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Prince's Drum Machine: How His Use of the Linn LM-1 Heralded a New Age of Pop Rhythm Creation

https://reverb.com/uk/news/prince-and-the-linn-lm-1?fbclid=IwAR15s-XTjSI3wW7vgq-ndrWj84rm6vYKitG1Zuup2DapvAcaqKZoH_2o0RI

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Reply #1 posted 12/06/21 1:30pm

FrankieCoco1
I like articles like this, particularly about Prince’s use of drum machines. I just want to know what his first drum machine was, the one Owen Husney bought him in 1977, used first on Neurotic Lover’s bedroom.
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Reply #2 posted 12/06/21 3:44pm

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FrankieCoco1 said:

I like articles like this, particularly about Prince’s use of drum machines. I just want to know what his first drum machine was, the one Owen Husney bought him in 1977, used first on Neurotic Lover’s bedroom.

Sounds like somecold analog drum machine by Roland
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Reply #3 posted 12/06/21 5:21pm

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That's an old article, and I feel like it was posted on here back then. The page looks familiar. Interesting, still.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #4 posted 12/07/21 1:26am

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TrivialPursuit said:

That's an old article,

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Still an interesting read.

Thank you.

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Reply #5 posted 12/07/21 4:16am

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It's interesting that his drum patterns in the '80s were so orinal, inventive and ahead-of-their-time, likw nothing else you were hearing on the radio...

But when he returned to drum programming around the for Emancipation era his beats were bland, stale and behind-the-times.


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Reply #6 posted 12/07/21 11:57am

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udo said:

TrivialPursuit said:

That's an old article,

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Still an interesting read.

Thank you.


That's what I said.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #7 posted 12/08/21 12:22pm

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Nice read, thanks for posting. Prince was a true master of the LM-1! biggrin

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Reply #8 posted 12/08/21 1:26pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

That's an old article, and I feel like it was posted on here back then. The page looks familiar. Interesting, still.

Perhaps it was, if so, I've no doubt Bort will let me know.

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Reply #9 posted 12/08/21 1:28pm

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rap said:

TrivialPursuit said:

That's an old article, and I feel like it was posted on here back then. The page looks familiar. Interesting, still.

Perhaps it was, if so, I've no doubt Bort will let me know.


hahaha no doubt. I suppose it really never gets old to hear about Prince and that drum machine.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #10 posted 12/09/21 4:34am

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thebanishedone said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

I like articles like this, particularly about Prince’s use of drum machines. I just want to know what his first drum machine was, the one Owen Husney bought him in 1977, used first on Neurotic Lover’s bedroom.

Sounds like somecold analog drum machine by Roland


Interesting, it sounded like Rhythm Ace, the same one Sly & Shuggie Otis used :hmm2:

On a side note: I’m surprised that it’s still manufactured
and sold for 500 bucks.
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Reply #11 posted 12/09/21 5:27am

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Hamad said:

thebanishedone said:
Sounds like somecold analog drum machine by Roland
Interesting, it sounded like Rhythm Ace, the same one Sly & Shuggie Otis used hmmm On a side note: I’m surprised that it’s still manufactured and sold for 500 bucks.

maybe because both machines are analog,i think linn was 1 of the first sample based digital drum machines

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Reply #12 posted 12/09/21 1:23pm

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Hamad said:

thebanishedone said:
Sounds like somecold analog drum machine by Roland
Interesting, it sounded like Rhythm Ace, the same one Sly & Shuggie Otis used hmmm On a side note: I’m surprised that it’s still manufactured and sold for 500 bucks.


Roland? They've started to reproduce a lot of the old machines after people were making software emulators, and you can find online versions to play with. https://html5drummachine....m-machine/

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Reply #13 posted 12/09/21 1:57pm

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lavendardrummachine said:



Hamad said:


thebanishedone said:
Sounds like somecold analog drum machine by Roland

Interesting, it sounded like Rhythm Ace, the same one Sly & Shuggie Otis used hmmm On a side note: I’m surprised that it’s still manufactured and sold for 500 bucks.


Roland? They've started to reproduce a lot of the old machines after people were making software emulators, and you can find online versions to play with. https://html5drummachine....m-machine/



No Rhythm Ace
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Reply #14 posted 12/09/21 2:17pm

FrankieCoco1
One candidate for his first drum machine is the Ace Tone Rhythm Producer FR-15.

http://estecho.com/2016/1...cer-fr-15/

It couldn’t be the Roland CR-78, as that came out in 1978, and Owen Husney bought Prince his first drum machine and used it on Neurotic Lover’s Bedroom In 1977.

https://www.vintagesynth....d/cr78.php

Another possibility is the PAiA Programmable Drum Set (MODEL 3750), introduced 1975.

https://www.attackmagazin...achines/6/

Anyone interviewing David Z, Bobby Z or Owen Husney, please quiz them on this.
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Reply #15 posted 12/09/21 6:08pm

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It appeared on “Wouldn’t You Love To Love Me” too :nod:

I think the demo version of “Do Me Baby” was a Roland though.

I looooove the infant years of drums machines pre-LM1, I don’t know what is it about them, despite their limited range, they had so much appeal.
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