My real name is Ken Jackson. I chose the name "Willoughby" as a music name just because it sounded cool(nope, there's no spiritual/personal meaning behind it or any of that bullshit). I'm 18 years old, reside in PA, and attend Johnson Technical Institute. I'm going there for electronics. I'm pretty much a one-man act(but isn't an "act" when you actually perform in front of people? Heh.) I know very little keyboard, but feel I make good use of it. I took lessons in a class at my high school during my senior year. From that, I can read some basic music. I'd like to take more lessons, primarily in funk and jazz keyboarding(a little of this and that). In that class, I used a Roland D5(released in 1987, if I remember).

As for my equipment(2 pieces so far), I have a Yamaha DJ-X digital keyboard, and a Tascam Porta-02 Ministudio 4-track recorder. I've heard both good and bad about the DJ-X, and agree far more with the good. Sure, it won't perform like a $1500 virtual analog workstation, but $200 is damn good for a built-in 6-track recorder/sequencer, 284 voices, real-time analog-style effects(cutoff, resonance, etc.), loads of distortion effects...I could go on. Go figure, they just released the DJX-II, and I got my DJ-X in June. Oh, my 4-track does a damn good job, too.

The list of(vintage)keyboards/synthesizers I want is pretty big, so I'll make a list of my necescities:
-Moog Polymoog Synthesizer("Moog" is pronounced with a long 'o'. Like "rouge".)
-Fender Rhodes Mark I Electric Piano
-Hohner D6 Clavinet
-Moog Minimoog
-Roland Jupiter 8 synthesizer
I'll probably wait till I take more lessons to buy the bulk of them, but I'm definitely getting a Polymoog as soon as I have the money to spare. Beefy, evil analog buzz on that beast(hey, a semi-tongue twister). Check out Gary Numan's "The Pleasure Principle" for a positive plethora of pure polyphonic Polymoog power(there I go again).