From fredjenkins@earthlink.net Mon Jun 30 11:09:22 2014
Subject:Re: For those who feel that clones are better than the real thing...

This strikes a chord with me -

I have a chop, a real B3 and a Frankenstein clone. I work infrequently
on the chop in hopes
of getting it out to a gig, I play the real B3 on a weekly basis at
rehearsals, and on the gig I
take the Frankenstein (Fatar Keyboards in a plywood cab (not by me)
modified beyond recognition
(by me) running into a Nord Electro Rack with some etc. for real sound.
The Frankenstein system
gets very nice reviews by sidemen who also remark incredulity at how
much better the real
B3 sounds when we do the last tune of the (rehearsal) evening on the
real deal.

At present all my non-practice effort is going into making the
Frankenstein system truly
"one trip to the car" (metal work in aluminum can be sublime...).
Every solution I've
come up with for getting the real B3 to a gig involves an enclosed
trailer, 20 mins of flashers
going double parked and infinite paranoia of damage to glue joints --
all for inviting
swine to enjoy pearls (not the band - they get the real deal at rehearsal).
That's not even considering the hernia opportunity...

So bottom line I guess is it's joyous to have the real deal (truly
inspirational each and every time),
and it's joyous to have the clone to wander about with.
Still have to address the whole pedal issue...

Regards,
m

ps - nothing at all against the real or audience manifestation of swine
- I like them both but
they are understandably not very discerning.