Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[ahc]

I know someone who looked and can answer that question

Anyone we know???

 

[Jeff Scott]

And Carole King is known as a singer

Joni Mitchell always thought of herself as more of a painter/artist than a singer/songwriter. Still does.

So. Just for the halibut, I decided to hook up the Peavey* KB300[3 channel keyboard amp w/ a 15, horn, and piezo]which I have sitting around aging. HOLY[STUFF]! I'd forgotten how this thing kicks @$$. Thankfully, it's on wheels, else it woulda kicked my @$$. It still sounds amazing, whichever of 3 basses I plugged in(too lazy to dig out the Les Paul 5er). When I used to gig with it, I'd put the bass and duffel on top and roll it in. 'course I still had to lift the damn thing into the gigmobile(and back out of same).

* I can spell it out 'cos it was built waaay b4 they changed their business practices-which I can't forgive.

Like Gallien-Krueger GK?

 

[beans-on-toast]

So. Just for the halibut, I decided to hook up the Peavey* KB300[3 channel keyboard amp w/ a 15, horn, and piezo]which I have sitting around aging. HOLY[STUFF]! I'd forgotten how this thing kicks @$$. Thankfully, it's on wheels, else it woulda kicked my @$$. It still sounds amazing, whichever of 3 basses I plugged in(too lazy to dig out the Les Paul 5er). When I used to gig with it, I'd put the bass and duffel on top and roll it in. 'course I still had to lift the damn thing into the gigmobile(and back out of same).

* I can spell it out 'cos it was built waaay b4 they changed their business practices-which I can't forgive.

It’s nice to go shopping through your stuff and rediscover some old favourites.

Amps should be used at least once a year. More often is better. Running the amp reconditions the electrolytic capacitors and helps extend their useful life. For tube amps this should be done in playing mode, not in standby. It isn’t necessary to play through the amp, just plug it in and run it.

 

[Jeff Scott]

That was very nice. The effect was tastefully applied. I have an array of phasers, including an MXR Phase 100, the one with two knobs. With only one instrument, Heart wanted to thicken the sound of the guitar to make it sound fuller. I think that they overapplied it.

Yeah, they did get a bit heavy handed with the flanger. I had a tc electronic SCF for a while around the turn of the century. It was a lot more subtle, and musical sounding than whatever Nancy was using in the video.

Speaking of turn of the century:



I see there is a note on Rick's keyboard: Call your mother!

 

[Jeff Scott]

For tube amps this should be done in playing mode, not in standby.

No idea why, but when I read this I saw it as: "this should be done in party mode"...

 

[GonePlaid]

Joni Mitchell always thought of herself as more of a painter/artist than a singer/songwriter. Still does.

Like Gallien-Krueger GK?

Normally I just write "P___" 'cos I don't like to say their name after seeing the "Undercover Boss" episode and what they did after.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I see there is a note on Rick's keyboard: Call your mother!

After what he did at the end....

 

[Jeff Scott]

After what he did at the end....

No doubt!

 

[Jeff Scott]

I was thinking about the Wilson sisters. Something along the lines of a Ginger vs. Maryann kind of thing.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I was thinking about the Wilson sisters.

There were three Wilson sisters. The elder was Lynn.

BTW, that’s an AKG C414 microphone.

 

[Jeff Scott]

There were three Wilson sisters. The elder was Lynn.

BTW, that’s an AKG C414 microphone.

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Lynn is interviewed in the Ann Wilson video. (Nice pants, Ann )

We had a couple of 414s at the studio I worked at in the early '80s. Given that Nancy, Ann, and Lynn are spaced about 180º around the mic it was probably set to Omni.

Maybe, we should compile a list of all known microphones?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Maybe, we should compile a list of all known microphones?

Too many for me to count.

Abbey Road Studios microphone list.

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[2tonic]

I know someone who looked and can answer that question

Do tell.......

 

[notJaco]

There were three Wilson sisters. The elder was Lynn.

BTW, that’s an AKG C414 microphone.

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And they gave her a 'bypass'?

 

[GwenOnBass]

All Wilson sisters are equal in the eyes of a microphone set to Omni.

 

[beans-on-toast]

And they gave her a 'bypass'?

Not everyone can or wants to perform. She travelled with the band at times, doing wardrobe. Nice to be involved with the family business. Their parents had enough to contend with at home with a neighbourhood menace called Dennis.

 

[notJaco]

Not everyone can or wants to perform. She travelled with the band at times, doing wardrobe. Nice to be involved with the family business.

I get it...3’s a crowd.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The weather has been swinging. Saturday I got caught in heavy snow, wound up covered like a snowman on the front of my coat while carrying groceries on a long trek home. Later that day it rained. Sunday I was out without a hat or gloves, coat undone. Yesterday it was raining cats and dogs. This morning the windchill was -30. The rest of the week will be cold.

Enough of this. Typically, the last major snowfall is on or about March 4th. I’m determined that if the roads are dry, I’m taking the car to the grocery this Saturday. The car has been in storage since December.

 

[gtmalone]

After what he did at the end....

Well, that's 3:42 of my life I won't get back.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I've yet to see a day I can get back. I'd settle for moments, actually.