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> From: elle_webb [mailto:elle_webb@...] 
> 
> arrangements of Rameau keyboard works. Does anybody have any other 
> recommendations in this area, beyond Carlos, Tomita, and ELP? 

  While not strictly synthesizer music, "Virgil Fox Live at the Fillmore 
East" is where it all started for me.  I was 7 when I heard this, and from 
that moment I knew what focus my interest in 'electricty' would be.  When 
I heard Larry Fast's ERfRO, *that* was the catalysing moment: I started 
looking up how to make synthesizer circuits.  The third epiphany would 
have to be in 1979 when I encountered Michael Iceberg at Disney World.  I 
now had the three keys that started the engine that is still running: the 
inspiration from Virgil Fox (I saw him play in 1978, not long before his 
death), the true-synth wow factor from Larry Fast, and the "here is how it 
is done, playing-wise" factor from Michael Iceberg.

  So, I would recommend albums from these folks.  .Iceberg has a CD of the 
1978 "Does It Live"/"100th week at WDW".  While not as virtuoso as Larry 
or Virgil, Iceberg did everything live without any MIDI or sequencers 
beyond some little 8-step Oberheim thing and a Linn Drum unit.

Crow
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