What's this then Precious?

Guldbamsen wrote: I took a shower yesterday

I've was listening to ELP one time and for a second I thought it was good music.

I am still picking my brain trying to dissect heavy percussion led albums such as Stomu Yamashta's bewildering debut or the equally enigmatic oevre of Italy's Aktuala. Here the confusion or indeed blissfull mischief is achieved through mic placements and drumming through membranes of sorts and yes playing around with different filters. That and then of course the hundreds of exotic instruments being played - many of them with names I wouldn't dare pronounce.

Edited by Guldbamsen - September 28 2016 at 14:00

First, I'm shocked to find gambling going on.   Second, I'm shocked a retired Admin would mis-post a thread that clearly belongs in Internal News (as it is about your innermost revelations).   Third, I'm shocked anyone could mistake a fuzz bass for an electric guitar like I have on occasion.   Lastly, you misspelled obo.

aglasshouse wrote: No Quarter by Led Zeppelin is a doozy of different affects that I was never able to fully comprehend. What always intrigued me was that keyboard hook seen at the beginning of the song, which I always thought was just simple mellotron but is much more complicated than that.

If you mean the 'underwater' effect it was a Hohner electric piano filterd through a VCS3 synth. In concert he used a phaser instead

aglasshouse wrote: I've was listening to ELP one time and for a second I thought it was good music.

aglasshouse wrote: I've was listening to ELP one time and for a second I thought it was good music.

You basterd !!


Edited by JD - September 29 2016 at 16:11

paulindigo wrote: aglasshouse wrote: No Quarter by Led Zeppelin is a doozy of different affects that I was never able to fully comprehend. What always intrigued me was that keyboard hook seen at the beginning of the song, which I always thought was just simple mellotron but is much more complicated than that.  If you mean the 'underwater' effect it was a Hohner electric piano filterd through a VCS3 synth. In concert he used a phaser instead

I've got quite a few examples I can list off the top of my head.

In Roundabout, I thought the menacing riff during the "Up on the drifting crowd The eagle searching down on the land" section was played by Howe's guitar, not Squire's bass. I realized my mistake only when seeing Squire play the part live.

I thought the entirety of the introduction to Watcher of the Skies was played solely on the Mellotron, but there's also a few Hammond chords a minute in. I originally thought it was Mellotron brass.

On Tangerine Dream's Cloudburst Flight, I originally thought the leads in the middle section were played on Minimoog, but there's also a guitar solo played by Edgar Froese. Also on Force Majeure, I mistook recording engineer Eduard Meyer's cello for a synth somewhere.

On TD's Tangram I thought a synth solo was a guitar solo until reading that Schmoelling played it on a keyboard, purposely making it sound like a guitar.

In Rainbow's instrumental cover of Still I'm Sad, I thought there was a Mellotron choir or other synth playing after the guitar solo. It's actually wordless backing vocalizations by Shoshana Feinstein, Ritchie Blackmore's girlfriend at the time.

In DT's Pull Me Under, I thought Moore used a sequencer for the fast rhythmic keyboards rather than playing the part in real time.


Edited by Replayer - October 02 2016 at 20:54