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[Cosmo Blues]

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Our Drummer Loved This Tune

We would do it at jam nights. Plenty of room for guests to blow.
I loved doing the horn parts. It's a cool hook.
We did it the first time we ever got together. The other guys had never played in a band with horns and 2 had never been in one with a keyboard player.
Suddenly, fully extemporaneously, that 80s technology had sample horns, clavinet and a real piano.
I have fond memories of this song.

[Cosmo Blues]

2. That does sound fun

Sometimes I joke, is it really a band if it doesn't have horns. I also read your exchange with that other organ officionado yesterday, way above my pay grade soy didn't engage. Though I didn't expect an emotional reaction to Green Onions

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Later On, When My Rig Evolved...

...I would fo horns using a 12 bit rack sampler for reeds, one 16 bit sampled playback device for a brass section, and another playback device for trumpet. Layering them gave a huge thick horn soubd with the extra grit of 12 bit on the saxes.

[Cosmo Blues]

4. With all that

I might have been tempted to call my rig the Tower of Power

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Would Have Fit, Certainly

I had an 88 key weighted & 73 key synth action on my Apex Stand. (Allowed me to be at front of stage.)
In my rack, I had a Yamaha module that gave me FM synthesis like a DX-7; a sample playback module; a hard drive based sampler; and a digitally controlled analog synth, all networked by MIDI.
Separate volume pedals for each, so with those and 2 sustain pedals, there was a lot of the floor!
16 channel mixer (also in the rack) and a 600w amp driving a 3 way cabinet.
Quite a lot of power to go with that that Tower of Power horn patch

I used a editor/librarian on the laptop to set up all the patches, then named them after the song. I could realign them per the songlist & upload it to the master keyboard in a couple minutes. Then, on stage, I could switch all of them to the next song with one button press (maybe 2 if I had to change banks). Pretty convenient.
The other guys in that band were super solid, so I didn't need to be part of the cake; just the icing.