Posted on 07/31/2015 11:49:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
R-Point
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/08/short-story-r-point.html
Sort of a homage (loosley) to a Korean film set during the Vietnam war, mine is set in the distant future and the enemies are unnamed (aliens)...
So I’ve been watching Rick Wakeman videos.
Most of the older ones are too poor in quality to tell for sure what kinds of keyboards he has around him if they even capture a view of the whole keyboard in the first place. I spotted a Korg T1, a Roland D50, a Yamaha V50, I think a Roland XP80, and even an Ensoniq of some flavor, possibly an ESQ1 from the color of the case. (Ensoniq made some decent sounding keyboards with a lot of great features a while back. The company was founded by the guy who designed the SID chip for Commodore. They were bought by Sound Blaster, er, Creative, which also had swallowed Emu, another synth maker. Creative merged Ensoniq into Emu as the Ensoniq division, they released a final keyboard which was essentially an EMU Proteus sound module with the sounds from the final Ensoniq keyboard (ZX) included, packaged in a case that happened to have keys on it. Shortly thereafter Ensoniq division ceased to exist. And as far as I can tell, EMU is only making top end computer sound cards now - the kind professional sound engineers would use that cost an arm, a leg, and a lease on your firstborn.
The one item that I note he hasn’t switched out of his rack is the Mini-Moog. That’s been there for years. In the latest videos I could ID a Korg Oasis, a Korg Kronos, and a Roland Fantom X8 (the 88 key version of the keyboard I use.) And of course, the ever present Mini-Moog (sometimes two of them.)
Ahhh....the mind of a cat! LOL!
You’re not posting to darksheare: he has an -e on the end.
Good morning. I like your new tagline.
Ah, yes...my doppelganger.
He appeared back when we had a unique troll who posted a disgusting graphic over and over again.
The troll and I tangled, often.
So he decided to try and ape my handle.
Didn’t work.
Oops.
And ever since, if you forgot the “e” at the end, I miss the ping.
I just noticed a comma that shouldn’t be there. *groan*
Ah so....explains why preview and post to flash red no such name.
Stealthy nasty echo aided by the inherent evil of googledroid OS keyboard.
Scroll back for satmornungschvartzkaffee
You could put a colon after “grammer.”
It didn’t seem likely that someone would randomly choose that!
That was a particularly unintelligible post. I think you need more coffee.
Slightly cooler morning here. I haven’t heard from Tom the Mocker yet, but the hummingbirds are hassling Shannon. A load of laundry from Tom the Son appeared in the washer, but there’s no sign of himself.
Nope!
What can I say, I had alot of “fans” among the trolls back then.
Think there was a week straight where if I DIDN’T run into a troll I was lucky!
These days, trolls are rarer.
Seems we’ve overhunted the easy pickings.
*lol*
Was accosted by the morning crow doing his ridiculous wing wave with head shake “auk! Auk auk!” call.
Then on the roads I had to do a gefechtskehrtwendung to avoid incoming idiocy.
It worked better for me than it did for the Germans at Jutland.
Maybe it’s because there are more places for crazy people to make a nuisance of themselves, Twitter and all that.
Quite a possibility.
Pleased at your successful evasion!
I almost wished for a monocle.
Somewhat bummed that the image was ruined without it.
Short skinny me sitting there in the car shouting “Gefechtskehrtwendung!” as the scenery outside does the “Battle about turn”.
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