[sdiy] Synergy (was Re: OT: Music movies)

[Glen]

At 01:37 AM 6/26/2005, The Old Crow wrote:

>  Well, we're talking early-to-mid 1970s, remember.  Guitarists were the 
> de facto standard for solos and other spotlighted lead work.  With the 
> staging of keyboard soloists, empowered by the lead synthesizer (and
>comprising rigs that looked impressive a la Emerson), the guitarists began 
>to get scared that their sacred place on stage was getting 
>usurped.  Perhaps this is why a number of guitar-based bands loudly 
>proclaimed their records had no synthesizers (or needed them).
>
>  Fear of a new technology, because it was changing the "accepted way of 
> things," is what it was about.
>Sort of like VST vs. hardwired synths today.


Actually, Tom Scholz was pretty darn proud of his Hammond organ playing. I 
believe the Hammond was mentioned in that disclaimer, in glowing terms of 
endearment. Also, remember that Scholz had invented a lot of custom signal 
processing gear to get the "Boston sound". This makes Harry's earlier 
comment about Queen especially appropriate, if applied to Boston. Tom 
Scholz might not have used a synth with keys, but there was so much signal 
processing and special effects, that the whole band practically formed one 
large composite, distributed  synthesizer.  :)

By the way, does anyone remember which album from The Eagles had the 
notice, that the album was made *without* using an Aphex Aural Exciter? The 
Aphex was pretty popular at the time, and for some reason, they made a 
point of telling the world that their album didn't use one. I always 
wondered what they had against the Aphex unit, and why it was such a big 
deal to them, that they had to tell the world they didn't use one?


take care,
Glen