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Consoles of the 70s : part 2
Above: the Audiotronics Grandson II console circa 1975 Way back in October of 2010 I ran a short piece about some 1970s audio consoles, and now 70s month rolls on with an extensive image gallery of some iconic and some … Continue reading
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Tagged ADR, allen heath, altec, API, auditronics, fairchild, interface, langevin, olive, quad8, sait, spectrasonics, sphere, studier. trident, wiegand, Yamaha
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Yamaha Electric Guitars and Basses Complete Catalog c. 1981
Pretty good one for y’all today. Click below to download the complete 20pp Yamaha Electric Guitars and Basses Catalog circa 1981: DOWNLOAD: Yamaha_Guitars_1981 Models covered, with text, photos, and detailed specs (chart at end of catalog) include: Yamaha SBG3000, SBG2000, … Continue reading
The Concept of Home Studio Carried To Its Logical Conclusion
Bathroom Studio Kitchen Studio Yamaha home-studio adverts circa 1989. Click on the images to expand.
Key Break
Man I love this image. Yamaha YC Combo Organ advert circa 1971. “Organ Eyes. It’s what happens when you see something in your mind.” Nice. We briefly used a Yamaha YC20 In our band before we started touring. It was … Continue reading
Keys of the 70s
Strings & Things Memphis advert for keyboards circa 1977. Been looking through some mid-70s issues of “Contemporary Keyboard” (h.f. “CK”) magazine. CK later became simply “Keyboard,” which is still in publication; it’s part of the GUITAR PLAYER family of publications. … Continue reading
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Tagged ARP, connecticut, hohner, moog, Oberheim, organs, Paia, Polyfusion, RMI, Roland, Sequential Circuits, Star Instruments, Steiner-Parker, Strider Systems, vintage synthesizers, Yamaha
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Musician Magazine 1976 -1999
What if I told you that there was a music magazine which featured writers including rock-lit luminaries Lester Bangs and Cameron Crowe; exceptionally strong graphic design; and coverage of the most successful mainstream and most vital ‘underground’ artists of the … Continue reading