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> From: elle_webb [mailto:elle_webb@...]
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> arrangements of Rameau keyboard works. Does anybody have any other
> recommendations in this area, beyond Carlos, Tomita, and ELP?
While not strictly synthesizer music, "Virgil Fox Live at the Fillmore
East" is where it all started for me. I was 7 when I heard this, and from
that moment I knew what focus my interest in 'electricty' would be. When
I heard Larry Fast's ERfRO, ∗that∗ was the catalysing moment: I started
looking up how to make synthesizer circuits. The third epiphany would
have to be in 1979 when I encountered Michael Iceberg at Disney World. I
now had the three keys that started the engine that is still running: the
inspiration from Virgil Fox (I saw him play in 1978, not long before his
death), the true-synth wow factor from Larry Fast, and the "here is how it
is done, playing-wise" factor from Michael Iceberg.
So, I would recommend albums from these folks. .Iceberg has a CD of the
1978 "Does It Live"/"100th week at WDW". While not as virtuoso as Larry
or Virgil, Iceberg did everything live without any MIDI or sequencers
beyond some little 8-step Oberheim thing and a Linn Drum unit.
Crow
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