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Tiresias 
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:18 |
His obituary made Time magazine. However, it cited the Moog synth's users as the Beatles and Floyd.
Honestly, I don't think the Beatles used it from the material I've heard.
Floyd was more of a Hammond and Sequencer band anyway.
Why not Yes or ELP?
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 22:12 |
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because a most of the readers of Time magazine don't really know who
Yes and ELP are. the Beatles and Floyd are two of the most
recognized names in rock. they clearly went for accessibility to
the reader rather than actual accuracy of fact.
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beterdedthnred4
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 22:20 |
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Listen to Abbey Road. The moog section of Maxwell's Silver Hammer brings Italian Prog to my mind
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Syntharachnid
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 00:00 |
Yeah, the Beatles used it, but I'm not sure about Floyd. PF may have used it at some point, but I know for a fact that the synths they used on DSOM were called the EMS VCS3 and the EMS Synthi AKS. Moogs and ARPs were pretty scarce in Britain in those days, not to mention a bit pricey for a band that had experienced so little comercial success as Pink Floyd.
Here's some pictures.
This is the VCS3:
... and this is the Synthi AKS:
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Syntharachnid
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 00:04 |
Oh, and my dad heard a thing on the radio about him that said that The Who used it. Once again, I can't say for sure that they didn't, but I do know that Pete Townshend is famous for having always been a devoted user of ARP synths. In songs like Who Are You, Won't Get fooled again and Baba O'Rieley you're hearing the immortal ARP 2600: 
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Syntharachnid
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Posted: August 31 2005 at 21:07 |
It's nice that he's getting a bit of attention, though, isn't it? He was one of the music industry's unsung heros.
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Progbear
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Posted: September 01 2005 at 05:21 |
 Syntharachnid wrote:
In songs like Who Are You, Won't Get fooled again
and Baba O'Rieley you're hearing the immortal ARP 2600: |
“Who Are You” is actually the ARP 2500, the modular big brother of the
2600, controlled by Townshend’s guitar. “Baba O’Riley” isn’t a synth at
all, just Townshend’s Lowrey console organ, on the “Marimba Repeat”
setting. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is actually the Lowrey again, this
time processed through the envelope shaper of a VCS3 synthesizer.
(Incidentally, the VCS3’s envelope shaper turns up again, processing
Townshend’s guitar solo on “Goin’ Mobile”).
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BiGi
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Posted: September 01 2005 at 05:39 |
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
Listen to Abbey Road. The moog section of Maxwell's Silver Hammer brings Italian Prog to my mind
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Confirmed!
If I can remember well, it was George Harrison who owned it.
It is featured in at least three songs on that album: I want you (the wind effect at the end), Here comes the sun (the counterpoint in the "Sun sun sun here it comes" section) and the already mentioned Maxwell's Silver Hammer (a very underrated track IMHO)
As a matter of fact, however, it's the only album on which they used it
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A flower?
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: September 01 2005 at 07:31 |
BiGi wrote:
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
Listen to Abbey Road. The moog section of Maxwell's Silver Hammer brings Italian Prog to my mind
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Confirmed!
If I can remember well, it was George Harrison who owned it.
It is featured in at least three songs on that album: I want you (the wind effect at the end), Here comes the sun (the counterpoint in the "Sun sun sun here it comes" section) and the already mentioned Maxwell's Silver Hammer (a very underrated track IMHO)
As a matter of fact, however, it's the only album on which they used it |
Add "Because" to your list.
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"He's a man of the past and one of the present"
PETER HAMMILL
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BiGi
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Posted: September 01 2005 at 07:57 |
M. B. Zapelini wrote:
BiGi wrote:
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
Listen to Abbey Road. The moog section of Maxwell's Silver Hammer brings Italian Prog to my mind |
Confirmed! If I can remember well, it was George Harrison who owned it. It is featured in at least three songs on that album: I want you (the wind effect at the end), Here comes the sun (the counterpoint in the "Sun sun sun here it comes" section) and the already mentioned Maxwell's Silver Hammer (a very underrated track IMHO) As a matter of fact, however, it's the only album on which they used it |
Add "Because" to your list. |
There you are! It's true, I was forgetting one of the most beautiful songs on that record!
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A flower?
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