Notes_Norton

Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!) - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

It wouldn't hurt to put a little Bombay in that tonic, would it?

No I used Dr. Bronners - the only soap I've used in the shower since the 1960s. Besides it has hemp in it.

No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) - by Irving Berlin Ella Fitzgerald with Paul Weston & His Orchestra

Is that Suzie Quattro

I just showered, so I'm clean.

Nah, don't need to play them - it just looks impressive!

Yep - me. Sax, wind synthesizer, flute, guitar, bass, keyboard synth, drums and vocals. Mostly tenor sax but I can play them all. Drums were my first instrument but sax is my primary instrument. Wind synth is sax related as the fingerings are almost the same but playing technique differs from synth patch to synth patch. I don't always practice safe sax. And yes, I'm a sax fiend and sax addict. I've been told I'm good in the sax too. In my current duo http://www.s-cats.com I play sax/wind synth on almost 2/3 of the songs, guitar on about 1/3 and depending on the night a few with the flute. Oh and I sing about half the vocals. The ratio of sax to guitar depends on the audience and the songs that are working that night. It's easier to read music on the sax than the guitar, but it's much easier to transpose keys on the guitar. Each instrument has it's easier and harder features. Voice is the instrument that took me the longest to learn well enough to perform on-stage without embarrassing myself or getting the band fired. My screen name is "Notes" because back in the Jurassic era of the Internet, when we discussed things on usenet/newsgroups instead of these forums, there were already 3 people with my name on alt.saxophone (but I'm the genuine one). One called himself Bob, another Robert, and a third Bobby so I chose the nickname my sister's business partner called me, "Notes" and it stuck. (Stuck notes?) So this Notes likes to play notes past the 12th fret, sometimes two notes at a time, especially if the guitar has a 25.5" scale because the notes are too close together on shorter scale guitars and Notes has a hard time those playing notes without fretting out or hitting the wrong note. This might be noteworthy to some and others will hardly notice. Insights, incites and a bit of silliness by Notes

Except perhaps for ed-ucation

"Fancy Colours" - Chicago Terry Kath was one of the two guitarists that Jimmi Hendrix openly said was much better than himself. The other was Buddy Guy.

I gigged at a couple of different venues. On Friday they hit the dance floor right after dinner and it stayed full all night. On Saturday they just went wild for my saxophone, playing air-sax on the dance floor and cheering me on (and I went home with money in my pocket - I love this life). Notes

If I had I would have picked parents that were filthy rich, in the music biz, and able to buy me stardom. Notes

Abacadabra - Steve Miller Band

Could It Be Magic - Barry Manilow Based on an introduction by Chopin, and although in the public domain, Barry gave Chopin half the songwriting credits. I'm not a great Manilow fan, but I really, really like this one. The song, the arrangement and ol' Barry gave it his best.

A jazz standard by A.C.Jobim peformed here by Stan Getz - in Copenhagen, but if he did it in the forest, would the trees clap? BTW, Stan is my all-time favorite tenor sax player.

I celebrate my birthday for an entire month. Why not? I OWN the month!! I do the same for my wife. She OWNS her month. That way we get to party down 1/6 of the year for our birthdays. The rest of the year we party without any excuse. Insights and incites by Notes

I just bought a T500 with Win7 installed for $160 in "A" condition from one of NewEgg's premier sellers. One year parts and labor guarantee, 90 days free return if defective, and if it works but I simply don't like it, I pay 15% restocking. Win7 is good because it's never going to go on the Internet. Everything but Windows necessary apps will be removed, Encore notation app will be added. Lyrics only will appear on WordPad, MP3s will play on Media Player, and music notation will appear on Encore. That's all the machine has to do. My other 2002 Think Pad still works, but since I dropped it the hinge broke and replacing the hinge isn't cost effective because they don't make that part anymore. It's loose and if the screen is wiggled, horizontal lines appear across the display. I think if I didn't drop it, my other R30 would probably still be working. For on-stage I don't care about the weight or the thickness. Carrying the computer is one of the lightest things I schlep to the gig. The speakers are 40 pounds each, plus a full 12 space rack (full of synth modules, PA mixer, + FX), 2 guitars, one sax, two wind synths, one Buchla Thunder MIDI controller, mics, cables, and stands. Weight bearing exercise without paying gym membership. I've had nothing but good, reliable, life spans from ThinkPads so that's all I buy. On stage I have two ThinkPads up and running at all times. Both are equipped to display either lyrics or music and play mp3 files at the same time. It's easier using two though. The redundancy is more important. Twice since I went computer in 2002 I've had an on-stage failure (1) a hard drive started making noise. I moved the USB connection to the second computer and ran the rest of the night on one computer. The show must go on, and the client or audience never knew there was a problem. (2) A CMOS battery died and I didn't know I could manually set the clock and keep going so I ran all night on one computer. After the tech replaced the battery (charged me $5 and showed me how to do it) it went back in service. I gig for a living, and do one-nighters, which are notoriously hard on gear. To have the ThinkPads last that long is a testament to their durability. Plus I like the "Eraser Head" pointer much better than the glide strip. It took some getting used to, but I can move the cursor, scroll, and click left and right without ever leaving my fingers from the 'home' position on the keyboard. That saves a lot of time and movement. Plus when standing up and rocking back and forth on stage, the glide strip is much harder to control than the eraser head. ---<related>--- I saw a video tour of the International Space Station. When they got to the computers that regulate all their life support systems, air, water, pressure and what-have-you, they had two redundant ThinkPad computers. Their reliability is legendary. If this thread is still alive or if I can find it when the computer arrives, I'll give a report. It might help another person. Insights and incites by Notes

I've got to try that!

If the tree falls in the forest, it will leaf the canopy c a p n and the other hand l p i g

No no, soccer is something you put on a footie

For me the most reliable way to monetize music is to play cover songs to an appreciative audience. Notes

When you get that old, things are looking down. :(

First born male child is what they told me. And the mark of a true musician is to spell sure as shure instead. I think that's enough to qualify. Notes

Everywhere I go I find myself here. By the time I get there it's here. I don't know how that works. Notes

Thanks. I've been using ThinkPads for decades. I like the smaller footprint of the older models for on-stage better than the new ones, which is why I'm thinking refurbished. I've seen them as low as $100 and up from there. The model I'm retiring is an R30. Notes