Jim Alfredson

Ha, Randy was talking about that place with this nice woman at a cafe that served us breakfast. Cool!

The key click volume is adjustable via resistors. I would seriously consider re-capping the generator. All B3s are uneven now, due to the youngest being over 30 years old. Goff has kits available that are pre-matched. A tad expensive, but worthwhile, imo. When I re-capped my '58 B3, it really smoothed out the response across the manuals. I also cleaned the buss bars, which helped as well. The RC networks are a must, too. I just got an A100 for free that has some issues (weird harmonic things when certain combination of keys are pressed) and I'll probably re-cap that bad boy as well. I have not re-capped my C2 yet except for the chorus/vibrato line. It is a very dark organ.

The record industry is really trying to kill itself, isn't it?

I keep forgetting about this. Need to grab it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DXq4WTlog4

UP because I'm listening to this record again (Open House) and it fuckin' roolz and everyone can kiss Johnny Hammond Smith's ass. (My Aric/chewey post for this year).

It's a bit easier now that I'm playing the XK System. More stuff to haul, but less weight.

One of my (stupid) dreams is to eventually get an old Seeburg 45 jukebox from the 50s (mono & tube of course) and restore it and put it in my living room. There's a friend of ours that owns a second-hand vinyl & CD store in E. Lansing that has one and it is fucking awesome. Anyway... I'm tempted, but it's just more shit I probably don't have room for nor will ever get to. Cool offer, though.

Larry and the boys probably had to move that organ in themselves, too. People think this business is all glitz and glamour. It's frickin' hard work and the pay is shit.

Reality.

The refs were doing their best in both Game 1 & 2 to give the Bulls a fighting chance. Some totally bullshit calls against the Pistons in both games. The fouls have really been one-sided so far.

That must be George Heid, aka Bill Heid's brother. Bill Heid, aka the man tutored by Larry Young AND Don Patterson and one helluva organist. Cool pic.

The Pistons just need to win one in Chicago and this series is done.

Brightness can be achieved easier by replacing the tone generator capacitors and the chorus/vibrato line caps. My 1958 B3 has the stock preamp but all new caps and it will rip your head off in the high-end. It's much less expensive, too. Think about it. Also, the alnico drivers from BT Productions are better sounding (and again, less expensive) replacements for the V21 than the Atlas, imo. I highly recommend them.

A good friend from Detroit, Gerard Gibbs, is the organist in his band and is a seriously bad mofo (tutored by Groove Holmes).

I say that to the audience all the time. But seriously, what a dick.

This is pretty interesting: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9978555

Just got done watching the Pistons game (had to tape it 'cos I had a date with my wife). Chicago got their butts handed to them. If the Pistons keep up this intensity level throughout the series, it's done. Just saw the replay of the final seconds of the Rockets / Jazz series. What the heck was that!?!

Would there be an interest in selling (very cheaply) live mp3s (DRM free, hi-res) from the organissimo homepage?

Zora likes Miffy, which is nice because it is rather low-key. It seems like many of the popular kids shows are just plain annoying. Dora and Diego especially. All the do IS YELL AT YOU! ALL THE TIME! She likes Wonderpets, too. I agree that Sesame Street has really gone downhill and she doesn't even like watching it anymore. She likes Caillou (sp?) but he's kind of annoying too (very whiny).

$3.25 in Lansing. Exxon-Mobil must need new ivory backscratchers for the men's rooms.

The standard for serious engineers in the 1920s through the 1970s was to actually build the equipment that they used in the studio or at the least know how to fix it if it broke. I would doubt even those that know how to take care of a tape machine could do that now. Things change. Whoopee!

Um... aren't there more black players in the NBA than white players? So therefor a white referree would by default be calling more fouls on black players than white?

No Leslie. The organ is run through a Marshall stack.

The league should be looking at the ref that threw Jackson (Stephen, not Phil) out. WTF?!