Jimy at electric Lady Studios, check the story at http://www.electricladystudios.com/history.html
"Songs In The Key Of Life was a title that I came up with from a dream that I'd had. It represents that uniqueness of the time." Stevie Wonder. "Songs of the Key of Life is available on VHS and DVD format, check out http://www.rhino.com/ Originally broadcast on VH-1 and PBS,topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1976 and 1977. The story behind this remarkable success is told in interviews with the man himself, plus those with Berry Gordy, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, and others. Enjoy |-----Original Message----- |From: laura gavoor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:39 PM |To: [email protected] |Subject: Re: [313] Is Prince the root of all Techno? | | |I think if you were to ask some of the source innovators, both |American and |Euro alike, Jimi Hendrix's name would arise more often than |Prince's. While |Prince was a huge influence, Jimi built the world's most innovative |recording studio, Electric Ladyland Studios, in 1968 (I think) and |up until |very recently...it remained one of THE most innovative recording studios |because of his obsession with recording and performing technology as THE |means to get down on tape the sounds he had in his head. | |Secondarily and perhaps without most artists even realizing this |fact would |be Stevie Wonder. His obsession with electronic keyboards evolved |into the |very first 'do everything yourself' recording studio back in the 70's. I |recall Stevie talking about how and why he records most every track in a |song he's composing all by himself. Pretty much the same reason as Jimi's |that he knew what sound(s) he wanted and was often frustrated in trying to |communicate it to an engineer or musician in order to obtain it. | |He felt that with the age of the synthesizer a songwriter/composer had the |ability to personalize their music and sound unlike anything that had come |before...even though the same notes in a scale were present...they |had never |before sound like THAT. Moreover, the personal studio he developed back |then gave him the luxury of recording the moment he was inspired to do |so...at any hour of the day. | |Stevie, like Jimi, innovated a lot of gear to suit his needs, and |because he |was Stevie Wonder, a living genius, the keyboard companies bent over |backwards to accommodate him. | |Don't forget that "Songs in the Key of Life" is considered by artists and |industry alike to be one of the most brilliant pieces of popular |music ever |put out in one project. If VH-1 ever re-runs that (dunno the name of it) |special one hour program just about that particular album...I highly |recommend its viewing. The musicians interviewed, from Miles |Davis to Mick |Jagger, were awed by the quality of the sound on that LP and |explain in far |greater detail why it marked a turning point in recording history. | |THEN came George Clinton....THEN came Prince. | |humbly offered...... | | |>From: "Mike Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |>To: [email protected] |>Subject: [313] Is Prince the root of all Techno? |>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:34:12 -0400 |> |>Well? |> |>_________________________________________________________________ |>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp |> |> |>--------------------------------------------------------------------- |>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> | | |_________________________________________________________________ |Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------- |To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
