admin | February 11, 2010
After reviewing the Nord Electro 3 for Electronic Musician magazine, I liked the keyboard so much that I decided to buy it. As mentioned elsewhere, it is the perfect vintage keyboard emulation for gigging - lightweight, portable, with a good action and decent sounds. What’s not to love?
Well, the color, for one. I’ve always been [...]
admin | February 27, 2009
So, I used to be completely insane. I carried the following with me to gigs for years:
Hammond B3 chop
Leslie 122 speaker
Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano
Hohner Clavinet E7
Pedal board
Fender Twin Reverb amp
There was indeed a method to my madness. I wanted all those sounds, and I had enough friends and van space to make this happen. [...]
admin | February 27, 2009
Editor’s note: I wrote this thesis fifteen years ago, as the senior project for
my B.A. in Electronic Music from San Francisco State University.
The paper is an in-depth look at the orchestrational techniques
used by Rick Wakeman in the music he has created with Yes, and
on his own. It also includes a brief musicological treatise on
progressive rock.
Though [...]
admin | February 27, 2009
On Saturday, September 13, 2003, I was playing my trusty Hammond chop at my 20 year high school reunion. The greatest hits of the 70’s and 80’s were flowing freely from the band, and everyone was having a great time.
I started playing a wild, roaring solo over the rock chestnut ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. the Leslie [...]
admin | February 22, 2009
Originally published in Onstage Magazine, Dec, 2001 issue
Sooner or later, everything old becomes new again. During the past few years, more and more keyboard players have followed in the footsteps of their guitarist compatriots and replaced contemporary instruments with gear made in the ’60s and ’70s. The reemergence of electromechanical keyboards such as organs, electric [...]
