Redd's Roster of Weird Keyboard Hooks On Pop Records

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Such as:

Artie Butler's Ondioline line on Tommy James and The Shondells's "I Think We're Alone Now"

https://www.mixonline.com/recording/classic-tracks-tommy-james-shondells-i-think-were-alone-now-365955

Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:32 (seven years ago)

Or Jacques Loussier's Prophet 5 on The Go-Betweens's "Part Company"

Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:34 (seven years ago)

Max Crook’s modified Clavioline he called a Musitron on Del Shannon’s “Runaway.”

Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:31 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

Convenience link/bump: theremin: check! next: ondes martenot

Jeff Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 18:50 (five years ago)

Telstar!

timellison, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:31 (five years ago)

Late '60s proto-punk group sometimes eschewing guitar for...electric piano and a Farfisa through a fuzzbox?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dGkBCD0mHU

timellison, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

A lot of the early music of the Korean group Sanulim might fit here. This one is kind of a classic riff, but these guys always sound unique in their execution and overall sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0JVbYEWBM

timellison, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:50 (five years ago)

Crazy Horses!

brimstead, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:27 (five years ago)

I guess that horse sound is an organ, though? Damn!

brimstead, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:28 (five years ago)

It was one of those keyboards with the built-in theremin - I forget who made them...

timellison, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 20:48 (five years ago)

Yamaha YC-30. Demo at 7:41 here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYaqJH5qlvU

timellison, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:08 (five years ago)

oh wow cool

brimstead, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 21:55 (five years ago)

There's a lot of ondes martenot on Jacques Brel records, his arranger François Rauber seems to have been fond of using it.

Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 22:58 (five years ago)

I don't know if I'm playing this game right but what about the break on Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Love" (@2:11)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqeNoi6EmM

Josefa, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 23:37 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxD_YIjxTxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c0x6ecpX4

timellison, Thursday, 11 June 2020 02:43 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Crazy Horses!

otm

AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 12:58 (four years ago)

five months pass...

Speaking of "Part Company" there is also the keyboard hook in "Another Hundred People" from Company: Favourite song from Stephen Sondheim's Company. Played on a either a Rock-Si-Chord or an Electra-piano, both from RMI (Rocky Mount Instruments)

Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:38 (three years ago)

Garth Hudson played a Rock-Si-Chord with a telegraph key on "This Wheel's On Fire."

Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:40 (three years ago)

http://www.drunkenwerewolf.com/interviews/interview-quasi/

“A Rock-si-chord is in fact a cool type of keyboard,” states Weiss, as if to dispel any misinformation about the archaic instrument. Featuring heavily on R&B Transmogrification from 1997, as well as 1998’s Featuring “Birds” and1999’s Field Studies, Coomes’ keyboard wizardry more than defines that era of their sound.

Weiss further articulates, perhaps revealing why it hasn’t been heard on later albums: “Invented in the late 60s by a company called RMI, it was intended to sound like a harpsichord used for rock music. Sam bought me the Quasi Rock-si-chord many years ago as a birthday gift, but wound up playing it exclusively himself in the band. Because of its percussive nature, this type of keyboard sounds gritty and gnarled through a distortion pedal. It’s also very sturdy and could withstand a lot of physical abuse. Sam abused ours regularly at shows year after year until it died beyond repair in the late 1990s.”

Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 November 2021 17:03 (three years ago)


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