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Monkey Time - Major Lance I like this one

The Universe is Calling · Sun Ra & His Arkestra Sun Ra was a talented pianist, who IMO went over the deep end and made some very unusual music.

Walkin' - Stanley Turrentine (one of my all-time favorite jazz saxophonists)

Jelly Jelly Jelly - Bobby "Blue" Bland Blues standerd sung by many, I rather like the Bobby Bland version.

I could have been bagpipes too. :D

Pictures At An Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky I like Kurt Masur (conductor) too bad it didn't work on this board Nice try by ELP

Getting songs in and out of iTunes was a PITA. With Windows, it's just drag and drop to the appropriate folder (which you decide). ------ When I had that iPad, I went to Australia, took 800 pictures on my Panasonic Lumix camera. For Windows, I just dragged and dropped them from the camera to a folder. Ctrl-A highlighted them all, drag and drop the bunch, and it sat there and worked without me paying attention. I could not get them from my camera into my iPad. I wanted to bring the best of them to show my sisters when I was having dinner with them. Since the Luimix didn't have some kind of Apple proprietary interface and/or code, they wouldn't go. So I got a FireWire to USB cable, hoping to get them from my Windows PC to the iPad. They wouldn't go directly. Searched the Internet and couldn't find a solution. So I uploaded them one at a time to a folder on my website, and downloaded them to the iPad. Very time-consuming. What happened in minutes in Windows, took hours and hours plus constant attention to get them to the iPad. I now have a Samsung Galaxy. I like it much better than the iPad. Ctrl-A, drag and drop, and they move all by themselves. I can't see myself buying another Apple product, until they learn to play with the standards everyone else uses. They make nice hardware, the OS is fine, but Apple just doesn't play well with others. Apple calls it an ecosystem, I call it Apple Jail. On the other hand, there are a lot of people quite happy with Apple products, so obviously they are doing something right. There is more than one right way to do almost anything. Insights and incites by Notes

My TI99 computer had a cool little music program on a cartridge (for its day). Other than that, it was pretty useless. I remember saving data on a cassette tape recorder. Brrrrt brrrt brrt brrrrrrt brt brrt. Then the Atari/ST which was a huge jump. I wrote my first aftermarket Band-in-a-Box user styles on the Atari. Then one day, Peter Gannon from PG Music called. He was happy that I was supporting BiaB, and offered to convert my styles to "IBM Compatible" format. That's when I got my DOS5 computer, as BiaB was still a DOS program. Shortly after that, the Apple Classic II It's been fun. Notes ♫

One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) - Frank Sinatra

I dislike Apple because their mantra is "Update or die" Actually, I have no choice but to use Windows. I write aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box, and the BiaB StyleMaker app on Windows is much better than the same app on Mac. The Windows version allows me to make better styles. The better styles play just fine on the Mac, but a few of the StyleMaker features are missing on the Mac. This has nothing to do with Apple, but everything to do with PG Music. I can't blame them, 95% of the market is Windows. Put your money where the money is. My last Mac was a big, beautiful EMac. It was OSX on the IBM chip. I had a software author pro member$hip $ub$cription, and a sales rep talked me into buying it. Less than a month later, Apple changed to Intel chips, and my big, beautiful, expensive EMac was destined to be a doorstop. The rep could have told me to wait a month, but I guess she was so intent on getting her commission, she didn't care about what the customer needed. Other than an iPad which I bought years later, that was the last Mac I owned. And I have had a Mac ever since the Motorola chip days. Notes ♫

I wasn't working from home at that time, nobody was hiring musicians, so I was self-unemployed.

I had this one custom-made for me. Built in Taiwan, imported by a Texas company that used to make saxophones but now only makes mouthpieces. I guess it's my "signature model"

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

What about "Universal Serial Bus"? What is Universal about the half dozen different cable connections? Adding a minor rant to your rant Notes ♫

It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson We learned this one for a regular customer a couple of years ago. We still play it once in a while, but as time goes on, it has drifted to sound more like us than Jackson and Buffet.

I did, we've had an outdoor gig 15 years running now, and when the "north" has a huge blizzard, we have a cold morning. I bought gloves and cut the fingertips out of them. It didn't work.

Her songs were always the bright spot on their albums for me. I liked her writing, singing, and keyboard playing. RIP Christine, and thanks for the music.