From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018101512534968411-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > trial by fire ?   
      
   Sounds like what was known as trial by ordeal...not fun ;)   
      
   Some of the more popular forms was by combat, by fire, and by water, and   
   there were many more.   
      
   > If only I knew of one .. who lived close ... and didn't have a problem   
   > working with tracks ...... :-)   
      
   Yeah that distance thing is a Bummer.   
      
   > Or maybe just lived close and was ultra reliable and who could play the   
   > things we use the tracks for :-)   
      
   If only a teleportation device similar to that depicted by Star Trek's   
   "transporter" was available ;)   
   But I wouldn't mind using an aircraft to rapidly cover the distance either   
   )   
      
   > maybe it's for the best.  Most people who actually know me find me to be   
   > overbearing, grouchy, and a hard to work with control freak   ......   
   > hahaha   
      
   Sounds pale in comparison to what I've already put up with ;)   
      
   > I like to shorten all that to serious about my work.   
      
   Speaking of that, I just did some last minute tweaks to song #42 in both the   
   lyrics and the Music. I moved two choruses apart so that the third one is   
   now after the instrumental part of the bridge, changed out  a few words in   
   the lyrics, and increased the  BPM from 100 to 110 - a nice improvement.   
      
   Maybe I should post it here.   
      
   > propbably would.   
      
   There's no way the sound of classic keyboards could be anything but Awesome!   
      
   > It's a focus thing. I actually play keyboards almost entirely at our   
   > rehearsals.  I only play the guitar out at gigs.   
      
   > To learn something, you have to do it.   
      
   Sure, but you've got to Love that instrument enough keep at it...and so far,   
   keys are the only instruments that have that effect on me.   
      
   > She's happy today. Called twice already.   
      
   Perhaps there is hope after all.   
      
   > I'm doing business things.  Rebooked another of my regular solo gigs   
   > today.  Well, over the weekend really. They sent me an email, which I   
   > didn't see until late friday. So I replied that I'd get with them today.   
   > Didn't need to. When I got up and going I had an email from them with   
   > posible dates out until the end of 2019. If those were ok, then we're set   
   > for next year. I checked for conflicts, found none so emailed them back.   
   > Easy peasy.   
      
   I need some gigs...and Malmsteen material wits its long learning curve is   
   not the best way to make that happen as soon as I'd like/Need!   
      
   Saturday, after rehearsal with the rock & roll band, I killed a couple of   
   hours and then went to the church for band rehearsal there. I got there   
   early before everyone else so I started playing some Malmsteen stuff on the   
   piano as I usually do it on the clonewheel Roland VK-8 organ, to hear what   
   it would sound like. The piano, a Shigeru Kawai SK-3 6'1" parlor grand (the   
   company calls it a Conservatory Grand), has an extremely hard, stiff action,   
   so that was an ordeal in itself. Meanwhile the Music director walks in while   
   I'm doing that and freaked out a bit,...not sure if it was that it wasn't   
   the kind of rock & roll he'd expect me to be playing, or something else, but   
   at least he seemed somewhat impressed, so that was cool and I told him it   
   was that Yngwie Malmsteen stuff I'd been rehearsing a couple of hours   
   earlier...sounds interesting on piano.   
      
   > Back in the day I used to call and bug people for bookings. Now I don't.   
   > I talk to them at our jobs as the year nears ending. Ask them to call me   
   > when they have time to schedule. That seems the best way.  They typically   
   > have more to do than me in the daytime, so its at their convience.   
      
      
      
   JimD   
      
   Sounds like a pleasant departure, as in I won't call you, you call me ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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