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Voltor07 wrote:

Portamental wrote:

joebuck wrote:I think that you're referring to the Yamaha GX-1

That would be that unit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyCDWWP ... re=related. Video shot in my backyard (Olympic Stadium 1976-7 ?), included in the 2 DVD set "In the beginning".

I can understand a musician's never ending search for more gear (and polyphony), but I can remember being taken away from the Moog sound so characteristic of ELP'S music. Still sound pretty good. Hope the link works.

Yes, that's the beast I was talking about. Only a couple GX-1's were actually built, if memory serves, which is why I confused it for a prototype. Awesome machine.

I think that they built around 70 of them.

Particle.

Back in the day the Grateful Dead used a Mini on Wake Of The Flood, US Blues, Loose Lucy, and of course Unbroken Chain. Very weird use as a sort of pulsating pad near the end of Chain as well as an interesting slow rising-pitch effect.

Also Little Feat used monosynths (I am assuming are Moog) in their live act in the 70's.

And no mention yet of The Tubes either. What do YOU want from life???

sixsinisters wrote:Alrite, that was back in a days, How about current bands? i heard boards of canada is one of them.
But if you really love synth based band, you should listen to "Spleen United" bunch of guys playing synths like no other .. this is currently my fave band .. but i'm not sure which moog they're using, all i know for sure they have couples of MS20 .. look it up on youtube guys and lemme know your comment

Well, in one of their live vids, I can clearly see a MicroMoog. In a different vid I saw a Prodigy. Great band! Just can't understand them, but that's okay. I listen to Rammstein, and can't understand them either.

EDIT- I found some English vids of theirs...it's just the live stuff I saw where they were speaking Danish. Cool band!

Rumour has it that Boards of Canada's big secret is an old SH101, and possibly a Yamaha DX100. This synth has a reputation for having a good bass patch. I got one of those and my opinion of it is that it absolutely stinks. Sources all over mention their use of true analog synths while trying to maintain some secrecy about their equipment.


I watched Spleen United. Hard to make out models...what I thought at one point could be a Voyager turned out to be a Korg. There's a pair of Roland's in Failure 1977, possibly Juno's. Hard to say, Roland's look pretty much the same from the back. Roland is well known for its Supersaw waveform, mainly suitable for trance like music. My own entry level SH-201 can operate 4 Osc's and 4 LFO's simultaneously and is capable of the most luscious bells and pads I have heard. The filter section is not very good though. On the strong side for the SH-201 is the reverb and delay section. Overall, the construction of this unit is very poor. It came with a defective pot on the pitch lever, right out of the box. It's been collecting dust since I got my LP, Mopho and Nord Lead 2x to handle polyphony. I'll probably get back to it at some point. I played the new Juno (128 voices polyphony) a couple of weeks ago. Nice. For some unexplainable reason, I never was a Korg fan.

The Mopho has great sound, real analog. The Nord Lead 2x is a workhorse among virtual analogs. Both are a pain to setup though, compared to the LP, so easy to use and most enjoyable to play. Last week's addition of the CP251 and an expression pedal gave it a whole new dimension. Add to that the build quality and of course the best sound in the industry, all good reasons for which I remain strongly Moog biased. There's a lot of CV based hardware in my future. My only problem with the LP is it's limited range keyboard, so I drive it often from a low cost 61 Yamaha keyboard through Midi.

joebuck wrote:I think that they built around 70 of them.

Synthmuseem mentions of 7 (seven) being built. Another source (don't remember where) says KE bought his from Led Zep. He himself sold it to someone else not long after the Pirates tour. New owner apparently still has it.

I suppose sources are fairly accurate, still it's bordeline speculations at one point. A case in point was Elton John supposedly using a 'brandx' model. He later clarified in an interview that he was under some contract obligation and only had his picture taken with the unit. and that was that.

John Medeski of Medeski, Martin, and Wood uses:
Hohner d6 Clavinet
Moog Voyager
ARP - Ensemble something?
Piano
Rhodes and Wurlitzer
Hammond B3
Mellotron

also MF-104 and MF-102

i know TV on the Radio also uses Moog Voyager for all bass lines instead of having a bass player

The Mars Volta- Little Phatty
MGMT- Little Phatty
The Neptunes- Voyager

Thats all I can think of at the moment.

D-rex wrote:The Mars Volta- Little Phatty
MGMT- Little Phatty
The Neptunes- Voyager

Thats all I can think of at the moment.

Did we mention Rush, yet? Geddy Lee plays a Phatty.

Architecture in Helsinki has a Phatty...

From what I know , Keith bought the GX1 used on Works Vol. One and Love Beach in the mid 70’s. There are a few videos and recordings of him playing live on the works tour. He bought John Paul Jones GX1 in the early 80’s right around the time of the Emerson Lake and Powel recording and tour. Part of th story is that a tractor trailer had gone off the road and crashed into his barn damaging several instruments including the original GX1. Keith said in an interview in Keyboard in the early 80’s that the original had actually blown up. At some point JPJ, who was a neighbor down the street, asked if Keith wanted to buy a GX1….he need thje room for a new sofa or something .

I’m not sure if that is the GX that went on the EL Powel tour or not. One of them tough was supposedly modified with MIDI out. After that tour though it came back pretty unplayable.

I don’t think he used it much more after that, I think it was in the early 90’s that he auctioned off a bunch o gear, the GX1’s included. Hans Zimmer bought one of them and had Yamaha do a major restoration of it.

Portamental wrote:

joebuck wrote:I think that they built around 70 of them.

Synthmuseem mentions of 7 (seven) being built. Another source (don't remember where) says KE bought his from Led Zep. He himself sold it to someone else not long after the Pirates tour. New owner apparently still has it.

I suppose sources are fairly accurate, still it's bordeline speculations at one point. A case in point was Elton John supposedly using a 'brandx' model. He later clarified in an interview that he was under some contract obligation and only had his picture taken with the unit. and that was that.