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Prices for vintage gear?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeff Summers Jun. 16, 2008.
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- How Old Are You?
- Over 40
- What instrument do you play?
- bass, keyboards
- About You:
- I am 50, fat, and bald. Seriously bald. I currently play keys in an all-original band. Except for one 35-year-old pup we are all grownups. For about 5 years (circa Men At Work, Flock of Seagulls, Urban Cowboy) I worked as a full-time club musician in SoCal with the odd road trip here and there. I finally figured out that the superstardom which had so skillfully and inexplicably eluded me could only be attained by hard work. Lots and lots of hard work. Crap.
- Please keep this forum about your music - not about stuff or services you sell. Agree?
- yes
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A New Business Model
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Posted on March 3, 2008 at 1:00pm —
Self-tuning Les Paul
I found this on del.icio.us. Half of me says it is pathetically lazy, the other half says, "Whoa, this is cool!" Read the story here.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 10:12pm — 3 Comments
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All those classes are good. It all depends on what you want to do with what you learn. If you want to design, study styles and flash and graphics and layout. PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, VBscript, Java and Javascript are programming scripts and languages for the web and will take a bit more commitment. Higher demand for those jobs but it is more oriented toward application development.
FTP is pretty straightforward. Most hosting services have Dashboards that allow the setup and configuration of an FTP server. My recommendation for you as far as the "parking lot" is to register a domain name and get a hosting service provider with the capacity and download pricing that will be agreeable. For instance: johnparkerMP3s.com registered at namesecure.com and then pick a hosting somewhere like http://www.top-10-web-hosting.com/compare.htm
It went OK but was stressful. I got $80 for 4 gigs and built my reputation/repertoire.
THe P200 was a nice piece of work and it awakened me to a curious phenomenon in digital pianos. People used to leave the speakers on all the time even when connected to the mains PA etc. We eventually figured out that they liked the subtle vibration that the woofer put into the keybed and made it feel slightly more like a piano. My office made all the sounds in that piano and if memory serves me well the strings are in fact violas. We were having trouble getting a violin section to sound warm enough to match the instruments so I ended up putting in all violas with a couple of section violin samples on the op to make up the range. - oh and the EP is in fact Chic Corea's rhodes though I was not allowed to say so while I was with Yamaha!
And as far as the weight goes - I used to travel with B3, Rhodes, string Ensemble two Mini Moogs, a Multi Moog and whatever else was the flavor of the day - so you may not find me a gold mine of sympathy :-)
Keep on trucking!