on 10/10/04 8:40 PM, Greg Earle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 at 7:06 PM, Lester Kenyatta Spence wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> My high school used to offer classes in electronic music. This was
>>> back in.............oh, 1986.
>>> We used Sequential Circuit Pro One synths and recorded to 4 track
>>> reel-to-reel. Learned all about FM synthesis.
>>> Best class in high school ever.
>>>
>>> I doubt they still offer it.
>>
>
>
>> wow. that's got to be the earliest i've heard of something like that.
>
> 1986? Heh. Not even close. :-)
>
> In 1976 I took an Electronic Music class in my Senior year in high school
> in Massachusetts (one town over from where our esteemed Mr. Fred Gianelli
> now dwells). We had, among other things, an ARP 2600 to play with.
> (Unfortunately, having no musical ability whatsoever, and still being in the
> throes of my pathetic adolescent ELP infatuation, I fancied myself the next
> Keith Emerson instead of the next Eno or John Foxx. Oh well. At least
> it was fun patching all the patch cords to the VCO's and VCF's and making
> weird whooping noises with it.)
>
> Incredibly enough, right around that same timeframe, 1975-1976, there was
> an ARP store on the 2nd floor of a house that had a liquor store in the
> floor
> down on the street level. I don't remember what they sold - probably the
> AXXE, maybe an Omni, and the 2600 - but I remember going in there and
> being amazed that it even existed. Heck, I would've been amazed to find it
> in Boston - back in that day, it was far too specialized. Needless to
> say, it
> went out of business not too long afterwards ...
>
> - Greg
>
Beverly ? Peabody ? Marblehead ? Swampscott ? Lynn ?
