Keith Emerson made keys cool Re: Making Keyboards Look Cool

[mungenast@earthlink.net]

I beg to differ... Keith Emerson made them cool, IMHO. I saw him twice 
back in the day, and saw some badass footage of his pre-ELP band The Nice, 
totally manhandling his sawed-down B3, swinging the poor keyboard to and 
fro, back and forth so that the tone-wheel pickups started to feed back 
against his amps, stabbing keys with knives so as to hold down chords, 
just absolutely badass. AND he was a master musician with stupendous 
technique, so it wasn't all smoke and mirrors.
In my book, this was cool. 
Hendrix, shortly before his death, had expressed interest in joining, and 
what higher badge of approval is there?
~Tim Mungenast



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From: ":: rds8000 ::" <rds8000@cableaz.com>
Sent: Feb 2, 2005 7:24 AM
To: Looper's Delight <" Loopers-Delight"@loopers-delight.com>
Subject: Re: Making Keyboards Look Cool

Unless you are Nicks Rhodes, keyboards can never look cool.

Adam