Marz shared my band's (FTP) practice with Shell and she said Shell was reminded of this song. I thought gave it a listen and thought the keyboard part didn't sound terribly difficult and thought I would try playing along.
But the pins on the cheap-ass USB connector on my MIDI keyboard were still buggered up from last week. I decided to try straightening them out again and borrowed a pair of needle-nose pliers from Sue. The needle-nose tips were way too big to get down inside the USB plug.
So I got my tweezers and tried straightening them out as best I could. I got them to a point where they didn't look too bad. I was able to plug the USB cable in at least most of the way... as far as I could tell anyway.
I got my laptop and plugged the other end into it. I was so excited that the power came on the keyboard and it showed up in the audio connections in the Jack dialog box on my laptop.
I hooked up my MR Rack synthesizer to the laptop and connected the keyboard to it. Nothing! No MIDI events were being sent to the synth. :( :( :(
I installed a virtual keyboard on my laptop to test the setup. After a bunch of fucking around with them, I was able to determine that the synth was receiving MIDI events and playing sounds.
I was pretty stressed out at that point and then the keyboard started to tip over, I tried to grab it and knocked some other junk over trying to catch it. I lost my balance fell into my record cabinet, then tipped sideways, fell into my walker that was sitting there and landed in the middle of the floor. I laid there and cried for a while. Eventually, Sue came to see what the rukus was, found me and helped me up.
Later I went to get some groceries but remembered that it was the rehearsal for the Equality Utah Allies Dinner and realized I was going to be late. I got all stressed because I couldn't remember if it started at 6:30 or 7:00. So I took off, got there at exactly 6:30 and the parking lot was empty.
My knee was far too messed up after last night at the SunTrapp to do anything but sit there. I came to the realization that with all the problems I've had with my condition this year there was no way I was going to be able to participate this year. The odds of my being in a state to perform are extremely slim to none.
And I was in such extreme pain from the MS Hug that I finally couldn't even wait to talk to Mindy or say goodbye to Talia, Melahn and Lisa G. I had to get home ASAP.
Anyway, this is such a fun song and the video is SO fun too!!!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkzvM7Skxg
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