Moog Cookbook springs to mind. Electronic with a great sense of humor.
I was listening to some Steve Reich today: The ECM recordings of The Steve Reich Ensemble. It sounds electronic but it’s all played on acoustic instruments.
@SSteve
When we were visiting NY’s Finger Lakes last year, we ate at a restaurant called Little Venice, in the small town of Trumansburg. Found out after the fact, that the restaurant sits on the former site of the R.A. Moog Co., where the Moog synthesizer was invented.
@SSteve I think of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s (Oxford comma omitted only because that is the way they list the names) “Lucky Man”, where Keith Emerson (poorly, IMHO) demonstrated how he could “bend” notes on the Moog. (Give me Mike Pinder on the Mellotron any day of the week!)
@Mark_L I learned an interesting thing about Mike Pinder on a 500 Songs bonus podcast. He worked in QC for the company that made Mellotrons. He was the one who put the tapes in and tuned the motors. But, being a struggling musician, he couldn’t afford one. The band eventually bought a broken-down second-hand Mellotron that “had originally been owned by the social club at the Dunlop tire factory.” I keep wondering how an employee at the Dunlop tire factory social club convinced a higher-up that a Mellotron would be a good purchase.
I also learned that “Nights in White Satin” was recorded as part of a series of throw-away stereo demonstration records for Decca’s stereo-only subsidiary.
@SSteve I also read somewhere about how the Mellotron would get damaged during shipping between concerts, and Pinder would have to use his experience working on them to put it back into working order before (or sometimes, during) a concert.
Moog Cookbook springs to mind. Electronic with a great sense of humor.
I was listening to some Steve Reich today: The ECM recordings of The Steve Reich Ensemble. It sounds electronic but it’s all played on acoustic instruments.
@SSteve
When we were visiting NY’s Finger Lakes last year, we ate at a restaurant called Little Venice, in the small town of Trumansburg. Found out after the fact, that the restaurant sits on the former site of the R.A. Moog Co., where the Moog synthesizer was invented.
@SSteve I think of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s (Oxford comma omitted only because that is the way they list the names) “Lucky Man”, where Keith Emerson (poorly, IMHO) demonstrated how he could “bend” notes on the Moog. (Give me Mike Pinder on the Mellotron any day of the week!)
@chipgreen That’s very cool! I hope their canned music was all Wendy Carlos.
@Mark_L I learned an interesting thing about Mike Pinder on a 500 Songs bonus podcast. He worked in QC for the company that made Mellotrons. He was the one who put the tapes in and tuned the motors. But, being a struggling musician, he couldn’t afford one. The band eventually bought a broken-down second-hand Mellotron that “had originally been owned by the social club at the Dunlop tire factory.” I keep wondering how an employee at the Dunlop tire factory social club convinced a higher-up that a Mellotron would be a good purchase.
I also learned that “Nights in White Satin” was recorded as part of a series of throw-away stereo demonstration records for Decca’s stereo-only subsidiary.
@SSteve I also read somewhere about how the Mellotron would get damaged during shipping between concerts, and Pinder would have to use his experience working on them to put it back into working order before (or sometimes, during) a concert.
/youtube Dick Hyman Minotaur
(Best with headphones)