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Re: [CZsynth] Re: Casio CZ-1 ''the famous-1''

2005-11-29 by Johnny Retro

Hey! Cosmo, 
   
  thanks for the email
   
  1st up, I Love your site! Saw it around a year ago, anyway, its cooL !
   
  I think its excellent..Keep up the good work dude.
   
  I rem the CZ-1 with fondness too, I can remember 'walking down'  Tottenham Court Road in London, this is where all the music stores were at the time, and seeing a CZ-1 in the 'front window' of one shop, around about Sept 86, and thinking....
   
   ''Wow, the colours are fantastic!'' (I had a CZ3000) and wanted 1 too ! he he he...Great ''memories'' huh ?
   
  I kept with my CZ3000, as the New CZ-1 was around about £900, maybe less if you market hagg'led the shop manager !
   
  Onto mine....
   
  The original sounds he put in mine, were, as you know, done on a 101, he had the CZ-1 from Casio, they were trying Rreally hard to get that 'Pro market', even in 88,  and knowing that Vince used the 101's before, they got him interested enough (gave him a Free CZ-1 basically, mine! ) as long as he would use it ''Live'' on Camera, Stage, Top of the Pops, so he agreed and I can actually Remember them on Top of the Pops using it, ''Live''  (not a video...)
   
  I promised Vince ; - ) I'd not share his sounds with the world, a man of my word, I have to keep that. (sorry dude : - )
   
  Keep smiling ; - ) Maybe one day, I mite sell it on ebays, all data-still in it !
   
  £1,000,0000 ?
   
  Maybe ! ; - )
   
  Best,
   
   
  JR
  

Cosmo <czcosmo@...> wrote:
  --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Johnny Retro
<the_real_johnny_retro@y...> wrote:
>

hi Johnny!
> 
> Anyway, I've always said that I'd get another, So I have a CZ-1, Its
> kind of a Special CZ-1, however. It belonged to Mr Vincent Clarke.

– THIS Synth was the ONLY reason why I bought the CZ-1 in late 1986 –
saw it in an interview with Vince & Andy in his roof studio!
This is very special (for me), yessssss.
> 
> There are a few patches inside (I've written them down of course on
> data sheet, sorry dudes, can't share these one) that were programmed
by him, left in the machine ! 

- not a single Sound? hrmpf. why?
I once had the idea to ask Vince in the EIS (erasure info service)
forum for some patches, but he sold his Synths years ago and I
rejected this.

and now you're the lucky one with the Casio.


> Thought I'd share that with you all,
> 

why don't you share on of Vince' presets @ X-mas?? ;-)

Cosmo
www.cosmosynthesizer.de






    
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