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#347646 - 07/23/12 05:33 PM
Re: Your arranger keyboard prayers have been answered.
[Re: Bill Lewis]
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Registered: 05/26/99
Posts: 7360
Loc: Levittown, Pa, USA
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There was a guy down the Jersey Shore who did a similar but even bigger thing before the Midi days. Al Rondo. B3 with 4 leslies, Conn theatre organ on his left with 4 gyro speakers ( 2/12" speakers on a spininng disk to give the string sounds a real vibrato) Mic'd baby grand on his right, two mini moogs on top of the B3. And probably about 8 15" speakers just for the pedals. Used a drum tracks 8 track drum machine and made the whole system sound like a symphony. Bus trips used to come to the Beacon Manor in Point Pleasant NJ to hear him. He could play ANYTHING AND he was blind. He was or still may be around but unbelivable !!! He could hold the crowd until midnight when he did his patriotic tribute and made the whole building shake. Waitresses would come out of the side doors with red/white/blue cupcakes with lit sparklers for the crowd. I feel fortunate to have seen him many times. Years later he moved to a place called PJ Ruggles and updated his system using synths, yamaha organ and 8 JBL 18" 3 way cabinets to be even more powerful. He invented "Live" Kareoke" People would come to sing and he would back them up-- any song, any key, all by ear. Last I heard he was just doing private parties with a Yamaha keyboard. If this guy in Florida is from Jersey, and he talks like he is, he must have known him The last time I seen Al..he was in SeaGirt....He was playing two Kurz MIDI controllers and the Yamaha organ (the Kurz's flanked the Yamaha on each side)...There was a rack of sound modules...Al had a big sound...he had a polished sound, and like Bill said...He played anything you wanted to sing too...
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Roland G70 (2007), Roland BK9 (pending)....and a custom made Busilacchio accordion (1964)..4 Roland Cube 100 keyboard amps (1985)..Edirol M-10DX mixer (2010)..and Toshiba Satellite laptop.. www.francarango.com
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#347718 - 07/24/12 11:47 AM
Re: Your arranger keyboard prayers have been answered.
[Re: travlin'easy]
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Registered: 04/25/05
Posts: 11449
Loc: NW Florida
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You know, for an arranger that has been out of production for several years, it is quite astonishing how often the G70 is still brought up by detractors. Tony and Ian can barely post anything without trying to get a dig in about something that isn't even being MADE!
Perhaps it has been much more of an influence than many are willing to admit..?
Certainly, it seems that nobody is always taking a dig at old Yamaha's, or Korg's, Technic's or Bontempi's. Always the G70.
Me, I'd ALWAYS prefer to use something that is never forgotten! It's been what, 8-9 years since it came out..? I don't hear Tony or Ian ragging on the BK-5, or the E50, or G1000's, or VA7's. Somehow, mysteriously (as long as you discount malice, and we KNOW they have none of that, don't we?!) it's always the G70.
Sounds like the ladies doth protest too much!
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