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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 \ufffdcrit :

>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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