On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:40 PM, James Irelan wrote: >> > In fact, (real keys players might disagree- I'm a guitarist) there's > no question in my mind that guys would have preferred to continue to > play a real Rhodes to a DX7 if they had weighed the same- at least > the guys who did their own schlepping, which would have been the guys > playing through guitar amps. Heh. Back in the early 80s I worked with a keyboard player who also was a B3 tech; he added a second set of tone wheels to his B3. We used to haul that down the stairs (complete with snow in the winter) to the basement club we regularly played, along with a Leslie cabinet. All I know is that if he hadn't been a B3 God, we never would have hauled that stuff around. Made my dual 15" bass rig seem downright lightweight in comparison. It's amazing we never got injured...