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Subject: RE: OT: Sally Ride

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...
Date: 1999-10-17

Oh, you Youngster!

> Secondly, to Dave B. (clearly the master par excellence of keyboard rock
> history trivia) I'd appreciate some general distinctions between
> Farfisa and
> Vox Continental organ types. I thought they were the same devices
> built for
> European and Anglo/American markets respectively. Go easy on me Dave,
> remember I'm just a guitar player.

Not the same at all. There is better info in Mark Vail's "Vintage
Synthesizers" book, but some of the bigger diffs:

Vox was English originally, later owned by Thomas and others. Farfisa was
(and is )Italian.

Vox Continentals and Super Continentals had drawbars, Jaguars had tabs. All
Farfisas had tabs.

Voxes had a reedy sound, Farfisas had a mellow tab set and a shrill booster
sound, plus reverb - more versatile overall. Earliest Doors albums were Vox,
later stuff like Morrison Hotel was the Gibson G100 (which looked like the
Farfisa Combo Compact from the rear). Classic recorded Farfisa sound is "96
Tears".

Voxes were WAY cooler to look at with their chrome Z legs and reverse
colored keys. Early ones had wooden keys also. Farfisas were generally more
sturdy and dependable.

> Thirdly: I recently saw the movie "Gimmie Shelter" for the first
> time in many
> years. There was a ten-second shot fairly early in the movie of someone
> onstage tuning a Moog (maybe a IIIP), and I couldn't imagine who
> used this,
> though I'm not sure of everyone on the bill. Any thoughts?

Stones owned a III but never really used it much.

> Hasn't anybody else had any thoughts about their 410 TRIPLE
> RESONANT FILTER?
> JB

Haven't even ordered one yet because I'm working 7 days a week right now,
which is why I'm writing all these emails instead of watching footbal!

> And who did the BIG version of Mustang Sally? Jackie Wilson? I
> thought I had
> it, but couldn't find it.

Wicked Wilson Pickett!

Moe