> Vernon Connecticut was just a stone's throw away from the
Woodstock area
> and a lot of well known musicians lived and recorded around
there during
> EML's years of operation. That includes some real heavy duty
gearheads and
> keyboard geeks like Todd Rungren and Garth Hudson. I'd bet
they saw and
> twiddled some EML gear at some point.
Good point though after thinking about it it would seem to me
that those heavy duty acts would be coming there to retreat and
work at studios with a special reputation and vibe. Not that I
know or am saying the studios with EML weren't the main draw
studios but one would think that EML sales would be best for
studios wanting to establish themselves, get a little more and
different gear for their investment. It would be more like
_prospective_ gearheads that this would be really appealing to,
not the acts that already had their synth requirements down,
owned custom gear, etc.
As for John McLaughlin, and my contention that EML seemed
nearly unknown in England until the internet, wasn't he mostly
U.S. based during EML's prime? (I don't know his bio that well).