For those who are interested, Larry Fast has been playing with the Tony
Levin Band recently (www.tonylevinband.com). He put out a recent CD of
reworks of his older Synergy stuff. Unfortunately, it was performed almost
exclusively on digital synths. He is a big Kurzweil user. It is an
impressive work though to coax some very analog sounds out of the digital
synths. On the last Tony Levin Band studio album, the band reworked
Larry's classic "Phobos" from the Cords album, bizarre time signatures and
all.
The Tony Levin Band has been playing around the world in between the dates
that Tony plays with Peter Gabriel on his tour. Check them out when they
come to your town (They are coming to the House of Blues in Cambridge, MA
on 3/29, I plan to be there). They are a very approachable bunch and spend
time after the show chatting with the folks who come. Oh, if you do plan
to see them, be prepared to feel a lot of low end. Tony is a bass player
but Larry has figured out how to put together some very powerful sub
woofers that are used in the show to ummm, enhance the bass.
Eric
At 11:53 PM 2/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Ack! How could I forget Synergy?! This is like Tomita, but without the
> wacky sounds, and more of a rock context than classical. Lots of Moog
> modular 15, Oberheim SEMs, Minimoog (i think), DIY things, and on later
> albums Prophet 5, Memorymoog, and digital synths. Larry Fast went on to
> play with Nektar on an album or two (he even played with them at their
> reunion concert this past Nearfest), and then went on to play with Peter
> Gabriel for many years. He also designed a few "noise makers" for various
> musicians, including Rick Wakeman. He has a great website that has lots
> of info on his albums and career.
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> Favorite albums: first 4 or 5 of them. First two ("Electronic
> Realizations", "Sequencer") have the highest analogue content. The album
> "Cords" has a guitar synth throughout that sounds pretty neat.
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