MOTM

But I'm old enough to remember that slogan! I was born on Jimi Hendrix's 15th 
birthday, so I will turn 42 late this year.

In elementary school, my best friend's father was building a sail plane in 
his garage (which he never got even close to finishing), and had BUILT a PIPE 
ORGAN (!!!!!) in the lower level of his house. He played a record for me of a 
machine (which I now believe to be the RCA Mark II, but I have no idea how to 
be sure) singing "Daisy Daisy give me your answer too..." in about 1966. I 
wasn't very impressed until I saw "2001" two years later with that same 
friend -- were we the only one's who got the "joke?" In retrospect, I have 
much more in common with his father than I do with my own parents. The same 
friend introduced me to Walter Carlos's music via Switched On Bach and later 
rock synth records like the first ELP record. 
 
I really enjoyed your little bio Dave, and I'm wondering if you remember EMu 
having a "module of the month club." One of my EM teachers mentioned this to 
me in 81 or 82, but they had discontinued any modular stuff by that time. 

And thanks for the extensive description of the Moog Ribbon. The last (only) 
time I played with one, was about 73 and the only thing I remember is that 
the woven metal(?) strip looked a lot like a ground strap for a car -- is 
that true? Serge T. gave me some advice on building a ribbon some years ago; 
maybe we can pool our "knowledge."

JB

In a message dated 6/15/99 1:00:20 PM, daveb@... writes:

>I built a second system in the late 70's around 8 Emu voice demo boards
>(SSM
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>based) and an Emu 4060 poly keyboard/sequencer. It was recently sold to
>Dave
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>Kean and will go in the Audities museum, which is how I'm financing my
>MOTM
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>system!
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