CRAS 6tet . . .

Go to folder - FileFactory.com

The morning session is a Bjork tune that I wanted to try. - Joga

For the afternoon session, I went with the Gabriel tune. - Mercy Street

Today's sextet:

• Chris
• Ted
• Mario
• Dowell
• Billy
• i & i & i

Jones was behind the board in the morning— Tony in the afternoon.
A pretty good day.

enjoy

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current . . .

Reading:

• Torah and Canon - James A Sanders
• Chapters in a Life of Paul - John Knox
• The Uses of The Old testament in the New - Walter Kaiser Jr
• The Jews Among the Greeks & Romans - Margaret H. Williams
  
• The Bible as Literature - Bruckner B Trawick
• The Mythmaker - Hyam Maccoby

close encounter of the first kind . . .

Just a brief note to commemorate —before I forget—what happened on Wednesday (the 2^nd) while I waited for the afternoon class to get ready to record (it was the Bobby Fraser 10th cycle clinic).

In brief, I saw a UFO that day. It was about 5 P.M.

Funny thing is, I'm a skeptic from heck, so go figure. But it definitely wasn't an airplane or anything that I could identify. It was round and emitted its own light, radiant enough to make bright azure daytime sky pale in contrast.

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Eddie Kramer @ the Gilbert campus ...

I went to listen to Eddie Kramer speak at the Gilbert campus of the school earlier tonight. He is in his late sixties and he looks fantastic—quite healthy, he confessed to working out religiously—and he sounds as lucid as the 400 or so youngsters (most in their 20s and 30s) that came to see him. He's on tour promoting a new line of Waves plugins bearing his name: the Eddie Kramer Bundle. They demoed the various plugins, using three different pro-tools files. I have used Waves plugins before. They are fantastic plugins— extremely versatile, sonically pleasing— but they are not the easiest tools to use intuitively. By contrast, these Eddie Kramer models were designed to be as simple as possible to operate. His whole m.o. seems to be, 'Just twiddle the knobs and use your ears'.

Hopefully, what the students in attendance learned from him is that that, as childishly simple as it sounds, is pretty much it. I mean, plugins and gear are nice but nothing can replace a creative and resourceful mind. There were no plugins in '67, after all.

Listening to Kramer tell stories about recording some of the most enduring rock bands of our era—Beatles, Hendrix, Stones, Kinks, Les Zep, Traffic— was enjoyable. He seems to be one of those genuinely intellectually curious people whose enthusiasm is contagious. He's down to earth and agreeable.

I'm glad I went

(oh yeah, and world famous jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco was in attendance too. Kramer saluted him and extended an invitation to play on a rock record, which DeFrancesco accepted . . . . history in the making, ladies and gentlemen :)

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