From brianfores@hotmail.com Wed Jan 08 20:57:50 2003
Subject:RE: Medeski did use a CX-3 (maybe once)


You are crackin' me up man! You know what makes that pic even funnier is
medeski's early 90's long-t-shirt-under-short-t-shirt-look! LOL I thought
only, er, pearl jam fans did that! ;) brian

>From: Eric Lawson
>Reply-To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [CWSG] Medeski did use a CX-3 (maybe once)
>Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:48:28 -0500
>
>I stand corrected. Medeski did use a CX3. Or at least he is pictured with
>one. See this link:
>
>http://www.downtownmusic.net/pictures/showpicturexhtml/a.81456935701/default
>.htm
>
>Photo of Medeski (looks a little like Sting, eh?) playing an old school
>CX3.
>Maybe this was a loaner rig or he was sharing it with someone else. Seeing
>Medeski with a CX3 actually reminds me of a rather humbling moment in my
>own
>musical career when I ran across a musician who "opted out" of my offer to
>use my lowly clone rig.
>
>Back around 1994 or 1995 when I was touring with Fighting Gravity, we had a
>big show at a club that we normally sell out. The opening band that night
>was a no-name band from far out of town that was traveling around playing
>for $100 a night because they were young guys with no commitments. A
>typical opening band for us back in those days. Anyways, we had all our
>gear set up and soundchecked and the opening band starts coming in with
>equipment. We had offered to share the backline with them to make change
>over more efficient. Only 1 in 10 bands that opened for us had a keyboard
>player and I had heard ahead of time that this band indeed had one.
>
>I've always been a little finnicky about someone else playing my keyboards,
>even though it was a pretty sparse rig at that time (Hammond XB-2, Dynacord
>CLS-222, Roland JV880 rack). I chatted with the keyboard player briefly
>and
>he seemed like a nice enough guy, so I told him he could use my rig to save
>time. He asked what I had and I showed it to him. This was a really young
>guy (looked to be late teens) and I figured he might be carrying a DX7 or
>something like that. Well, to get to the point of my story...he gave my
>rig
>a really funny look and said (I almost think he called me "sir"): "Sir, I
>think I would like to use my own instrument, if it's ok with everyone." We
>said sure. So this band of 18 year olds go back out to the trailer and
>proceed to bring in a full blown Hammond B3 and Leslie 122. I was pretty
>much spellbound and jealous of this rig. I was still curious as to who
>this
>was and why the guy had such a cool rig. They ended up being a jam band
>with a country twang, similar to Phish. This lad was a good Hammond player
>too. He had command of the dual manuals and all the drawbars. What's a
>shame is that I cannot even remember the name of the band, but I think they
>were from Colorado. The load in was so rushed at that point that I did not
>get another opportunity to talk to this nameless wonder. The band
>disappeared quickly after their set and I've never seen them again.
>
>I wonder if the young Hammond player grew up to be someone famous and I
>just
>don't know it????
>
>Regards,
>Eric
>CloneWheel Support Group Moderator
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian fores [mailto:brianfores@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:22 PM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [CWSG] Medeski and the old BX-3
>
> thanks to everyone for their great tips, and eric, man, effin' cool. I'd
> seen one keyboard interview with medeski, but i've never seen this one.
>Btw,
> he did use the single manual cx3 sometimes, there's a pic of it out
>there
>on
> the web, try typing in "downtown music" or something. I guy has a
>website
> with pics of all those cats. But, i hear what you're saying, medeski
>gets
>to
> make demands that most of us would never dream of. It's all good,
>perhaps
>he
> did something to deserve it in a previous life... Naaahhhh! ;-) -brian
>
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