Last Saturday I was out with my girlfriend enjoying a sunny early morning the way a lot of New Englanders do: hunting down yard sales. Mostly it’s a chance to get out of the house early and explore a little - we burn out on it pretty early, and we go get bagels at White Electric. I usually don’t have much hopes in finding some new toy, or weird piece of equipment that I might be able to use, and I certainly don’t have the killer instinct that some yard salers seem to possess.

But I actually found something on Saturday. At a neighborhood yard sale, amoung the usual bric and brack, old board games and terrible furniture: A Casio SK-1 with the original manual and a carrying case. Cool.
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Genre nomenclature aside, there’s a thorough conversation with Thomas Dolby over on CDM.

Not a huge Dolby fan, though I certainly liked that Submarine song back in the day, but I’ll recognize that he did a significant amount to popularize electronic music, albeit of a particular strain. I’ve seen some YouTube stuff of him talking about his current rig which is entertaining in a gear slut sort of way. And he now has a CD of him playing with a horn section, and I maintain that any band with a good horn section is automatically more interesting. (And, no, two sax players does not a horn section make; usually that’s just two band geeks who lucked in a ska/swing/jam band. And besides, they’re woodwinds.)

And, of course, he has a blog.