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by recordbot » Sun Jun 19, 2016 4:35 am
was just thinking about how maybe a lot of this vintage festishism leans towards hogwash, hey more power to you if the vintages have to be where it's at for you,
just came back from watching Myron McKinley perform classic after classic on what looked like a pile of Jupiter 80s,
I'll post pictures later, but yeah if he can just crack out all those Earth Wind and Fire songs on a few Jupiter 80s, sure he's touring so you want to use new gear for that, less risk of failure, easy backup if there is a failure, but he's making music and entertaining a crowd, if it was some Dave Smith board instead I'm sure he'd nail all those same sounds with that,
and he's probably got all those vintages at home for recording, yes I know there are sonic differences between different units, and some musicians have favorite gear because they are more productive with it, but maybe more focus needs to be put on making music instead of fetishizing the tools used to make music.
just a thought, now back to the gear lust gassing after obscure vintage electronic keyboards that make weird bleep noises