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Alan Haven and Tony Crombie. This appears to be a "hand-sync" performance but Haven still puts in over-the-top body moves to wrench out every note. This is from an episode of the Cilla Black Show which featured all Beatles music. She was friends with The Beatles going back to the Cavern Club. They wrote the theme song for her show and Lennon and McCartney made an appearance on this episode. The organ used here looks like a Lowrey DSO-1 Heritage Deluxe which is the same type The Beatles used on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Haven often worked with soundtrack composer Barry Gray. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2v8nGt6BCg

I got to play with Tim Rockmore on New Years Eve. He is a guitarist who is related to Clara. He was surprised that I knew who she was. Tim was filling in with an 80s band who I've played with on occasion and he has his own band. [video:youtube] [video:youtube]

I don't see ice cream trucks where I live now. In the old neighborhood which is only five miles away ice cream trucks came around every day. One would always play "Fur Elise". Another played "The Entertainer" and another played "Home on the Range". Several years ago some local ice cream trucks were also selling cocaine until they got busted. I'm guessing they might have played "Mary Had a Little Lamb" which has the line "white as snow". Here in New Jersey during the pandemic ice cream trucks are considered essential businesses along with fast food restaurants and liquor stores so they are free to operate without the restrictions put on other businesses. The drivers do take precautions like wearing gloves and changing them after a cash transaction. Many now take credit cards and have Apps for tracking when they are getting close to your area. A selection of ice cream truck music: [video:youtube]

Dave Teegarden and Skip Van Winkle had a minor hit in 1970 with "God, Love and Rock & Roll". Both worked with Bob Seger most notably on the album Smokin' OP's. Van Winkle was a member of Robby Krieger's band in the 90s. [video:youtube]

Forgot about Zeitlin. He got his P10 through Patrick Gleeson. If this is all correct there were at least six of them built rather than five as usually thought.

Dan Wyman who recorded Bach's Simphonia No. 11 - 3 Part Invention for the original Prophet 5 1978 sound sheet demo owned two original Prophet 10 synths. He was a music professor at San Jose University and worked as sound designer with film director/composer John Carpenter. Synthesist, composer, producer Patrick Gleeson also owned two original Prophet 10s. I remember a Keyboard Magazine interview where he said his P10 had no problems with overheating. A Prophet 10 that likely belonged to Gleeson is now in the Audities Synth Museum. Korg R&D engineer Brandon Daniel kept a non-working single manual Prophet 10 in the Korg R&D lab for many years. He supplied some IC's from his P10 - possibly EPROMs - to the Audities Museum to repair their Prophet 10. http://users.telenet.be/prophet-5/Prophet_5_Revisions/Prototype/Prophet10.jpg

Nick Rhodes' recurring eastern-sounding pitch-bend flourish on Duran Duran's "Save a Prayer" is very distinctive. [video:youtube]

Larry Fast should be on the list. His Synergy albums were pretty cool as well as his work with Peter Gabriel, Nektar, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates. He was also brought in to help Yes on Tales from Topographic Oceans.

Many well-known songs used earlier versions of the Pianet such as the C which The Beatles used most often. These are similar to the N but have a somewhat different preamp design. Most early-to-mid 60s recordings used a C or L model. As for Pianets in general there are several bands that used them. Most EP's heard on Beatles records are Hohner Pianet until Billy Preston came along with the Fender Rhodes. The Guess Who used a Pianet extensively on their Wheatfield Soul album and a bit on later albums. My all-time favorite Pianet band was Rare Bird. Their first two albums heavily feature Pianet and it is on their international hit "Sympathy". Keyboardist David Kaffinetti later joined Spinal Tap. Many Zombies recordings use a Pianet. Rod Argent continued using Pianet with Argent which can be heard on "God Gave Rock and Roll to You". "Venus" by The Shocking Blue sounds like a Pianet. The rare Hohner Electra Piano which looks like a small spinet Piano was used prominently by Led Zeppelin on such recordings as "Misty Mountain Hop", "Stairway to Heaven", "No Quarter", and a few others. The Electra sounds similar to the Pianet but has more dynamic response. The Curved Air band had two Hohner Pianets when I saw them and can be heard on many of their recordings such as their hit "Back Street Luv". John Lennon used the Electra Piano as a stage instrument after The Beatles. It may have been used on "Come Together". It might also be on "Imagine" mixed in with the acoustic Piano but I've seen reports that it was an RMI. A few Prog bands such as Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator used Pianets .

The Gibson organ became Ray's primary live instrument for most shows but he did return to the Vox for some 1969 appearances. Most likely if he was breaking keys it was on plastic key Italian-made Continentals as the earlier wooden key British and American models were very durable. I've only seen a couple of photos of Ray with an Italian Continental and one of them is on the Absolutely Live album cover at what appears to be a rehearsal or recording session. Ray did continue to use a Vox in the studio along with the Gibson up until the LA Woman album. The Vox and Gibson can be seen in photos from the LA Woman sessions along with the Hammond C3, Fender Rhodes, and Wurlitzer. In one photo and some video footage what appears to be a Farfisa FAST 5 can be seen. On the Absolutely Live album and other live albums all songs recorded at the Aquarius Theatre Hollywood in 1969 feature Vox organ. Recordings from the Felt Forum New York and other venues in 1970 have the Gibson although a few recordings cited as being from the Felt Forum sound like a Vox to me. The Doors played two consecutive nights at the Felt Forum with two shows a night so it could be possible they switched to the Vox for one show. When The Doors appeared on the PBS TV Critique show in 1969 Ray played only a Vox.

There are plenty of photos and videos of The Doors out there and not one shows bass pedals other than maybe the C3 he used in the studio. The earliest live recordings of The Doors at The London Fog were done before Ray had the Piano Bass so there is no bass at all on there other than Ray's left hand on the Continental. The Gibson/Kalamazoo and dual Keyboard Continentals did have optional bass pedals. No photos or video show Ray using bass pedals with the Gibson and he never used a double manual Continental. Robby Krieger had a band in the 90s called The Robby Krieger Organization which featured Skip Van Winkel of Teagarden and Van Winkel as well was Bob Seger's band who did bass on Hammond pedals. [video:youtube]

Here you can see Ray's left hand pretty well at about 3:00 and 6:00. As far as I can tell he is only hitting D each time. [video:youtube]

I have played this a lot of times on a Piano Bass and never gave it much thought but I've always played D every time as it sits under the hand position so well. Now I'm going to try using D# as it makes perfect sense as an approach note. The Doors had a Bass player in the studio for most of the Strange Days album. This is apparently the only song on the album to use Piano Bass. Morrison was not present in the studio when the song was recorded and Manzarek did a guide vocal. Morrison overdubbed his entire vocal track.

The Casio XW-P1 has been discontinued with no replacement announced yet. The major dealers are showing it as unavailable but there could be a new unsold one somewhere if you check around.

You are correct. They arranged the level knobs on the Pro 800 so they are on each Oscillator rather than in a separate Mixer section. Since there was no Noise in the original P600 they probably didn't see a need to be able to set both oscillators to zero and were able to cut costs a bit. If desired for some reason like using Filter oscillation alone this probably could be accomplished by not selecting any waveform or setting the Pulse Width of one oscillator to zero.

I was practicing this Piano part for many years almost everyday. One unique trademark thing Larry does a few times is a quick downward chord arpeggio. Never have come across this in another piece. Larry won a Grammy for his arrangement on this song.which took him several days to work out under Paul Simon's direction. Among my favorite Larry Knechtel Keyboard work is his Harpsichord on The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" and his Piano and Harpsichord on "Lydia Purple" by The Collectors. Larry's Bass credits include Duane Eddy's late 50's/early 60s records and "Light My Fire" (Carol Kaye has claimed credit but I asked Robby about it) and a couple of other songs on The Doors first album.

Both the Prophet 5 and Pro-One have a three knob mixer section with levels for Osc A, Osc B, and Noise/(Ext. Pro-One only). The Prophet 600 has one knob which sets the balance between Osc A and Osc B. As mentioned the P600 Poly Mod only has Filter Env and Osc B as sources and only Osc A Frequency and Filter as destinations while the Pro-One is most flexible with three sources and five destinations all with choice of Direct or Wheel control. P600 Filter Keyboard Tracking only has Full, 1/2 and Off similar to the Oberheim OB series which is an improvement over the P5 On/Off but not as flexible as the continuously variable Pro-One. The LFO on the P5 and Pro-One add a Sawtooth waveform. The P600 has Pulse Width Modulation on Osc A and Osc B simultaneously which might be a minor problem if you want a Square wave on both oscillators but only want one to be modulated. Except for the addition of Noise the Pro 800 appears to be functionally faithful to the Prophet 600.

Geoff Downes had a Rhodes in his early 80s rig with Asia. He may have had it when he played in Yes.

Moraz also played Rhodes on the Refugee album prior to joining Yes. A few Prog bands such as Genesis, Curved Air, Rare Bird, Iron Butterfly(?), and a few lesser-knowns used Hohner Pianet. Genesis and Iron Butterfly also used RMI. If Zappa can be considered Prog he used RMI in the early 70s.

Some PBS stations are currently running The Chris Botti Band in Concert. Joey Defrancesco joins Botti and stays on stage most of the night. Botti's band is outstanding. Here is an excerpt from the show. [video:youtube]

Here is an interesting article from Vanity Fair. Rick had multiple heart attacks at age 25. He lost all his belongings and was homeless for a time due to the high cost of touring his elaborate stage shows which forced him to rejoin Yes to make ends meet. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman

I'm surprised he held onto it this long. Rick usually gets rid of gear he considers obsolete like the Moogs and Prophets 5 and 10 he sold in 1981 after switching to almost all Korg gear including a BX-3 for stage use.

When there was still work for musicians I had regular gigs where the club had no stage and the audience was right in your face all night falling against my gear and splashing drinks on the Keys. During break I had to stay next to my Keyboard otherwise it would get knocked over or somebody would put a drink on top of it. On that type of gig I wouldn't risk using a $1000 instrument let alone a $3000+ Keyboard. The least of my concerns is whether it is the best sounding or has the best Keyboard action. I used the cheapest Keyboard I could find that could cover the sounds reasonably well. Certainly it wouldn't be near the same league as a a Nord or Kronos but it had to be expendable due to the potential risk of damage. The best solution I found for this was a 76-Key Casio WK series I got new for $300. It has a Rompler section, Tone Wheel Organ section, splits/layers, L and R outputs with enough editing capability to tailor sounds as needed. On safe gigs I will often take out two or three valuable Keyboards but in certain cases it's about getting through a gig with the smallest amount of gear and the least risk that's more important. I rarely do the safe gigs with one Keyboard but If I felt the need to do so the Stage 3 Compact would be my choice having a Tone Wheel section with drawbars, Piano section, Sample/VA section, splits/layers, multiple outputs and plenty of physical controls.

Ray had a Keyboard Products Hammond chop which he used for much of the 70s. Here is a post-Morrison Doors clip: [video:youtube]

Neither the Hammond nor Rhodes were likely owned by Ray. He had no nostalgia for vintage instruments and in the later years on the occasions he was seen playing classic gear it was often supplied by Robbie Krieger's current Keyboardist Nathan Wilmarth who has a massive collection. With only an office used for a music room Ray apparently didn't even have an acoustic Piano in his home. Here is a description of Ray's Napa Valley home: https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Rock-n-roll-retreat-The-Doors-Ray-Manzarek-2798037.php#photo-2208127