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Waz up this weekend?
By: AJ Date: February 24, 2018, 2:50 pm
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....I'm on standby for the guy on call so I won't be going far
from home. Trip to the grocery store. Going by the UPS place to
drop off a cable modem. Xfinity upgraded the cable
modem/Internet hub and I just got it installed and
setup....Internet is definitely faster now and so that's cool.
The upgrade was free but I have to ship the old one back to
them...Also free. guess they'll clean the old one up and ship
off to a third world country..lol...
playing a bit of acoustic today...just knocking about...
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: indigo_dave Date: February 24, 2018, 7:43 pm
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I recorded videos of "Good Day Sunshine" and "Day Tripper".
Still trying to get "Over the Rainbow". I'm building up what I
think of as a sort of YouTube demo portfolio. I figure one of
these days, these demos will open the door to some sort of gig.
I'm going Sunday to a Freethought Community get together at a
food court. We will eat food and casually discuss politics,
religion (or the lack thereof) and culture. I learned about
Robert Sopolsky at the last one of these.
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: bieke Date: February 25, 2018, 6:43 am
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Friday, movie night with homemade pizza, it's the classic friday
nite at casa Bieke, the whole fam, we watched Detroit
Saturday, brunch, checked out some art galleries and went to
classic concert, Stravinsky's Firebird and Prokoview piano
concert no.3, good concert, great venue, plus there was a ppiano
exhibit, all sorts of classical grand pianos from the past (and
for once, it was allowed to touch and play these beuatiful
instruments exceptgreat balls of fire)
then went to a light festival in Brussels
today, Brussels again, going to check out an installation with
22 automated electric guitars, about to leave
HTML http://cdn.wiels.org/website/images/dbfiles/6780/large/Saâdane-Afif-Paroles.jpg
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: indigo_dave Date: February 25, 2018, 7:09 am
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22 automated guitars ? Funny. They look like they have movie
film reels attached.
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: AJ Date: February 25, 2018, 1:06 pm
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Are the reels setup to rotate? Kind of like those old brass disc
machines? Where they pluck a certain string(s)?
Wish I could see this...
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: AJ Date: February 25, 2018, 1:16 pm
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Spent the morning watching an Umphrey's McGee concert while
fixing breakfast. Got turned on to these guys a year or two ago.
They've become my favorite Jam band ...Ever I think....Don't
think the Dead or Phish ever had the level of musicianship these
guys have.
This is just a 22 minute clip of them...I watched a couple of
complete concerts over the course of the morning.
HTML https://youtu.be/hB_F_DQt6XU
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: bieke Date: February 25, 2018, 2:48 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=207.msg2148#msg2148
date=1519564152]
22 automated guitars ? Funny. They look like they have movie
film reels attached.
[/quote]
I counted 12 guitars, not 22, the movie reels are wheels with
guitar picks fixed inside and LED actuators
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: bieke Date: February 25, 2018, 2:52 pm
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=207.msg2149#msg2149 date=1519585578]
Are the reels setup to rotate? Kind of like those old brass disc
machines? Where they pluck a certain string(s)?
Wish I could see this...
[/quote]
so the weheels had guitar pick attached inside and were
triggered by timers and LED actuators, people walking by the
guitars will set off the actuator and then after a short while,
the wheel would turn and guitar would be strummed, guitars were
tuned in open chords and had capos, some amps were set clean,
others were distorted, some had vibrato or chorus, some had
reverb.
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: AJ Date: February 25, 2018, 3:24 pm
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[quote author=bieke link=topic=207.msg2153#msg2153
date=1519591957]
[quote author=AJ link=topic=207.msg2149#msg2149 date=1519585578]
Are the reels setup to rotate? Kind of like those old brass disc
machines? Where they pluck a certain string(s)?
Wish I could see this...
[/quote]
so the weheels had guitar pick attached inside and were
triggered by timers and LED actuators, people walking by the
guitars will set off the actuator and then after a short while,
the wheel would turn and guitar would be strummed, guitars were
tuned in open chords and had capos, some amps were set clean,
others were distorted, some had vibrato or chorus, some had
reverb.
[/quote]
Cool idea for a display...Imaginative at the least....
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Re: Waz up this weekend?
By: The Dudley Lama Date: March 3, 2018, 9:19 am
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oh man! always late for the party...
i played the futujara at first friday in tallahassee last night.
terratonz hand pans, out of atlanta, was there and a couple of
times we had a crowd of over a hundred gathered around. the guy
brought a dozen or more pans, (hangs) and is giving a two hour
lecture on history, tuning, making... its at 1:00, im getting
ready to go now.
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