Jim Alfredson

Not much to update: I'm waiting on liner notes and the typsetting. The music is mastered and ready to go. I'm hoping to get everything to the printer early next week. We're tentatively looking at an August 2nd release date. I just realized I should end the $100 donation level, since the typesetting is getting into the final phases. So after today, the $100 level will be closed. Actually, you can still donate if you want to, but your name won't be in the CD.

Thanks, Lazaro, for updating this thread. Yes, July 11th we'll be on the radio, not at the Grand Haven Waterfront. Arno is sounding better than ever!!! We had a rehearsal with him last night and we've got a slew of original, swingin' material by everyone involved including a piece by Arno, a few by Randy, and a new tune written by me for Arno called "Arnothology"! We're gonna have a lot of fun!

I've always been a Yamaha man, so I may be a bit biased here, but consider looking for a used Yamaha EX5r module. They can be had for about $500. The piano sound is decent. With a little tweaking, it's pretty damn good. However, the electric piano sounds are fantastic. The Wurli can be clean or dirty and the tremelo is right on. The factory Rhodes sound leaves much to be desired, but the ex5 user group (www.ex5tech.com) has a bunch of free sounds, one of which is called the SkiRhodes (Ski is the guy who made it) which is really really good. I have the Yamaha EX7 (which is the 61-key version of the module) and I use it with my r&b band for piano, electric piano, clavinet (it has great clavinet sounds, too), horn section sounds, strings, etc. I bought it off eBay back in 2001 for $400. You could look for one of those, too but the downside is that they are heavy. The rack module is much lighter and smaller and actually a bit more powerful in the synth department. And finally, yes you should be able to use your XK-2 as a controller for the rack module. That's why a module would be your best bet, because you already have a keyboard to play it with.

Gerard was taught by Groove Holmes, so good call there! He is a great organist, but I have not heard this CD.

I don't see why it would be a big deal.

Jim and I briefly met Chick and his wife in Florida; they were perfectly kind and friendly. ← I'm sure it would have been nice meeting Chick but the Scientology brownshirts never gave us the chance. ← Chick was very very nice and he and I had a nice discussion about the Hammond organ. Cool cat. I am glad he didn't start lecturing about Scientology, however.

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I just got a new cell phone. The Audiovox SMT5600. It runs on Windows Mobile and has a version of Windows Media Player on it. I bought a 1gb mini-SD card for it, so I have quite a bit of storage. It came with some decent stereo ear-buds and it sounds really good. All that and it's a phone, camera, interfaces with Outlook for email, my calendar, my contacts, surfs the web, etc. Pretty cool. That said, that Neuros looks REALLY cool. I'd like to get something small and portable that has an analog input so I could record a board feed, like .:.impossible was saying. Perfect for recording Organissimo gigs!

From the Detroit News: Sounds like a good pick. I've also read, speaking of picking up another scorer, that Jalen Rose is a free agent and the Pistons are very interested in getting him. That would be great!

scottb, that's absolutely horrible!!! You've gotta be rotting your insides out with that stuff! I get on my wife's case because she drinks 1 or 2 glasses of that stuff per day. I guess I have no right to complain! Ick!

The got a PF named Jason Maxiell from Cincinnatti. He's been called a "mini-Ben Wallace" which is a good thing, I suppose. Pistons still need a scorer. Maybe they can pick up somebody in a trade this summer. One question: Why does Dumars insist on keeping Darvin Ham? What has that guy done?!

The next Darko?

BS - you should be grateful someone thinks enough to try for a profit off the disc. ←

Yep... I listen to Lazaro on the web all the time.

It has been intensely hot in Michigan for the past week. Right now the inside of my house is 87 degrees. No, we don't have air conditioning. I keep hoping it will rain, but there is not a raincloud in sight.

Examples, please?

Wow.

Shrdlu, you're alive!!! Good to see you! Hope all is well! Allen, there is this great thing in the new software called "the ignore function". If you don't like couw so much, then please use it rather than crapping all over a thread, ok? And as far as what is spam and what's not, how is starting a thread about LP transfers spam and yet post after post of questions, trying to be funny and derail the thread, not spam? In summary... I'll worry about what is and what is not spam, thanks. And keep your personal member dislikes to yourself.

What an ass. Oh well, capitalism at work. I guess I should put some up on Amazon.

The organist is Don Patterson, I believe.

I don't think that would be out of the question. My van's radio has an aux input (RCA) that would work.

Talk to Scully!!! You might want to consider getting yourself a stand-alone CD recorder as well so you can record some stuff off the radio. Every now and then they have cool interviews with people as well as broadcast live from festivals and such. As for gear, I don't really know much about it although they do make units that go between the house and car, right?

This is one of the funniest quotes ever on this board.

It's pretty cool that you can just claim you're a church and get tax exempt status. Watch out, folks, I'm about to declare this place The Church of the Organissimo Forumtology.