Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Larry Fast as "Synthesist to the Stars" Message-ID: <723@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 13:41:28 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.723 Posted: Tue Jun 5 13:41:28 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:54:24 EDT References: <4458@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 22 > One other Synergy tidbit: Larry Fast > has developed a reputation as "synthesist to the stars", coming up with new > timbres for various groups (to name one, "Foreigner"). I think it may be Thomas Dolby you are thinking of. Thomas Dolby "made his name", in part, by doing session work on Foreigner 4, especially "Waiting for a Girl Like You", their last hit single. My understanding is that Fast does most of his outside work with Peter Gabriel. (Michael Boddicker is the name I most associate with "providing timbres to the stars". To me, he sounds like nothing more than just another hack L.A. studio musician who comes up with nothing new on a bevy of MOR recordings.) By the way, I checked out my recommendation of Fast's work on Peter Gabriel's "San Jacinto". It turns out that on the original cut (from the "peter gabriel" album that wasn't called "SECURITY" on Geffen), it was Gabriel himself who played the Fairlight ("blown drainpipe"---what a great sound; I now get to hear it everywhere; is it a stock sound on the Fairlight?). Actually, the live version of that song is the one that really sends chills down my spine. -- WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!