From den121961@yahoo.com Sat Dec 15 01:49:24 2012
Subject:Re: We all hear differently

Norm, I agree with you and think you probably had the same budget I did for keyboards when you started playing. There were two keyboard players fighing for jobs back when I was young with hair. His dad was rich, mine wasn't. If he needed a sound he bought whatever keyboard they made it with. I had to coax it out of a korg poly 61 (even hammond for a time). I learned a lot more than he did about getting a good sound and usually had a better sound than he did with the best and latest keys, because he didn't have to "learn" them.
For a while I liked to go shooting sporting clays with a shotgun. We always blamed our lack of scoring success on the fact that we were shooting open chokes (harmonic beating of the sporting clays world). Then one day a pro shooter was behind us. He asked if he could try my shotgun out and using the same ammo and same open chokes he powdered every clay pigeon he shot at, and they were far away shots. It taught me a lot about the fact that it ain't the gun, it's the guy behind it. Same goes for hammond. The same korg cx3 I use that drives me crazy does wonders in John Medeski's hands. I always go back and listen to his videos using one when I think I absolutely NEED a new clone. My budget for a new one isn't much better than it was way back!
By the way I still have crumar Traveler 1 hooked up in the studio and love it!