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Tim / Tom is the worst one, Hugh. When you get a comment 2 seconds after uploading, that's always a giveaway. They use bot apps to spread these comments all over.

YT description: ARE YOU READY FOR THE HEARTBREAK?! ARE YOU READY?! HUH?! ARE YA?! HERE IT COMES!!! The first 3 minutes of this sound messy because it’s from a “practice tape” which were old worn out tapes I used to test new ideas on. You hear the groovy chorus tone of the Casio CT-390 then a mish-mash of different rhythms. “The next day” refers to the end of episode 4 where SD and Ruby partied hardily then went to bed after 2 o’clock. She got up early and went to work (I imagine her as a waitress like Chrissie Hynde in the Pretenders Brass In Pocket video ((I have a major crush on Chrissie Hynde! Number one on my bucket list is for Chrissie Hynde to jump me and pound me into the ground! Ride me like a rodeo bronc! Oh, yyeeaagghh!))). Anyhoo, SD has no work to do so he volunteers to test drive some freaky trans concepts that his buddies are working on at the Zreo Institute of Technology. Awesome trans, man! They’re from a Hankook Tire company vid. One reminds SD of the Big Wheel, the plastic tricycle I had as a kid. My Burt Reynolds reference at 2:18 is about those brainless Smokey and the Bandit movies of the 70’s which I loved as a kid. I was brainless in 1977 so that figures. The scene at 2:40 is a little confusing so here’s the deal: the fuzz catches SD zipping down the road on an unlicensed transport, he almost escapes but is blocked by a black car at an intersection. The cops are impressed with SD’s totally rad maneuvering abilities and would like to have him join the force. They hand over the wheel of their cruiser to SD and they jump in the black car to see if SD can catch them (with the black car owner’s consent I would assume). Of course SD catches them. Of course. Hey...did I just make a brainless Smokey and the Bandit type scene? Hmm, I guess I didn’t outgrow that after all. From 4 minutes to the end the tunes are from my ‘94 sixth keyboard tape. SD heads to Ruby’s place on his hover-hog belting out some Steppenwolf Screaming Night Hog written by John Kay. Dude finds his lady to be missing from her dome home. He asks her air car Yomjimbo of her whereabouts. Yojimbo’s panic attack upon finding out that Ruby is missing reveals the downside of being programmed to love someone. Yojimbo claims to be “only a machine”, unaffected by such human frailties as emotion. Uh huh. Yeah, right. Searching for answers SD finds a note in Ruby’s house from...Ted! That bleephole! See, I told ya he’d be back! Having been emasulated and sent into the river by SD’s fist, Ted has been stewing in his evil juices, smoldering in contempt for our hero, concocting a fiendish plan...for revenge! Ted has kidnapped Ruby! The scoundrelous malefactor! Oh, man, you can just imagine how SD feels! He has to rescue her, and nothing will stop him! So, the sun sets on the Zreo phase of his life. Out into the universe he goes. Alone...again. SD is a ZepHead, just like me. Coincidence? At 10 minutes he’s singing to himself some lyrics from Ramble On and Friends, written by Jimmy Page / Robert Plant. Ruby and Zaphod were as one. Now they are seperated. That kind of crap ever happen to you? Not cool, man. Not cool. Galaxy to galaxy, planet to planet. Month after month. SD searches...lookin’ for what he knew. All…..alone. (Man this is sad!). There’s some geeky physics humor for you at 12:12, if you’re into that kinda thing. Get it? Then SD drops onto a planet singin’ some Tom Petty / Jeff Lynne, Free Fallin’. If you like loud screechy music as I do then CRANK IT UP from 13:15 to 16:00! ‘Til it huurrttss, baby!!! Guess who shows up at 16 minutes...wellazee well well, if it isn’t The Dude in the Red Spacesuit! Ha, SD ain’t got no time to mess around with that dumba**, he’s gotta keep searchin’ for his lost love. There’s no hidden Red Dude in this episode, btw. A planet at 18:40 has some super cool waterfalls just like Earth’s Iguazu. SD antigravs down to the surface singing some Jeff Lynne Waterfall. So beautiful, so relaxing...but this planet has some gnarly weather, man! A sudden cold front freezes it all solid in an instant! That’s how it goes. One minute you have things in your life that make you warm and happy...the next minute they’re GONE...and you’re frozen solid. That’s life. That’s love. DEAL WITH IT!! SD has his “Stella!” moment at 20:55 screaming Ruby’s name as if she could hear him over the distance of hundreds of light years. But his lonely cry fades in the air. If you want even more sadness after you watch this vid and read this description then check out the saddest song Motown ever produced, The Supremes Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone. Diana’s spoken word segments will have you runnin’ for the tissues, man! “My heart cries out for your touch, but you’re not there, and the lonely cry fades in the air.” Ohh! No happy ending there! No happy ending here either. This is the end. Space Dude dies as he stands there, alone and frozen. Ugh! Wha?! Nooooo! It can’t be! What kind of storyteller am I? Am I that cold hearted?! Tune in next time and find out.

The old: the beginning of this is from practice tapes I made in the 80s with my new CT-390. The sad: this vid is about heartbreak, 😞. The screechy: 13:15 to 16:00, crank it up and pulverize yo' brain! 🤕

Sometimes the automatic embedding works, sometimes it doesn't. Hey, it worked! Beautiful tune and vid, Hugh, 👍! I almost 😭, but I kept it in! 'Cause I'm a tough guy! Tough guys don't cry! They don't...🤧, (sniff) they don't cry, man! By the way, Hugh, you have a couple of those creepy bot comments on your YT vid. No respectable channel has "sub to me" in their name. Apparently the scam is to get thousands of subs on channels that don't even have any content then sell it. That's what I've heard. I just delete those.

Hurry, Hugh! You're spotted! Back to the boat! ⛵

Cool, 👍! Sounds like you've been blown onto the Greek Isle of Discos! Or is that Russian I hear? This"Where's Hugh Now?" series is pretty interesting. When we hear didgeridoo's wailing we'll know exactly where you are. On a serious note, I believe you're the most technically proficient musician here on the CMF, Hugh. Once again, no prize. Except some more applause: 👏👏👏👏👏!

We're a couple of wanna-be comedians, I think, Hugh. Actually, truth be told, I'd rather someone tell me they lol'd at something I said rather than liked my music. And so far the yuks are on top. They might be laughing AT me though, I'm not sure.😋

There's no mp3 there, david2008!

Cool, 👍! That vocal pad sounds similar to my favorite CT-390 smooth sound, the chorus.

I didn't jump ship, Hugh. Stayed to the end. She has no taste in music. I hope the sharks enjoyed their tasty treat! When you get to Michigan stop by my place and say howdy!

YT description: If you’re short on time you can skip the first 6 minutes. It’s not totally necessary for you to watch that. Well, none of this is totally necessary for you to watch, I suppose. I made a recap of the story so far at the beginning because I thought this would be the last episode. Every one was going to be the last one, but it just kept going! I know I spelled professor wrong on that list so don’t rag on me about that. It sounds the same with two f’s and one s, so...good enough. It was too hard making these to go back and fix it. At 3:10 I do a little character development of Ruby. She’s a student at Zreo University studying why all of us animal beings are shaped the way we are, or “functional morphology” for you snooty types who like to bandy about them big ol’ words, makin’ us non-genius types feel inferior. Check out her boss air car Yojimbo! Gear! And he only cost 5,000 galactic noogies! (1 galactic noogie = 2.85 U.S. dollars). He’s programmed to respond only to her commands. He has the same speaking style and voice of ZBS Ruby’s air car Mustapha that you can hear in my ZBS promo vid. Yojimbo is played by a concept vehicle called the Hover Coupe by Lazzarini Design. Like most concept vehicles it’ll probably never get off the ground. Off the ground? Get it? Heh heh. Ugh. I needed faces for these characters so I searched for astronaut images. Some that you’ll see are just models but the two people you see in the garage have actually been in outer space! Not that far, but still… SD is played by either an American or Russian astrodude, I didn’t get a name. But I know who Ruby is played by, the vivacious and downright foxy Claudie Haignere, who is a French astrobabe. I found out who she was after making a couple episodes featuring her image. I hope she doesn’t mind because making these vids was extremely hard and remaking them is not something I would want to do! My Ruby character is smart, tough, and caring, and Claudie is a real Ruby, man. Do some searches and you’ll see. No moral in this episode. Just two young lovers enjoying life. Hmm, there probably is a moral in there somewhere, I suppose. At 6 minutes Yojimbo whisks the happy couple up into the sky heading out to the wilderness. SD croons some Dion The Wanderer (written by Ernie Maresca) as he hops in. From 6:00 to the end the tunes are from keyboard tape 7. It’s mostly the Casio CT-390, the MT-100 pops up in a couple places too. There’s 2 or 3 layers of me playing different parts using multiple tape decks. I’m also using delay and chorus pedals and I achieved stereo panning the old fashioned way, by fiddling with the knobs on my mixer. Aren’t those some cool sounds? C’mon, man, show Casio some love! They’re not toys! THEY ARE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS! How many times do I have to keep telling people that?! Ruby wants to show SD some of the wild critters she’s been doing research on. SD and Yojimbo both get freaked by some of these terrifying giant beasties (babies!), so as the suns set (both of them) Ruby instructs Yojimbo to fly them to her dome home. From 14:30 to the end I’m referencing a Beatles tune, can you guess which one? After 15 minutes E-Z and Ruby prepare for a wild night on the town, singing some Van Morrison Wild Night Is Calling. Ooh wee! Zreo’s Capital City is played by Miami in one scene and I think the rest is Dubai. Enjoy your fun, vibrant life you young people, for one day….. I distinctly remember around the time this stuff was recorded, 1995, I thought to myself “if my life stays exactly the same as it is right now, why, that’ll be just fine with me.” Yeah, right. Five years later….. It’s hard enough finding things in life that make you happy. Then holding on to them against the onslaught of time and change, oy! Yes, enjoy your life, young lovers, enjoy it while it lasts. Squeeze every drop of fun you can out of it! Because, well, you know. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick…….. What twist of fate awaits SD and Ruby (and Yojimbo!)? Tune in next time and get the shocking answer! HO MA GOSH! What’s gonna happen?!! Find out in the next fantabulous spine-tingly episode of TAAOSD! Same channel, same time...which is when you want to, of course, after I upload it. There’s a hidden Red Dude in this episode. And the first person to correctly indentify when and where will recieve a free footlong Veggie Delite from Subway’s! * I suggest getting the rockin’ chipotle sauce with it, zestay! HEADPHONES ARE MANDATORY, MAN! This is old cassette tape stuff of fi low, so strap on yer musical earmuffs so you can clearly hear all the groovy strangeness being delivered right into yo’ brain! * At participating locations only. I don’t really have a deal with Subway, but you can try it. Just say “I was the first person to spot the guy in the red spacesuit in the Awesome Adventures Of Space Dude on YouTube, now gimmie my free Veggie Delite!” Who knows, maybe they’ll participate. Or call the cops and throw you out. It’s worth a try. Them subs is yummmmmy!

That's right, I'm pulling a Bonaparte! I am king of the 390! I base that bold assertion on the fact that I have the most CT-390 stuff on YouTube. Ain't nobody got more! I had a lot of fun with my Casio, and here's some of it:

Whoa! Hugh is breaking new ground here! Strange new ground! And I like it, 👍! We've heard fun and funky, now it's time to get crayzay! Don't go too far, Hugh. You might not be able to find your way back! 😨

Nice place to crash-land, Hugh. I'll assume you're not coming back. You couldn't get me off that paradise! And the tune is as warm as a sandy beach and flows smooth as a Blue Hawaii. Yum!🍹

Cut that a little too short there, Hugh. 😞 I'll be looking forward to part 2. I need music like this to lift my spirit up because...well, you know. 😁

YT description: As SD is preparing to land on the planet Zreo he’s listening to more of my Transponder 43 guit tune being played by a 5-armed Rigellian guitar god. Seriously, he’s a god! In the Rigel star system is a planet where the inhabitants have modeled their society on rock ‘n’ roll, similar to the Star Trek episode A Piece Of The Action where an entire planet is modeled after 1920’s Chicago gangsters. On planet Vrachos the top shredders battle it out in a sonic duel to determine who the next guitar god shall be, who will then rule supreme throughout all the world. Over the Fender Bender Hills and far away, cross the Gibsonia river, through the Rickenbacker Forest, atop the Marshall Mountains where the spirits go now, the titans of the six-strings clash! With mighty thunderous rumblings of power chords shaking the planet and brilliant multihued sparks eminating from their magnetic pickups the top axe man and his challenger wow the Vrachosians with killer solos and mind blowing lightning speed runs over the fretboards! This is serious buisness, this is a duel to the death! I’m serious! The winner rules the planet until another upstart gets the guts to take him on. Just imagine Jimmy Page...ruler of Earth! After vanquishing Jeff Beck with a final merciless F# trill, REEARRROOUURRRRR, BAM! It’s over! We have a winner! Scoop up the corpse and throw it away! ALL HAIL JIMMY! ALL HAIL JIMMY! That would be SO COO-UHL! But, I digress. Back to the story: once again SD is played by James Olson in Moon Zero Two at the beginning. The Dude In The Red Spacesuit materializes outside of his ship and screws up the landing, so SD has to splash land into the ocean. At 2:50 I’m playing my Casio CT-390 with my feet, can you tell? I did make backing tapes to play along with sometimes but I remember getting all twisted up, holding my guitar and hitting the percussion keys with my big toes on this. Worked out good enough, eh? Then it’s stuff from Keyboard Tape 6 as SD checks out Zreo. Anti-gravers have their own lingo, as skateboarders do. I’ll translate “grind the strat” for you: when one antigravs to the edge of the stratosphere and back. Gnarly, dude! Back on the surface SD starts to feel lonely. Something’s missing. Something...a need...an emptiness inside...the desire to connect with another on a deep level. One to share your innermost thoughts and dreams with. And in walks Ruby. Sometimes it just happens to work out that way. Ruby is a sassy humanoid gal from Zreo. When you first see her it’s an android body because I couldn’t find a real “sexy female astronaut” image. NASA has yet to go Hollywood with their spacesuit designs. C’mon, NASA, tighten it up! At 8:30 it’s back to Keyboard Tape 5 for what I now call The Luv Theme Of Zaphod And Ruby. That’s right. Zaphod Beeblebrox III is Space Dude’s name. I squeezed my brain as hard as I could and could NOT come up with a cool original name that didn’t sound stupid. So I tacked “the Third” onto the name from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I hope Douglas Adams won’t mind. There just isn’t a cooler name. I just might change my own totally boring name to Zaphod one day. 10:05 to the end is some of the strangest stuff I ever recorded. I don’t remember playing this stuff. I was zonked out on something, man. Pretty strange for a love theme I suppose. Zaphod and Ruby instantly share a special magical bond. That ever happen to you? Yeah, ain’t that nice! Up into the air they soar, singing some Bowie Nite Flights on the way down (written by Scott Walker). Ok, SD has a love interest, now he needs a nemesis. And in walks Ted. Sometimes it just happens to work out that way. Meet Ted, he’s an a**hole. Or in polite company, a “bleephole.” Once again I’m ripping off ZBS. ZBS’s Ruby had to deal with the Macho Bleepholes in the Ruby 2 series. I have made the bleepholes the bad guys in my story. Who are they? They are everyone you hate. All of the worst characteristics you can imagine: racist, sexist, speciesist, add yours here, ___________ist. Zaphod and Ruby are going to be confronting them later in the story and I can tell you, it’s gonna get ugly, man! For the moment Zaphod dispatches Ted pretty quickly but he’ll be back. Oh, he’ll be back alright. 14:30 THE {snuggling} SCENE! Ha, got your attention, eh? If you think it’s shocking that they “get to it” so soon after meeting then just imagine that many days or weeks have past since they first met. Whatever makes you comfortable. I’m ok with a few minutes. But that’s just me. I want this story to show SD’s whole life and {snuggling} is a part of life. You wouldn’t exist and be reading this if your parents hadn’t….ew! Sorry about that, but it’s true. You gotta have some physical contact in your life. Otherwise it would be so cold, so very cold. Alright, I can see that some of you are squirming around (I wonder why?...hmmm) so let’s wrap it up. SD’s life is taking shape. What’s next? Who knows. What’s next in your life? You won’t know until it happens. To be continued!

Specifically my big toes, check it out:

That's one of the darkest things I've heard anyone say, Hugh. 😨 Let's hope it takes the least horrific route. 🙏

If you set out to make me smile, Hugh, it worked, 😁👍! So congratulations to you! I think only someone who can feel real happiness on a deep level can convey that to another, like through music. I envy you, Hugh. 😂

Alright, Sergey goes retrosynth, 👍! That's a nice clean sound. Is it the Yamaha?

Cool, Hugh, 👍! I sense a little anger in your usually sunny fun grooving. Getting tired of the virus too, eh. Time to kick some virus tail! 😠!

Here'* my YouTube de*cription *pecially prepared for the CMF: The music at the beginning is not me. My stuff starts at 3:40. I don’t know artist or title, YouTube might put it in the description later. Cool movie on the tube, eh? Or as Space Dude would say, “freak-a**!” That’s his trademark catch phrase, a mash-up of “freak-out” and “kick-a**.” Next time you come upon something amazing say “whoa, man, that is FREAK-A**!” As you see, SD has traveled the universe exploring far-out worlds and meeting many groovy alien types. Just don’t mention giant slugs around him. He was swallowed by one once. He...ugh...got out…..by a means he’d rather not discuss. Sensitive subject, man. Unpleasant memories. Eeh, yuk! When he leaves the tiny rest stop moon SD is singing some Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild, lyrics by Mars Bonfire. Then a nearby supernova hurls him onto the planet Nuori. In this series SD will find four civilizations at various stages of development. Nuori, which is a Finnish word for young or adolescent. Zreo, an eastern European word for mature. Marama, a Maori word for enlightened. And Velnias, a Lithuanian word for evil. I love the old sci-fi flix of the 50’s with morals like “they tampered in God’s domain”, and warnings of the dangers of nuclear fallout, you know, like giant grasshoppers and whatnot. Episode 1 mentioned Knowledge. Now it’s time for Wisdom. Sure, you got your brain crammed to bursting with knowledge, but now what do you do with your smarts? Ah! Therein lies the rub! For it is not what you know, but how you use your knowledge that makes you wise! See how that works? The folks on Nuori learned the hard way. They {CMF edit: did not nice things to} their environment, they fiddled around with genetics, they carelessly poisoned their world with chemicals and nuclear waste. Then they fell into endless warfare, fighting over the last livable areas on their planet...THE FOOLS!! Poor Grong, the last inhabitant of Nuori, realized his mistakes too late. Sometimes the only way to gain wisdom is by getting burned by your mistakes. Will the Humans of Earth need to learn the hard way too? THE FOOLS!! One of the many faces of SD is Dan Dare, British comic book hero. That’s one of my favorites. You see that face when he says “there’s been a war!” The others are various real astronauts and models. Grong is played by an alien dude on a Space 1999 episode that was on MST3K. At 14:50 SD belts out some Molly Hatchet Flirtin’ With Disaster, written by Banner Thomas, Danny Joe Brown and David Hlubek. Then as he sets a fledgling Cosmonet transponder free he weepily croons some Lennon/McCartney, Blackbird. My guitar joins my Casio CT-390 at 17:27 for a riff that reminds me of Pete Townshend’s Let My Love Open The Door. I didn’t title that guit tune back in the 90’s when it was recorded but now I call it Transpoder 43. One of SD’s many jobs is space truckin’ (YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! SPACE TRUCKIN’!), and here he helps bring the intelligent species of the universe together by spreading Cosmonet transponders everywhere he goes. Communication brings understanding. When all share their knowledge and thoughts with each other the universe will live as one in peace and harmony! Awwwww!!! At 18:50 SD is played by James Olson in the movie Moon Zero Two which I got from MST3K. SD needs to take a break so he puts his ship on cruise, cranks up the tunes, and lays back. His ship’s brain, the Frinkatron 9000, mm-hey, then plots a course to episode 3. The third was going to be the last episode, with the final moral bit about compassion but that is now pushed all the way to episode 9. I just started making these vids without a full story idea in mind, so it’s a little messy. Just like life. Things happen. Unexpected things happen. You get pushed and pulled around by the universe. And you try to make sense of it all. Good luck. So, did you spot the Dude In the Red Spacesuit? That’s right, he’s hangin’ out in here somewhere too. I wish I had a prize for the first Red Dude spotter, like a secret decoder ring or something. That would have been cool. But at least you’ll feel the satisfation of being the eagle-eyed first one! Good luck! *HEADPHONES IS MANDATORY, MAN!* All the stuff on my channel is best seen on a laptop screen and heard in headphones. Especially when there’s stuff to read like in this series. The first episode was the shortest. The last one is one hour long...YARGH! When I see a YouTube vid over 10 minutes I think “oh man, I don’t have the time for that! Maybe later!” So just watch these when you have the time. When it’s a rainy day outside. When you got no work to do, all the chores are done. When you just want to “curl up with a good book.” When an invisible killer is stalking the Earth sniffing out every human it can find and you’ve got yourself sealed in your house and you want something to take your mind off the gathering darkness. Might as well watch these, eh? That last one sounds like an incredible sci-fi scene doesn’t it? All too real. Good luck! Stay safe! Stay alive! And...stay tuned!

I think I got some good dramatics out of the CT-390 in this one. Mainly from 5:30 to 9:30. Whaddya think:

Thanks for the "audio sunshine", Hugh! That hit the spot, 👍! That Casio's Rhodes sounds totally perfect too!