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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Apr 25, 2006 21:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by smoothie2 on Apr 25, 2006 22:57:38 GMT -5
;D :)Welcome KC ! Glad to have you link up with us. (and if you do happen to think of some juicy bit of gossipy story about Tim, I say go for it..I can't imagine Tim doing anything too outrageous enough for us not to like him!)
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 26, 2006 0:24:07 GMT -5
Welcome KCMusician... I look forward to corresponding with you on the forum. I'm especially looking forward to hearing the stories about Tim!
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Post by Carps1000 on Apr 26, 2006 8:24:18 GMT -5
Hi there. If u dont know any good gossip....do what I do & make it up. Ken Carps1000
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Post by smoothie2 on Apr 26, 2006 22:41:36 GMT -5
Hi there. If u dont know any good gossip....do what I do & make it up. Ken Carps1000 :)Ha ha.. Ken ..you do crack me up!...
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Post by BethMosior on Apr 26, 2006 23:10:13 GMT -5
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Post by Ming on Apr 27, 2006 3:56:05 GMT -5
Welcome! KCMUSICAN! Ming
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Post by KCmusician on Apr 27, 2006 23:57:24 GMT -5
This is my first message or post of any kind on any forum, so let me know if it pushes the norm a bit too far in any direction. Thank you so much for the welcome notes! That's what you call a great first impression!
It's probably not out of line or too bragadocious (now I'm being precosius!) to mention that Tim and I became fast friends after we first met in the university jazz band, playing music!
It soon became clear to me that Tim walked around with a great amount of talent rather nonchalantly, without any pretension. And I learned that he had a band that played out and actually made money!
Tim let me sub for his drummer, and even though my name wasn't as sexy as Rex Stone, I soon became a regular in his band when we played locally (Rex went on the road with Tim).
Tim was the core talent; he carried the vision for the band. He was also the lead singer, front man, in-between-songs-microphone-chat man. All that and a bag of chips. As the manager & bookie, Tim got us into all the well-known spots around town and often got us together with different talent, i.e. saxophonist, a guest bass player with phenomenal chops, and even a trumpet player who happened to be the university band director, and became head of the university music department! The guy had this un-academic side that loved to play out in clubs!
We shared many moments that linked one way or another to Karen & Richard. For example, we played Carpenter's tunes in too many locations to count. If they booked The Tim San Paolo Trio, they were going to get a healthy dose of The Carpenters. they knew it and they liked it!
Remember, this was back in the day when we played everything live. Tim and I have both separately sequenced many songs since then with our modern day midi keyboards. Back then it was a challenge to produce a full sound without a machine to fill in the blanks. Tim adeptly adjusted his style on the keyboard from rock to ballad to jazz to latin -- whatever was needed.
Songs like This Masquerade were especially tricky and fun! I can still remember coaxing my drums with arms and legs akimbo to make it sound as if we had someone playing the tambourine, maracas, cowbell, congas and a regular drummer for fills. That would have been a piece of cake for Karen! And she could sing the lead, and chew gum at the same time! Well, I never saw her chew gum, but you can imagine she could handle it!
Tim & I practically wore the vinyl out of our Carpenter albums. Recently, I inherited some albums and had to explain to my son: "These are the kind of CDs we had when we were your age!" Tim & I would often stack Carpenter's albums on the stereo (remember how you could stack them?) and laid on the floor and let Karen's soothing voice coach us through troubled times.
Ciao for niao, KCMusician
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Post by smoothie2 on Apr 28, 2006 0:28:49 GMT -5
:-/Interesting post KC!..Wow ...sure is good to hear about your experiences with Tim and music...and anything else... :-[Just Superb!!!
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 28, 2006 11:12:49 GMT -5
Hi KCMusician... Good to finally hear from you. Great story. I'm happy to hear that you guys played a good amount of Carpenters music in your performances. I really like your sign off; "Ciao for niao" - that's pretty clever.
Like several others here I was also in music. I pursued music as a career from around 1980 to 1993. I got serious with it around 86-87. By 1992-93 we were being played on College radio stations - one station, San Bernardino City (or maybe it was called San Bernardino Junior) College, ranked us (Thunder Lizards) the #1 most requested group of 1993. There was also interest from record companies. But as fate would have it there were inner squabbles between band members and we broke up before anything could happen. I attempted to get the band going again with new members - but I was facing other issues with my own being and just knew I had to get away. I was going to take a year or two off to refresh and regroup but I never did get back into it. Though, I did spend about three years singing in a gospel choir after my rock and roll days.
Quite a few people have requested a sample of my music and finally I have a short one. This one is called "Summer Dream". I wrote the music and lyrics. I did all original songs (with the exception of "Rainy Days And Mondays", "Yesterday Once More" and the Doors' "People Are Strange").
Anyway this sample of "Summer Dream" is actually from a songwriting session - so it does not include the full band - just the guitarist and myself. But it still gives you an idea of some of the stuff I did. I added some reverb to give the song the affect I wanted it to have. Hope you enjoy.
Click Here to listen to Rick's "Summer Dream"
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Apr 28, 2006 13:57:28 GMT -5
Rick - great job! You've got a really good voice - I'd love to hear more. Your voice seems very strong and clear. Kudos - I knew you'd written some tunes, but didn't know you'd recorded them. It's nice to get to hear at least a bit of one. How many songs have you written altogether? How many did you record? Do you have CD's available or anything? I actually have a recording of KC and I when we played some of those clubs he mentiones in his post. This particular recording was without a bass player - just he and I at a country club...it was pretty interesting... I had to play bass in the left hand, which is what I normally do, anyway, but that night I tried to really pound it out - my voacls were very sad sounding too...it's a hoot to listen to. KC, do you still have any of those old cassette recordings? This one was taped at Twin Oaks. Rick, let's hear more from you. Thanks for sharing this with us. Best Tim
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Post by BethMosior on Apr 28, 2006 17:43:58 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 28, 2006 19:12:38 GMT -5
Hi Tim - I'd love to hear snippets of yours and KC's performances. Sounds like fun. I have 100's of songs recorded. I've written something like 80-90 songs. I usually don't post my songs on the internet for a few reasons. One they are all old reocrdings from cassettes and a lot of them sound somewhat muddled. Most of them are live in rehearsal recordings and are not perfect performances and have mistakes and some even have talking in background. Because of the split of the band some of our songs can not be posted publicly - legal stuff and so on. But, I do have a few others I will post snippets for all to hear.
In my last post I mentioned that the songs I've covered are Carpenters' "Rainy Days And Mondays" and "Yesterday Once More" and the Doors' "People Are Strange". I went through my archives and also found other covers of Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Making Love", Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire", T-Rex's "The Slider", The Leaves' "Hey Joe", Them's "Gloria" (written by Van Morrison) and nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
***Gee this topic has become off-topic... should we move it to the Different Light board or keep it here?
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Apr 28, 2006 20:32:49 GMT -5
I hope we can continue to converse about this, and I was thinking I probably should have started it in the "Different Light" board anyway....so.....tell you what, after KC finds this once more, and reads that we're going to move it to Different Light, one of us should probably move it. But I'd like for KC to find it again first...he's attempting to find his way around, and it would really throw him off if this wasn't here any longer, I think. Wow Rick, that's pretty cool. I guess when you think of it that way, I have many recorded, too...I don't know how many - I'm not nearly as organized as I know you to be. But between my work with Lee (when we were on the road) Rex, KC, and my family both as One In The Spirit and Yesterday Once MOre....well, I've got many of them on tape. I've written three or four songs, only. Palma has two of them, at her request. They are the gospel songs. I wrote a song for and about my wife for a wedding anniversary. It's a neat song, I think, and I actually went to the recording studio to record this one, as it has four or 5 part back ups in it, and there were no pro tools around then - this was recorded sometime in the early 80s. I have only discussed this with Jim - there's one major problem with it, and I am not the one who recognized it but rather my wife heard it....there are 4 measures that sound like they come right straight out of Merry Christmas, Darling (talk about being influenced)...so, I have never done anything with it. I was going to, someday, rewrite the melody line for those four measures, which I have since done, but just have not re-recorded it. One day....so, so much to do! Like you, Rick, many of the recordings I have are on tape - lots of them were actually taped in the clubs where we were playing....the one with KC and I was recorded on one of those small, boxlike recorders that one could purchase for school...so talk about bad sound quality. But, it serves it's purpose for the memories. KC,you should tell them about when you were living in California and I sent you a tape from when I was playing at the Kentwood...and your party, remember? The party where you all put the tape on and pretended you'd gone out to "hear" me??? What a hoot. Yes, I definitely have the "starlight lounge" tape, too. Yes, I've got lots of recordings of Carpenters tunes, but oh, my. We won't even go there................... Tim
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Post by KCmusician on Apr 28, 2006 23:44:53 GMT -5
Success! Here we are in the welcome thread, and it wasn't that bad finding it. Hopefully other parts of the forum are easy to find, too. Well, you asked for real life stories...I think the wonderful welcome propelled me into a long post. So many stories. More on those later. For now, go ahead and take it on over to Different Light. I wonder, maybe naively, that there could be a thread for sharing snippets of our music. Probably would need limits, like 20 seconds? Who am I to say; it's just that I'm thinking OUTSIDE the box so much, I'm hardly ever IN the box! Thanks again for the kind words, Ciao for niao, KC
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Post by palmapascale on May 19, 2006 13:20:25 GMT -5
Hi my friends, and welcome to KCMUSICIAN! See what a great place this is? You should see all that Rick, Tim and the wonderful fans have done for me. KC, your stories about Tim are wonderful to read because I am SURE he does not brag about himself, and yet those of us who are coming to know him, and those who know him well, can see he is a multidimensional, talented, and gifted man with a big heart for others. The details of your past together confirm so much of what I already suspected. And look how exciting this is getting, with all of you posting or thinking about redoing some of your music for the site!
Rick, I loved hearing "Summer Dreams" and can imagine how perfect "People Are Strange" would be with your vocal quality!! Post that one if you can. Once again, how interesting to read about how many songs you've written that we know nothing about. Think of how busy we could keep Tim, reviewing all YOUR originals as well as mine. (Do we have to PAY him, you think?)
Look at what Karen and Richard have continued to inspire. Talk about good works from heaven! Thank you, Karen, for your hand in moving us all into proximity with each other. Looking forward to reading more about ALL of you, even those of you fans who DON'T write and sing music. Your joyful and encouraging postings do alot for all of us. It's like internet "applause" especially with all those cute icons jumping up and down and throwing stardust. Love to all. Palma
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Post by smoothie2 on May 20, 2006 20:01:24 GMT -5
:DThis is a TreMenDouS thread!...How gifted you all are! And Palma, you are very good with words also. I have stated for quite a while now unfortunately, that I have no sound on my 'puter { !} ! currently, so oooo for now I'll trust that before long perhaps I can afford to get some SOUND! So, I trust everyone's musical talents are wonderful. I am sure they are! KCmusician...I'm glad to have you around also. Hey KC.your sign off ciao for niao ..?means..chow for now goodbye for now?.. ;DI will also add that I am one of those who does not read music and not much of a singer..but I do love to hear about those of you who do! In grade school for a very short while, I did learn to read enough notes to toot on a "flute-a-phone", but that was only cuz we had to play to a crowd! My mom played piano for a while yrs. ago, and I tried a little on that ...I didn't have the patience... I took guitar lessons and did well enough to pass, but decided overall, I would rather hear my brother play and my friends play.... So, there's that as far as music goes! I do Love music of course! Especially the C's and I was really into John Denver way over the top...total obsession! ;D you may call me smoothie or kathy or katt......just not late for supper....
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Post by KCmusician on Jun 2, 2006 1:45:11 GMT -5
Katt (smoothie): Just a couple quick comments. Yes, the "ciao for niao" is NOT italian. It's just a play on spelling. The word "ciao" sounds like "chow" so instead of spelling "now" it's fun to spell it "niao." One of those things that hit me one day. Also, people often mix up my name so I use the phrase a lot: "You can call me anything, just don't call me late for supper!" Most people I say that to haven't heard it. It was so funny to see you use it! Palma: Hopefully we'll find a way to post some of our old music -- definitely analog, and I mean cassette-recorder-analog! Funny how analog sound fills itself out, whereas in my arrangements with digital samples I have to purposefully fill out the sound-space or it sounds very artificial. We'll find a way to get some music posted...Lord willing and the crick don't rise! When there's time to post another story or two I'm sure some good memories will come to mind. Thanks again for the great comments! KC
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