Podcast: Sonic TALK - 075 Five Grammies! And a Hotz Box

US Plus classic tour tales from ELP and Yes 14/02/08

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51:5 mins

Its - SONIC TALK 075 - our three quarter century! Not sure that it's numerically relevant, but roll on 100 eh? This weeks a scorcher, with an extremely full house, we push the boundaries of podcasting. Richard Evans - he did the cracking Peter Gabriel tour diary (a must-listen) but has been busy ever since, joins me in person at Sonic Towers. We also have a new panel member in the for of Chris Macleod other half of GForce Software with many years experience on the road with ELP, Yes and many others - a mine of tasty road tales - keep listening. Noneric from Berlin and force behind Germany's most popular video podcasts at MusoTalk.de, Rich Hilton member of the Chic touring band and studio dude working with Nile Rogers, and finally PJ Tracy Minneapolean composer and studio owner. First up, we congratulate Ms Amy Winehouse on her historic 5 Grammy awards romp - Dave Spiers' brother-in-law is bass player and MD for the band and has been round at his partying. Then we get stuck into the Hotz Box - a unique MIDI controller/instrument that was a hit amongst the bigwhigs in the 1980s - I'd never heard of this, but Chris Macleod, had the pleasure of staying with Jimmy Hotz and programming it for Jon Anderson for a Yes tour - he spills the beans. After that, we touch on the art of destruction - with tales of what we have broken - Chris enlightens us with the Keith Emerson L100 on casters story. Then we're on to Virtual Instruments magazine and other favourites, which leads on to a wider discussion of where all this stuff is going.

Rich Hiltons Myspace
PJ Tracy's current project
GForce Software both Dave Spiers and Chris Macleod in one link
MusoTalk.de Noneric's fine Video podcast site
Richard Evans management
Peter Gabriel Tour Diary Richard's podcast
Amy Winehouse 5 Grammies! Cool.
Hotz Box on Youtube
Jimmy Hotz it's all there
Keith Emerson ELP
Vintage Synth - Gear you broke topic
Virtual Instruments mag - Rich Hiltons fave
Sound On Sound another goody
Computer Music
Future Music two mags from Bath based Future Publishing
Yamaha UK Show sponsors - Yay!
Homerecordingnetwork.com - more podcasts on music production related subjects

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