My buddy says there are not a lot of good musicians on this Island (St. Maarten). Man if this is how I lived, I get it. All I want to do is sit out here and watch the water!

I can for one say absolutely for sure that I'm the best vibe player for miles and miles around! Cause I'm the only one (I hope).

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Hey, isn't it Tj's birthday today? And if I'm not wrong it's a great one this year!! Tj is not "noisy" like me. But he's working hard "in the shade" here, and (among other things) making the winter europe workshop a warm moment!!

Let's wish him a great birthday!!

Hi all,

I found this practice mp3 from about two months ago. I remember that I wanted to post a version of this tune, but I never ended up posting because of a part of the melody that slightly tripped me up. It really bothered me at the time, and I ended up forgetting about it until now. After not hearing it for awhile, I feel like it doesn't bother me as much as it did before, isn't it funny how that can happen?!! Anyway, hope you enjoy it.

Behn

Hi everyone,

I haven't done an audio lesson yet for the site, so here's one on vocabulary looping.

Behn

You probably don't know much about Dick Richardson, who passed away last week. He is the guy who built Musser into a major company.  Dick bought the Musser Company from Claire Musser back in the 50s sometime, when the company typically was selling about 50 vibraphones each year.  

I'm heading to St. Maarten. I'll check in down there. Marie's in charge so behave!

Behn is going to post some lessons while I'm gone. I'm making this like I won't see you guys for a few days, however, I have two routers with me, an Ipad a computer, an iphone, a synth, a set of vibes, a recorder. so let's see what happens.

I'm not a touristy kind of guy so between gigs I imagine I'll be practicing and hanging on the site, like usual.

This is a picture of my set of ludwig and ludwig vibes. All wood frame with non graduate bar, motor, red string, and nuts on the dampener for dampening adjustments.

Jean-Baptiste (mallets/organ) and Gildas (bass) Boclé are two french great brothers! Here is a vid from their last album "Keltic Tales", a clever encounter between celtic and modern music.

J.-Baptiste plays the organ, but on this sample he takes a shredding malletkat solo!! Watch out Tony!! The French are around!! :o)

Part 1 of the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ieb7R-Xvxw&feature=related

A few info:

- Gildas played in Gary's quintet from 1986 to 89.
- Both brothers collaborated with Gary + Billy Drumond on an album: "Or Else".