Jim Alfredson

Bill, The emails tend to lag behind the board software a bit. It'll show up sooner or later! BTW, I still want to get you fascimilies of those organ album covers. I haven't forgotten. Maybe I can upload them to the server this week. I'll email you.

Damn, three Leslies!!! I can hook up three Leslies to my organ. I've done it once, but not live. That would be spectacular! THE SOUND! Do you still have those tapes you recorded, Michel?

Fuck it. Time to start anew, friends. I for one am happy you all came here and I hope we can make this a nice community. Thank you all.

Does wittle baby want a ba-ba?!?

Just read the last part of your inquiry. Use the "Members" link above to access members' emails.

You have an "inbox" up in "My Controls". All PMs go there and will stay there until you delete them or until you run out of room to store them. At which point I believe any new PMs will take the place of the oldest. If you find yourself not having enough room, let me know.

Christ... First I had it spelled with two "c"s and J.A.W. kindly pointed out that was wrong. So I changed it and forgot to add the second "m". I'll fix it. Thank you. We need a "I'm stupid" smiley. I'll make one tonight.

Sounds like you guys need to make up wacked out stories to fill the voids in live situations, like Peter Gabriel used to do with Genesis! My sister has an mp3 of him telling this really really weird story while the band was tuning up. It's frickin' hilarious! Watch out, Joe... if we start getting too crazy we won't get played on so-called "jazz" radio stations that play all those horrible vocalists re-hashing tired standards over and over again. Oh wait... we don't get played on those stations anyway! GO ON! But I'm not bitter...

This guys been around since the ol' Jazz Central Station days. Called himself DEEP in those days. Deep he definately is not. At least when he's posting. The shame is that he DOES have an encyclopedic knowledge of this music. And he is a really good player. But he's a total shithead too. Oh well. I'd much rather have you here, Betrand, than him!

Randy, I like! hehe

Not only that, but every organist that recorded at Rudy's studio used the same Hammond! Which blows my mind because it sounds so different with each player. Granted, he mic'd the Leslie different for each player. Note: My mentor believes that Rudy did not use a direct box along with mic'ing the Leslie on his recordings. He says he mic'd a Hammond speaker. (Hammond speakers are stationary, not moving like the Leslie). Anyone know for sure?

I just switched over to IE 5 for Mac on this laptop and the text problems are no more, but it still looks PINK! Man, that blows. But the clickable smilies on the left are lined up better. What can I say, I didn't set this thing up for Macs.

Jim, I'm using a Mac G4 Powerbook right now with Netscape and at first I had the same problem as you. The text was extremely small. This is an old version of Netscape too (not my computer... I'd update this bad boy in a flash). In netscape, in the View menu, there is an option for increasing the font size, which helped tremendously. Also, the colors are not right on this Mac either. The board should simply be purple (more violet actually) and orange. No pink. I can see pink on this Mac too and it's not right. The colors for our band logo are purple and orange so that's why I choose those colors. But there should be no pink.

Billy Preston is amazing. He does things with the Hammond I've never heard. I feel like I should upload mp3s of that solo gospel record he did on my server so you can all hear it. It's beautiful.

I actually had someone say that to me today at work. He came in, saw the CD sitting on my boss' desk and said, "Hey, is that you?" "Yeah it's my new trio CD." "Cool man, how much?" "$15" "Cool. I'll just have Skippy burn me a copy." And he was serious. I said, "I'd rather you didn't." Reminds me of a story that a guitarist friend told me. He put out a solo guitar CD of Christmas tunes last December and he actually had a guy come up to him at a gig and say, "Man, I LOVED your Christmas disc! I burned copies for all my friends and they love it too!" He then proceeded to tear into the guy.

Jim, have you heard those MXL mics? You can get those "mic packs" which include a 2001 and a 603s for $155 for the PAIR! It's crazy. And they sound really good to my ears. Leaves more money to spend on good mic pre's! Those are still really expensive for the good stuff.

I think the most I've ever made on one gig is $300 for a private party. That's my take. It was a five piece band so that's $1500 plus whatever the booking agent's cut was. Not bad! I'm hungry for the days of $3000 a piece gigs!

CJ, Hip me to some contact (phone numbers, addresses, persons, etc.) and we'll try to make it happen. The crowd that will dig us the most is the college crowd, most likely.

Awww! Mis-using the avatar function! Bless you!

Young Buck, I would spend the money on the monitors. Personally, I think microphones, mic preamps, and monitors are the most important tools a studio has. Your recordings are only as good as your mics and mic pre's and your mixes can only be as good as your monitors. Why spend all that money getting a top of the line G4? Why not get a G4 800Mhz machine or even a 733Mhz with a whole lot of RAM? Both of those machines would have plenty of power to run a full Pro Tools rig, much less the O2. Get one used and load it up with RAM. For inexpensive mics, I recommend the MXL series. Also known as Marshall. They are really great sounding microphones and unbelievably inexpensive. The studio where we recorded our record has two of every mic Jim listed earlier in this thread. Coles, Neuman, AKG C-24s, etc. But he uses the MXL 2001 on almost every project because it has such a great sound. For the money, it can't be beat. The little MXL 603 mic that comes with it are great as well. For the price, the Genelecs are probably your best bet, too. Although I've always found their sound to be a little harsh with digital equipment. But I'm not a professional engineer, just a hobbyist. For more info on the Marshall mics, check out the MXL webpage.

Dude, that avatar is hynotizing and quite frightening. I like!

That is a total asshole move. People are so stuck in their own worlds. Watch what's going on ahead of you, not behind you. What's worse is when people do that shit on the highway. I was coming home from Ann Arbor one evening (an hour drive) and this asshole two cars in front of me got mad at the guy that was behind him for some reason (the guy directly in front of me) and decides to slam on his brakes. Keep in mind, this is bumper to bumper, rush hour traffic on a highway going 70mph and this jerk slams on his brakes. So the guy directly behind him slams on his, I slam on mine, almost running into the guy in front on me, a whole chain reaction ensues. The ass-hat that originally slammed on his brakes speeds away. Then when everyone catches back up to him, he DOES IT AGAIN! I was so mad that I almost ran into the guy in front of me twice that I followed the jerk for about 5 or 6 miles. He eventually noticed that I was following him, although I didn't have my brights on and I wasn't on his ass. He then slows way way down. By this time we're beyond downtown and on a part of the freeway that is less populated with cars. He eventually pulls over and comes to a complete stop. I do the same. I get out of my van and started to walk up to his window and I can tell by his reaction that he's scared as hell! I'm 6'4", about 190 lbs. I had a big black wool coat on. I'm sure I looked mean (although I'm not a mean person). He rolls his window down and I say, "What the hell are you doing? I almost rear-ended that car back there because you're slamming on your brakes like a fool?" He says, "What are you doing following me?" I said, "Man, you can't do that shit! You could've caused a multi-car accident. You could've injured a whole bunch of people. That's not cool, man." He thinks about this for a second and then... here's the best part... he says, "You know what's not cool? YOU!" and then he speeds off. What a dipshit! Some people have no regard for other drivers. They use their cars like weapons. It's so dangerous.

Man, we should get that P-Rock dude over here. He's frickin' hilarious! On second thought, nah...

Grover was a soulful cat.