What Are You Doing Right Now?

Well that’s fun. Went out to get the garbage cans and found one of our oaks along the street had dropped a huge branch….. blocking the street. Sometime in the night. City crew is already here cutting it up. Tax dollars at work.
 
I'm questioning my sanity after agreeing to do an Adele song at the singer's request. :shock:

I mean, we've taken on some stuff that the rest of us would never have dreamed of, Bowie, Tears For Fears, Prince, Mike Oldfield, Fool's Garden... When it got to Oasis and Richard Ashcroft/The Verve I said that we had to draw a line in the sand somewhere. I don't mind an acoustic ballad or an oddball song - I even suggest some of those - but, this...

I mean, I get it, this is the payback for all the Chuck Berry and Status Quo I've been putting forward over the years. The thing is, for someone like me who isn't exactly a master of the ivory it's good to tickle the keys sometimes, but I'm more the Lennon/McCartney/Little Richard school of piano. Keep it simple and often enough, hammer the heck out of it.


FWIW, I tried it on my A-30, but I'd need more practice to get the velocity correct. Used the JV-80 and also ran the MIDI in parallel through an EM-10 for little more 'richness'. The patch I'm using on the JV-80 is a custom mix of two pianos that I set up initially for recording Loving Cup by the Stones (yes, that's Nicky Hopkins... that guy was a genius at the keys, just amazing). I think this is why the lower registers sound a little dissonant. I kinda like it though, I think.
 
We setup our rehearsal practice on my driveway today. We had a sound guy tweak all the mixer and EQ settings. We are getting ready for an outdoor gig on the 18th over at a place named lake Gregory. Outdoor gig, right on the lake, seats about 200 people.

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Fixin’ to spend some time outdoors playing with the smoker. Not sure coming from MN or Canada or both. But smoke is so thick in my back yard you can see it. Smell it. Taste it. And not a breath of wind to blow it away.

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