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I read an article in a trade mag from one of the guys on the team that invented the CD. He said the CD adds high harmonics to the sounds. That's why Stan Gets and Stanley Turrentine sound like themselves on LP and edgier on CD. I'm not saying analog is better. Two different kinds of distortion. It depends on which one you want to listen to. For a symphony, I'll choose CD, for serious saxophone listening I'll choose LP. Notes

Vinyl, LPs, Turntables Oh Boy! Listening to analog is joy! It's been a long time. My old turntable broke wellover a year ago, and I finally decided to get a new one. I didn't get top-of-the-line, a Music Hall USB-1 for about $200 by the advice of a sales rep at Crutchfield. I know there are different kinds of distortion with digital and analog vinyl. Is one better than the other? Depends on what kind of distortion you want. Both color the sound differently and neither one sounds like a good Tascam, Studer or Ampex studio machine. So I pulled a random LP out of the pile which happened to be "The Baddest Turrentine" by the great tenor sax player, Stanley Turrentine with an all-star cast of the finest jazz men of the 1970s. I have this on CD as well. As soon as the needle dropped, I was in ecstasy. BIG, FAT, WARM sax tones, round acoustic Ron Carter bass sound, mellow George Benson jazz guitar and so on for all the other great musicians. I don't care what anybody says, I like analog better. But I'll probably still listen to the CD more often, because of convenience. Insights and incites by Notes

I got out vinyl today and am listening to "The Baddest Turrentine" by Stanley Turrentine. It's on UTube but it sounds much better in vinyl

Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley

Tinkle Tinkle Little Star? Tinkle tinkle little star please don't fret on your guitar A B C D E F G Don't forget to L M N O Pee Tinkle tinkle little star please don't fret on your guitar

I think you know too much about that ;D

Capriccio Italien - Tchaikovsky (Igor Manasherov, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra) A nice Sunday morning listen after 5 straight one-night gigs playing pop music. I dearly love the pop music we play, we had a great time, but variety is indeed the spice of life.

Dirty Deeds Done Cheap - AC/DC

I gigged on Black Friday and made money!!!

Jorge Caballero plays Capriccio Espagnol (by Rimsky Korsakov) I wish I could play like that. I think I started guitar too late to get that good.

How do you get a guitar player to play softer? Put some music in front of him.

"Mommy, mommy, I want to be a musician when I grow up!" "Now now Billy, you can't do both."

I had a gig on F13 and late last month it was rescheduled for later this month as the honoree had to go into the hospital. Two days later a country club / golf community called and said they had a cancellation and wondered if we were open. Great luck for us we ended up filling the date and still have the rescheduled date. We did the gig, the members loved us, the dance floor was full an night plus the new Food and Beverage and Events managers took our cards and said we were great and will have us back. To top things off, they paid us an extra $50 for doing a great job. Friday 13 was a lucky day for us!!! Insights and incites by Notes

New Day - Alicia Keys

Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group

Trombone player at the end of a New Years Eve gig asks the owner if he can leave his 'bone there until the next gig. The owner says, "Sure, when's you next gig?" Trombonist replies, "Next New Years Eve."

What's the difference between racoon and a bagpipe that have been run over? Skid marks in front of the racoon.

I'll pass by the more recent songs with this title, and go back to the Stone Age of Rock 'n Roll for a triple word score Why The Coasters? Of the music my older sister played, The Coasters were one of my favorites. Girls, Girls, Girls - The Coasters

(You Can Still) Rock in America - Night Ranger

I don't listen to Christmas Music except on the gig where we play quite a few. There's nothing wrong with Christmas Music and I enjoy playing it on the gig, but when I'm off gig, I listen to music we aren't playing just for the variety of it. Up From the Sea It Arose and Ate Rio in One Swift Bite - George Duke One of my favorite George Duke cuts.

Analog and lots of patch cables. I couldn't listen to it every day. Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra - Space Is The Place I couldn't listen to this one every day either. In fact, I probably won't make it to the end. Sun Ra is a fantastic musician who IMHO went over the deep end. But I love the outfit he wore on the album cover

The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection - Various Artists Ernie was a gifted sight-gag comedian in the early, early days of Television. These cuts were originally foreground music for comedy skits, and most them hold up on their own, even if very dated. Saxophobia is one of my favorites for obvious reasons. I can't imaging playing like that, and I rarely listen to it, but when I do, it always makes me smile.

I have Cakewalk, but still rarely use it, so I'm not a lot of help upstairs. (Don't go in the attic!) I did help someone who was looking to emulate sax vibrato with MIDI, because the emulation techniques apply to all synths. (Running a standard LFO won't work.) Emulating acoustic instruments is an art and a science and I've been doing it a long time. I've learned a lot from others, discovered a lot on my own, and I'm happy to share what I know. I don't do much audio recording, mostly it's MIDI for the backing tracks for my duo The Sophisticats and my Band-in-a-Box aftermarket styles and song business Norton Music I use Master Tracks Pro. It's MIDI only and because of that, the menus aren't cluttered with audio options. All the functions are available from the menu bar and a single click. No sub-menus and sub-sub menus to wait for. It keeps my hands on the musical instruments more and the computer less. The problem with MTPro is that it doesn't work on Win10 very well. The app was abandoned long ago. So until my XP computer dies I'll be using MTPro and then transferring the results to modern computers. When I do need audio, I play the MIDI files out of my XP using a bank of a half dozen or more synth module fed into a mixer. I feed the audio output of the mixer into an Audio->USB interface and record on a newer computer. I'll use Audacity, Power Tracks Pro Audio, or Cakewalk for that. Sadly, Passport, the company that created MTPro was bought by Microsoft for their technology. Microsoft used what they bought to make Power Point better and simply abandoned the MIDI Music apps. GVox bought them and introduced tons of bugs. But GVox was mostly interested in another Passport product, the notation editor Encore. Years later one of the GVox owners bought Master Tracks Pro, named his new company Passport, and tried to revitalize MTPro. He was underfunded and never released a new bug-free version. So I use the old version on my XP computer. The XP doesn't go on-line anymore and all non-essential apps have been deleted. Time and technology marches on. Win10 is a much better OS than XP was, but unfortunately, MTPro and some other apps were just left in the dust bin of progress. Notes

The diet was given to me by a doctor. He said to try this before looking to the medical cures, it can slow or stop the join deterioration. For both arthritis and bursitis, treatment is similar: Try the dietary approach first, and if that doesn't work, take stronger action. Foods that may contribute to chronic inflammation are foods with a high glycemic index (foods that convert to sugar quickly), such as fruit juices, sugars, simple starches, or rice cakes, foods heavy in polyunsaturated or saturated fats, and foods high in arachidonic acid. Some specific foods to avoid are: * Fatty cuts of red meat (high in saturated fats) lean is good * Organ meats: liver, kidney, and so forth (very high in arachidonic acid) * Egg yolks (very high in arachidonic acid) * Poultry - chicken, duck, turkey (very high in arachidonic acid) * Pasta (high glycemic index) * Juices (high glycemic index) * Rice, especially rice cakes (high glycemic index) * White bread (substitute whole grain breads such as rye) * Nightshade Plants bother many people (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, paprika) Glycemic index charts can be found on the Internet. Better choices are foods with a low glycemic index and foods that are heavy in monounsaturated fats. Some specific good foods are: * Salmon and other fish * Oatmeal * Low glycemic fresh fruits and vegetables * Olives and olive oil * Peanuts and other nuts * Whey proteins * Lean beef is good, 100% grass fed is better It is restrictive and cheating can negate the healing. Try it strictly for a month or two. I've shared this with friends and it's helped all I've shared it with. I had one neighbor who was walking her dog and using a cane. I printed it out and gave it to her. In a month she stopped using the cane. About 6 months later she was using the cane again. I asked her if the diet stopped working. She replied that she just couldn't give up her pasta and high glycemic fruit. She eventually needed hip replacement. She since moved so I don't know how she is doing with that, but I know from my experience playing for the retirement audience that joint replacements work most of the time, but when they don't the 'cure' is worse than the problem. And the doc who gave me this diet told me that replacement parts wear out and when you are 10 years older, you might not recover from the surgery as well. I chose the ounce of prevention with diet in 2005 (give or take a year) and I'm still pain free. I'd rather walk and play guitar than eat pecan pie, apples, and macaroni. Notes

"Street Life" - The Crusaders