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A new home for the ‘toys’

Posted: October 24, 2025 in live Sound Reinforcement, Midi Series, My Tunes, technology
Tags: #localbands, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musicbusiness, #musicequipment, #musician, #personal, #recordingstudio, #songwriter

I know I talk about music and great artists I have worked and played with over the decades. During all that time I had my share of more-than full time jobs. I started with plastics and the injecting molding industry. I went from being a ‘hopper boy’ to a plant manager. Later I got into sales – service – and managing with a few other trades thrown in there.

I retired from work a bout 4 years ago. Now it is time I retired from the music business as well….

I have gathered all my recording gear. Packed up my vintage keyboards and guitars and have the drums all torn down and headed toward shipping boxes. I will keep my songwriting instruments and gear I can’t part with yet. I will list the rest of the gear for sale on Sweetwater’s Exchange platform.

If you know a musician give them the link below. They might thank you for it!

https://www.sweetwater.com/used/storefront/midimike

I will thank you now. lol

I have had the link up for one day and I have sold two items already. I will be adding more for a few weeks.

On the Sweetwater Exchange site, just search for the MIDIMike store!

So now I leave you with a musical joke. You can fill in the blank, but the joke works the same!

Q: What do you call a Drummer (guitar player, singer______) that broke up with his girlfriend?

A: Homeless!

MIDIMike

Your Eyes Closed MSK 2016

Posted: October 21, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

You see the truth and refuse it. You are given advice and reject it. You see the cliff and keep running toward it. But you KNOW what is true. Your stories are not.

Maybe you did have a rough start in life, but you would never let it go to start fresh. You create the storm we live in. You constantly chant `everyone is to blame’ to make you feel better, but all the fingers are still pointing at you.

MIDIMike

Something about me

Posted: October 18, 2025 in My Tunes
Tags: dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2095

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Most people don’t know I’m an old man. Even people I have known for years treat me as much younger and are surprised when I tell them I’m my seventies.

And counting.

Your Best Fan MSK 2018

Posted: October 14, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

A look at the life of a celebrity stalker. Starved for attention, empty lives looking for someone – some reason – some value. They act like you. Look like you. Absorbing everything you do and still do not know you at all. But they are the Best Fan you have.

MIDIMike

You Gotta Dress Right MSK 2018

Posted: October 7, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

Looking back I think this was written because people would give me a hard time about what I wore when I played out with the bands I was in. Some kept saying I had to wear faded jeans, etc. to be a ‘rocker’. Obviously not true, besides, being the keyboard player I was usually in the back of the stage in the dark. No one sees the keyboard player.

But if I was going to court to be judged, I will be wearing a suit and tie!

MIDIMike

Words Are Meaningless MSK 2021

Posted: September 30, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

The best of intentions won’t matter if you don’t let someone know them. Reliving memories, there were so many situations I could have made better or just more enjoyable if I would talk to friends and tell them what I feel or see.

Life is hard when my Default mode is set to ‘Silent”.

MIDIMike

When MSK 2016

Posted: September 16, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

This comes from learning lessons one by one and a little too slow. Once you realize the correct thing to do it is already too late. Then we think we finally have it down only to see that we were just as naive as before.

This wasn’t my last song, I have a few more, but still don’t know where I went wrong.

MIDIMike

What You Want MSK 2020

Posted: September 9, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

This song dances around the question about a dog chasing a car. The chase can be fun but what happens when you finally catch the car? Nothing good.

You can ask three wishes from the genie, but each one can turn out to be a nightmare if you don’t take another look at what you are asking for.

MIDIMike

So Deep 8/29/2025 MSK

Posted: September 5, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poem, #poetry, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

You don’t see it while everyone else does.
Keep dodging us with reasons like ‘because’.
I don’t know any other way to say it
Whatever their game, you shouldn’t play it.

What made you decide to get together?
Why did you think it would last forever?
Poems and games but nothing they say is real
Not much friends can do if that’s the way you feel.

I never thought you could get So Deep.
Hard to believe you’re still into this creep.
It looks like I have to concede
Eye candy all you really need.

There is no charm in rarely listening.
At times the silence can be frightening.
Nothing of value ever comes your way.
One way or another, it’s your turn to pay.

I never thought you could get So Deep.
Hard to believe you’re still into this creep.
It looks like I have to concede
Eye candy all you really need.

You don’t see it while everyone else does.
Keep dodging us with reasons like ‘because’.
I don’t know any other way to say it
Whatever their game, you shouldn’t play it.

I never thought you could get So Deep.
Hard to believe you’re still into this creep.

MIDIMike

What Will We Be Like? MSK 2018

Posted: September 2, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry POD
Tags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter

In the past I have read lyrics from older songs that often romantically compare human strength with animal traits, or nature’s beauty. WE don’t do that anymore. Most people have never seen a fox or a cheetah. Those comparisons will fade with time. The animals will soon be gone forever.

Then we will be like humans; a plague.

MIDIMike

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A new home for the ‘toys’

Your Eyes Closed MSK 2016

Something about me

Your Best Fan MSK 2018

You Gotta Dress Right MSK 2018

Words Are Meaningless MSK 2021

When MSK 2016

What You Want MSK 2020

So Deep 8/29/2025 MSK

What Will We Be Like? MSK 2018

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