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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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vasselmeyer said:
Roland said: Lifting all this stuff beats going to a gym
I once depped for a band where the keyboard player used a Hammond B-3. I carelessly said I'd arrive early to give them a hand with loading in.
NEVER AGAIN...that organ had it's own gravity, it was so heavy.
I got my cash and left ASAP once the gig ended. There was no way I was helping with that thing again. Judge me all you like, but if you'd been in the same situation, you'd have done the same.
In the early days of The Selecter the keyboard player had a Hammond and none of them had a car that could take it. So they could only use it for gigs that it could be wheeled to from his house; some photos somewhere of the band pushing the Hammond through the streets of Coventry.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
I'm guessing that you're either Vangelis or Eddie Jobson as I think they were the only people in the world that could afford one (and the crew to lift it).
Still, if you pay as much as a medium-sized house for a synth, it makes sense that it should at least weigh as much as one. Sort of.
It must have been quite interesting to own one of the holy grail synths.
I had one mid 90's and sold it for about £300 when I relocated to the UK.
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There was a time when you couldn’t give ‘em away, same as Mellotrons, Jupiter 8’s, blahblahblah.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
I always wanted a Jupiter 8 but never quite had the cash, even in the post-FM world of cheezy electric piano and flutey leads. Came this close (holds thumb and index finger almost together) to buying a used Jupiter 6 but bought some stupid guitar instead. Ah well, you live and learn. (Or don't learn, in my case.)
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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The CS80 portamento strip was the really cool, genius feature but the main issue with it was the tuning was always drifting as it warmed up. It was just redundant old tech at the time. The holy grail stuff is just a modern creation. I think people imagine it as mega rich and warm.. but i found it quite thin and buzzy and the ring modulator was OTT. Needed external fx to get the full Vangelis thing going but the classic Blade Runner tones were all there, esp through an early Alesis digital reverb.
The weight, tuning issues and size made it impracticable for live use and it took up too much studio space. I gave it back. Would buy a camper van today with it.
I do wonder what it would be like to rediscover it again now. the Reface CS and modern equivalents do attract but then a Korg Prologue just sounds so much better.