Notes_Norton

I still have my 1987 Yamaha TX81z, and it still works. So does my Roland MT-32 that I bought shortly after. The nice thing about MIDI hardware is as computer OS's come and go, good ol' MIDI with that 5 pin DIN connectors still work. Notes

Corner Pocket - Count Basie sometimes I'm in the mood for some good ol' swing jazz, and Basie was one of the best.

Whacky Dust - Manhattan Transfer Originally a Chick Webb song with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals. I like the Manhattan Transfer version even better. You decide. And it's about cocaine.

But the pig is alive to feed us. If it weren't for the pork eating humans, pigs would probably be extinct by now. So logically becan is good for the pig as a species.

I remember when MIDI was new, too. My first was a Yamaha PS Keyboard that had a sequencer built in and I had a Korg DDD5 as a drum machine attached to the MIDI cable to get the then in-style gated snare sound. Then I bought an Atari/ST with built in MIDI ports, and Master Tracks Pro sequencer. MIDI has come a long way since then and the proof of the concept is that it is still useful and current. I do all my backing tracks for my duo in MIDI because it is so, so, so, so much more editable than sound files. Insights and incites by Notes

"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers

Sarah Vaughan - Brazilian Romance I'm neither wild about much of her offerings, nor bummed by them either. But IMO this album is so good I bought it and enjoy it.

I always thought it would be a good idea to put a few of those biohazard waste stickers on the band van instead of the name of the band.

Slovak Suite - Vítězslav Novák

Basket Case - Green Day

Nah. I consider myself a "stud muffin" :D

Funny, but it hurt to even think about that ^^^

"Zoot Suit Riot" - Cherry Poppin' Daddies

Truth. Every woman I've ever been intimate with was introduced to me via my saxophone. I wouldn't know how to meet a woman any other way. My first gig was when I was in junior high school. I was in the school band but after school I got together with some friends and started a rock band. We were terrible, but everybody was back then. We got a gig playing at a junior high dance. There I was on stage, with my best friends, having the time of my life playing the music we tried so hard to cover, and when I looked up, much to my surprise I noticed that cute girl who wouldn't acknowledge my existence in English class was "making eyes" at me! And at the end of the night they actually paid me for that!!!!!!!!! That's when I said, "This is what I want to do for the rest of my life." After being rejected (4F) by the Air Force I went on the road with a rock band. 2 weeks to a month in a different college town playing singles bars (this was before DJs got the youth market). It was the dawn of the free s-e-x age and before the AIDS age so anything you caught could be cured. So let's say I had a lot of fun. I've been playing music all my adult life and I eventually married another musician. She's the best and we have fun on and off stage. All thanks to my saxophone. Just livin' the dream I guess.

She: "What's that big pile of dirt in your back yard for?" He: "I buried by canary there" She: "Why did you dig such a big hole for such a small bird?" He: "It was inside you cat."

"White Wedding" - Billy Idol

"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" - Mark Murphy A song about Lester Young by Charles Mingus with words by Joni Mitchell and later IMHO improved by Mark Murphy Jeff Beck had fun with it too The Original And Joni's Now all we need is some becan

Dvořák: Symphony No.8 in G major - Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker (When I was in Austria I attended a Wiener Philharmoniker concert, they played Mahler #4 and Sibelius #4 - they are a great orchestra)

After he was under that rest, the cat burglar was accused of felineous intent.

Honeymoon Avenue - Ariana Grande

What do you use to groom a cat's fur? A catacomb.

"Stand Up" - Jethro Tull (full album) a blast from the distant past

"Don't Sleep In The Subway" - Petula Clark because after all the subway is underground

Ring of fire? Johnny wrote that after he and June Carter mistook the Ben-Gay for KY Jelly. (ducking for cover)

Electric Boogie (Electric Slide) - Marcia Griffiths Bunny Wailer said he wrote this song about his girlfriend's new vibrating toy. (No video necessary.) BTW, Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" was written about the same intimate toy.