Category Archives: Music Gear

Founder of Korg Keyboards Dies

Almost every recording musician has been touched by a Korg product at sometime or another. it was always a pleasure to go into the music store and get a first-hand experience with the newest Korg keyboard. And Korg knocked one out of the park with the M1, which is still a revered synthesizer to this very day

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Leo Fender’s Precision Bass

Years before the space race began Leo Fender’s Precision was truly remarkable bass guitar and remains virtually unchanged to this very day.

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The Byrds on 4 Track

The good news and bad news was that this particular 4-Track deck could also play 8-Tracks which started me on my long and harried relationship with the colored-plastic cartridges. Anyone who has ever owned them knows that you had to be an “8-Track mechanic” too.

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Some Bands Used Old School Buses

In essence, school boards got rid of them (school buses) when it was no longer financially wise to keep repairing them.

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Early Band P.A.’s

The first sytem through which I delivered a song was not a system but a Phillips tape recorder with the 1/4″ phone jack to take my Armaco crystal microphone (the one on the broomstick!). Later it was put through an Eaton Viking amplifier with my guitar. That little Viking served me well and don’t know [...]

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