Yeah Emerson had a minimoog ran through a lot of "tricks" The Sh3 was Rolands first attempt and infringed on some of circuitry in the moog...so they revamped.. Mine is #7** so one of the infringing ones but what you heard in that video was about as close as I could get it using an echo chamber....I still have that synth but never use it....The mini moog was and is hard to emulate..Creamware did the best job and I purchased a Plugiator from one of the original owner developers "Frank Hund" It is the most powerful value synth ever...That said it sits in it's box waiting for me to use it....I'm so focused on my piano and vocals doing a live thing I've spent no time with the plethora of amazing sounds my MODX8 has..nor the Plugiator...did I mention it was incredible? I literally could get lost for months making crazy sounds and recordings with that stuff...just feel what I am doing right now is "different" and hopefully well received....At 67 there is not a lot of people interested in listening unless you're a famous old rock star.. I am an old rock star but totally missed the boat on famous ...but an awesome time it has been and continues to be! Rock on!
I released 5 full length albums. The first one I made some cassettes and a guy bought one off the internet and I ended up going to Bolzano Italy to perform in a multi media festival. That was the one and only great professional gig I ever did. I've put up my cheesy videos of songs, and I've gotten requests for people to download them. I've sold a copy here and there, and generally I've always gotten really good reviews from the few papers I sent CDs or tapes to. That's good enough for me.
If you can put on a song, or play and not have everyone cover their ears and scream to turn it off, then you've done your job.
I've never been famous, and never made any real money (the Bolzano gig basically paid for all the recording and cassette pressings). But, I get in a mood to record and that's what I do. I recorded this new album, it's on bandcamp, and I'll eventually send out some MP3s for review. But, for the most part, I do no kind of marketing.
We're armchair players, and depending on how you lived your life when you were younger, you're probably lucky you didn't become famous. Famous musicians get stuck in the "I have to make something the fans will like" and they don't expand musicality and end up rehashing old songs. The older artists I see who perform their new work, that's bathroom break for most. Because old people don't buy music. They go to see old artists to hear the songs that will make them feel young again.
My friend George who has been to more concerts than everyone on this site combined, is constantly amazed when I send him songs from a new artist. He stopped looking for new artists about 25 years ago.
Personally, if I had ever become famous, I'd be dead. I've only once stepped out in front of an audience sober. I love beer. But, around the house a case can last me a few weeks. If I was going to play live, I'd have drunk a few six packs before going on. I also used to love drinking a half gallon of Riuinite or a quart of Boones Farm apple wine. They give you a good head by the bottle.
When I go into a liquor store I'll look. They just don't make it anymore.
We really did have the last of the "good free times". I love the movie The Rocker. Because it seems like that's the way bands would be now. I remember my girl friend and I being picked up off a club's bathroom floor. Once, we went into the dressing room and her MOM was smoking opium with the other band-mates. The bartenders would give up beers and water glasses filled with vodka. Yep, those were some great times. But, you don't last long doing that.