R.I.P. Vangelis

[g-one]

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou

Coincidentally, I saw the Final Cut version of Blade Runner for the first time a few days ago. Without the voice overs/narration the soundtrack was even more stunning.

Watch on youtube.com

[Richard A]

R.I.P. indeed. I'm sure I saw Blade Runner, but had forgotten the soundtrack - though that version, with the cityscapes of different cities is powerful in its own right.

But for me, Vangelis will forever conjure up the soundtrack of Chariots of Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgO0XA3LkYM.

[Lianachan]

Loved his music, and Blade Runner may be my favourite film soundtrack. The final cut version of the film is far, far better than the theatrical one.

[tubeswell]

Sounds like a Roland Jupiter 8. One of my 80s-bands used to have one - cool sounds out of that

[Lance]

Sounds like a Roland Jupiter 8. One of my 80s-bands used to have one - cool sounds out of that

I think I have one available if you need it...

[Lianachan]

Final Cut sitting in the blue ray player waiting for everybody to stop dicking about and sit the fuck down so it can start.

[Blue Monster 65]

Yamaha CS-80.

And if you have a Roland Jupiter 8, Lance, I really do want to talk to you!

[Lianachan]

Wikipedia, which we all know is infallible, says:

The most prominent synthesiser used in the score was the Yamaha CS-80, which can be prominently heard in the opening scenes. Other synthesisers employed by Vangelis included four Roland instruments: the ProMars, the Jupiter-4, the CR-5000 drum machine, and the VP-330 Vocoder Plus; a Sequential Circuits Prophet-10; a Yamaha GS1 FM synthesizer; and an E-mu Emulator sampler. A Steinway grand piano, a Yamaha CP-80 electric grand and a modified Fender Rhodes were also used. He also utilised a variety of traditional instruments, including, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, snare drum, timpani and tubular bells.

[Arneb]

Now we know that Wikipedia AND bm65 are infallible!

[Lance]

Yamaha CS-80.

And if you have a Roland Jupiter 8, Lance, I really do want to talk to you!

The Juno-60 is gone. Here are pics of a few of them but there are more. I don't remember all the model numbers.

There is also a Fairlight CMI.

[Lianachan]

Oooh..... nice!

[g-one]

There is also a Fairlight CMI.

Whoa!

[tubeswell]

I would, but for the shipping cost. Unless any of the Llama fraternity are shipping magnates who can pull out all the stops?

[tubeswell]

Wikipedia, which we all know is infallible, says:

Yamaha CP-80 electric grand and... Fender Rhodes were also used.

I had a Fender Rhodes (portable version) in the early 80s in a pub-circuit covers band, but had to let it go when the band split up and we had to sell everything including the PA to get out of hoc. I played a CP-80 once (in 1981) while setting up the stage doing roadie duties for a caintry music festival. It sure was a nice piece of kit - once it was re-tuned after setup - but miles beyond what I could afford at the time, although sure sounded cool for playing blues and boogie-woogie on.

[Enzo]

Hey I have a CR5000 right now. Robbed it for parts to keep a CR8000 running.

I used to like getting inside the old Oberheim analogs, but always seemed to me anyone using a synth needs to spend their first synth time with a Poly6. Real time knobs for envelope and stuff, no parameters. I miss the keyboards, though Sequential and some others loaded from cassette tapes, which sucked.

[tubeswell]

anyone using a synth needs to spend their first synth time with a Poly6. Real time knobs for envelope and stuff, no parameters.

I got a brand new Korg Delta in 1981 - poly with dual synth and strings functions The synth side had fully adjustable envelope etc - ran it for about 4 years was a neat toy. NZ$1200 in 1981 effin nearly bankrupted me https://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/delta.php

[Enzo]

I think real-time knobs teaches how the thing works, as opposed to parameters.

Portable Rhodes - that almost seems like a contradiction. They were so big and HEAVY. I could handle them OK, but I rarely smiled when I saw one coming in.

[Blue Monster 65]

I had a JP-6, but never an 8 or a 4 - both of which I would have loved at one time.

Of course, over the years, I've had so many synths, drum machines, and guitars it's just stupid. I just liked having them for a while, just to check them out. These days I'm priced out of the market and can't be bothered repairing old machines anyway.

Believe it or not, I've only got one synth these days and it's brand, spankin' new!

Vangelis would roll his eyes at me. Sigh ...