California: always tackling the tough issues. Compassionate California Resolution To Face An Assembly Vote In January -- ACR 108 aims to make California the first ‘compassionate’ state in the US.
1) Commit to better forestry management and reduce instances of peoples’ homes being burned-down and/or curtail the need to cut electrical power to millions of citizens.
2) Maintain the damned roads.
3) Get rid of the stupid non-fungible multiple gasoline blends required by law.
4) Address the looming CalPERS-pocalypse in a meaningful manner
I was thinking that the left would be more outraged about the recent massacre in Mexico of Americans if the cartels instead of shooting and burning the infants, had just ripped the babies from their mother’s arms and put them in cages.
Morning Gerbils. I was away from home yesterday, and just now figured out how to post from my phone. I guess I had scripts turned off so my functionality was limited.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, Sven, and dv8!
Just got back from picking up Teh Younger at the auto repair shop. His car has a torn CV joint boot. I’m loaning him my car for the day, so I guess I’m stuck here.
Never much liked Farfisas (or Voxes); that “transistor organ” sound just didn’t do it for me. But the summer before my senior HS year, I got me a used Wurlitzer 200A which I used for about three years before selling it and getting a used Rhodes Stage.
Still love the Wurly and Rhodes sounds; they’ve held-up a lot better than the DX-7 electric pianos. 😉
(When I got my Nord Electro 3 years ago, I was so happy to have access to those sounds again…although it took a while for me to get used to them being perfectly in tune.)
Yeah, I remember tuning my Rhodes by turning those l’il springs. It’s nice that we have the digitals and the Mathematical Models now, though. Preserved forever.
I recall many of the ’60s / early ’70s tunes with those transistor organs; they were certainly screechy. And nasal. (But significantly cheaper and lighter that a Hammond and a Leslie.)
What amazes me about the Nord EPs is the accurate (and very musical) reproduction of all the “bark” and “bite”…especially with a wee bit of vitual pre-amp overdrive run through a Fender Twin emulation. (Same with the Clav and an expression pedal for the wah-wah.)
My first synth was a used ARP Odyssey Mark 1 which I acquired in ’79; still have it (hanging on my office wall). Never had the chance to hook-up a distortion pedal, but I came up with a few gnarly lead sounds with detuned oscillators (pretty easy on those old ARPs ’cause they drifted so much), some ring modulator and some noise.
(I spent a lot of time chasing that Jan Hammer Minimoog solo sound from “Birds of Fire”…)
I used to bust Rhodes tines pretty regularly; got really good at replacing them between sets. Don’t miss that “fun”; still have the hacked-up wire cutters I used to clip the tines. (And a few spare tines, too, despite the fact I’ve not owned a a Rhodes in 35 years.)
in fact, I remember hooking up a distortion pedal to it and trying to get close to “guitar solo” kind of sound with it.
That technique actually worked better with Monophonic synths. I had a Roland for a while in the early 80ies, I forget the model, but it was a used thing from the 70ies The primary Oscillator had harmonics built in. It had a bunch of organ stop kind of buttons on the front UNDERNEATH the keayboard. Not sure what they were thinking there. But it was a pretty fun board.
Hooking up delay and distortion boxes caused the last note to ring with the previous note, giving a pretty credible “guitar solo” sound.
I don’t join in much, especially when depression has it’s teeth in me, but I look in often. Please tell your Gentle Lady I think of her often and hope she is content there. My compliments to her and to you.
Because I’m a Bad Gerbil, I’d be terribly amused if this guy were to get whacked in an, erm, ironic manner:
Democrat presidential candidate billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who spends tens of millions of dollars pushing for extreme gun control laws, demonstrates that he knows literally nothing about firearms.pic.twitter.com/SCjpNdQm6h
What a moron. It is always interesting to see how it ruffles their feathers when someone wants them to make rational sense. How dare the little people question their rulers.
So from now on his security people will carry three rounds only and if they can’t stop the threat in three rounds then God wants him dead? If a bad guy pulls a gun first his security should stand down and let the guy do whatever he wants to the Mayor and his family? Or is that only the little people?
Noooooooooooooooes!!
G’day, Wheelizens!
Because I’m a giver, I brought donuts for everybody.
And not just any donuts; I splurged and got boneless donuts!!1!
But are they gluten free?
Mornin’, Sven!
Don’t know…but you can always add your own Glue 10.
California: always tackling the tough issues. Compassionate California Resolution To Face An Assembly Vote In January -- ACR 108 aims to make California the first ‘compassionate’ state in the US.
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/compassionate-california-resolution-to-face-an-assembly-vote-in-january/
*Facepalm*
It might be “compassionate” to:
1) Commit to better forestry management and reduce instances of peoples’ homes being burned-down and/or curtail the need to cut electrical power to millions of citizens.
2) Maintain the damned roads.
3) Get rid of the stupid non-fungible multiple gasoline blends required by law.
4) Address the looming CalPERS-pocalypse in a meaningful manner
5) Quit abrogating Californians’ constitutional rights.
6) Make “sanctuary cities” illegal and prosecute public officials who support them.
7) Get rid of all the impediments to building more housing.
I could go on, but I strongly suspect the above isn’t the right sort of compassion.
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Just heard that Jeff Sessions announced he’s going to run for his former Senate seat.
Jebus.
Good morning, Fatwa!
I was thinking that the left would be more outraged about the recent massacre in Mexico of Americans if the cartels instead of shooting and burning the infants, had just ripped the babies from their mother’s arms and put them in cages.
Off to work -- be well, Fatwa.
Morning Gerbils. I was away from home yesterday, and just now figured out how to post from my phone. I guess I had scripts turned off so my functionality was limited.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, Sven, and dv8!
Just got back from picking up Teh Younger at the auto repair shop. His car has a torn CV joint boot. I’m loaning him my car for the day, so I guess I’m stuck here.
CV Boots. Teh “one” weakness of font wheel drive….
Fatwa, before I got a Rhodes in late high school, I had one of these:
https://youtu.be/ph5lJPxQfZY
Ooooh, that’s the “Professional” model, IIRC.
Never much liked Farfisas (or Voxes); that “transistor organ” sound just didn’t do it for me. But the summer before my senior HS year, I got me a used Wurlitzer 200A which I used for about three years before selling it and getting a used Rhodes Stage.
Still love the Wurly and Rhodes sounds; they’ve held-up a lot better than the DX-7 electric pianos. 😉
(When I got my Nord Electro 3 years ago, I was so happy to have access to those sounds again…although it took a while for me to get used to them being perfectly in tune.)
Yeah, I remember tuning my Rhodes by turning those l’il springs. It’s nice that we have the digitals and the Mathematical Models now, though. Preserved forever.
I recall many of the ’60s / early ’70s tunes with those transistor organs; they were certainly screechy. And nasal. (But significantly cheaper and lighter that a Hammond and a Leslie.)
What amazes me about the Nord EPs is the accurate (and very musical) reproduction of all the “bark” and “bite”…especially with a wee bit of vitual pre-amp overdrive run through a Fender Twin emulation. (Same with the Clav and an expression pedal for the wah-wah.)
My first synth was a used ARP Odyssey Mark 1 which I acquired in ’79; still have it (hanging on my office wall). Never had the chance to hook-up a distortion pedal, but I came up with a few gnarly lead sounds with detuned oscillators (pretty easy on those old ARPs ’cause they drifted so much), some ring modulator and some noise.
(I spent a lot of time chasing that Jan Hammer Minimoog solo sound from “Birds of Fire”…)
I used to bust Rhodes tines pretty regularly; got really good at replacing them between sets. Don’t miss that “fun”; still have the hacked-up wire cutters I used to clip the tines. (And a few spare tines, too, despite the fact I’ve not owned a a Rhodes in 35 years.)
yeah same here. I think I sold my Rhodes over 30 years ago as well. Pianoteq has the Rhody and Wurly sounds tho.
It tickles me enormously that those sounds are still relevant to “the damned kids these days”.
In fact I just heard a Rhodes sound in a Jake Hill track. Jake hill is the only rapper I really dig. Even Harper likes him.
“iamjakehill” on YouTube.
Very talented young man. First heard him on a Pewdiepie outro, thought woah! Who TF is this!!1
Will check out later; work beckons.
Bah!
You heard a lot of Farfisa in 60ies Rock and Roll. It was my very first keyboard though. I had fun with it. It was a screeechy sounding thing.
in fact, I remember hooking up a distortion pedal to it and trying to get close to “guitar solo” kind of sound with it.
That technique actually worked better with Monophonic synths. I had a Roland for a while in the early 80ies, I forget the model, but it was a used thing from the 70ies The primary Oscillator had harmonics built in. It had a bunch of organ stop kind of buttons on the front UNDERNEATH the keayboard. Not sure what they were thinking there. But it was a pretty fun board.
Hooking up delay and distortion boxes caused the last note to ring with the previous note, giving a pretty credible “guitar solo” sound.
Here’s the Roland in question:
Neat!
We got a little bit closer tonight. I got Harper to read this thread and she got all warm and fuzzy about all of you!
Teh yay!
Whenever it’s appropriate, I know we’d all be delighted to “see” her.
I suspect even LambiePieK would stop by. (Although we go to bed pretty early during the week as 0430-ish comes way too soon.)
I don’t join in much, especially when depression has it’s teeth in me, but I look in often. Please tell your Gentle Lady I think of her often and hope she is content there. My compliments to her and to you.
Because I’m a Bad Gerbil, I’d be terribly amused if this guy were to get whacked in an, erm, ironic manner:
What a moron. It is always interesting to see how it ruffles their feathers when someone wants them to make rational sense. How dare the little people question their rulers.
So from now on his security people will carry three rounds only and if they can’t stop the threat in three rounds then God wants him dead? If a bad guy pulls a gun first his security should stand down and let the guy do whatever he wants to the Mayor and his family? Or is that only the little people?