i hear your ma loves the whammy bar.
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i hear your ma loves the whammy bar.
Your ma loves a big muff
I love a bit a flange myself!
Incorrect! Most mutations are benign and everything in your body is a product of mutation.in biology they are mostly bad
Your ma WAS the fuzz pedalyour ma invented the fuzz pedal
Where are you getting this idea that synths were affordable in the late 70s? They were incredibly expensive. A Roland SH 1000 would set you back a grand, which is nearly $5000 in today’s money, and that’s entry level.some thoughts as far as music innovation goes:
the folks credited as the first wave of 'free improvisors in the 60's needed no new tech to simply start playing on intuition. although of course that helped.
when BLUE CHEER started they were a 6 piece (inc. Vale later of Search and Destroy / RE:Search fame)
when they saw circa 1967 how loud the new Marshall amps were, they ditched 3 guys and became a trio.
a big change from not being able to hear the BEATLES in a theatre a few years earlier.
a few things happened at times that made a huge difference:
in the late 70's the arrival of affordable home recording, synths and the rapid development of the independent scene (distribution, tape trading, zines, DIY culture...) meant an avalanche of new music ideas.
people had access to getting their music heard and long distance communication that was extremely rare before.
one of my points is how old a lot of cornerstones of music are now.
Remix culture goes back at least to KING TUBBY in 1971.
DJing in hip hop started with KOOL HERC in 1973 and more experimental turntablism someone like CHRISTIAN MARCLAY in the late 70's.
sampling has been a huge part of rap and house other urban music since the mid 80's.
atonal western classical music started w/ SCHOENBERG in 1900.
it's a combo of people and what equipment they have access to at the time.
if someone in 1965 had heard Astronomy Domine or Purple Haze it would have probably sounded far into the future - not 18 months.
not sure what I am trying to say but developments happen at a slower rate now.
mutation is a great word. in biology they are mostly bad but a good one is evolution changing for a species.
There were cheaper synths (like the Wasp) which were the foundation of the industrial/post-punk scene. They couldn’t do what the big modulars could do and they weren’t that reliable but they allowed people into the space to make music.Where are you getting this idea that synths were affordable in the late 70s? They were incredibly expensive. A Roland SH 1000 would set you back a grand, which is nearly $5000 in today’s money, and that’s entry level.
I think you’re actually making a rather elitist argument without realizing it.
Where are you getting this idea that synths were affordable in the late 70s? They were incredibly expensive. A Roland SH 1000 would set you back a grand, which is nearly $5000 in today’s money, and that’s entry level.
I think you’re actually making a rather elitist argument without realizing it.
the Atari ST was reasonably affordable and found a life as a very popular home studio midi controller, but you still needed all the Midi gear of coursealso worth pointing out that there was a lot of talk in the early 1990's about people making music on computers in their bedrooms.
but my guess is that it would have taken 6 months wages then for me to buy the equipment to make a techno record at home. I would have been unimpressed at somebody saying this was accessible or DIY.
but in both cases it was compared to before.
the Atari ST was reasonably affordable and found a life as a very popular home studio midi controller, but you still needed all the Midi gear of course
the real bedroom composers were working in trackers on an Amiga 500
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