m10538

Yup, I only have a handful of my old Casio recordings left to upload. I reached way down and pulled up a CT-390, Yamaha PSR-190 duet. That barrel phrase is usually about low quality but this music is of the same quality level as all my other posts here on the CMF.    Don't give me that look.

A two member fan club? Well, good enough I suppose. It's not the number of fans you have, but the intensity of their adoration, that's the best way to look at it, Hugh. 😁!

Alright, Hugh! Cool soloing! You're the Jeff Beck of the keyboards! Unless Jeff Beck can play keyboards as good or better than you, then he'd be the...🤔... whatever, you know what I mean. 👍!

Cool, 👍! Took more of a techno approach on yours, eh, Tsquare? Those riffs were a really fun to play. The riff it begins with apparently arose when Gary hit a wrong note, I think it's the Bb. It seems shocking and out of place. That's what makes it cool!

I like your ending better. A sudden end instead of a fade. Dang, I wish I would have thought of that!

Gershwin? Nicely played, Sergey, 👍!

😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😁😁😁😅😀!

Cool vibe, Sergey, 👍! Kind of has a pop song feel to it. Going in a new direction with your music, eh?

Wow, Hugh, you're a golden throated warbler in I'm Confessin'! 👍! Props to your wife and her cameo in this. She has a lovely singing voice for sure. 😬

Banjos...in space! That's a freakout and a half, Tom, 👍! And the vid ends at the Schlitz brewery, how appropriate. 😋

6 hours ago, Tsquare said:

Thank you m10538.  You should check out the nutty, beatnic lyrics that Parks came up with.  LSD induced for sure.

Far out, man! Maybe Brian was hoping for a Lennon / McCartney type songwriting partnership with Parks but...not quite. Some of those words don't flow together too well. One good phrase at least, "the child is the father of the man". That one's pretty cool.

That does sound hard to play. Good job, T, 👍! Never heard that one before. That's pretty dark and serious for a Beach Boys tune. But I suppose Brian Wilson, like all artists, has a "dark period" once in a while, eh?

Wow, busted out the banjo for this one, eh, Hugh? Yeah, that's pretty fun. But what would have sent it over the top into super-freaky: kazoo! Oh, man! Does your Casio have a kazoo? That would knock it outta the park! 😁

That horn is so smooth! Like butter it sounds! Goes great with your carefree keys too, Hugh! And the vid is cool. 👍👍!!

Totally beautiful, S.N.! That's some top notch professional playing. I love the wild flourishes in this, contrasting with the overall melancholy. Maximum thumbs up, 👍👍!

Those are some totally cool sounds, XW, 👍!! Really enjoyed this!

Strange and groovy, Harpon, 👍! Sounds like bagpipes and drums, which is totally cool. If you rerecord it see if you can get a real bagpipes sound. The sound of bagpipes affects me for some reason. I have some Irish ancestry, not sure if any Scottish.

Cool collab, guys! Smooth and relaxing, 👍👍!!

Cool and mysterious sounding track, Sergey! Groovy vid too!

YouTube description:

I had 8 minutes of leftover stuff from a “practice tape” that seemed pretty fun so I slapped together this vid to go with it. Even this 9 minutes took 3 weeks to make, messing with it a couple hours every morning. Dayum, y’all, this stuff is hard! Hopefully you’ll chuckle as Space Dude tries to get his new band up and running.

This stuff takes place after SD, Ruby and B.B. return to Marama after kicking evil tail on Velnias (stardate 40:30:92). The trio are rehearsing the Transponder 43 tune you might remember from SD episodes 2 and 3. The big show is just a few hours away and they still haven’t decided on a band name! Things get a little heated between SD (a.k.a. Zaphod Beeblebrox III) and Ruby. Never anger a transmorph, man! When they do some shape shiftin’ you better run! Luckily for Zaphod B.B. arrives just in time to prevent a mauling. B.B.’s been out on the tiles with his best bud Fred the former bleephole who’s heart was transformed by the love of a bug. Sounds crazy...but it’s true! As seen in episode 9.

SD likes to run a tight ship and he doesn’t approve of B.B.’s laid-back attitude towards the band. Man, you gotta work hard to succeed and get what you want...so says Zaphod. But B.B. knows hard work doesn’t always yield the results you crave. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. No sense in going through your life all uptight, man. Just do what you want, do it as best you can, and what happens happens, man. Que sera, baby. Zaphod’s attitude reminds B.B. of a skit by The Kids In The Hall about the band Armada. Zaphod has never seen any Canadian tv shows so Ruby and B.B. like to befuddle him with that arcane reference.

You hear some strange stuff at 1:15? No, you’re not hearing voices in your head, that’s some ZBS Ruby that I taped off the radio in the 80’s. Later I bought the tapes from ZBS Foundation (check ‘em out at zbs.org) then taped over the old radio recordings. The erase head obviously failed there. Sounds like the last episode of Ruby in The Underworld wherein Ruby, Kapoor and T.J. Teru have just been...well, that’s another story, somebody else’s. Back to mine…

At 3:15 I engage in more hand acting, like seen previously in SD episode 9. That’s right, those are my mitts in those gloves! I’m an official hand actor now! I’m now a member of SAG-AFTRA and everything, seriously! I’m playing the part of B.B.’s insect limbs in Professor Frink’s new-fangled Magic Fingers mechanical gloves which allows the fingerly challenged among us to enjoy the full digital experience of life. How can you pick your nose when you’re a bug? Or if you just have flippers? Well, now you can! Thank you, Frinky Inc.! That’s my ol’ Casio CT-390 I’m poking at and you’re listening to. The 390 isn’t a double keyboard. I joined it together with my Yamaha PSR-190, so that’s why you see two ‘boards.

SD is less than impressed with B.B.’s awkward key poking. Disappointed...but polite. Then Ruby whacks the skins, with some inspiration from the patron saint of rock drummers John (Bonzo) Bonham. But of course people don’t go to a rock show to hear keyboards and drums! They want...THE ELEKTRIK GEETAR! Yeah, baby! Zaphod shows off his mighty power chord lift off, sure to wow the crowd. While he’s in orbit he samples some hallucinagenic light rays from a space jellyfish. The jellies use that to escape from predators but some folks like to chase ‘em down just to get a hit off ‘em! Hoo-wee, that’s some potent stuff, man! You be singin’ a happy tune all day after them rays get all up in yo’ brain!

I’ll have to decipher some geek-speak for you that you encounter in the SD series. At 7 minutes you see something described as being “totally Planck”. Meaning it’s “totally extreme”. Named after Max Planck who dealt with quantum extremeness. In previous SD episodes you see that “what the quark?!” is the polite alternative to “what the f*ck?!”. And when somebody tells you that they are “sure as Schrodinger” about something they are leaving themselves some quantum wiggle room in their answer to your query. Their answer, like everything in the universe, is subject to the equations formulated by Erwin Schrodinger.

You might remember The Armada Of Death, the bleephole army of meanies seen in part 9. Well, ex-bleephole Fred turns that around and comes up with The Armada Of Love for the band’s name. The trio loves it and off they sail with their heart sails billowing in the wind of luv! Their power trio is the hit of the show and their rock and roll fantasy begins! A record company agent from Rigel 7 zips up to them in his HoverCaddy and offers them a 5 million noogie recording contract! So many noogies! He offers them some fine Rigellian cigars and...well, you know the rest of the story.

Hey, fellow astronuts! Wanna have some cosmic fun? Create some cool space tunez and a totally Planck name for your band then post a link to your vid here in the comments! Your band will be part of the benefit concert seen by gazillions of groovy alien types! Rock the universe, man!

It's a little stale maybe, but good viewin'! Enjoy!

Totally cool playing, Sergey, 👍!

Hey there, Alistair! I like #2 best, sounds nice, 👍!

Here's some advice from one non-professional to another: it would be better to record the audio through the line output rather than the speakers for the best full stereo sound. A video camera with stereo audio input would work. And the Forum would rather you post links to your videos, especially long ones, because they take up space here on the Forum (that's what they told me, at least). It's totally easy and free to get Gmail and a YouTube account. That's what I'm doing, and you can't get cheaper and more non-professional than me! 😀

Thanks, giano! Congratulations, even I have a hard time watching the whole hour! Glad you liked it!

Cool cover, giano, 👍! That's one of my favorite DM songs. I think it's a seminal early synth tune along with Numan's Are'Friends'Electric and Cars.

Great cover, T, 👍! I love the chorus of that song. I'm still fighting it for sure. To "grow up" is to loose the spark! Never!!!😀