From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017071801340253182-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I do. But that still involves carrying some gear :-)   
      
   Yeah, but that some still sounds like quite a lot ;)   
      
   I guess I'm 'lucky', for the time being, with what I carry, my lightweight   
   board, the  stand, and the  seat...until I get the heavier 2 tier keyboard   
   stand, and my even heavier DX7, then I'm sure I won't feel so lucky...just   
   so long as the sound is better as a result!   
      
   > What I was thinking of when I typed that was how rough we are on band   
   > gigs.  For those I take a LOT more gear, and there are more people   
   > involved in loading.   
      
   That seems more like it.   
      
   > Long session with band girl today. We're working up songs for our duo   
   > gigs.  We just try things, run thru a bunch, see if anything strikes us.   
   > Tonight I'm cleaning up the recordings we made. From those, I'll create   
   > some appropriate backing tracks we'll use for these songs.  I did a lot on   
   > the midi guitar today that will need edited.   
      
   Doesn't it sound weird to play as a duo and have the sounds of more   
   instruments that everyone knows you couldn't possibly be playing, apparently   
   being played anyway?   
      
   ZZ Top has a drummer, bass player, and guitar player - The Difference, aka   
   my Soulmate and myself, will have a drummer, a bass player i.e. my left hand   
   on the DX7 or piano with bass response enhanced, and another instrument of a   
   higher frequency range, piano or guitar, or clavinet from the DX7 i.e my   
   right hand and no 'tracks' will be needed for any reason...as though they   
   ever would be in the first place ;)   
      
   > Mostly that is what I use to make rhythm acoustic guitar tracks.   
   > Everything thing else gets done on keyboards or regular guitar.  More and   
   > more I wish I could eliminate the midi guitar. It takes a lot of work to   
   > clean up the timing errors from that thing. Or maybe it's my playing and   
   > the problems will last even after I work out how to do those parts as an   
   > audio recording.   
      
   Computers shouldn't be substituted for musicians ;)   
      
   > It was a good day tho. Tomorrow I'll try and finish up the songs from   
   > today.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Almost sounds like you're writing a song or otherwise working on an   
   Original - would that it  were.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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