A Cute Little Bunny Listens to "Main Street Electrical Parade" / Bode 7702 Vocoder & Michael Iceberg Live

YouTube via VoiceEncoder | November 11, 2010

"A cute little bunny listens to "Main Street Electrical Parade" / Bode 7702 Vocoder.

Thanks to the OUL of the video I used."

Mainstreet Electrical Parade - Synthesizer Version

previously posted here

Mickey Mouse Fuzzy Sequencer - Seq Description

YouTube via sailormouthdotorg | September 07, 2010
via GetLoFi where you'll find full details.

Circuit Bent Rare Bontempi Memo Mickey

via this auction
"Circuit Bent Bontempi Memo Mickey Organ by freeform delusion

A rare and great looking Bontempi Organ. Big sounding bass machine with some nice mods for that something extra!

The mods are:
Mono mini jack output (speaker disabled)

Switchable Gating effect

Two Yellow Control Knobs - Pitch Bend and Gating effect speed

Two Red Control Knobs - Lofi Filter effects

Switchable Rainbow LED Effect with Blue volume Control Knob - a strange effect created by the Rainbow LED added, listen to the video from around 4:20, you will hear this effect being used. The blue knob controls the volume of this effect.

This unit take 4x C sized batteries

official website for .fd. - www.electroexistence.co.uk"

video posted here

Circuit Bent Avril by Bontempi Memo Mickey Mouse Organ by freeform delusion

YouTube via eecouk | August 15, 2010

"Avril by Bontempi - Memo Mickey Organ - Walt Disney

Mono Mini Jack output

Switch on his head for gating/tremelo effect

Red Knobs for Filter Control

Yellow Knobs for Pitch Bend Control - also controls the gated effect speed

Here's a strange one - Switchable Rainbow LED effect. With Blue Control Knob, to vary the depth of this effect, seems to have its own type of set sequence which sounds great on this organ."

THEREMIN: Yesterday, Today & Forever

YouTube via copperleaves
"Here are two performances of the Disney classic SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME performed on the same 1929 RCA theremin 53 years apart. The first version was from a broadcast of the Disney TV show, THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB in 1956, where we see the celebrated Hollywood thereminist, Dr. Samuel Hoffman, playing for a group of mouseketeers. The second version of the song is one I recorded this afternoon (Nov. 24, 2009) on the theremin that once belonged to the late Dr. Hoffman. It is fortunate that extremely good care has been taken of this instrument throughout its life and it functions as well today as it did when it was made 80 years ago."

Isao Tomita - When you wish upon a Star

Re-
Uploaded on Dec 23, 2011 CharmedOrc·212 videos
YouTube via 5488773.  previously posted, but taken down.

"aca isao tomita tocando su MOOG III . hermosa cancion =)"

Pure magic.

Michael Iceberg on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson

YouTube via sandysoup.

Be sure to see this post for one of his full performances at Disneyland.

Sent my way via mark. From the video description: "See www.isntlifeterrible.com"

MOOG Synthesizer IIIp

Remember the MOOG Modular IIIp on Craigslist for $12k? The seller was notified it was too little for the system so he took it down. It's now back up here, now listed at $32k. I backed up the shots and details here in case the site goes down after it's sold.

Original (1969) & Current (2007) Owner - Philip Michael Davis



History of Use:
- Gil Evans Jazz Group - Tour of Europe - Live performance
- Basil Poledouris - Several Film Scores
- "Tommy" - Aquarius Theater in LA - Live performance
- "Jesus Christ Superstar" - Universal Studios Amphitheater - Live performance
- "Sgt. Pepper" - Stage production on Broadway - Tom O'Horgan producer
- "Electrical Light Parade" - Disney - Recorded at the Paul Beaver Studio in LA
- "America on Parade" - For Disneyland and Disneyworld
- Paul McCartney - "Ram"
- George Harrison - Ravi Shankar - film score
- David Gates - "Clouds"
- Numerous commercials
- Various Movie scores

Michael Iceberg In Concert - Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade

Uploaded on Dec 28, 2006 Joseph McGinty

Update: 28 minute version added below.

Dineyland Main Street Electrical Parade. Man this brings back memories... YouTube via rastro2. Sent my way via Joe McGinty . BTW, I hope everyone has a very safe and Happy New Year!

"Michael Iceberg plays a medley of "Star Wars", "Close Encounters", and "Baroque Hoedown". "Now, here's somebody crazier than me"--Hunter S. Thompson. For more information and booking, check out http://www.michaelicebergmusic.com"


Michael Iceberg - In Concert from Disneyland

Main Street Electrical Parade 1973

flickr by TerranceT76.

"The musical soundtrack was performed by Jim Christensen and Paul Beaver and was entirely performed on a Moog Synthesizer."

Title link takes you to more info and another shot of the Electrical Water Pageant which preceded the Main Street Electrical Parade.

Update via phloemlabs in the comments:
"Here you go :)

Main Street - Electric Light Parade.mp3

and the original - baroque hoedown.mp3"

Update: adding the words Disney and Disneyland to this post for easy searching later.

Jean Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman Live - Seattle

Remember this post? Well, I managed to make it to the kick off show in Seattle tonight, or rather last night. It was a very FUN show. Filled with quirky bits of music and musings by Jean-Jacques Perrey. Definitely recommend seeing them if you get a chance. Title link takes you to a ton of shots and some short video/audio clips I took with my old digital camera. Apologies for the poor quality.

One of the coolest things about the show was Jean-Jacques' antics during the performances, from pretending to ride a horse to air guitar. Classic, funny stuff. He said his goal was to make others happy and to bring a smile to our faces - to have FUN. I'd say he more than succeeded. What was also fascinating was the stories he'd tell before each piece. I don't want to ruin it for anyone that might make the upcoming shows, so let's just say there was a fascinating story about Salvadore Dali and one about Disneyland. As for gear, Jean played the Ondioline (that brown box in front of him), what looked like a Moog dual manual organ, a couple of synths and a few Moogerfoogers. Dana primarily played a Yamaha DX7 and every now and then he broke out with the Synthesizers.com modular. Oh, and his little elephant mascot joined the show as well. : )

You can read more about Jean Jacques Perrey here, and Dana Countryman here.

P.S. I also had the pleasure of meeting and sharing a table with Blake of Hotels. They use a Casio CZ-3000 and JP8000 in their set up. I just checked out their site and MySpace page. Good stuff.

Update:
OK - SPOILER (do not read this if you are going to the show and want the effect of hearing this story for the first time - this is the story about Salvidore Dali):
Jean talked about how Salvadore Dali asked him what he was working on next. Jean said he was working on 'Flight of the Bumble Bee.' Dali said, hmm.. that's not that special. Jean said, well I'm doing it with live bees! Dali said, oh I must hear this. Jean recorded the buzz of live bees and other bugs. He then sliced the tapes and mapped it to the full range of a keyboard. It took him 46 hours to set this up. He then played it for Dali. Dali was blown away and said he must play it for him again. He said Dali said Mignificent! It was a fascinating intimate story and I really am not doing it justice. You just picture them sitting together and Jean playing this for Dali. Amazing. You can read more on the tape process in this excerpt of his biography.

HP Model 200B Audio Oscillator

Title link takes you to an amazing slideshow of the HP Model 200B Audio Oscillator on Flickr. This on sent my way via Steven Pilker. Link to static set here. Thanks Steven.

Update via Steven in the comments: "My buddy Blake Howell took the pictures and is hosting the Flickr page, just wanted to put in a shout-out!"

Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:

"FWIW and as far as I know the very first product sold by Hewlett Packard from their famous garage was an oscillator like this one maybe a model or two earlier, I can;t remember, and the legend is that then Disney bought a bunch of them for Fantasia and the rest is HP history, prior to HP oscillator's a workbench would have a beat frequency oscillator which was basically a theremin with no antennas , it was just 2 40K coils that were slightly out of synch and you had to calibrate them every session, HP did away with that with that BS with stable accurate frequencies and they sold a lot of them.....then they bought Compaq , oh well"

A Little Disney History

Title link takes you to a post on Craigslist for the Moog Polymoog used in the Disneyland Electric Light Parade. Kind of interesting to me in that I grew up in Hollywood and used to go to Disneyland all the time. I remember pulling an all nighter there with all the goths during one of their special events (I looked the part, but I never was a goth!). : ) I actually had a black crow try to pick one of my hairs thinking it was branch. Another story for another time. I forget what the event was for, but I do remember passing out on a bench and having a great time. What's odd is I've probably heard this exact synth serveral times. This one via Brian Comnes. Thanks for the flashback Brian! : )