Fairlight-CMI

Hi Paul,

That is so weird, I was in LA a few weeks ago and planned to visit BMM,
but unfortunately went there in the late hours of the day, and I missed
the shop. Could have made a discovery :)

Best regards,
Harald.

> Hello to all in the group...
>
> I don't think I have ever actually posted before.  I've been a member
> for quite some time but have usually been busy and haven't had the
> chance to get involved.
>
> The post about Ron L. Hubbard recording piqued my interest.  I
> actually had the opportunity to work on that very machine a few years
> ago.  Apparently the Scientologists had it in storage for quite some
> time and ended up selling it at a local music store in Los Angeles
> (Black Market Music).  I know the owner of the store and several of
> the employees.  I got a call from them being I was the ONLY person
> they knew who had a Fairlight and knew anything about it.  The machine
> was a very interesting series I that had been upgraded to a IIx. It
> had some disk drive issues and noisy/low output problems but was
> relatively intact.  Unfortunately the interesting sound library as
> mentioned on Ron's "Ode" page were nowhere to be found - perhaps he
> kept the disks hidden away somewhere for his own samples....
>
> I do recall that they ended up selling that machine to the hip hop
> group "Outkast", which I think (as an American) is a very amusing
> history for a machine owned originally by Scientologists..
>
> Best Regards,
> Paul