∗From:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > [newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] on behalf of Mike Dickson
> > [mike.dickson@...]
> > ∗Sent:∗ Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:31 AM
> > ∗To:∗ newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > ∗Subject:∗ [newmellotrongroup] Re: Job? Hobbies? Special Skills?
> >
> > I do digital forensics for a law enforcement arm of the government.
> > It involves a fair amount of travel and I get to do some teaching
> > too, usually to other law enforcement agencies or to University
> > students taking courses in the same field.
> >
> >
> > At heart I think I would still describe myself as a mathematician who
> > would rather be a musician but who does /other stuff/ to finance his
> > life.
> >
> > Twice married, twice divorced, no kids. Now living with someone I met
> > 26 years ago and have been with her for 16. One enormous flat in the
> > Edinburgh city centre and one beautiful cottage on the Scottish east
> > coast, three cats, two grown-up stepchildren and very little else I
> > could ask for.
> >
> > --
> > ∗Mike Dickson∗
> > /Cockenzie, East Lothian/
> >
>