a couple of clips groused off youtube that pretty much speak for themselves. originally caught these on music thing (a great site for musicus nerdus technicus). the first is herbie hancock rocking on his fairlight which you'll see is basically the baddest synth ever. watch him rock out starting around 2:30, and check cool q chilling with his glass of wine.
here we get more herbie hancock fairlight action. for the babies. peep the cameo. more cool jamming at the 5:50 mark.
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Funny thing about that... I used to work at E-mu systems and they made and still make some of the finest digital sound manipulation equipment around (even if CreativeLabs swallowed them up)... anyways I sat around the corner from some of the hardware developers and they would talk about how in the 80's Herbie would come up to Santa Cruz and just pop into the factory, snag the latest prototype right from the testing stations and then it was all Future Shock... He was really at the cutting edge of that stuff... George Duke too he was another player on E-mu team.
that's pretty badass. coolest nerdologists ever.
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