Guitar synth tracks - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Robert Fripp, John McLaughlin and many others embraced the technology of guitar synths. This is a thread to share some of those tracks.

Here's a King Crimson track with both Adrian and Robert playing guitar synth.

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I was thinking of 10CC with their "Gismo" which was featured in a few of their songs.

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Hi,

I first heard of Terje in 1974 when I saw an advertisement in Melody Maker for a concert with Ash Ra Tempel and Terje Rypdal's Odyssey in London. And I ended up with the double album that I still like. Terje has done a lot of far out things, but the most beautiful one is the one album that no one has heard and enjoyed like I have ... EOS with David Darling ... take away the first cut in the album, the rest is Jimi Hendrix in heaven and then some, the best "chamber music" with an electric guitar ever ... and a real oddity, but it shows how a rock audience thinks the rest of the music is not important or valuable ... the visuals in it are far out, and a part of this album (and some from Garbarek's Eventyr album) were a part of a film that won the Best Oscar for Foreign Film ... one that we don't want to see because it is about the hope for freedom ... for folks that are still "stuck" ...

Talk about a special evening for 1974 with Ash Ra Tempel and Terje Rypdal ... gets me all excited ... how I wish I were there, and if I was rich enough those guys would have played in my living room!

I kinda thought, and still do, that too much of the music has "make believe" lyrics, and I prefer the real thing that allows you the visuals in your mind ... instead of merely the idea of the whole thing. I loved Space Ritual and a lot of the well known "space rock", but all in all the whole thing was more about the science fiction side of it than it was anything else, which came to an end, sort of ... later ... the Michael Moorcock era/stuff was dead and no one gave a damn anymore ... the "hits" were more important!

The majority of the lyrics in a lot of "space rock" ... are really poor from a writing perspective ... if that was your paper in an English class, you would be lucky to get a B, specially as the paper/lyrics had no continuity which was replaced by a format instead.

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Prog guitarists I have seen using guitar synth, live:

a) Al Dimeola - he would use his synth to trigger sampled sounds like pan flutes etc.

b) John Goodsall - one of the fastest guitarists when he was with us, he played Brian Moore synth guitar

c) Steve Morse - he was so fast when soloing, I'm amazed the synth could track along with him!

Sorry, no videos, I'll see what i can find!

I talked to Bob Fripp after the "Discipline" show in Chicago (Nov 10, 1981) when he first revealed the Roland guitar synth to the world. I told him what a "strong instrument" I thought it was, and he gave a broad smile!

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Thanks to all who have participated.

Here's another from Pat Metheny.

Carl Verheyen Group with Holdsworth on SynthAxe.

Way back in the '80s, this guy called Neil Nappe released a guitar synth album called July that sounded like nothing else at the time.

Here's a 2001 performance of a piece from an unreleased album. Apart from the Alesis drumbox, all sounds you hear are 100% live!

Equipment: Roland GM-70 + D-550 / Yamaha TX81Z / Oberheim Xpander / Alesis HR-16

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I used to have that Alesis drumbox.

Ditto. Then I got the SR-16, its successor.

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Another from John McLaughlin, a 2008 release.

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