MT reader 'Synthetic' was at the NAB show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks back and saw this incredible signed Fairlight CMI keyboard, which will be auctioned for the human rights charity Witness later in the year. The names read like the guest list for the Music Thing summer barbecue: Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Daryl Hall and, bizarrely but wonderfully, Billy Gibbons. Visually, it's strangely reminiscent of this... UPDATE: More on this at the wonderful DVDBorn Blog here.
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
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It's not really strange that Billy Gibbons signed this Fairlight. If you take a closer listen to some of ZZ Top's classic early 1980s tunes, you'll realize that they were very artfully produced fairlight and synth sequences with grinding guitars.
Billy hired Carl Marsh to drive the electronic setup, which featured burbling basslines and an E-mu drumulator (I think later work featured Series III drums) providing the rhythm tracks behind the Eliminator album.
MT reader 'Synthetic' was at the NAB show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks back and saw this incredible signed Fairlight CMI keyboard, which will be auctioned for the human rights charity Witness later in the year. The names read like the guest list for the Music Thing summer barbecue: Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Daryl Hall and, bizarrely but wonderfully, Billy Gibbons. Visually, it's strangely reminiscent of this...
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