What are you listening to?

[The Duke]

Ah ah ah, the party doesn’t get started without my favorite Evh song. Hey Jantje_Smit , I’ll take you round the block maybe once or twice.

Peak Van Hagar. I bet Michael is still playing with Jimmy Schquagar.
I mean Sammy Hagar.
I don't like how they never show Michael Anthony as an equal in the band
in that video. He made all their songs what they were, and they treated him like shit. Sammy knows.

 

[Deadstick]

Dr Feelgood were a British pub band from Canvey Island Essex, i liked their style, Wilko Johnson the rythm guitarist was a English teacher at one time.

 

[The Duke]

 

[The Duke]

Dr Feelgood were a British pub band from Canvey Island Essex, i liked their style, Wilko Johnson the rythm guitarist was a English teacher at one time.

Dr. Feelgood was kickass. Roxette was one of their best.

 

[Deadstick]

Dr. Feelgood was kickass. Roxette was one of their best.

Yes i liked their no nonsense music, not like these days where most is computer generated bullshit or half dressed Girls with no talent, glad i was one of those who saw the best of Rock music.

 

[Elusivebutterfly]

Peak Van Hagar. I bet Michael is still playing with Jimmy Schquagar.
I mean Sammy Hagar.
I don't like how they never show Michael Anthony as an equal in the band
in that video. He made all their songs what they were, and they treated him like shit. Sammy knows.

I know too. Sammy was right. I like Sammy better that David, btw.
I don’t like David but this song was awesome

 

[Deadstick]

Any of you guys play an instrument?

 

[The Duke]

Any of you guys play an instrument?

Meh, not really.
Good with my brain and voice, though.

This is peak early VH, IMO.
Also, being flexible like David there can get you some hot girls.
Beyond what you thought, for whatever reason.

 

[Deadstick]

Meh, not really.
Good with my brain and voice, though.

This is peak early VH, IMO.
Also, being flexible like David there can get you some hot girls.
Beyond what you thought, for whatever reason.

Going back years i was always interested in Organs especially Hammond, for years i owned a few but not lucky enough to have a Hammond, bands like deep purple and ELP played them, not many these days, i am not much of a player but have many happy hours playing, now with the digital age the technology has developed so much everything that a expensive organ could do can be produced in a home keyboard for a fraction of the cost, not long ago i upgraded my keyboard to a Yamaha from a Korg, i really like the digital virtual organ draw bar,and the many organ presets, i have 500w Solton Amp with rotary speaker which when i have time will look to connecting it to the keyboard, here is a guy demonstrating the one i have, this kid is blind which is unbelievable, at 3.18 into the vid he plays Santana Black Magic Woman.

 

[The Duke]

Going back years i was always interested in Organs especially Hammond, for years i owned a few but not lucky enough to have a Hammond, bands like deep purple and ELP played them, not many these days, i am not much of a player but have many happy hours playing, now with the digital age the technology has developed so much everything that a expensive organ could do can be produced in a home keyboard for a fraction of the cost, not long ago i upgraded my keyboard to a Yamaha from a Korg, i really like the digital virtual organ draw bar,and the many organ presets, i have 500w Solton Amp with rotary speaker which when i have time will look to connecting it to the keyboard, here is a guy demonstrating the one i have, this kid is blind which is unbelievable, at 3.18 into the vid he plays Santana Black Magic Woman.

My dad bought a Hammond, I used to mess with it.
Probably had tubes in those days, or were they the transistors?
So when I was like, trying to play an instrument, I had this nifty little Yamaha
keyboard, and it could do quite a bit.
Built in metronome, You got your A 440 right there, it'd do different beats and rhythms and all programmable. It was a great tool.
I'm a bad man because I mainly used it for a metronome.

 

[The Duke]

Then there's the Sammy days VH, too.

 

[The Duke]

This was the big kickoff for the 5150 album. It was good.

 

[Elusivebutterfly]

This was the big kickoff for the 5150 album. It was good.

They are all good. That’s a good one.

I love how Sammy wrote songs in the shower and would go wake Eddie to put it into music.

 

[Elusivebutterfly]

Amazing how they took the Kinks song and created a masterpiece.

 

[Elusivebutterfly]

Any of you guys play an instrument?

Not a guy, but I retired the piano and was gifted a keyboard. I play a little by ear. love her style. I sing all her songs too.

 

[Deadstick]

My dad bought a Hammond, I used to mess with it.
Probably had tubes in those days, or were they the transistors?
So when I was like, trying to play an instrument, I had this nifty little Yamaha
keyboard, and it could do quite a bit.
Built in metronome, You got your A 440 right there, it'd do different beats and rhythms and all programmable. It was a great tool.
I'm a bad man because I mainly used it for a metronome.

I think the transistors were used from the 1960s, before that it was what we call in the UK valves, i think Hammond went out of business in about 1985 when Suzuki took over.

 

[The Duke]

I think the transistors were used from the 1960s, before that it was what we call in the UK valves, i think Hammond went out of business in about 1985 when Suzuki took over.

The Hammond was transistor, yes it was. Hold up, lemme call an expert.
toobfreak
Wurlitzers were tube.

 

[toobfreak]

The Hammond was transistor, yes it was. Hold up, lemme call an expert.
toobfreak
Wurlitzers were tube.

It was a transitional time. Scruffy and Chuz Life could probably better answer. If it were the 60s then probably yes, it was still tube, if it were early 70s, it might still be tube or transistor.

Keith Emerson still used tubed gear in Emerson Lake and Palmer. He used to bang the gear around to create microphonics in the tubes.

The main push to transition over to transistors was the need and interest in miniaturization, making instruments smaller, like going from the floor pedal organ to the Moog synthesizer.

Tubes are costly, hot, big, heavy, and take up a lot of space.

Valve is just the British word for a tube, referring to the Fleming Valve (named after the inventor).

That picture in #429 by Deadstick, that is all solid state stuff there.

 

[The Duke]

It was a transitional time. Scruffy and Chuz Life could probably better answer. If it were the 60s then probably yes, it was still tube, if it were early 70s, it might still be tube or transistor.

Keith Emerson still used tubed gear in Emerson Lake and Palmer. He used to bang the gear around to create microphonics in the tubes.

The main push to transition over to transistors was the need and interest in miniaturization, making instruments smaller, like going from the floor pedal organ to the Moog synthesizer.

Tubes are costly, hot, big, heavy, and take up a lot of space.

Valve is just the British word for a tube, referring to the Fleming Valve (named after the inventor).

That picture in #429 by Deadstick, that is all solid state stuff there.

I wonder whatever happened to papa's Hammond?

 

[Deadstick]

I have a Solton twin jet amp with the leslie speaker a German piece of gear, here you can see the internal workings with Valves/Tubes, invented by Donald Leslie for Hammond.