From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Feb 28 06:41:10 2008
Subject:Re: more keyboard stage antics

Same period, Gary Wright and his keybass player (Steve Porcaro of Toto!) both had the keyboards of MiniMoogs around their necks for the entire show.

Can't forget Emo pulling the L100 on top him and stabbing with knives while he played it upside down;

Jordan Rudess with his rotating keyboard stands (and the new one that's a giant hand that spins);

Trent Reznor and crew destroying DX7 keyboards (I always wanted to do that...to a DX7);

Steve Walsh jumping on top of his Hammonds.....

Much cooler than dressing like Donald Duck.
T

goffmac747@aol.com wrote:


I saw Edgar do that in fact back when his hit Frank-un-shteen was all
over the air. That was the only song he did that on I think. Everything
else was White Trash sans Jerry La Croix...... Perhaps he was one of
the first to remote a controller...

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyrone Lumley
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 1:30 am
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Organ Ignorance in Big Box Stores

He He

John Lord rocking his Hammond comes to mind......

And how about Derek Sherinian with his keys tilted towards the
audience ?

Lastly, Edgar Winters "wearing" his 2600. 'Nuff siad ;)

goffmac747@aol.com wrote:

Maybe that's why Prince had a plexi leslie and B3....

Sad to say being behind a large instrument is akin to being in a wheel

chair. No offense to any physically challenged forumites.

Audiences like to see the whole enchilada...is there a pun in there

somewhere...? or is this where someone yells. "put a sock in it!" More

puns??

But don't let the need to be a showman behind an organ get you down. I

once saw a B3 player pick up his B and tilt it on it's side and played

the thing like an accordion!!!!!

Oxnard California, in the '70's. If anyone knows who this artist

is/was. He was a big African American and I thought I had seen it all

after watching this highly energetic musician pick up that beast...

Now where was MTV while that was going on?

It's all about the bling....

-----Original Message-----

From: Rich Horton

To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 2:00 pm

Subject: Re: [CWSG] Organ Ignorance in Big Box Stores

, and the current crop of musicians are so

video-driven, it's no wonder that Hammonds, even tho all over the place

sonically, are unknown to the non-keyboard player. How many times have

you

watched pro videos where most of the key elements of the music are

ignored

(especially the keys), and the video frenetically jumps to the most

obvious

visual motion, ignoring the actual performance?



"The meek shall inherit nothing." -FZ
"You don't get tone on a diet." -T
"Hitting 'play' does not constitute live performance." -T
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