Can we share some tunes that showcase these beautiful instruments?

Before exploring the likes of Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway, here is where I first fell in love with the Wurli - accompanying Amy Winehouse in Love Is A Losing Game:

No youtube for me right now but arX you have found my weakness! I'm a sucker for vintage keyboards. Love the sound.

This reminds me, I hope this documentary gets distributed(if it didn't already):

http://www.youtube.com/us...sults_main

Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.

Cool thread for us vintage-heads!

When I was recording my demo, I was absolutely in love with vintage

keys. I'ma Rhodes dude all day every day. Wurlies are okay and

clavinets are so linked to Stevie and reggae that I didn't touch them

at all.

I even went as far as to purchase a Fender Rhodes but the one I found

would cost so much to repair that I gave it up. But you can do so

many things today with a Reason Rhodes patch and tweak it so that it

sounds so similar to the old skool thing nowadays.

Hell, I found a Linn drum patch for Reason and if you equalize it and

fool around with it, you'll swear it sounds like the shit on Purple Rain.

Harlepolis said:

This reminds me, I hope this documentary gets distributed(if it didn't already):

Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.

duccichucka said:

Cool thread for us vintage-heads!

When I was recording my demo, I was absolutely in love with vintage

keys. I'ma Rhodes dude all day every day. Wurlies are okay and

clavinets are so linked to Stevie and reggae that I didn't touch them

at all.

I even went as far as to purchase a Fender Rhodes but the one I found

would cost so much to repair that I gave it up. But you can do so

many things today with a Reason Rhodes patch and tweak it so that it

sounds so similar to the old skool thing nowadays.

Hell, I found a Linn drum patch for Reason and if you equalize it and

fool around with it, you'll swear it sounds like the shit on Purple Rain.

I know what you mean, I sold mine to one of my friends for a reasonable price. Its a high maintenance if playing is not a priortiy, which I'm sad to say, it isn't for me these days.

However, and if Mr.Neal is lurking(or anybody for that matters, who knows) I'm trying to buy those electric keys that were manufactured in 83/84. I don't know if they're Yamaha, they were used during the Triple Threa/Purple Rain tour, and I think they were the same ones that D'Angelo played during the Essence festival this year.

Does anybody?

Harlepolis said:

However, and if Mr.Neal is lurking(or anybody for that matters, who knows) I'm trying to buy those electric keys that were manufactured in 83/84. I don't know if they're Yamaha, they were used during the Triple Threa/Purple Rain tour, and I think they were the same ones that D'Angelo played during the Essence festival this year.

Does anybody?

You're right it's a Yamaha - the CP-70/80 'electric grand'.

Here's George Duke doing his thing on one:

And what a great display!

Thanks for the feedback. I'm kinda saving a budget to buy it for a loved one.

[Clavinet]

Stevie Wonder

You know Stevie explored every possibility of clavinet.

Clavinet with wah pedal. Look at his right leg!

Best sounding clean tone clavinet

Beutiful ballard with clavinet

Percussive playing

clavinet with arpegio

Clavinet jam from live concert

Bob marley and the wailers

Interesting imitation of could you be loved

Billy Preston

Sly and the family stone

sly67 said:

[Clavinet]

Stevie Wonder

You know Stevie explored every possibility of clavinet.

Clavinet with wah pedal. Look at his right leg!

Clavinet jam from live concert

The clav ran through the wah pedal is one of my favourite sounds in the world, especially how the percussive release tone contrasts with the smooth deep filter business.

Here's Bobby Sparks wah-wahing the clav with one half of his body while the other takes over the bassline on the moog:

"This has got to be a Beatles song, you know that right? Like if the Beatles got together with George Clinton. I can hear Paul McCartney now: 'That's pretty funky, George!'"

-- Marcus Miller

I got my Rhodes back up in my apartment and connected to my homestudio.

We have so little room in our ordinary studio it's been put away for about 7 years bbut

it's great to get reconnected with the Rhodes again and it's in absolute perfect condition.

Norah Jones rented my Rhodes once for a gig in Stockholm.

I told them about the trouble with that key and they just said "no problem" and

when I got it back the key was fixed

/peace Manki

Thanks 2 programs like Komplete Ultra 8...............u can own all of these sounds complete with the little quirks that make them sound so great.

manki said:

I got my Rhodes back up in my apartment and connected to my homestudio.

We have so little room in our ordinary studio it's been put away for about 7 years bbut

it's great to get reconnected with the Rhodes again and it's in absolute perfect condition.

Norah Jones rented my Rhodes once for a gig in Stockholm.

I told them about the trouble with that key and they just said "no problem" and

when I got it back the key was fixed

/peace Manki

Nice........I should rent them my wrecked Ferrari.

Some familiar Wurlitzer tracks.

Cannonball Adderley...



...Mercy Mercy Mercy


Marvin Gaye...



...Heard It Through The Grapevine


Supertramp...



...Goodbye Stranger


Joni Mitchell...



...Woodstock


Tom Petty...



...Breakdown


Frank Zappa...



...Montana




Steely Dan...



...Do It Again & Everyone's Gone To The Movies



...Jack of Speed & Godwhacker


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Some not so familiar.

Sun Ra...



...India



The Nazz...



...Open My Eyes (pretty sure that's a Wurly in the intro)


John Scofield...



...Green Tea


Small Faces...



...Tin Soldier


David Sanborn...



...Spooky



Frank Zappa...



...Village Of The Sun & Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

It was a travesty to eliminate the middle section (Echidna's Arf of You).
But in the spirit of sticking to the topic (novel concept), the 1st and 3rd section showcase George Duke's masterful use of the Wurlitzer.


Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

manki said:

I got my Rhodes back up in my apartment and connected to my homestudio.

We have so little room in our ordinary studio it's been put away for about 7 years bbut

it's great to get reconnected with the Rhodes again and it's in absolute perfect condition.

Norah Jones rented my Rhodes once for a gig in Stockholm.

I told them about the trouble with that key and they just said "no problem" and

when I got it back the key was fixed

/peace Manki

I love that

These two are examples of beautiful, classic rhodes tone with tremelo effect.

Both from the same album, Music Of My Mind, recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, and actually sequential tracks on the album.

The playing along the composition of the chord changes make the Rhodes sound all the more beautiful!