From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Thu Jan 23 04:59:35 2003
Subject:Re: Electro Drawbars

Wow...Your's certainly took some abuse. Mine didn't
fare NEARLY as well getting THEM out of their boxes.
t

--- Eddie Landsberg
wrote:
> One thing I found that once you get used to them,
> they're not so difficult to deal with... what I did
> on
> my European shows was pre-program the basic shapes I
> used... (88800000, 888800000, 80880808, 88888888,
> etc.) then I was able to modify them pretty easily
> while playing. - - I will say that I traveled by
> train from Stockholm all the way down to Zweibrueken
> (4 hours from Paris) - - making numerous stops in
> between. I wacked myself in the face with it
> several
> times, studio owner's kids DANCED on it, and I had a
> comedic encounter with a bathroom door during an
> explosive bout of the GIs - I couldn't get the thing
> off and - - well imagine... I made it through the
> door, but the NORD went sideways, and I couldn't...
> and all I wanted to do was plop my *ss down on that
> can... but I was so disoriented rather than backing
> up
> and taking it off, I just kept ramming it into the
> wall... quite violently... I was so delerious I
> would
> have cut off my own arm to get to that toilet. - -
> Also, on the ICE train, like an idiot, I propped it
> up
> against a seat, and wham, it took a fall... I put it
> between two seats, and wham, it went sideways...
> whatever, I will say, that after all that, when I
> got
> it back to America, the thing had only one scratch
> on
> it... Except for the fact that the case wound up in
> a
> puddle of Teutonic Pee Pee during the notorious
> Mannheim Colon Blast and does look a bit soiled (I'm
> sure it can be cleaned)... I could probably pass it
> off as new... I'm wondering if a unit with wood and
> drawbars would fair as well ? - - While at the
> factory, I was shown the room where they test them,
> and the stair case where apparently they are
> occasionally thrown down (*seriously !)... (By the
> way, not to give the wrong impression... I will
> always
> chose a B-3 over the NORD... and if given a choice,
> might even consider a double tier clone with
> drawbars
> over the Nord even for a live performance (if
> provided
> with a Leslie)... however, for in studio work (if
> there's no Hammond and Leslie), and for gigs that
> involve transporting the thing around... especially
> on
> buses and trains (and situations I couldn't bring
> out
> a Leslie to beef up what I'm playing) and clubs with
> lot's of steps and tight angles... I highly
> recommend
> it.
>
> Ed
>

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