This marked the end of using drum machines, that is, making a bunch of patterns and hooking them together to build a song. Instead, I mapped the notes to my DX7 so I could play them by hand. It proved to be a much more useful approach. I recorded it on the QX5. Compared to the kind of editing and step-writing I can do now on Logic, the QX5 was very primitive. But it gave me an easy way to record and to save my sequences.
I had very little back then, just the DX7, TX802, and TX81Z for tone generators. Well, I guess I have even less now than I did back then, thanks to the guy who robbed my Public Storage locker in April. I have a certain degree of satisfaction since various pieces of equipment had proprietary power modules. The thief missed the big bags of cords, power modules, and quarter in guitar cables.
When my jazz drummer brother-in-law heard this, the first thing he said was, "So I hear you’ve learned to drum.” This is copied from a cassette. I have the MIDI files, but I just haven’t gotten around to redoing any of the songs.
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A photo I took of a cross I got in Haiti. We spent several days in Cape Haitian. Everything I saw in tourist shops was many different versions of the same old thing. Finally, I found this in one shop. There were no others like it. I don’t know what kind of wood it was carved from, but it had WAY more effort put into it than anything else I saw.
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