Thanks, Nigel. Everyone naturally expects me to back almost anything Chas says. And I do, because, from politics to religion to music to human rights, we're sort of "joined at the hip".

But here, he's right! I'm mostly using a 1993 MS-60 on my arranger gigs, and don't get any complaints. That's because I need a good lead sound, a good bass line and the rest is up to me.

Chas is simply trying to analyze a pretty interesting part of what we (some of us) do for a living, or at least, part of a living.

There's an old guy in Louisville who uses a drum machine and plays an M-1, with an old 145.

Blows me away on my newer, better gear.

It's what's between the ears and how efficiently and diligently you can transfer that message to your hands and coax it out of that speaker that makes the difference.

And when that happens, regardless of the equipment, "It's a BEAUTIFUL Thing, man!"


Russ