Re: A number of recent topics

[KRosser414 <KRosser414@aol.com>]

Sorry to be flogging a few long-dead horses but I'm just now catching up on
reading several digests.

Re: Lexicon's low-end products - at the NAMM show I became interested in 
the
new MPX-100, according to the literature to be available in April.  Someone
here posted that it was preset only - I'm not sure if that's true, I seem 
to
remember some "User" dial on the front panel but don't know what it 
operates
and to what extent.  My wildest dream is that this will be sort of an LXP-5
with a usable interface (in which case I'd buy it unheard).

Gee, if only someone from Lexicon were actually here to chime in with the
official word...

Re: The JamMan.  I finally got it.  I love it.  I'm in the honeymood 
throes of
"JamMan-itis", where I'm supposed to be spending the afternoon learning a 
pile
of music for paying gigs and find that instead I've spent the last five 
hours
making bizarre sound collages.  Now that I have this monkey on my back, I 
need
a memory upgrade.  What's the best tip on getting the necessary chips?

Re:  Music and the significant other - I've always thought one of the best
tests of the strength of a relationship was the ability to have interests 
of
your own without your partner being threatened by them.  I think there's a
certain amount of wisdom in appreciating what your significant other 
brings to
the table that is unique to them.  I've taken my wife to lots of concerts
where I thought she'd like it, such as the Neville Brothers or Marisa 
Monte,
but she usually knows by the records I listen to at home if she'd rather 
pass
on it and thankfully has no problem saying so.  It's funny, I can listen 
to a
lot of stuff that I'd think sounds like nails on a chalkboard to her and 
she
won't bat an eye, but nothing will send her from the room screaming like
anyone singing Kurt Weill (but especially Lotte Lenya).  Go figure.  I'm
mystified by that one.  Frankly I think the assumption that women are 
innately
unnattracted to 'arty' or experimental music is bullshit and I could offer
anecdotal evidence all day, but enough is enough, ultimately I think it 
says
more about the social shortcomings of the person lamenting than the object 
of
his lamentations.

 I have twin girls (age 3 in April) that like to dance to the Ives Holiday
Symphony, Peter Gabriel's Passion and Miles' Jack Johnson, so maybe I'm 
doing
my part in sending a few more weird chicks out into the world:-).  As it 
is,
they both want guitars for their next birthday (let's hope for my wallet's
sake they don't have their hearts set on a pair of Kleins)...

And finally, I offer no endorsement or condemnation of this, but I can't
resist sending it, for what it's worth - Herbie Hancock is fond of quoting 
a
piece of advice Miles Davis once gave him: "If you look out in the audience
and you see only guys, your shit is dead".

Ken R