Mykhailo
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I always dug playing a CP 80 for the very reason that I could 'lean into it' in during rock n roll. I get that not everyone loves it, but I"m sure glad I held onto mine. The first time I ever played to a huge crowd on a big, outdoor stage, I was a last minute sub to accompany an opera singer. The back line for the gig was a CP80. Can"t get more trad than that! Sentimentality I guess...but I l still love playing mine every once and a while.
Here is a master playing it very traditionally, seems to fit in nice with the 'new grass' once they take the stage:
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Tom Waits on acoustic, George Duke on the CP80. ' Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis'
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I will add that Faragher is a badassed mofo as well.
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Agreed!
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Another gem (but written by Nick Lowe..)
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By then (7-8 years ago...) the band would have been Elvis Costello and 'The Imposters.' After Bruce Thomas left, they retired the name 'The Attractions.' Davey Faragher (Cracker, John Hiatt) replaced Bruce Thomas on bass. Despite the acrimony between Bruce and Elvis, even he realized that it was not the same band after Bruce left.
Bruce was like McCartney in that his melodic bass lines really defined the sound of the band.
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I heard Claudia passed away a few years ago...so sad. Sang on so many hits. Thanks for sharing this clip!
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I was ranting in another thread about the intangible nature of band dynamic. This song is flawless from a songwriting perspective (Dylan called it one of his favourite tunes) but the brilliant interplay of the individual members speaks to a band truly being the sum of it"s parts. Love this tune. A masterclass by Steve Nieve on how to come up with perfect hooks while Bruce Thomas plays counter melody throughout!
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Just saw the initial clip...
Full disclosure, I"m not a Toto fan, though like everyone, I dig the big hits. Lot"s of comments here talking about 'individual' musicianship qualities...what it comes down to is the difference between being part of a band vs simply being a hired gun on a gig.
The musicians in the second clip sound like a group of hired guns who have been brought together to do a one off, whereas the original clip contains the intangible dynamic that can only come from years of living together on stages, tour buses, hotels, recording studios, etc.
Now I may be wrong, not knowing the history of Toto, but to my ears you can"t discuss what 'mediocrity' vs 'excellence' is in a rock band and reduce it to individual qualities. Things such as 'this individual drummers pocket' vs 'that' drummer or, sharp vs flat vocals, etc. Over the course of time, a successful band melds and adjusts to those individual aberrations to create an intangible band dynamic. i.e. Daryl Jones is a monster bassist who played with the likes of Miles Davis, but Bill Wyman was/is/always will be the the bass player for the Stones...that band just never sounded quite the same once he left.
A band is a band. A group of 'jobbers' brought together for a singular moment in time by a paycheque that does not make...just my two cents.
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I get to write off repair bills and a certain percentage of equipment. There is a great second hand store in my town which I have bought pretty much everything I"ll ever need for what I do.
(rhodes, a couple of old combo organs, an accordion and a grand piano...)
Some like old cars. I like old keyboards. That said, if it does not fit in my tiny studio room, then something has to go...
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3) Future gear in both hardware and software will be very well packaged with the sounds, features and functionalities of the gear of yesteryear. :
so long as manufacturers and sound designers keep coming up with patches based on the gear of yesteryear, there will always be a demand for the real thing. Curiosity alone would fuel that demand. The prices for rhodes pianos are the highest I"ve seen in my lifetime, yet this is occurring precisely at a moment when software emulations are sonically indecipherable from the real thing.
Once 'bread and butter' sounds no longer include, ep"s, organs, clavs, analog leads, mellotrons, etc., then at that point you will see vintage gear start to depreciate. I don"t see that paradigm shift happening anytime soon...korg just released reissues of the ms20, arp 2600, moog just did a run of reissue minis, vintage vibe is now coming out with their second generation of electro mechanical pianos...vintage gear demand is not going away anytime soon.
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We ain't gonna be around forever - and neither will the techs who can repair vintage pieces, or the replacement parts for them. .
The go to vintage synth repair shop in my home town is staffed entirely by techs born after the majority of these instruments were made. Same goes for vintage vibe, etc. Plus, there are new aftermarket parts constantly being developed.
I have an entire studio of vintage gear, and most of the tech work has been done by people who weren"t even born when I was in highs-school.
I say keep.
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Can anyone identify the organ sitting behind Ray Manzarek in this video? [video:youtube]
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I"ve managed to come up with some pretty cool sounding multi-timbral combos on the the JV. The vintage synth expansion card sounds surprisingly good having played many of the originals.
I had someone remove the red glue and replace, so that is now taken care of.
Re: stomp boxes...been there. For years I was a guitar pedal guy. Too many cables, too many issues. In my middle age I"m now starting to really dig the whole Jordan Rudess single board thing....
Great replies. This place rocks! ð
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Enjoy the jam! We were trying to sound 1994 in 1994! At the risk of starting a flame war, I kinda feel that rock ended when Kurt Cobain died. i.e. everything after was just trying to sound like something from another era...
Going to duck now before the millennials start throwing band names at me that make look like the middle aged Gen x"er that I am! ð Maybe I"ll start the topic of rock and post modernity in a separate thread.
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The Roland JV sounds are still relevant and they were very good sounds and still are, though I think are characteristic to music that was very popular in the timeframe when those came out, or for music that has the vibe of sounding like that era.
the last time I worked with these musicians was 1994, which was the last time I used the JV. We are trying to rework unfinished tunes from 26 years ago. Going to go with the JV and an organ.
Thanks for the replies.
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Nine In Nails or Radiohead. .
This...
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If you were to show up to a jam/writing session with a modern, progressive rock type band, what would you be bringing in terms of sounds/gear?
My entire professional career has been in country, roots, alt-country (i.e. piano/wurly, organ, accordion), or my jazz trio.
I"ve been asked to participate in an informal jam/writing session with a group looking for the sounds of a modern keyboardist. I said yes in that I find it exciting to try and work with a genre I have almost no professional experience in. This is not a 'gig", more of a hang with people I like.
What sounds would you be bringing to the table? I certainly do not want to be buying new gear for a project that is not a gig. I looked through my studio and found a roland JV80 and a vintage synth expansion card. Anything useable with those boards?
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thanks a lot...just when I thought I had my gear spending under control...now I have to go out and buy a model D! ð
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He"s a brilliant hammond organ player. I can"t think of anyone else today his age who plays rock organ in such a virtuosic manner. He has the Emerson flair for sure... I was ready to go see him this month but the covid blues ended that. Can"t wait to see him live.
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Thank you! ð
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There was a rock power trio active in the early 2010s whose name escapes me, but their keyboardist (no guitarist) prominently played a whammy clav, and I saw several interviews where the puzzled interviewer would ask about the clavinet, and mention having never heard of it, and the phrase "guitar in a box" came up a lot, and I got increasingly frustrated that nobody ever just said "Superstition." Even if they were trying to keep the reference points to Rock with a capital R, John Paul Jones used his clav so prominently with Led Zeppelin, and even if people haven't listened to Physical Graffiti, Trampled Under Foot was still being played on the radio in the mid-2000s.Not a mention of George Duke who had a whammy on his clav 35+ yers ago?Anyway, I like when people give proper context to these things, and that never sat well with me.
I think this was the first recorded use of the clav in rock/pop:
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Where in London (UK) can I buy...
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...a Casio CGP-700? Or an equivalent model?
Looking for: internal speakers, stand, fully weighted, larger selection of sounds than a standard home DP, (i.e. some synth and organ samples...) Trying to locate one (new) for a friend in London. The CGP-700 does not seem to be available over there, unless I"m mistaken.
Thanks,
Mike