[sdiy] OT: Music movies (was: Mr. Kirby)

[Tim Parkhurst]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Forrest [mailto:pforrest at vemia.co.uk] 
>
>The Moog modular in 'Performance' (1970) is one of the best bits of the
film for me (pace Anita Pallenberg).
>Peter
>
>From: Pete 
> 
>How about "Xanadu" There is a scene with an 80's rock band playing a huge
modular and an Oberheim 4 voice. There is some guy >that runs on stage
playing a small hand held synth. There is also a girl stuck to the modular
with patch cords! Xanadu is a >great cheesy movie. The soundtrack is by ELO.
>
>pete
>
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Hi Peter, Pete, and Others,

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the GIANT ARP 2500 at the end of "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind." I remember watching this in the theaters and
being completely blown away by the sheer size of the thing. I was hoping
that it was going to be played more, but I still thought it was very cool.
In later years when relatives would ask "now, what is a 'synthesizer'
again?", all I had to do was say "remember that big, huge keyboard in 'Close
Encounters'?" 

I also recall that the film features one of the ARP engineers ("Phil
someone?") actually playing the beast. I think this may just be the most
recognizable "Synth in film" ever. 



Tim (wonder what THAT synth would fetch on eBay?) Servo

"Too much sanity may be madness. And the maddest of all is to see life as it
is, and not as it should be." - Don Quixote



P.S. I once knew a friend of a friend named Peter Lapis Stone. Roughly, his
name meant 'Rock, Rock, Rock'. Just FYI ;)

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