[sdiy] OT - was:Chris Franke's synth

[Heitor Alves]

that sounds like a real comunist... refusing money because of theyr believes...
does a capitalist think like that?
:oP

heitor


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:11:48 -0600, David Cornutt <cornutt at hiwaay.net> wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Andreas Gaunitz wrote:
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> >
> >  Weren't Tangerine Dream communists back in the old days?
> >
> >
> 
> I don't think so.  I recall Edgar saying that they were offered money
> from the German cultural budget (sort of like the National Endowment
> for the Arts in the USA) back in the mid-'70s, when they were struggling
> to buy updated gear, and they turned it down.  Edgar said they didn't
> want some government bureaucrat telling them what kind of music
> to do.  Doesn't sound like a communist to me.
> 
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