Notes_Norton

I joined when I found my old MIDI Sequencer no longer works well in Windows 10 and was looking for a replacement. I was immediately welcomed and enjoyed the great sense of humor by the 'regulars' here and made a lot of new friends. My main instrument is saxophone, but I also play wind synthesizer, flute, guitar, bass, drums, vocals and enough keyboards to impress non-musicians ;) I write aftermarket style e-disks and song e-disks for Band-in-a-Box but until COVID, my main source of income has always been gigging. I don't have a day job, and don't want one. I'm in a duo with my wife who is a great singer and plays guitar and synth. If I have guitar GAS, she encourages it because she knows that she will get to play it too! I make my own backing tracks sometimes with the help of BiaB and most of the time from scratch. I quit FB and all the other anti-social groups except for a half dozen music forums. The anti-social media was just irritating me so I quit. I also had some ethical reasons, but that's a whole 'nother thread. I still use my old MIDI sequencer, Master Tracks Pro on an old XP or Win7 computer. It has great MIDI editing tools, and without the burden of audio, everything is available from the menu with one click. I spend more time with my hands on music instruments and less time with my hands on the computer. Notes

You must mean the skivvies. Some of my fellow degenerates on this forum already polluted my brain :D :D :D

A new novice joined a monastery. The Abbot, an old guy with a long white beard was showing the new kid around. Here is your room ... here's the library and meet Brother Luke the librarian ... come meet the cook in the kitchen, Brother Mark ... and here is the scriptorium. The novice is looking at over a dozen monks hunched over desks and asks the Abbot what they are doing. And he said they are copying sacred books. When they get done, we sell the one they were copying from and then they copy the copy. It's how we make our living. The originals are kept safe from harm. So the novice asks the abbot "What if they make a mistake? Won't the mistake be copied again and again and again?" The abbot said he would had to think about that. Look, "Here comes Brother James, I'll leave you with him for a while. James, please show the new novice around". Time passes, and nobody can find the abbot. Dinner comes and goes, still no abbot. So they search the abbey and finally find him in the basement library were the original books are stored, and he's crying. James asks, "What's wrong." The abbot replies, I'm reading the original book about our conduct and the correct word is "Celebrate."

What's easier than an escalator? An elevator. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13h Floor Elevators

I divorced myself completely from Facebook, and my life is better for it. Welcome home. I must have gotten here after you left, so I'm just getting to know you. "Pleased to meet ya" Notes

Various Post Modern Juke Box derivative works

I hope Jami heals quickly and completely.

Seven Steps To Heaven - Miles Davis

Did you hear about the kidnapping at school? It's okay. He woke up.

"Killer Joe" - jazz standard by Benny Golson

A man was riding a bus, minding his own business, when the gorgeous woman sitting next to him started to breastfeed her baby. The baby wouldn't take it, so she said, "Come on sweetie, eat it all up or I'll have to give it to this nice man next to us." Five minutes later, the baby was still not feeding, so she said, "Come on, honey. Take it or I'll give it to this nice man here." Finally the anxious man blurted out, "Come on kid, make up your mind! I was supposed to get off four stops ago!"

Since I was in a band that opened for the Temptations when I was a young guy I have to follow that with: I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations

So a guy tells the bartender to send a drink to that pretty lady at the end of the bar. The bartender whispers "Don't bother, she's a l-e-s-b-i-a-n and the guy tells him to send her a drink. Time goes by and he sends her another then another. He finally gets up enough courage to go put the moves on her so e walks over, sits down beside her and asks, "So what part of Lesbania are you from?" (a rimshot might help). OK here's another.... Did you hear about the blind p-r-o-s-t-i-t-u-t-e? (damn that auto censor) You really have to hand it to her. Notes

Shirt = Blouse Magdalena - Frank Zappa & the Mothers Lyrics: And a teenage daughter With a see-thru blouse Who loved to grunt and ball And her name was Magdalena

War: celebrating a Russian victory in over Napoleon: 1812 Overture - Piotr Tchaikovsky Usually done with cannons, but I prefer it without. The cannons never go off in time with the tempo and I find that distracting. I haven't heard this conductor/orchestra/interpretation yet, so no comment on the quality.

Damn Your Eyes - Etta James Etta was in top form and the studio musicians and engineers were outstanding in this session.

From what I found in touring bands is the drummer gets the most chicks. Fortunately there were enough who liked saxophone players. Keyboard players got the fewest. In the 4oqe band I was in the longest, the drummer also played trombone, so I'd sit in on the drums so he could get up front, sing and play the 'bone. We switched instruments a lot. I also played some bass and rhythm guitar. The girls would ask "How many instruments do you play?!!!" I was young, we did college towns from Florida to Maine to Iowa and it was a great time. Insights and incites by Notes

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In the mid 1990s I spent a month in the UK. From London to Wales up the west side of the island to the Outer Hebrides, down the east side to Dover and back to London for my 4 final days. I sput 3,000 miles on the rental car. I really enjoyed myself and the people. In Wales I couldn't pronounce the signs and in Scotland I couldn't understand many of the people. I stopped at a road house in the Hebrides and at a pub met a man and his friend "Bob". I could understand about 1/10 of what one guy was saying (including his name), and none of what Bob was saying, but we shared smiles and a few rounds of drinks. The band was terrible, but in a very nice way, amateurish, bad intonation, but with plenty of great energy and enthusiasm. We had a great time. In Wales the motel we reserved earlier that day on the phone figured we weren't coming so they rented our room out. They sent us to an old Castle turned hotel and we got a more luxurious room for the same price as the one we reserved. At the time I was selling my Band-in-a-Box disks through a UK distributor. He sent me a green P decal for my rental car, and the UK drivers were very courteous. He put me up for a night and was a great host. But I had and still have no idea how to pronounce the signs in Wales. Nice country though and full of nice people. Notes

"Blackbird" - Beatles

And the French have an abundance of "Xs" and "Qs". In French scrabble the X and the Q are worth 2 points each. :D Putting those letters in plenty of words I suppose is better than wasting them. Notes

What do you call a drummer that breaks up with his girlfriend? Homeless.

That's Why God Made The Radio - Beach Boys (quintuple word score) ?

My first instrument was drums. Here is my advice. First: Learn at least the first dozen basic rudiments for drums. I think there are 40 but the first dozen or so will bring you a lot. Then when you hear drummers do things, your hands will already know how. Listen intently to drummers. My favorite are: Hal Blaine (Wrecking Crew - the most recorded musician in history) Ginger Baker John Bohnam Bernard "Pretty" Purdy Start by stepping on the hi-hat (sock) on all the 2s and 4s of a 4/4 song. Then eighth notes on the ride cymbal, then bass on 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4. This will build your most basic rhythm and teach you coordination. Then start going from there. Choose the Hal Blaine recordings first, as he is solid but never gets in the way of the rest of the band. Drums take time. Don't try to rush, take it in steps. Insights and incites by Notes