It happened in the early morning hours of Monday…The sky was a beautiful black, with the hinting of a Summer breeze not even close to existance…I was having a good ol’ time hammering out some notes on the Andromeda when…I broke the pitch wheel spring. From what I’ve read on the internet, which we all [...]

Posted on August 30th, 2005 by Charlie
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Well I’ve been busy for sure… Tonight I take a break, or so I plan to anyway. I just finished making a very nice Oberheim-like pad patch for the Andromeda. I was going for the Yamaha CS80 sound but I think it’s nealry impossible with DCO’s (Digitally Controlled Osc’s) like what the Andromeda has in [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2005 by Charlie
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I went to Gigantour at Jones Beach the other night with Mike Emerson. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a big traveling metal ruckus with about 100 bands, that only costs 15 bucks to get into. (Well, 20 with Ticketmaster’s service charge.) What better way to get kids back into metal? Dream Theater was [...]

Posted on August 25th, 2005 by Chris
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Dr. Robert Moog, inventor of the technology behind most of the music that has inspired Charlie’s sound, passed away yesterday at age 71. Lots more information about the man and his many wonderful inventions at Wikipedia.

Posted on August 22nd, 2005 by Chris
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I have sold my Memorymoog plus and will resume typing after I am done punching myself in the testicles. . . . . . . . It was the right thing to do, with all the projects I have going on right now (restoring my Clavinet, restoring my Rhodes, and thinking about restoring my Polymoogs), [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Charlie
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Ack! Now I’ve done it, I’ve gone and unstrung my clavinet. I have replacement strings of course and will begin restringing it at once …mmm…Coca-Cola…

Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Charlie
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OK, there is no Thunder Rhodes. I must have had Bruce Springsteen on the brain when talking to Charlie. There was the Fender Rhodes; there is the Springsteen song Thunder Road, and of course there’s Cleveland Indians pitcher Arthur Rhodes. But none of those is what Charlie got. The Rhodes Piano, which used to be [...]

Posted on August 7th, 2005 by Chris
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You might ask what I’m doing awake at such an ungodly hour. But I made a great deal with a colleague; I’m proctoring one of his classes, and he’s going to do academic advisement for me later this month. I truly love my job, but it’s a job, and there are parts that flat out [...]

Posted on August 4th, 2005 by Chris
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OK, so I *still* don’t have time to write about all the stuff that’s been going on lately, but I was reading a little e-mail just now, and completely lost my train of thought, when I ran into the four words above. People have totally opened up the filter, haven’t they? It’s been clear for [...]

Posted on August 1st, 2005 by Chris
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