Another 'Thread gone wild!'...

Chas, I wasn't trying to 'bait' you (and it's hardly cajoling!). I just think it's a shame that, while you are obviously good enough to play with some of the finest, we aren't good enough to hear it.

I never try to 'bait' a player into posting (you'll notice I don't try, unlike Donny, getting perhaps weaker players to 'put up or shut up'), in fact, the only people I DO ask to hear are ones I REALLY want to, as I can usually tell from their demeanor and attitude whether they got the goods or not. I like to listen to jazz organ, and would like to hear what you are doing. No further motive than that.

I remember you popping in to Roland-arranger.com to listen to a little Zawinul thing I did a while back, and the nice comment you made (appreciated ) but there ARE mistakes and bad arranger tracking in it. I don't think it would have got posted at all if I followed the 'guidelines' above. It's a cover, it's got mistakes, it's not a factory demo. And you'd have never heard it. Would you be poorer for missing it? I doubt it! But it wasn't posted as a 'look at me!' kind of thing, just a tribute to a guy I liked.

Other things have been posted by me as arranger sound and capability demos, particularly after the uninformed (or just ill-advised!) trashing of the G70 when it first came out. A C1 demo from you might be posted in the same vein... But only if you want to, of course. But, of course, these things are not posted by me to gain respect (I am reasonably content in my own skin!) but simply as illustrations in a book about art. You can TALK about Van Gogh or Jackson Pollack (or Stan Lee!) all you want, but without a single illustration, it's not so illuminating .

The whole 'factory demo' thing is something of a blind alley, as far as I am concerned. Sometimes they are WAY better than an average player can make them (Roland typically NEVER post demos that are done just by arranger playing... they are heavily edited SMF's, initially derived in part from arranger play), and then some like Mediastation are very poor in contrast to what a reasonable player could make of them. So, to a certain extent, it is up to us (the consumer) to provide a little 'reality check'.

Could I go and Google a bunch of C1 YouTube demos? Sure could. But it would be nice if I could just hear one (and I know it'll be good!) and go 'I know that guy!'?

Sure would!