Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

This has been a very interesting thread! I'm learning a few that I was
not aware of. For me, I'd have to echo what David Rogoff said about the
first UK LP "practically a CS80 demo". That was the album that got me
hooked and made me decide I HAD to get one of these beasts!

One more I'd add to the list that I don't think that I've seen mentioned
yet... (apologies if it has...) is "Vienna" by Ultravox. I saw them in a
small club here back in about, oh 1981 or 1982, and they performed most
if not all of the "Vienna" album. Billy Currie had a CS-80, an ARP
Odyssey (his signature sound), the CP-30 piano, another string machine
(ELKA?) and what else I can't remember right now. He used his CS-80
quite a bit. Two tracks that come to mind are "Mr. X" and "Western
Promise" where he uses what sounds like the "Funky" presets in a
percussive manner with a bit of echo. I think he's also uses the CS-80
low strings as the descending cello counter line underneath the violin
solo in the title track.

Recommendation - if you should decide to get this album, try and find
the edition with the original European track sequence, which makes for a
much better listening. The album SHOULD start with (the instrumental)
"Astradyne" which is also how they opened their concert. The U.S.
release starts with "Sleepwalk", a bit of a hit single for them at the
time but the LP lost some flavor when they re-sequenced it that way, IMHO.

-Tim S.
<Twin Cities, MN>