Title link takes you to some nice shots via this auction."With it's 23 sliders, 16 switches, 3 knobs and 2 buttons, the Roland PG-800 is a godsend for live tweaking while you run MIDI sequences to your synth. It's great for sweeping the resonance or cutoff while a nice throbbing bassline is playing! We could not imagine programming the MKS-70 or JX synths without this unit. It makes programming these synths 1000 times faster and easier!!! We must also mention, this unit belonged to Adrian Belew, the well known guitarist (and probably the most innovative one at least) for King Crimson. It's in amazing condition, so I don't think he gigged with it. I do know the Roland JX-8P was his main synth for awhile, so I can imagine him using this programmer to get his sounds programmed."
Celebrity synth gear is worth no more than any others.
ReplyDeleteI once had a JD-800 that was owned by Prince and it sounded sooo much better than a standard one. Well actually, it wasn't really owned by Prince, but it believed it was. Some kind of weird synthesizer psychosis, but it really helped the sound. I eventually had to sell it because the display stopped showing the names of patches and instead had some gargage symbols that came up.
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ReplyDelete"Adrian Belew, the well known guitarist (and probably the most innovative one at least) for King Crimson."
Did he actually just say that? Did he just call Adrian Belew the most innovative guitarist in King Crimson, or even overall???? Um, hello - Robert Fripp, anyone? AB is a great musician, but his two most famous musical associations (Crimson and Zappa) have been with guitarists who are legends!
And, re: celebrity gear - this isn't even a synth, it's just a programmer. Which would give owning it roughly the same prestige as owning Rick Wakeman's beer bottle opener from the 70's...