Dirkus

Dirkus

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Biography

Retired physical scientist longing to play my whole life and can now. Influences go back when I was little as far as my older sisters playing 45s on their turntables--Elvis, Beatles, Zombies, Kinks, then Led Zepplin, Iron Butterfly, Who, Bloodrock, Van Halen. My contemporaries often seem to get "stuck" in time on one generation and listen to that the rest of their lives. I like shifting with the times and have more stuff like Nirvana, White Stripes, Imagine Dragons, Muse, Beats Antique and Kongos on my mind now.

Instruments

Bass, Keys
Trying to focus on the bass, hands aren't moving like they used to for the keyboards. (o:

recording devices

Simple stuff. An old MacBook Pro that I dual boot...
several small Behringer and Gemini mixers... Misc. mics.
Lots of Emu rack-mount synths... you know, the kind that the Pet Shop Boys and the like used to use (o:
Several keyboards, and MIDI stuff.
Also got a pile of stuff like Roland MC-505 and MC-303s, and an R-8 drum machine. Oh! and a Zoom 16 track digital recorder. Just now starting to crack the code on all this stuff (o:

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