Stewart Copeland's Fairlight CMIs For Sale.

[tomorrowstops]

Woooooow, hadn't run across Eberhard Schoener before. This stuff is pretty interesting. Listening to 1973's 'Meditation' right now

[ppg_wavecomputer]

Speaking of the German composer Eberhard Schoener; he had the first Moog in Germany. He traveled to the states in late 1968 or thereabouts and bought a model IIIP w/double sequencer complement directly from the R.A. Moog company in Trumansburg, New York.

Btw, this was the same Moog system that Giorgio Moroder used on several album productions such as "Giorgio" (1972, incl. "Son Of My Father"),"Einzelganger" (1975), "I Feel Love" (1977 w/Donna Summer) and "From Here to Eternity" (1977).

Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh went to see Eberhard Schoener's Moog and subsequently purchased a IIIp of his own (which was sold to Klaus Schulze later). Schoener also was among the first in Germany to own and use a Mellotron Mk. 2 (later superceded by an M-400) and an Oberheim Four Voice.

There is a story he once told: He was invited to a party in NYC in the late 1970s, and in course of the party someone put a record on which instantly made him listen up and recognize that "Black and Decker" sound, as he called it. It turned out to be Moroder's "From here to eternity" which had been created on Schoener's own Moog.

"Black and Decker" ran a TV commercial in the 1970s with some narrator quickly repeating the words "Black and Decker" over and over again, hence the pun.

Stephen