From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   It's kind of dead out here ;) So I thought I'd mention what's been happening   
   lately over here.   
      
   I've gotten back with a band I was with around at least seven years ago and   
   happily found that they still have the old Awesome Roland VK-8 clonewheel   
   virtual Hammond B3...and it still sounds Great!!!   
      
   Only problem is learning the 20 song set list in time for a gig next month.   
      
   The list is of course, copies, although we do plan on doing Originals, and   
   maybe even be writing some together as a band - that's Cool, since the   
   drummer and guitar player really got off on my 'noodling' around on the   
   organ and we started jamming jam band style ;)   
      
   But unfortunately, the guitar player is an Yngwie Malmsteen fan(atic).   
      
   I've counted no less than *SEVENTEEN* effects on his *TWO* pedal boards, and   
   he has a deeply custom scalloped neck on his Strat...mostly for Malmsteen   
   material, which means that I'll have to very carefully listen to all those   
   SHOW-OFF 16th and smaller note continuous arpeggios in order to *extract*   
   the chords that I'll need to be playing as a rhythm pattern on the keys so   
   that the 'pieces' - they're not  even real songs, at least sound something   
   like songs because all they are is one over extreme Barrage of tiny notes   
   after another.   
      
   Then, along with *FIVE* Malmsteen pieces (what audience wants to hear   
   That?), there are some Jimi Hendrix tunes, some Stevie Ray Vaughan, one   
   Cream tune, "Crossroads", and some by my favorite band on the list, Deep   
   Purple...which already got me another name - like at church where I'm often   
   called 'Twinkles' for my piano playing style -  after getting down on the   
   organ on "Burn" and "Woman From Tokyo", the drummer started calling me "Joan   
   Lord" ;)   
      
   The Roland VK-8 is quite the experience, one that's  a LOT more, by Design,   
   like a genuine Hammond B3 than the clonewheel module I've got, and which   
   requires getting familiar with, but it's pretty Awesome - the Leslie   
   simulation is amazing, as is the overdrive distortion, and it has minimum   
   trigger deflection "fast fire" waterfall keys which makes playing lightning   
   fast passages almost as easy as just thinking about doing it...it's that   
   responsive...and  that encourages if not entices getting down!   
      
   So for now it's off to extract some chords from some noise ;), actually more   
   like :(   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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