I totally agree with you. This is an amazing channel and every day it just keeps getting better. Every time I think how will they ever top this, but they do.
Zero Time blew away a generation of English Hippies. At the time Stockhausen was popular, Emerson Lake and Palmer were in their early days and Dark Side of the Moon 2 years away. These sounds, this music, were from another dimension entirely and created a mystique all of their own.
Now I understand what your experiments with the Continuum are all about. MPE and MIDI 2.0 must be the key to continuing the work those three guys started all the way back in 1968.
How the hell did I miss this. I was a huge electronic music fan, still am, I was listening to Larry Fast, Tomita, Carlos, Syrnx, met Moog. Just listened to Head Band. Exquisite. Thanks.
Through Experience Hendrix, I found out from Eddie Kramer that Hendrix was never in the same room with the Moog that they bought. It sat in the booth at EL Studios and became TONTO before it was moved out.
Literally the most exciting new RU-vid discovery for me in YEARS, is this channel. Been watching for about a month. So incredible. Please keep the videos coming, I have learned so much and continue to be inspired. Thank you, Anthony.
Great stuff! While watching and listening, as a Dutchman I was vividly recalling compatriot Johan Timman, also standing in front of such a wall of synths. “Trip into the body” …early 80’s 👍🏻
I've had a lifelong love of synthesizers and this was one of the most beautiful interviews I've seen in a really long time. I can't wait to check out the full version. Thank you so much for sharing! 🖤
I've often wondered who I saw at Stonehenge 1976, setting up a wardrobe sized bank of knobs, wires and electronica, in the dark. About half an hour before the solstice sunrise quiet ascending and descending sequences were beginning to come out of this marvellous box of tricks. The music was so cool and apt.
Malcolm Cecil moved T.O.N.T.O. to his Laurel Canyon home. It was located in a room unto itself when I was there early ‘90’s. He was a very nice guy, a proper gentleman, and worked on producing LA artists. He opened his studio to accomplishing good music. Think of a musical Gandalf, and you’d be fairly close.
I was sold on this channel not by title of this video but by the wonderful and concise 1min introduction without cut/edits. Makes it human and non AI. Subbed and looking forward to exploring more of your stuff :-)
At the moment I can't think of anything other than to say thank you! Now I've to listen to any recording on which TONTO was performed. I wasn't even born when TONTO was born. Of course we know Devo, Stevie W. anyway, but I admittedly haven't listened to a whole album by either of them yet. 🥴
I've seen TONTO in our National Music Centre. It really is a sight to behold, and while I didn't get to hear it in person, it is indeed one heck of an instrument!
Tontos Expanding Head Band......Riversong....Tama.....yes, i do remember....what a great time we had in our 20s in the 1990s, exploring so much music back then, buying albums, meeting friends and smoke and just listen to music...or make music......
wowsers, an interview with robert margouleff! zero time blew me away when i was younger and digging crates for older synth albums. i could've listened to robert tell stories for hours. anthony, there is a rhythm to interviewing as there is in music. listen more and you'll find the right pace and the correct spots for questions. i do appreciate your enthusiasm and energy as it is the motor that drives this exploratory vessel into the sonic universe of synths! now i have to go and watch the full episode. thanks again for this channel 😊
Incredible story... I will see the long vid asap. Thanks Anthony to let us know the details. I need to check all the records you mentioned, it will be an exciting exploration
It is historical studies, like your videos, that are important in any musical theory class. They should be included in any serious study of modern musical form, as these synthesizers shaped the sounds that we heard from the 1960's on. One of my favorite groups is Kraftwerk from Germany. They built their own Synths also.
Such a visual nod to (albeit nod forward to the future) Chromeo's new mega system encased in the reflective shard like cases. Design wise also brings to mind one of Larry Fast's Synergy album covers. When Larry released that famous early '80s album, were there do-it-yourself cases that looked that huge and so like blades? Also. Look at the new uber-massive case design by Erica Synths. Same blade-like, shard-like bevel. Or as a nod back in time - Buchla's own original cases for the system 1. Go Rugrats!
Now all these synths engines are combined into a single workstation like the Korg Kronos which has 9 separate synths. It is awesome to see how a multi-synth instrument had to be developed in the past. In the end, the concepts are the same and technology improves the ideas.
Liked & subbed.Thank You for a Great interveiw on the history of Tonto .Friend from highschool bought Tonto's expanding Headband in 72.Those were Cosmic Days.
I have the two albums Tonto’s Expanding Headband recorded using the TONTO synths. Zero Time & It’s About Time both excellent. The bass is so deep. For the best of those albums check out TONTO Rides Again.
As a late teenager in the early 70's I remember walking by EL for the first time and seeing that brown brick barrel vault facade (12:22). I wasn't looking for it , just walking across 8th street ( a major village cross street ) and recognized it from an album cover I had seen with a picture of the front of the studio . Suddenly I went into some kind of time warp and then as I slowly recovered I remember saying to myself " could this really be IT ? " as the place was so nondescript with no sign out front . I stopped and walked back a few paces and there on the door was a little metal plaque with the words " Electric Ladyland" on it. Looked at it for about twenty seconds feeling somehow I could become ghost-like and pass through that door. Never have forgotten that day and the realization of what the music had subconsciously done to me to put me in that state. Ironically about a decade later I was living on Sixth Ave next to the Waverly Theater just a few blocks south. The studio is thankfully still there but as in a lot of NYC glass has replaced the masonry so it is no longer as recognizable. Just as Tin Pan Alley was this building is a massive landmark in music history and needs to be preserved as such along with Dylan's first apartment a couple blocks away. . I'm going to look to see where I put my Expanding Headband album as I did not know of the connection between the two.Thanks for bringing me back.
5 Classic albums of that era, not 4 4 are celebrated but it was 5 Music of my mind Talking Book Innervisions First fullfillingness finale Songs in the key of life
Great stuff, Anthony. The shorter form helps me. Even this length is tough for me to stay with all the way through if I have already watched a video or two. It's just my health that gets to me. Other people might be pressed for time or whatever. I appreciate your being thorough (better to be long but good, rather than to hurry through a subject that needs time), at the same time, but breaking up the material into manageable chunks does make it easier to watch the whole thing. Either way, thank you.
I didn't get to hear the Zero Time until the early 1980's, I was a Punk Rocker who liked Devo/Cab/Metal Urbain/Suicide. Zero Time knocked me out, our drummer who was a Punk from 1976 went to a Hippy drug party and came back the Tonto album, traded it for some magic mushrooms, pure genius of an album. We used the composition 'Jet Sex' as an into to our New Wave band; called the 'Wreckers' (comic characters from 200AD Judge Dred stories) when we came stage to play. River Song is a most Beautiful piece, ever.
