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"Sunday Will Never Be The Same" - Spanky And Our Gang Have you ever noticed the intro and vocal "da da" part trembles the Christian Hymn "Gloria" from the extended gloria to the "Excelsis Deo"

"A Sunday Kind Of Love" - Etta James A jazz standard writte by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima, and was published in 1946. I've always loved the way Ms. James sang it.

"Danger Zone" - Ray Charles "The Danger Zone Is Everywhere" -- This song sums up today's situation exactly, perhaps things never really change.

Emily Remler Quartet A fine guitarist who left us way too soon.

Kick a Picnic - The Residents

Wooly Bully without a saxophone? You should get demerits for that ? (Actually I kind-of liked it, but don't tell any other sax players) Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Estralita - Sonny Stitt

Blue Gardenia - Nat 'King' Cole

In the early days of MIDI I daisy chained them, then I found a MIDI interfaces. I currently use a MOTU MIDI Express 128 MIDI interface. Most of my MIDI devices have the good old 5 pin DIN plugs. I put a USB to MIDI interface into the computer and take the 5 pin DIN out of there to feed the MIDI devices. I still prefer hardware synths to software synths. Hardware synths with the 5 pin DIN that worked decades ago with both Windows 3.1 and Motorola CPU Macs are still working. There are some great sounds in them that aren't found in more modern synthesis methods. Any software synth from 10 years ago might not work today. My first 3 software synths won't work on any modern OS. However more modern synths have their own stellar sounds. I generally mix 6 to 8 synths on a recording, and unlike software synths, there is virtually no latency and since each unit has its own CPU, there is a minimal load on the computer. Actually the hardware synths have from 5-6 ms latency so they are all in sync without any further manipulation. One more thing, in the software synth the computer's CPU has to "do the math" for every note, ever voice, every nuance played, the hardware synths have them stored in ROM. That allows the synth developer to make more complex sounds on the hardware synths since he/she doesn't have to take short cuts to lessen the computer's CPU load. I guess that makes me a dinosaur. I'm not a luddite though, some day the software synths will sound as good as the hardware synths, and computers will be fast enough for them to do that. When that happens, and they have 5ms latency, I might mix them with my hardware synths. Insights and incites by Notes

A lot of good stuff, some of which I am new to and still digesting. BTW, we do Bang A Gong (Get It On) and it's fun to play. I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) - The Sweet Inspirations (does that qualify for a double word score?) ?

I Am The Law - Anthrax

What: no cerveza and limón?

Good ol' Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He was one of a kind.

Be careful with that, you could get into trouble.

I like act III

A thadist

Where did you find that? It's not in my dictionary! OK a google search turned it up. I guess Webster is behind the times.

A 12 string guitar for me is an opportunity to play twice as many wrong notes with no extra effort.

OK, that's good. (Although it took some of the fun out of it) But a bra still covers a pair.

"Soul Eyes" - Stan Getz

Random thought: Why is there no abbreviation for the word "abbreviation"?

Symphony #4 - Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev waited until Stalin died before releasing this. He hid it away, and wrote Symphony #5 to please Stalin. Sergei's more modern music was hated by Stalin so much, that he was warned and afraid he was going to be sent to Siberia to be worked to death. In fact he was so sure, he kept a packed suitcase by the door in case they came in the middle of the night for him. After Stalin died, he premiered #4 I think #4 is a grand piece of art. The more times I listen to it, the more nuances and clever theme variations get recognized by me. It keeps getting better and better.

"Stranger In A Strange Land" - Leon Russell

Women's underwear: Why is a Bra called A bra and panties called a PAIR of panties?

Full album: The Dolphin - Stan Getz Nice cool school jazz performances.