Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

ThunderRd said:
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I learned of these beasts many years ago. I have enough trouble coordinating ten (oops. That's nine fingers)fingers playing on four strings perfectly. I don't understand how both hands operate entirely independently. Maybe I am simply developmentally disabled--or maybe one needn't be a genius to play the Chapman Stick? All I know is that I wouldn't dream of overtaxing my brain with one of these things.

I freely admit that some people play the Stick amazingly well. Good for them! I thought I played hammer-ons well, but what did I know?
 
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Well, if you call $35 a night [at best] professional, then yes. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 3 sets of 45 minutes, 10-1am.

It lasted about two years, I guess. Then I went to Asia and that was the end of my storied career as a performer - although I did play from time to time as a guest with friends for free when I was back in town.

The other thing I did 'professionally' at that time was play poker, and that was far more lucrative [although far less enjoyable]. You might say that playing music supported the poker.
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There's a world of difference between playing for free or being paid to play. Amateur players are very eager (in my experience) yet professionals simply lay it down in a solid and repeatable manner. Even if the pay was low you were good enough at it to demand money.
 
cloasters said:
I learned of these beasts many years ago. I have enough trouble coordinating ten fingers playing on four strings perfectly. I don't understand how both hands operate entirely independently. Maybe I am simply developmentally disabled--or maybe one needn't be a genius to play the Chapman Stick? All I know is that I wouldn't dream of overtaxing my brain with one of these things.

I freely admit that some people play the Stick amazingly well. Good for them! I thought I played hammer-ons well, but what did I know?
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I think it requires kind of a pianist's ability to work two musical lines with different hands. I don't think I can separate my brain like that, either. I always sucked on the piano.

I am extremely impressed, perhaps obsessed with the sound of this thing. I stayed up late last night watching videos of the inventor talking about the build process. There is a new version called the Railboard that is absolutely off the planet with its build quality. It has a one-piece neck/board machined to incredibly tight tolerances from billet aluminum.
 
Daniel~ said:
clearly he loves his work. His work loves him.
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It is fantastic to be shown how and why a song is considered great. I have enough (music) theory to know what he's talking about--most of the time.

Seems I'm prejudiced against a lot of modern music. While Mr Beatto shows why some of the Top Ten are excellent I find that my ears just don't want to hear a lot of it. I guess ossification comes to many of us.
 
George, PM me your email address. I have something to send you, and I think any address I have for you is too old.
 
ThunderRd said:
I think it requires kind of a pianist's ability to work two musical lines with different hands. I don't think I can separate my brain like that, either. I always sucked on the piano.

I am extremely impressed, perhaps obsessed with the sound of this thing. I stayed up late last night watching videos of the inventor talking about the build process. There is a new version called the Railboard that is absolutely off the planet with its build quality. It has a one-piece neck/board machined to incredible tolerances from billet aluminum.
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I can somewhat grok playing a keyboard with two independent hands. I don't play keyboards, of course. However, these Chapman Stick players seem to have two completely independent hands. I might be able to handle two slightly independent hands on a keyboard. Singing and playing at the same time requires an independence between voice and instrument, but they are pretty closely related.

Ah, I love those billets! Wanted an old truck with a banged up body. Little did the motoring public know that those "steel" body panels were carefully machined from titanium billets! Five hundred horses would really move such a light weight body. In my imagination, of course.
 
Daniel~ said:
I think that the point in time where everything went to shit for us is when we slipped into the delusion that we weren't monkeys after all, so we must be gods.

lets face it, that is something only a bunch of monkeys would do.
Patti just came into this. She wants to point out that Science is still speaking as if weren't monkeys!

They talk about Covid jumping the animal/human barrier!

Pray tell, what barrier would that be?

The 2% difference in DNA that "separates" us from the apes?
Or the 98% that we share in common with the other monkeys.

Vanity is a rather strange creature. She sees all of our virtues and none of our failings.
And she never even blushes when she lies to us. ":O)

"Oh Daniel your just so smart!
Here! have another banana!" LOL
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I think Mark Twain REALLY understood that we think we are above all of the rest of the animals. We are freakin' apes I tells ya.
 
ThunderRd said:
George, PM me your email address. I have something to send you, and I think any address I have for you is too old.
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Dunno how to send a PM GOL style. My email address has been the same for at least fifteen years. Or if not, the same email outfit for fifteen years will resolve the old address into the newer one.
 
I see Phil Spector died yesterday. I have mixed feelings.

He was undoubtedly a genius, creating the dominating sound in pop for a generation, but boy-oh-brother, did he screw his life up.
 
ThunderRd said:
I see Phil Spector died yesterday. I have mixed feelings.

He was undoubtedly a genius, creating the dominating sound in pop for a generation, but boy-oh-brother, did he screw his life up.
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A hard lesson for me for some reason...Intelligence does not indicate goodness in any way.
I'm sure 10,000 tears have fallen over this.
 
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