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Post RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
This last Friday, we had a splendid conversation with Multi-instrumentalist and TrussT inventor, Andy Prokopyk. Boaz, Richard, Kevin, Shady and Rob all made it out fairly representing the Chapman Stick world and boy did I learn a lot!

To start, Andy, like many Stick players, is a creative person that just happens to also be a musician and a Stickist. He shared his inspirations with us - of which I was surprised to hear on who his starter Stick inspiration was. I generally presume it's Tony Levin for most, but that's cause I grew up on 80's Crimson. It was actually Kevin Keith!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxYieWID4w[/youtube]

Andy shared his experiences on his final months in School, Narcolepsy, along with all the science that comes with it. We talked about sleep, the lack thereof and how it affects the brain.

Lastly, Andy shared his invention, the TrussT, which is a small molded plastic add-on for a Chapman Stick that will affix the custom Stick Truss wrench to the instrument itself - so it's easy to get to. We got to the see the actual construction of it on his 3-D laser printer - fascinating! Kids these days!!!

Hope that you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed being there for the moment. We all look forward to more great music from Andy and wish him the best on wrapping up college and at some point, letting us know how we can get a hold of TrussT!

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Post Re: RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
Gene,

Had a good time lets do this again yeah!


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Post Re: RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
Thanks for having me! A milestone reached with my feature on FHF. And thanks for letting me spread some awareness of my sleep/neuro/auto-immune disorder. It's not as uncommon as people may think! (1 in 2000 people, same statistic as parkinsons)

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Post Re: RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
'twas a good session!
Andy it's good to see the truss-t go from mind to matter. it's a great idea, sounds like Emmett is interested in employing its use as well.

I got jealous after seeing your Ric, so I promptly went out and ordered one the next day.....jetglo black....yummy.

I'll pm you with a rough drawing of the strapless idea I had a while ago to see what you think and to see if you can come up with something if you have the time.

Cheers,
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Post Re: RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
I think I know this guy ;) . Good hangout, and nice open feel. Insane machine and gadget too, I used duck tape and your elegant idea wins haha.! You are a champion of plastics or whatever that stuff is huh? Need to hear you play more.
Oh and tactile feel: nice to talk about that.

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Link to band or solo mate :) : thanks!

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Post Re: RECAP: Free Hands Friday #72 - Andy Prokopyk
Hey Ben! Are you going to StickMen in May? If so I'll see you there!

Here's the link to the song mentioned:

https://soundcloud.com/apro-1/something ... 101915-mix


And my Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXfw_x ... qTW3NNgcHA


I don't have much content floating around the internet unfortunately. I should fix that.

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