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Location: Michigan | I dont seem to remember ever hearing of this type of keyboard until Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake & Palmer seemed to of made it famous.Did anyone else play one of these and make it big with one?
I can only think of Edgar Winter with a hand held one in his Frankenstien days?
I remember King Crimson made the Melotrom become a new short lived instrument of Rock & Roll.
GWB
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Beatles, Beach Boys, Moody's, Apollo 100, Floyd, Focus, Yes, Carlos, Tomita, Deodato, etc., etc., etc. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | The First time I heard one , was someone playing the theme of " Doctor Zhivago "..
Vic |
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Location: NJ | walter carlos switched on bach
then he switched gender and became
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Location: big island | robert moog lived close to where i use to live in asheville, nc.
here's more info for you gwb:
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Location: Michigan | :eek: I started searching some Keith Emerson on you tube and I ran across this and I am now starting to think that he is one of the BEST pianists I have ever heard in a Rock & Roll band.Check it out.GWB
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Location: chicago | ken hensley uriah heep |
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Location: Chicago | "Lucky Man" hit the airwaves in 1970. Wakeman soon followed. Very soon in the fusion arena Jan Hammer (then Chick Corea) made it the Minimoog a definitive instrument: Ever hear the original "Meeting of the Spirits"?
GREG LAKE: "(I said) I've got this little folk song that I wrote when I was 12 years old.' And so I pulled out my acoustic guitar and I started playing 'Lucky Man'. And, of course, everyone looked back at me as if to say, 'What is the matter with him?' Because, up to this point, ELP hadn't done anything that sounded like this; we were all about this powerful progressive rock music we had been playing. " But, we decided to try it anyway. So, we started out recording the song with just Carl and me on acoustic guitar and drums, and it sounded pretty dreadful. I added the bass guitar, and it sounded a little bit better. Then, we added the vocals and it started to sound OK. "
Eventually it was time to put down Emerson's part. " They were playing the song in the studio," says Emerson. " and I started folloing around. I did a run through, a rehearsal of my solo. And I looked up at Greg in the control room, and I said, ' OK, let's take it...' And he looked at me and said, ' Take it? That was great. We've got it!'
" I didn't realize it at the time, but Greg had let the tape roll and they recorded my run through. As it turned out, that was the one we kept."
" Keith came in and started fooling around with the MOOG," adds Lake. " He came up with that famous MOOG line in the song. And finally, we had the song as you know it.
" And, I guess, as time went on, it became pretty popular."" |
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Location: south east Michigan | "wrote it when I was 12".
Sheesh. |
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Location: Chicago | If you think about it, it's pretty original: a sort-of folk song with MOOG! Who would think of that? (ELP) |
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| Originally posted by Slipkid:
"wrote it when I was 12".
Sheesh. I didn't know that he wrote it when he was 12 but the lyrics do seem that they might have been written by an imaginative 12 year old who maybe grew up in England quite some time ago. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Frank Zappa had a gentleman named Don Preston in his band who played "mini-moog". |
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THE FIRST TIME I REMEMBER HEARING SOMEONE PLAY MOOG SYNTHESIZER IT WAS KEITH EMERSON