Music in Monclova

Scott | July 11, 2010

The Monclova Home Coming Festival was July 9-10.  Besides a parade on Saturday morning the other main attraction is a beer tent and live music on Friday and Saturday evenings.   Admission to the   entertainment area was just $1.  Below Monclovians set around the entertainment tent enjoying a July summer evening. I didn’t make it down Saturday but did spend a couple [...]

GearFest 2010 – Awesome !

Scott | June 26, 2010

SweetWater is a music gear equipment company head quartered in Ft. Wayne  Indiana about a two hour drive from me.    They are a different kind of music warehouse company.  For example when you purchase gear online from them you get a personal followup call from your assigned sales engineer.      When I seen the invite from Sweetwater to GearFest 2010 I didn’t [...]

The Truth

Scott | May 5, 2010

I had been pounding on the keys several months before I got my first sub-woofer a used Roland KCW-1 via EBAY.   With a sub-woofer unit the bottom sounds of the drum machine really sound great and once you get use to it you don’t want to play without one.  The Roland KCW-1 is a great unit but I wanted [...]

Stand Completed ?

Scott | March 26, 2010

It took a year but I do think I have my keyboard stand, tier, sheet music holder with light and a boom mike stand  all figured out.   My new drummer throne seat is on back order so I’ll save that for another post.    The stand is a OnStage  Platform stand  with the add on On-Stage Stands Deluxe 2nd Tier.   Both [...]

Dust Covers

Scott | January 30, 2010

Until recently I had a home kite building business so I just happen to have an industrial strength sewing machine.   That machine has came in very handy for building  dust covers for my amps and keyboards.     I use that plastic tarp material you can get at a hardware store.     A big 12 x 12 sheet of it maybe [...]