orangefunk Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Some issue in 1988 with Tangerine Dream I recall... I do have some earlier ones though that I bought off ebay.. one with Chick in 1977 and Brian Auger in 1977 too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangefunk Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 btw in that 1977 Chick issue he alludes to his difficulty in obtaining the Light as a Feather rhodes sound again.. saying it was a odd combination of some PA and mixer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Golly Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I fondly remember my first issue: http://www.svengolly.com/img/KeyboardJuly85_KateBush_263x350.jpg July 1985. Kate Bush and a Fairlight. Two things that I lusted after for years, and still do. Sadly enough, also two things that I've never laid a hand on. Ahem. Okay, that's not true, I've played a Fairlight on a couple of occassions, but the joke was there and needed to be said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 1987 Jeff Lorber on the cover with a Keytar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimtheswede Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I picked up the 1st issue with Chick on the cover in a music store while salivating over the Oberheim 2 voice that I wanted (and should have saved up and bought, but didn't. Got an Odyssey instead). I subscribed in time to get the 2nd issue with Herbie. I still have all of them (also in the basement), along with all the old "Polyphony" issues, that later turned into EM. My wife would really like to know why I save all these also - especially since I don't look at them anymore, and for the last few years, they have started accummulating in the upstairs closet. PC3X, PC1se, NE2 61, DSI P08, ARP Odyssey MkII 2810, ARP Little Brother, Moog Slim Phatty, Doepfer Dark Energy, Arturia MiniBrute, Microkorg, Motion Sound KP200S, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Another for issue #1..... I was 15 and just starting lessons. I was just checking out a music store (Heck Music in Ventura, CA) with new appreciation and the ability to play a C chord on all of 'boards, and saw the issue. Been reading it ever since. Hard to believe that was over 30 years ago....yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzzz Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Late 70's, George Duke on the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosendorphen Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 The first issue I bought was the April 1977 Brian Auger issue. I was browsing at the local Hallmark and saw it in the magazine racks. I already gotten my first synth (Minikorg) the previous Christmas and was thrilled with the magazine seeing folks playing all these different keyboard instruments. Heaven!! I suscribed right away and soon after bought all the back issues so I am a proud owner of every issue. I swear I'm not mental... OK, not over-the-top mental. I just love going through the old issues, reading the reviews, staring at the ads, thinking where I was and what I was doing when those synths were for sale in the stores. EXACTLY!!! "The devil take the poets who dare to sing the pleasures of an artist's life." - Gottschalk Soundcloud Aethellis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Davis Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 # 1 with Chick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgregg Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 The very first was issue #1, which my piano teacher gave me and which I kept for a while and then lost. The first issue I actually bought was early 1978, with Gary Wright on the cover, and then I accumulated and kept all until mid 1994. These all got purged out about 10-12 years ago, but the accumulation started again in around 2003. Steinway L, 1958 Hammond B3, Kurzweil Forte, Prophet-6, Minimoog Voyager, Kawai VPC-1,Oberheim SEM-Pro, Doepfer Dark Energy, Nord Rack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonglow Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Tony Banks - July, 1978. I'm sure it still resides somewhere in my parent's basement. I recall salivating over an ad in this issue depicting the Farfisa V.I.P. 600 combo organ! "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim D Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 My first was the April 1978 issue with Van Cliburn on the cover. I really loved those issues in the late 1970s and 1980s. Cheers, Tim www.soundclick.com/TimothyDowd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim D Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 The first issue of Keyboard that I ever held in my hands was the Jonathan Cain cover issue from the early 80's. My most favorite soundpage was the Dave Stewart/Barbara Gaskin song "Henry and James." It was one of the songs from their new CD "Up From The Dark." I have never been able to locate that CD - sure wish I could. I loved that Stewart/Gaskin soundpage. Like you, I had to search high and low to find a copy of the CD (did so some 7 to 10 years ago). Unfortunately, the intro to Henry and James on the CD is not the same as the intro on the soundpage. Wish that I could find that soundpage version... By the way, the Stewart / Gaskin stuff is now available online. You can find it here: Dave & Barb's Music Cheers, Tim www.soundclick.com/TimothyDowd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulliver Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 In fact my very first one was called "Keyboards"... It was marked as the issue # 9 (from 11/94) and it was in German. To this very day I can't understand a single word from it... yet I still have it as a "memorabilia thing" (it was a gift I got from a friend of mine - 14 years ago!). I am back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey Keys Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Another #1 here. But is this really something we should be bragging about? Wasn't that about, oh, a quarter century ago? Larry. Here too... I wasn't gonna date myself with that one, but it seems I'm in good company. Especially since it's actually a third of a century, but hey, who's counting? -Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobadohshe Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Mine was in the late 90's and I can't remember what was on it / in it. I remember all the gear discussion being way over my head though, but the master classes in it had me hooked! It was a masterclass on funky 2 fisted clav playing, and some of those patterns I still use! In college I scoured the UCSD library basement which had back issues to the early 80s and I made photocopies of my favorite masterclasses. I wish I had the whole collection. There's a ton of education sitting in them magazines. Kawai C-60 Grand Piano : Hammond A-100 : Hammond SK2 : Yamaha CP4 : Yamaha Montage 7 : Moog Sub 37 My latest album: Funky organ, huge horn section https://bobbycressey.bandcamp.com/album/cali-native Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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