Author Topic: Jack Casady, Greg Lake, John Entwistle (Not all together) (Read 391 times)

jagerphan84 · « **on:** March 30, 2005, 07:05:14 AM »

I've been digging around the 'net lately looking for pics of musicians that have influenced me, and for some reason pictures of Alembic basses in action keep popping up. Imagine that! Keith Emerson and Greg with his Scorpion:

Cool shot of Jack with #001...

And a couple shots of John...

-Adam

richbass939 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:00:13 PM »

Adam,
Those are some cool pictures you found. Any idea what Emerson is holding? Some sort of percussion instrument, maybe?
I like the stripes on John's bass. Very interesting pattern.
Rich

jagerphan84 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:12:56 PM »

I was trying to figure that out myself. It sure looks like his hands are positioned to be playing something with his thumbs, though. Whatever it is, I want one. Same goes for that bass Jack's playing, and John's too, for that matter...

moonlinermusic · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2005, 01:20:40 PM »

The thing Keith is hold is a pitch ribbon controler.
He often used it on the tune hoedown by Aaron Copeland. The thing also shot fireballs over the audience!
All the bands I loved as a kid seemed to have Alembic's in the bass slot as well.... no doubt that is why I love them so!

palembic · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2005, 03:20:32 PM »

Ok Brother Keith,

what an entrance for a new club member ...welcome welcome.
Talk about your Alembics later ...now you got our (moders

about 1200 members now???)FULL attention and we all sitting down in a big circle to listen to the story about that pitch ribbon controller ...thing.

What does it do??
Hold upo his pants??
Is he compensating for something ...huh ...seeing ...nei-eih!

Paul the bad one

moonlinermusic · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2005, 04:26:21 PM »

Thanks for the welcome.
I've been visitng the club site as a voyuer for a few years now... (sheepish grin).

Keith Emerson's ribbon controler could only play one note at a time... he would hold a note and then run his finger up and down the ribbon (getting much the same effect as a Theramin). I saw ELP a few times and once when the controler seemed to be malfunctioning, he played it by wiping his ass (pants still on mind you) with it... Doh!

I'll post a picture of my current Alembic soon.
Keith

richbass939 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2005, 05:18:24 PM »

Can anyone comment on the striped bass that JE is playing? I had a little flashback of a Jethro Tull concert I went to a long time ago (wider stripes on Hammond-Hammond's bass, though).
Rich

dela217 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2005, 07:07:43 PM »

Comment? Well, it's zebrawood. And drop dead gorgeous in person. There is nothing like zebrawood under one of them old 1974 finishes! My opinion anyway. I just think the older finishes bring out the best of zebrawood.

Michael

bigredbass · « **Reply #8 on:** April 02, 2005, 10:10:38 PM »

Well Paul, back in the prehysteric(!) sixties/seventies, Mr. Emerson went on the road with an analog (!), monophonic(!!) MOOG modular synthesizer that was truly the most unplayable, unreliable, and truly aggravating piece of crap that was dazzlingly cutting-edge high tech in its time. Remember this is FIFTEEN years before DX7s. (By the way, DXs pioneered BREATH CONTROLLERS, but that's a bedtime story for another day)

The ribbon controller operated as indicated above by Mr. MoonLiner. As I remember, he had to wipe his pants with it quite a bit !

J o e y

PS Someday we'll talk about arpeggiators and ADSRs !

palembic · « **Reply #9 on:** April 02, 2005, 11:27:41 PM »

Brother Joey!
thanks for explaining!
I don't know all the stuff but I once demonstrated -yeah ...right I was 17 or 20 back than- in a Brussels Musicshop on a Haymann (really) bass. The guitarist was on a black Gibson Les Paul, the Drummer on Ludwig, we had Faylon amps (a Belgian brand from the stone age)and the keyboard player was surrounded with 3 Mellotrons, a Fender Rhodes, a Moog synth and an Oberheim Expander.
Huh ...I guess I was part of that stone age back than?!?!

Paul the bad one

richbass939 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 04, 2005, 09:08:30 PM »

There's a picture of KE shooting sparks from the thing at:
http://www.emersonlakepalmer.com/photo41.html

There are a bunch of other cool photos on their website.
Rich
Edit: Here one that appears to be the front/top shot of it. There is smoke in the air near it.
http://www.keithemerson.com/images/1750.jpg

(Message edited by richbass939 on April 05, 2005)

adriaan · « **Reply #11 on:** April 05, 2005, 02:04:37 AM »

Ah, Joey, throw in an LFO, an S&H, and there was that variation on an ADSR with one item missing. Gotta miss those ARP 2600, though not the patch cords. Did someone say ring modulator?

bigredbass · « **Reply #12 on:** April 05, 2005, 10:58:07 PM »

And from deep in the vaults of Arcania:

Any of you who've seen the Spielberg UFO epic 'Close Encounters', remember the scene where the huge ship comes to the pad behind the mountain? And they begin playing the 'tones' from a keyboard? Well, the slightly nerdy looking guy playing is none other than Alan R. Pearlman, the A-R-P in Arp synthesizers!

J o e y

adriaan · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2005, 12:05:39 AM »

Help me out Joey, an Unidentified Frequency Oscillator? ROFL

bigredbass · « **Reply #14 on:** April 07, 2005, 10:44:48 PM »

THAT's IT! The old Moogs and ARPs put out a LOT of unidentifiable frequencies. Thank God Jupiter 8's held me till FM came in.

Joey

Author Topic: Jack Casady, Greg Lake, John Entwistle (Not all together) (Read 391 times)

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