Recorders!
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I am now armed with an iTunes gift certificate - and Gentle Giant is on iTunes! So what album should I get? Or Camel, too? I have Breathless... Or any other music in particular that I need to buy? I have so many options it's paralyzing! 
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hahah!Workings of man crying out from the fires set aflame
By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being
Is promised for his seeing, his reaching so clearly
By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being
Is promised for his seeing, his reaching so clearly
I have Three Friends and Octopus by Gentle Giant. Both are pretty good, and are generally considered to be their best albums. For Camel, Snowgoose is a pretty safe bet.
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Re: Recorders
Actually, on Stairway it's a Mellotron used to recreate the flutes, (Some say it was an early Chamberlin, a foreruner of the Mellotron that was at best as unstable as an early Moog exposed to heat. ) http://www.e-prog.net/keyboards/mellotron.htmgojira wrote:
1. Intro to LZ's "Stairway to Heaven". I think there are 4 recorder parts in various ranges, played I believe by JPJ.
I've tried playing the recorder once. I think I only succeeding in creating either a dog whistle for Cerebus and other hounds of hell or a device to call forth Banshees and Nazgul.
On a crystal morning I can see the dewdrops falling
Down from a gleaming heaven, I can hear the voices calling
When you comin' home now, son, this world is not for you
Down from a gleaming heaven, I can hear the voices calling
When you comin' home now, son, this world is not for you
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He used the standard Mellotron flute sound to do it live and voiced it rather differently-- those are some dang good recorder samples if that's what it is on the album. I have always been under the impression the studio version was JPJ playing actual recorders.
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But I read it on the internet, it must be true 
Some good photos here of Chamberlin's, Mellotrons, and Fairlight's ($60,000 for 24khz samples? woohoo!) and etc.
http://www.creativesampling.com/article ... /page2.php
if it had been a chamberlin in the studio they would have to rewrite the lyrics to "the piper will have to wait 8-9 seconds for the tape cartridges to rewind before leading us to reason"
Some good photos here of Chamberlin's, Mellotrons, and Fairlight's ($60,000 for 24khz samples? woohoo!) and etc.
http://www.creativesampling.com/article ... /page2.php
if it had been a chamberlin in the studio they would have to rewrite the lyrics to "the piper will have to wait 8-9 seconds for the tape cartridges to rewind before leading us to reason"
On a crystal morning I can see the dewdrops falling
Down from a gleaming heaven, I can hear the voices calling
When you comin' home now, son, this world is not for you
Down from a gleaming heaven, I can hear the voices calling
When you comin' home now, son, this world is not for you