Phollop Willing PA wrote:bluedad wrote:Daily Nightly by the Monkees .., featured what is arguably the earliest synth appearance on a pop/rock record. The blips and gurgles from the Moog Modular held quite a fascination for me..
nope, you need to check this group out (Silver Apples 1967-1970).
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Then there's the Theremin on some early stuff (Beach Boys) and I'm not sure, but I believe Lothar & The Hand People predate too.
The Doctor Who theme was scored in about 1963 (does that count?)
Now just hold on a minute or two!
With the exception of The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers, which was released in Jan '68, all of the "Moog albums" listed hereunder predate Silver Apples' first album which was released a year later.
1) The Doors -
Strange days (album released in Sep '67, music rec. in aug '67) -- the Moog was used very sparingly on this album though.
2) The Monkees -
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd (album released Oct '67)
3) Mort Garson -
Zodiac: The cosmic sounds (album released in Nov '67)
4) The Byrds -
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (album released jan '68, music rec in oct/nov 1967)
Note that all of the above records feature Moog programming by Paul Beaver
Other Moog albums recorded in 1967 were Beaver & Krause's
The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music and Perrey & Kingsley's
Kaleidoscopic vibrations: spotlight on the Moog.
EDIT: Pauline Oliveros and John Eaton's earliest recordings made with the original Buchla 100 modular synth and Synket respectively predate the above ones by a year or so. Although far from pop/rock, Oliveros' "Beautiful Soop" and Eaton's "Concert Piece for SynKet and Symphony Orchestra" were recorded in 1966, and Eaton's first live performance with the Synket (SYNthesizer KEToff) took place as early as in april 1965.
"The (Yamaha) CS-80 is a step ahead in keyboard control, and a generation behind in digital control" -- Dan Wyman, Jan 1979