Not quite. What actually happened is an out of control tractor from a neighboring farm crashed into his studio (a converted barn) and dragged the GX-1 along with other pieces of his studio equipment for several yards before it was stopped. It was very lucky for him that he wasn't in the studio at the time!
Actually, the GX-1 was a production model, the flagship of Yamaha's Electone electronic organ line and that is the market it was primarily aimed at, the professional organ market. Permanent installations in sports arenas, churches and the like. That is why the instrument came with its own custom set of speakers (not shown in the video). At some point someone in the Yamaha marketing department figured out they might be able to sell a few of these to really rich rock musicians, and they did.
@@SuperSy99 - Says Electone on it. CS-80 uses the same voice circuit. CS-80 has a velocity and pressure sensitive keyboard though, GX-1 has an organ keyboard for the two primary manuals and mono pressure only on the solo keyboard. GX-1 can store more presets.
@@MFitz12 The Solo keyboard actually has three forms of touch sensitivity, including wiggling the keys sideways. One thing that caused underestimates of production figures in the West is that most of them stayed in Japan -- hardly surprising, given how hard it is to transport something so huge and delicate.
much better than the electone series though. the electone series was primarily an FM synth organ, it didn’t even had midi. although it was the best FM could possibly do.
@@synthmalicious7541 I'm not sure if this counts as easy listening music, but this song (and in fact the whole album) was created with a GX-1: th-cam.com/video/GE5Bgj8D0Fo/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: In a tour of RMVstudio, which houses the ABBA GX-1, the studio technician claim that GX-1 used by Led Zeppelin on their last album was actually Benny's, and they still have the Kashmir string sound saved on a memory card in the studio.
Don't think so. The strings in Kashmir were produced by a Mellotron, and the GX1 was not produced by the time of that recording. Also Benny Andersson always claimed that he bought his gx1 after listening to Paul's
Half true. It is Benny´s GX-1 standing in the RMV studio. Led Zeppelin recorded in Polar Studio in 1978, so that GX-1 might have been there back then. Kashmir was released in 1975.
In Through the Out Door is my favorite Zeppelin album because of Jones's great synth tones and playing on that album. This thing was a trailblazer, and the warmth that comes out of it is killer.
For how big and how rare the GX-1 is, it's amazing the number of musicians that got their hands on one. The video mentioned some and who were very important, but I can also add on Rick van der Linden of Ekseption and Trace, and Jürgen Fritz of Triumvirat. Rick recorded basically a GX-1 demonstration album in 1977 called GX-1 (what else!) and Jürgen used one on Triumvirat's Pompeii. I guess since Emerson was a big idol for Fritz that he decided to follow in his footsteps and purchase a GX-1. I'm not surprised to see those guys not mentioned given they're not a so recognized to the public in general. Much more recently Mattias Olsson of the prog rock band Änglagård acquired one and featured in his Roth Händle Studios. I believe his once belonged to Benny Andersson, which is hardly a surprise given both are Swedish.
Ben Miler Benny still owns his and is still in his studio, I haven't done much research but I believe once Polar Studios was closed and taken down they moved the GX-1 to a different location before it went back with Benny. Someone else extensively repaired it during that time.
Fun fact: The Soviets built a replica of it. They called it Gorky Synthesizer. It took them 5 years of reverse engineering until they produced a kind of modernized version which was easier programmable. Sadly this was only the private project of some Russian Air Force general. One machine ended up in Eastern Berlin after the wall came down and was sold in 1993 by a soldier who thought it was just an old organ. It still survives somewhere in Europe I heard from a friend of a friend. Probably the only machine of that kind.
Between the freaking Soviets and the idiot Chinese well excuse me they're both idiots however why don't we Americans just go ahead and send them the plans ahead of time because they're going to find a way to steal them anyway just like they do all of our military equipment. At least the Chinese have a little brains on the ball and can reverse engineer some things but the Russians can't even do that. The Russians are still trying to figure out how to flush a modern-day toilet😅😅
"Emerson broke his GX-1..." That's apparently a bit of an understatement. According to Wikipedia, it got ran over by an "out of control" tractor. I'd really like to know the story behind that.
ProgHead777 Think the story goes, as KE said in a Keyboard Magazine interview, a tractor trailer was driving by near his home where he had a studio in his barn, the tractor went out of control crashing into the barn dragging the GX 1. Forget if this was before the Emerson Lake and a Powell tour the mid 80s. He was at sone point around then approached by John Paul Jones if He wanted to by his GX . I think it may have been that one that did the Emerson Lake and Powell tour . After the tour it was pretty much unplayable. Late 80s early 90s Zimmer bought one of the Gx1s and had Yamaha fully restore it.
What can you say Yamaha make great synths. There was so many good synths made in the 70s and 80s by Yamaha,Roland,pro one, emax,wasp etc. They was the best time for synths.
"One of the most important synthesizers ever made"........well, yes and no: It was technologically important in the sense that it paved the way for other polyphonic synthesizers but it was too expensive and too rare to be of artistic importance. Even though Emerson, Wonder, and Anderson used it frequently it is still only a very small fraction of the 1970s synth scene.
I had a temp job at Yamaha back in 1981 and ventured into the keyboard tech repair room a few times and saw this beast set up and didn't realize what I was looking at. I was more into their guitars at the time. Well anyway I was up close and personal with one of the ten made.
Both those pieces from 'All of my love' and 'Lay all your love on me' are always in my head and I used to hum it.. Such a valuable info guys! Thank you so much! Hugs!!! :)
@@michaelbauers8800 russia gave women the right to vote before the USSA did. gay rights too. irony: the Communist revolution was inspired by....the American Revolution!
Would've liked to know how it works and why it is so unique in a more detailed way, instead of just you telling us who used it. But that's just my opinion, keep up the good work :)
@@MacXpert74 That one's a lot easier to pardon, since it's so uncommonly spoken. What American adult hasn't heard "Yamaha" pronounced properly, many times? Boggles the mind.
Cherry Audio has recenty introduced the GX-80 softsynth. This is a CS-80 clone that also includes many GX-1 extra features. So if you're dying to own one, than $50 will get you a pretty usable version of it. That's what 50 years of technology can do.
It was called the "Dream Machine" not just because it had three keyboards that allowed you to layer sounds on top of one another, but the nickname also came from the fact it was so heavy to lug around (especially with its available accessories) and thus too pricey (at $60 grand in 1976!) for most musicians to think of buying. Consequently, only less than 100 were known to have been made. If anyone finds a GX-1 today, expect to pay over $300,000 for one in good shape.
Great video! It's hard to estimate how many were made given the fact that individual instruments changed owners more than once. There is a GX-1 in Yamaha's museum in Hamamatsu, I heard there is one in Tokyo too. Gordon Reid ownes one and I happen to know what he paid for it. I can tell you it was much less than 60 grand. The Shah of Persia had one (or was that an HX-1?), Cat Stevens used one but I don't know if he was the owner. You forgot to tell that it had a rhythm box. A very decent one. Listen to it on Rick van der Linden's GX-1.
I absolutely love your channel man! So well written and produced. It's entertaining and educational. Love it. How do you feel about modern metal/metalcore/screamo type stuff? My favorite band of all time is Underoath and I truly believe that Aaron Gillespie is an individual worth talking about!
I bought the Tuss album by Richard D James back when his label was still insisting it was someone else, but because he used that synth and he was one of the few people to own one people knew it was him. Now that record is worth like $300, so Id like to thank the dream machine for that one.
i heard that the drums also are synth made, could this be true? Benny said it was the last abba song recorded and the band was gone so it was only them left :)
Just being a roadie for Emerson Lake and Palmer had to be super stressful especially since Keith Emerson is a perfectionist and all of their huge equipment had to be placed and hooked up perfectly. Also don't forget about Carl Palmer's 1 ton stainless steel drum kit😮😢😢😮.........😅😅😅
It will always be about Fanfare for the Common Man and Keith for me. What a titanic sound he made with that thing. The other guys are awesome too, of course, as is the music they made with it.
At that DAMN PRICE!!!!!! I think it would have been cheaper to contract and Orchestra for 5 years to stay in a basement with him making music and smoking weed.
If you want to get your hands on one, get the Arturia version of the CS-80. You'll love it! Of all the Arturia virtual synths, their CS-80 is my favorite.
"Yeah-ma-hah"? Anything this guy says after mispronouncing the name like that (and continues throughout) is probably just as suspect. Have some respect.
Also, I believe Vangelis is pronounced with a hard G, not a J, even though it is spelled like "gel" - if you're doing a keyboard video, learn how to pronounce the artists of legend.
The GX-1 ruined ELP. It couldn't hold a candle to Keith's modular Moog but I believe Keith liked it's simplicity compared to his Moog and the band never sounded as good any longer. The GX-1 didn't have any balls like the Moog. And Keith didn't break his GX-1. It was damaged by a tractor that ran into his barn in England where Keith had it stored. Oh, and Rick Wright never used a GX-1 in any Floyd recordings..
For One Thing Rick Wright was not talented enough on a Keith Emerson scale anyway to pull it off properly. Also remember Keith Emerson continued to use his modular mug even with the gx1
Keith rarely used his Moog after he got the Yamaha. It collected dust and had to be completely restored. Later on when Keith realized how special his Moog was, he began to use it again sparingly but never played it as he had in the early 70's... He seemed to have forgotten how to use it.
Oh, and as previous comment.. Ya (Yah)- Ma (muh)- Ha (haw). You really lose credibility when you mispronounce such a simple thing. Please don't mangle "Roland", next.
Ok, .... I guess, ..... but dx-7, really was the hands-on, not-just-for-synth-freaks, fit-in-your-car change-the-landscape-of-all-pop music game changer... Why not talk about the FairLight, if you're going for synth-crazy-behemoths? More profound/stunning, 4sure.
Dude, you really have to learn how to pronounce some of these names. It makes it sound as if you have no idea what you are talking about and just reading someone else’s words.
Olá meu caro autor dos vídeos. Caso seja brasileiro, haveria possibilidades de legenda-los português? As legendas automáticas do TH-cam, ajudam, mas não são as ideias. 👍🏾
0:16 that legendary recording artist thought they were real strings? The Yamaha sounds amazing but even an amateur like me can hear they're not real strings.
My guitarist used to own a Yamaha SK-50. It was a fun keyboard to play. You could definitely get GX-1 type sounds on the SK series keyboards because they share similar circuitry, that is if you're looking that sound but with a far cheaper alternative. We definitely didn't find much use for it in what we did musically. Otherwise we would've kept it, but it's certainly a super versatile polysynth.
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"Yeah-ma-ha"
James Helgason Yeah, until he learns to pronounce Yamaha, fuck his videos.
Are you people for real?
“Lad Zeppelin”
sweet potato ma ha
That's what bugged me too. Should be Yaw-ma-ha.
“- Emerson broke his first gx-1”
Yep, that’s about right
Jamie when knife edge started it was all over for that gx-1
Not quite. What actually happened is an out of control tractor from a neighboring farm crashed into his studio (a converted barn) and dragged the GX-1 along with other pieces of his studio equipment for several yards before it was stopped. It was very lucky for him that he wasn't in the studio at the time!
@@ShawnBarnesbass
That's a crazy story.
@@harrybrown7745😂😂😂
Actually, the GX-1 was a production model, the flagship of Yamaha's Electone electronic organ line and that is the market it was primarily aimed at, the professional organ market. Permanent installations in sports arenas, churches and the like. That is why the instrument came with its own custom set of speakers (not shown in the video). At some point someone in the Yamaha marketing department figured out they might be able to sell a few of these to really rich rock musicians, and they did.
Actual production figures are far more than 10. I think the most reliable numbers are between 50 and 130.
Gx1 is not electone organ.its a polysynth will eat cs80 for breakfast
@@SuperSy99 - Says Electone on it. CS-80 uses the same voice circuit. CS-80 has a velocity and pressure sensitive keyboard though, GX-1 has an organ keyboard for the two primary manuals and mono pressure only on the solo keyboard. GX-1 can store more presets.
@@MFitz12 The Solo keyboard actually has three forms of touch sensitivity, including wiggling the keys sideways. One thing that caused underestimates of production figures in the West is that most of them stayed in Japan -- hardly surprising, given how hard it is to transport something so huge and delicate.
much better than the electone series though. the electone series was primarily an FM synth organ, it didn’t even had midi. although it was the best FM could possibly do.
The gx is POLYPHONIC. I see...
Why not play GX-1 sounds as background music...
Ugh...
*cough*
320,000$
*cough*
I dare you to go find some easy listening background music using GX-1.
@@synthmalicious7541 I'm not sure if this counts as easy listening music, but this song (and in fact the whole album) was created with a GX-1:
th-cam.com/video/GE5Bgj8D0Fo/w-d-xo.html
@@pakey423 Yeah its not so easy listening haha, but it could be used as background music I'd guess, though it might be distracting
haha.... he said YAMaha.....
i say YAH-MA-HA
Yeah ma, uhuh
Silly git doesn't know it's not a yam, but a sweet potato.
YEM-a-ha.
Yeah, kinda makes you wonder if he knows what he's talking about....
Was waiting for the aphex shout out
me too haha
I was hoping they would mention Richard as well
minguspucha Richard s GX must have been modified to accept midi in.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaphexxxxxxxx
Prick!😉
Fun fact: In a tour of RMVstudio, which houses the ABBA GX-1, the studio technician claim that GX-1 used by Led Zeppelin on their last album was actually Benny's, and they still have the Kashmir string sound saved on a memory card in the studio.
Don't think so. The strings in Kashmir were produced by a Mellotron, and the GX1 was not produced by the time of that recording. Also Benny Andersson always claimed that he bought his gx1 after listening to Paul's
Half true. It is Benny´s GX-1 standing in the RMV studio. Led Zeppelin recorded in Polar Studio in 1978, so that GX-1 might have been there back then. Kashmir was released in 1975.
In Through the Out Door is my favorite Zeppelin album because of Jones's great synth tones and playing on that album. This thing was a trailblazer, and the warmth that comes out of it is killer.
For how big and how rare the GX-1 is, it's amazing the number of musicians that got their hands on one. The video mentioned some and who were very important, but I can also add on Rick van der Linden of Ekseption and Trace, and Jürgen Fritz of Triumvirat. Rick recorded basically a GX-1 demonstration album in 1977 called GX-1 (what else!) and Jürgen used one on Triumvirat's Pompeii. I guess since Emerson was a big idol for Fritz that he decided to follow in his footsteps and purchase a GX-1. I'm not surprised to see those guys not mentioned given they're not a so recognized to the public in general. Much more recently Mattias Olsson of the prog rock band Änglagård acquired one and featured in his Roth Händle Studios. I believe his once belonged to Benny Andersson, which is hardly a surprise given both are Swedish.
Ben Miler Benny still owns his and is still in his studio, I haven't done much research but I believe once Polar Studios was closed and taken down they moved the GX-1 to a different location before it went back with Benny. Someone else extensively repaired it during that time.
Benny’s has been fully restored and is now at Riksmixningsverket, Benny’s studio
Fun fact: The Soviets built a replica of it. They called it Gorky Synthesizer. It took them 5 years of reverse engineering until they produced a kind of modernized version which was easier programmable. Sadly this was only the private project of some Russian Air Force general. One machine ended up in Eastern Berlin after the wall came down and was sold in 1993 by a soldier who thought it was just an old organ. It still survives somewhere in Europe I heard from a friend of a friend. Probably the only machine of that kind.
Between the freaking Soviets and the idiot Chinese well excuse me they're both idiots however why don't we Americans just go ahead and send them the plans ahead of time because they're going to find a way to steal them anyway just like they do all of our military equipment. At least the Chinese have a little brains on the ball and can reverse engineer some things but the Russians can't even do that. The Russians are still trying to figure out how to flush a modern-day toilet😅😅
That was a fun fact indeed.
"Emerson broke his GX-1..." That's apparently a bit of an understatement. According to Wikipedia, it got ran over by an "out of control" tractor. I'd really like to know the story behind that.
ProgHead777
Think the story goes, as KE said in a Keyboard Magazine interview, a tractor trailer was driving by near his home where he had a studio in his barn, the tractor went out of control crashing into the barn dragging the GX 1. Forget if this was before the Emerson Lake and a Powell tour the mid 80s. He was at sone point around then approached by John Paul Jones if He wanted to by his GX . I think it may have been that one that did the Emerson Lake and Powell tour . After the tour it was pretty much unplayable. Late 80s early 90s Zimmer bought one of the Gx1s and had Yamaha fully restore it.
Polyphonic, you're the real Dream Machine.
It was also called the "dream machine" because of just how expensive the beast is!
Name like that, you'd have to expect Gary Wright to have one.
I'm sorry, but as much as I may have been interested I just had to stop watching when I heard you totally butcher the name Yamaha.
It's a good way to never learn anything.
Thank you for a great video!
Next time though? It's YA-MA-HA, not JEM-aha!
I know, it sounds like the guy's getting spooked by veggies the whole time when he keeps saying it "Yam, Aha!"
What can you say Yamaha make great synths. There was so many good synths made in the 70s and 80s by Yamaha,Roland,pro one, emax,wasp etc. They was the best time for synths.
"One of the most important synthesizers ever made"........well, yes and no: It was technologically important in the sense that it paved the way for other polyphonic synthesizers but it was too expensive and too rare to be of artistic importance. Even though Emerson, Wonder, and Anderson used it frequently it is still only a very small fraction of the 1970s synth scene.
@Neb6 plus, it NEVER reached fruition:
no one I know of fully used the crazy shit the GX1 can do!
they all just scratched the surface.
I had a temp job at Yamaha back in 1981 and ventured into the keyboard tech repair room a few times and saw this beast set up and didn't realize what I was looking at. I was more into their guitars at the time. Well anyway I was up close and personal with one of the ten made.
Incredible
Both those pieces from 'All of my love' and 'Lay all your love on me' are always in my head and I used to hum it.. Such a valuable info guys! Thank you so much! Hugs!!! :)
The thing you have to realize is that the GX-1 was incredibly advanced for the time of its creation.
This isn't Russia, I don't have to do anything except die and pay taxes ;)
Michael Bauers Russia has better healthcare than the USA.
I think he did realize this...which is why he made the video
@@michaelbauers8800 russia gave women the right to vote before the USSA did.
gay rights too.
irony:
the Communist revolution was inspired by....the American Revolution!
@@dumpygoodness4086 Interesting
I recommend doing a video essay on The Velvet Underground
Would've liked to know how it works and why it is so unique in a more detailed way, instead of just you telling us who used it. But that's just my opinion, keep up the good work :)
Here's the manual: www.synthfool.com/docs/Yamaha/Yamaha%20GX-1%20Owners%20Manual.pdf
I don't even like Aphex Twin, but I'd be damned if I said that dude wasn't creative as hell with everything he did
th-cam.com/video/4KD8kWksOmc/w-d-xo.html
nemo2e4 you got me. I like Aphex Twin now lol
Great video, but it's Yamaha, not Yeah-maha ;)
Reminds me of people always mispronouncing 'Moog'.
Luke Beaulieu exactly.
@@MacXpert74 That one's a lot easier to pardon, since it's so uncommonly spoken. What American adult hasn't heard "Yamaha" pronounced properly, many times? Boggles the mind.
MacXpert74 please correct me, but is it: mOOg. As in the o is how you would say the letter O in the alphabet.
@@andrewj.682 rhymes with vogue.
Great but please pronounce “Yamaha” correctly.
And it's one hundred and eighty-seven, not one hundred eighty-seven. Grrr.
Is that how it's pronounced? Yam-a ha? Have I been living a lie?
In Through The Out Door was actually recorded at ABBA’s Polar Music Studios in Stockholm. That’s your useless fact of the day.
Cherry Audio has recenty introduced the GX-80 softsynth. This is a CS-80 clone that also includes many GX-1 extra features. So if you're dying to own one, than $50 will get you a pretty usable version of it. That's what 50 years of technology can do.
It was called the "Dream Machine" not just because it had three keyboards that allowed you to layer sounds on top of one another, but the nickname also came from the fact it was so heavy to lug around (especially with its available accessories) and thus too pricey (at $60 grand in 1976!) for most musicians to think of buying. Consequently, only less than 100 were known to have been made.
If anyone finds a GX-1 today, expect to pay over $300,000 for one in good shape.
Impressive you managed to make that without saying the word Electone or mentioning that its an organ lol
It's Ya-ma-ha not Yam aha ! Great vid though!
YAAAM-aha
Great video! It's hard to estimate how many were made given the fact that individual instruments changed owners more than once. There is a GX-1 in Yamaha's museum in Hamamatsu, I heard there is one in Tokyo too. Gordon Reid ownes one and I happen to know what he paid for it. I can tell you it was much less than 60 grand. The Shah of Persia had one (or was that an HX-1?), Cat Stevens used one but I don't know if he was the owner. You forgot to tell that it had a rhythm box. A very decent one. Listen to it on Rick van der Linden's GX-1.
wasn't during the early stages of "Village Ghetto Land" that Stevie got away with his "London Orchestra" ?
Ok but, seriously, how do you not know how to pronounce the word "Yamaha"? Cheers! 😁
I absolutely love your channel man! So well written and produced. It's entertaining and educational. Love it. How do you feel about modern metal/metalcore/screamo type stuff? My favorite band of all time is Underoath and I truly believe that Aaron Gillespie is an individual worth talking about!
damn this channel is sooo good
Soon enough, Cherry Audio will recreate this for $39. 😂
Can you tell us the source of your accent? I am from Ontario - "Letterkenny" area - but your accent is unfamiliar to me. Thanks
Polyphonic has done it again! I learned something. Thank you
Paul K. Gill Polyphonic's ability to teach is why I keep coming back to watch his videos and why I support him through Patreon.
Love this video but thats NOT how you pronounce Yamaha
Used in ABBA Me and I too
Yes Hans Zimmer did buy Keith Emerson's rebuilt GX-1. He doesn't have it anymore. Did a bunch of samples then sold it.
What is that percussive sound in the right channel that can be heard in the entire video?
Dude, your videos are pure gold 💗
I bought the Tuss album by Richard D James back when his label was still insisting it was someone else, but because he used that synth and he was one of the few people to own one people knew it was him. Now that record is worth like $300, so Id like to thank the dream machine for that one.
The synth is even more influential than the video notes, since it contained not only a CS-80 but an early version as well of the DX7.
You're thinking of the GS-1, not the GX-1.
david reinecke youre wrong on both accounts bucko
“Yeah-MaHa!” “Vye-braato.”
Re. Abba, ‘The Day Before You Came’ would have been a better example as, aside from the drums, the track is 100% GX-1.
Nope. It's got minimoog base.
i heard that the drums also are synth made, could this be true? Benny said it was the last abba song recorded and the band was gone so it was only them left :)
I think the beat was mostly provided by a Linn Drum Machine and maybe some extra snare.
Keith Emerson dubbed the GX-1 the roadies nightmare as it weighed over 600 lbs and was stressful to move.
Just being a roadie for Emerson Lake and Palmer had to be super stressful especially since Keith Emerson is a perfectionist and all of their huge equipment had to be placed and hooked up perfectly. Also don't forget about Carl Palmer's 1 ton stainless steel drum kit😮😢😢😮.........😅😅😅
Why do you always ask people to "like Cher, and subscribe"? I mean, she did some good stuff in the 60s, but come on.
The guitar effects on ‘Fanfare For The Common Man ‘ were in produced by Greg Lake’s Alembic 8 string bass .
How do i take this seriously when you pronounce it -YA-meh-hah?!?! Crikey!! Like the last video said to listen to the drummer in Zeppelin...DUH!!
Your channel is goiing to blow up
Jesus, now I actually NEED to experiment much more with my Cherry Audio GX-80 virtual synthesizer...
It’s YAMAHA not YEHmaha
In 1980s I have noticed the name 'Electone GX' on certain album's description; now only I realize that it meant Yamaha GX-1.....
It belongs to the Electone line of Yamaha electronic organs...
I thought this video was about a synthesizer, not a Yam.
It will always be about Fanfare for the Common Man and Keith for me. What a titanic sound he made with that thing. The other guys are awesome too, of course, as is the music they made with it.
It cost aphex twin 100,00 pounds
At that DAMN PRICE!!!!!! I think it would have been cheaper to contract and Orchestra for 5 years to stay in a basement with him making music and smoking weed.
If you want to get your hands on one, get the Arturia version of the CS-80. You'll love it! Of all the Arturia virtual synths, their CS-80 is my favorite.
"Yeah-ma-hah"? Anything this guy says after mispronouncing the name like that (and continues throughout) is probably just as suspect. Have some respect.
What Aphex Twin did with the GX-1 was SICK!
A stunning synth that absolutely deserved to go with this amazing artist, the combination of the two producing surreal gems!
Also, I believe Vangelis is pronounced with a hard G, not a J, even though it is spelled like "gel" - if you're doing a keyboard video, learn how to pronounce the artists of legend.
It's not "YAM uh haw" it's "YAH muh hah"
What’s the Yam mah hah? Kendrick Lamar’s literary reference.
Yemeha! What a pronunciation!
"Yam"-a-ha. Obviously related to the sweet potato.
The GX-1 ruined ELP. It couldn't hold a candle to Keith's modular Moog but I believe Keith liked it's simplicity compared to his Moog and the band never sounded as good any longer. The GX-1 didn't have any balls like the Moog. And Keith didn't break his GX-1. It was damaged by a tractor that ran into his barn in England where Keith had it stored. Oh, and Rick Wright never used a GX-1 in any Floyd recordings..
For One Thing Rick Wright was not talented enough on a Keith Emerson scale anyway to pull it off properly. Also remember Keith Emerson continued to use his modular mug even with the gx1
Keith rarely used his Moog after he got the Yamaha. It collected dust and had to be completely restored. Later on when Keith realized how special his Moog was, he began to use it again sparingly but never played it as he had in the early 70's... He seemed to have forgotten how to use it.
Can you do a video about atomic platters? I feel its a genre of music everyone should know about.
I had to quit watching this video after one minute. Listening to his pronunciation of Yamaha was like nails on a chalkboard.
The way you pronounced Yamaha makes me think of Fargo. "Go Bears"
Please just once say Yahw mah hah
It’s pronounced “Your-Mama-HA! “
Yes, the Zimmer one was ELP's one. My friend was drooling on it.
If you need a GX-1 repair, he's the one you need ^^!
This guy has an interesting way of pronouncing Yamaha -- but that doesn't make him a bad person.
I can't imagine how much work you must put in vidéos. Thx you for doing it!!!
Stevie!!!
h yes, the album "The secret life of plants" is full of those GX1 strings. Lovely.
John Paul Jones used the GX-1 at Knebworth, but on the 1980 Tour Over Europe, he used two Fairlights. Jonesy sold his GX-1 to Keith Emerson.
John Paul Jones gave it to Keith Emerson in trade for Keith Emerson's autograph😮
Nice video! Do one on Zombies Odissey and Oracle!!
0:25 "Phil Harmonic"????? It's "philharmonic". 3:44 "Pallmer"???? It's "Palmer", for goodness' sake!!!
Ya-ma-ha not Yam-ah-ha
Love your vids. So much Canadian goodness Yeahmaha
Nice video keep it up👍
I think you mean "it's hard to *overstate* the importance of the GX-1", not "understate".
I think he could care less.
Kalum Batsch I think u meant ‘he couldn’t care less’
Ramon Almeida, thatsthejoke.jpg
Oh, and as previous comment..
Ya (Yah)- Ma (muh)- Ha (haw).
You really lose credibility when you mispronounce such a simple thing.
Please don't mangle "Roland", next.
Where are you from that you pronounce “Yamaha” in that manner?
I am what I Yamaha.
I think of KNEBWORTH 1979 and LED Zeppelin
Ok, .... I guess, .....
but dx-7, really was the hands-on, not-just-for-synth-freaks, fit-in-your-car change-the-landscape-of-all-pop music game changer...
Why not talk about the FairLight, if you're going for synth-crazy-behemoths?
More profound/stunning, 4sure.
Dude, you really have to learn how to pronounce some of these names. It makes it sound as if you have no idea what you are talking about and just reading someone else’s words.
Olá meu caro autor dos vídeos. Caso seja brasileiro, haveria possibilidades de legenda-los português?
As legendas automáticas do TH-cam, ajudam, mas não são as ideias. 👍🏾
0:16 that legendary recording artist thought they were real strings? The Yamaha sounds amazing but even an amateur like me can hear they're not real strings.
You gotta make a video on Bob Dylan
My guitarist used to own a Yamaha SK-50. It was a fun keyboard to play. You could definitely get GX-1 type sounds on the SK series keyboards because they share similar circuitry, that is if you're looking that sound but with a far cheaper alternative. We definitely didn't find much use for it in what we did musically. Otherwise we would've kept it, but it's certainly a super versatile polysynth.
Yah-ma- hah, not yam-a-hah.
I recognized this thing in the Kashmir music video