Old Time Rock & Roll - Rick & Dorothy Live

Imagine (John Lennon) - cover by Rick, live.

Brazil, live.

Act Naturally - Rick & Dorothy Live Concert

Great Balls of Fire - Rick on keyboard, Dorothy on Tamborine & Chair Dance

Besame Mucho & More with Dorothy / keyboard & Rick /bongos

Your Mama Don't Dance & Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll

http://RickPotvin.vidmeup.com/view?q=577289643d786.flv

Your Mama Don't Dance

Keyboard composed music with visual effects - 1

[be sure to MINIMIZE your volume] Brown Eyed Girl

I'm still messing up my levels so TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN before hitting play.

Act Naturally

Linus and Lucy

Imagine

Rick's "Last Date" by Floyd Cramer on the Yamaha 433 keyboard.

We're creating an option to play ONLY the keyboard at a few upcoming gigs. I'll take the keyboard, an amp (on a dolly this time) and the Boss pitch corrector as well as the old Canon camera. Given that we'll zero in on this option, I'm creating some examples of what it will look and sound like. Every place we play also have some kind of acoustic grand piano, usually a little out of tune and hard to play but we'll likely do straight acoustic piano or a combination of the acoustic and a keyboard.  PIANO LESSONS:  A lot of our students only have keyboards now-- not pianos -- so this series of videos will  offer good examples of how these keyboards can be used to create authentic sounding bands and how students can learn piano and sing using them as well. Here's Last Date on a keyboard.

A bird called 'donald trump... donald trump' in my back yard.

I couldn't believe my ears when I first heard the bird calling from my backyard.... 'donald trump... donald trump!". It was the day before Trump was to visit Arizona. I grabbed my handicam-- and ran to the backyard to try to catch a piece of this call and I managed to get about 6 seconds of it before it disappeared into the background noise of the day and other birds and traffic. So I grabbed that 6 seconds and repeated it on a loop about 8 times. See if you do not agree with me that the bird is callind 'donald trump!" "donald trump"!

All I want for Christmas is... a 10 Gallon Stetson Hat (Rick on piano)

Here's an original song by a customer we recorded in a studio track by track, edited by a studio tech on a computer. I played the piano.  Audio only.  For visual relief I installed the lesson book on chords.

Country Roads

I'm not too happy with the results in this next song, Country Roads, but I'll post this interim result anyway. BE CAREFUL WITH VOLUME-- turn it way down because my recording level is too HIGH... I still have some learnin' to do on how to make that go right.

Go Johnny Go

Piano player and singer at Burlington's La Salle retirement residence.

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Note that the couple are doing Girl from Ipanema... perfect! I know that one!  I think that that 's a digital grand with the backgrounds electronically built in. Both have mics. They'd have to be local for this one shot deal but a place like this with a piano could mean ongoing business.

Osage Amerind flute

Hey Jude

I'm running videos on this blog from vidmeup.com now instead of youtube so it may or may not appear in your browser. I don't know what the translation problems are and I'm not likely going to bother figuring it out. Youtube won't take uploads from me anymore because I think my browser is "out of date". That's funny because they didn't have any problem taking them before six months ago. Now all of a sudden they can't take them. I'm not interested in upgrading browsers or very much of anything lately. That goes for my music so herewith is Hey Jude from the 1960's.  I'm not really hitting the nail on the head here but I figure it to be an attempt-- an experiment. I think the vocal isn't balanced with the instrumental. And I made few booboos. Anyway... I'll have to give this a shot in public next Saturday night at Habachi Grille.

Old Time Rock & Roll

I continue to experiment with a direct line input from the amp/speaker/mixer combo unit into the camera. This time Old Time Rock and Roll is the topic. We'll have to use ONLY the keyboard at Habachi which has it's own keyboard but a lesser quality. The Yamaha below has subtractable parts so you'll hear me operate those to some extent.

Surfin USA for Habachi Grille with direct input-- use stereo headphones.

We're working to put a new set together for Habachi Grille for 2 hours on Saturday nights... and this can be used at our upcoming Chengdu Delight gig and retirement center gigs as well. I've changed my recording tactics to direct input-- which is a big deal in terms of sound quality. It involves lots of wires. I hate that. But it is what it is. I always try to put a systematic routine together that can be used across various types of venues-- be it online, or in front of retireess or at restaurants on lousy grand pianos or on our keyboard & digital piano *which is heavy. Anyway... give this one a listen-- an old tune from the sixties... still known by the youngin's out there who sport backward baseball caps, tattoos and piercings. Go figure. Beach boys-- Surfin USA

Recording test with Boardwalk-- direct input from mixer/amp/speaker combo unit via headphone jack

I had to switch my old Canon ZR-40 (my 3rd one since the others bit the dust)... from direct input to headphone input since those outputs use different "impedences". I then plugged my speaker/amp/mixer headphone output into the input on the camera for a direct hardwired input which I think sounds better.

Direct input of mic1 and mono-piano-line into Canon vidcam-- TEST

Here's a short test of a direct input into my camera with two lines-- into the stereo plug but with mono results- evenly split-- with piano and mic.

Popcorn by HotButter playlist & cover by Rick

60 minutes of local traffic set to Cowboy Strut & Puttin on the Ritz

An hour of traffic was compressed into 6 minutes in the following video. I'm not sure if it's interesting or not.

Mexican Hat Dance Accompaniment for San Jose Anti-Trump Riots

It occurred to me, while watching some of the riots in San Jose yesterday, that what was missing was MUSIC! I'm not very good at dubbing but if you play the 3 minute clips below at the same time, you'll get an idea of what I had in mind. Maybe someone better at video creation can take it further. Both video's will play for about 3 minutes so start them both and sit back and enjoy! I'm not sure what feeling the juxtaposition imposes but it's kind of funny in a way-- certainly interesting!

Obama stuttering songs

In keeping with my idea of reviewing songs inspired by current events, using the playlist function of Youtube, I now present Bee-Bi-Obama-bama-bama who made us all laugh yesterday with his Trump-breakdown inspired stutter which I found hill-lairrrrious. I couldn't stop laughing for 10 minutes. I follow up the snippet of the stutter with stuttering songs or near-stuttering wordgame songs such as bbb-b-b-b-Bad to the Bone and the NAME Game. If I think of more I'll add them after this writing.

Happy Trails

The Magilla Gorilla & Harambe Hoax Show - both cartoons

Here's another one my playlists featuring SONGS that can be associated with CURRENT EVENTS. In this one, I recall a THEME SONG from the CARTOON about Magilla Gorilla. The tune is done in a BIG BAND STYLE accompanied by singers and a full orchestra. It's the kind of TV OPENING that used to be popular in the last century-- and I would say the quality of those musical openings were better than today's. Here are more...Hanna-Barbera Productions - Television Series (1960s) - Part 1 - YouTube The MODERN FORM of the CARTOON is VIDEO-CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). As a modern cartoon, CGI looks real-- unless you look closer. Today's "news" orgs are so confident that most of us DO NOT look closely, that they feature CARTOONS as "news". I have to admit that the quality of these latest cgi cartoons along with the fake news is entertaining. The only thing missing is the THEME SONG-- that's where I thought I would do my part and add to the entertainment.


LYRICS - I could not find chords yet... but here's a site with a TV Fake book that includes this song. I might get that. http://www.ezplaymusic.com/browseproducts/Fake-BookThe-TV-Fake-Book.HTML
I recall the lyrics as "Magilla Gorilla and all of his friends say hello, hello, hello..." but cannot find THOSE lyrics. Apparently that's the closing theme.

TOMT] [TV show] Mid 1960s kids cartoon theme song : tipofmytongue

https://www.reddit.com/.../tomt_tv_show_mid_1960s_kids_cartoon_theme_ song/

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Jul 14, 2015 ... Every fun filled minute There's a show next week and we'll all be in it So ...alternate closing theme Magilla Gorilla and all of his friends say “so ...

The Magilla Gorilla Show

We've got a gorilla for sale

Magilla Gorilla for sale.

Won't you buy him,

Take him home and try him,

Gorilla for sale.

He's really a doll

And he's awfully cute,

An ever living doll in a

monkey suit.

See in the window, Magilla Gorilla.

Full of charm and appeal.

Handsome, elegant, intelligent, sweet.

He’s really ideal.

Don't you want a little gorilla you can call your own,

A gorilla who'll be with ya when you're all alone?

[Spoken:] How much is that gorilla in the window?

Take our advice,

At any price,

A gorilla like Magilla is mighty nice.

Gorilla, Magilla Gorilla for sale.