April 08, 2005
Bill Wilson @ V's
My regular piano player, Mack, takes a vacation with his family every year at this time and for the past couple times Bill Wilson fills in [last year's blog entry]. Bill Wilson, son of the legendary Teddy Wilson and an alumni of the Dan Coy Band from the 80's and early 90's is also a tech-geek.
In 1983-85 we used to show up at the gigs with our lug-able computers, the *new* Commodore SX-64 along with a 300 baud modem and Sequential Circuit MIDI interface. Personal computers, MIDI and modems were all brand new then. I also had a dedicated phone line and operated BBS's, long before the internet. Bill, a graduate of Ohio State University, helped me learn to code in BASIC. Later I wrote programs for computer-assisted music composition and other algorithmic creations like ear-training programs.
Of course tech stuff has evolved lot since then. Last night Bill arrived with an IBM ThinkPad with wireless network card and CD burner, along with his 6.1 megapixel digital camera and iPod Shuffle. He took a bunch of photos and burned them on a CD for me. I posted a couple in the photo gallery.
Posted by dancoy at April 8, 2005 01:05 AM