Your national weird synth bloke in the 70s ...

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First there was Walter Carlos, then Japan's Tomita and Brazil's Juan Rossi.

Then he seemed to tire of novelty remakes of classical music and started writing his own electronic compositions. He popped up in Greece (Vangelis) and France (Jean-Michel Jarre).

Does every culture have an avatar of 70s synth bloke lurking in its folkloric history? Who's your's? Where did he come from? What happened to him? Was a he a function of the new technology? Will we see his like again?

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In Canada his name was Synergy, a.k.a., Larry Fast.

― s woods, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow! I bought two Synergy tapes second hand for very little money a couple of years ago. And I've been playing one in the car two weeks ago. It's alternately brilliant / horrible.

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Unfortunately, I'm (apparently) wrong! (I should read links before I post them...) Synergy isn't a Canuck after all. Strange. He/they received so much press in the Toronto dailies back in the late '70s-- and I never saw anything about him/them elsewhere--that I've grown up all these years assuming he/they were one of mine/ours. All my dreams shattered.

I guess we'll have to settle then for John Mills- Cockell, who may not've been born a Canuck but resided in Canada for certain. Gateway was his 'big' album.

― s woods, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of weird synth blokes from the 70's, anyone remember Nash the Slash?

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but I think he played a "treated" viola or mandolin or something, not a synth per se (great costume, though).

― s woods, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You poor fools. Two words - JOE VANELLI

― dave q, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Nash the Slash supporting Gary Numan on the Replicas tour.

He was terrible - it was a big surprise when he later joined Guns and Roses.

― Alexander Blair, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Believe it ot not, Nash the Slash is still going...

www.nashtheslash.com

Dopes on the water..........

― baxter wingnut, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just saw my synergy playing keys with the 'Tony Levin Band' i won free tickets on public radio and didnt have anyone to go with. man was that bad news bears.

― chaki, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

y0y0y0y0, PH33R

No Norman, you are not l337. I ph33r Tim Blake but he doesn't score points in this game.

a) He's famous for being in a group not "70s synth bloke"

and

b) He's not iconically identified with some arbitrary nation. (He ran away to France!)

and

c) If we include him we'd have to include Rick Wakeman and we wouldn't want that, now, would we?

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)