Tenderizer

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Hey owen, have you started working on this project yet? Are you still feelin the 4 junos?

[Owen from Final Fantasy]

Well, it's a funny thing. I played one show and it sounded great but it takes SO MUCH WORK to get that material together. Lots of sequencing and hauling the Junos around.

Also, I was only doing Tenderizer because I liked the band Animal Monster so much. And using 4 Junos was not getting the Animal Monster sound at all. (He uses a sampler and it's really necessary for all the polyphony.)

I wrote five Tenderizer songs and they still exist but I'm going to have to suss out a new performance style if they're ever going to see the light of day. We'll see. In the meantime, I sold one of my Junos to Miracle Fortress and I'm probably going to sell the other one as well.

I'm even a little tired of my little Juno Alpha, which is the one I've been using for Final Fantasy. I'm looking right now into getting a piano for looping. I used an electric grand at the Scala show last year and it was SO WONDERFUL. They aren't extremely expensive but they weigh 300 pounds. It was a Yamaha CP-70.

I started doing some research about the CP-70 and I found out that Keane own 10 of them. 4 for practise, 2 for UK touring, 2 for US touring, and 2 for spare parts.

Message to Keane: Give me one of your pianos.

All of the new Heartland songs are very piano oriented, with lots of flourishes that I can't play convincingly on a synth or a violin. The piano is going to help a lot when I start playing those songs live.

Oh how I do go on

[victoria]

As I was reading that I was thinking "Keane have about a million CP-70s" but you read my mind...

Tim's a nice guy, maybe you can borrow one when they're not touring NA, ie now
Although he probably has nothing to do with the control over them. Maybe resort to stealing.

[Deleted]

Thanks for the update, we always appreciate it.

P.S combine nylon guitar samples with harpsichord samples, and play keyboard.

[victoria]

Oh, and also, doesn't the CP-70 come apart? So that's only two giant 150 lb pieces to lug around the world. I'm pushing it...it's cool.