Oddity Archive: Episode 178.5 - Ben’s Junk: Whippany Rhythm Master (Circa 1972 Drum Machine)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Who says Ben’s got no rhythm? He’s got 10 of them!
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"I can almost fake a drum fill." ...on Neil Peart's birthday.
“Not really a polka. More of a march.”
I love that host segment.
Now you need to get an old Theremin and a Moog synth to make the perfect Oddity Archive theme song. I don't think you could get more "archive-y" than that.
Sounds almost like you could imitate the sound of a steam loco engine with this gadget.
Fox Trot is the same beat Soft Cell used for Tainted Love.
Early 13th century?
Next week: Ben's Junk goes medieval
... on your a$$.
LOL, I started singing "Monster Mash" about 3.8 seconds before Ben!
Ben's dance lessons for couples every Saturday. You pin 'em we spin 'em.
I played at a wedding years ago (1996 or so) and the keyboard player had one of those drum machines. He had to quickly program before every tune. It was quite effective as our drummer for the evening.
The Rhumba kinda sounds like the title screen from Mario Maker
Three Girl Rhumba
9:30 Tainted Love
17:37 foxtrot + chacha = tango
This thing has quite a bit of charm. Nice find.
Aww you beat me to it, at least with the first thing you said
the 14 minute mark reminds me of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus
I used to own Dick Hyman's "Moog: The Electric Eclectics" on vinyl until someone stole it from me. Oh well at least I made a MP3 Backup of it prior to the theft.
MP3 eww
It's been reissued, albeit inexplicably paired with one of his earlier albums. www.amazon.com/Moon-Gas-Moog-Electric-Eclectics/dp/B00T3LASAO/ Age of Electronicus is still vinyl and R2R-only, I'm afraid.
@@EvertGuzman Welp, MP3 is better than nothing.
I actually have one of those. No ICs in it at all if I remember correctly.
What was the sequence control?
"And...I am the orignal owner "😏😎♥️♥️♥️
5:37 - That's the "Themes From Godspell" pattern!
6:30 - Robin Gibb's "Saved By The Bell"
6:42 - Now it's William Turkey!
6:57 - Could be used for a rendition of the Techmoan song "Cuba Baion"?
Would have liked to see you take the lid off so we could see what was inside
Same here!
I started to try and take it apart, but the particle board that the thing's housed in started to give, so I had to settle for blowing it out with canned air. I didn't mention it in the episode, but it was a fixer-upper. The veneer was mostly peeled off (which I did my best to reglue) and the pots and buttons were all scratchy.
I wonder if this was used on the Themes From Godspell 8-Track.
Hours of fun to be had, i love it
Fun for the whole family.
17:00 I was starting to get flashbacks to my Intellivision and the game Astrosmash around this point
Solid vocal Ben.
Dat profile pic tho
1:47 “Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars!” I think I saw one of these on that skit.
I think that "Day By Day" soundalike you showed off in an older episode used this drum machine, specifically the "Rock 2" setting.
Literally every one of these old ones had that preset
I've actually seen a Lowrey electric organ in person once, a couple of years ago. It was sitting on a neighbor's curb waiting to be picked up for big garbage day. There was a demo/how to tape left in it, so I snagged the tape, reeled the loose tape back in, and it plays fine. But the demo is stereo test record weird. Of course true nature of where I live tweakers gutted that thing in about a couple of hours.
Rock 1 + Rhumba reminds me of George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" from 1974.
This episode was pretty cool, also neat machine you got in there.
This video + vodka = me $120 in the hole. Thank you.
LOL.
Western is like Nightclubbing by Iggy Pop
If you could boost the bass levels of that drum machine...
JJ Cale's classic (Racoon) album from 1970 used similar sounding electronic drum machines.
Get off my cloud by the Rolling Stones sounds a fair bit like a foxtrot to me
11:40 sounds like a typewriter or Telegraph with symbol
The first ever DAW
Yes, if DAW means 'drumming analog woodgrain.'
Could be a pretty good goth drum machine or for some synth pop/minimal wave
Hey, I had the same amp, but it was the 20-watt version with chorus!
7:18. Sounds like Kokomo
it's natural rhythm in the push button age.
Back when I was a kid my grandmother had an old tube electronic organ from the 70s and it had a built in drum machine. Pretty sure it actually had a "disco" button.
10:22 They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha ha
5:56 -- Until I figured out what song you were singing, I thought you were singing "I am a radiator, I am"
Combine this with the Beegee's Rhythm Machine.
So many modern drummers couldnt even play these basic beats..too busy playing funk rock beats. Very cool machine
9:14 Also works as striptease music.
oh hey, do you think you could record really clean samples of this and release them as a free or affordable sample packs? i love collecting rhythm machine sounds to try out some unusual sounds in stuff and i havent even heard of this rhythm machine. it would be a great boon to people making music with samples!
also this is a rhythm machine. a drum machine is programmable. this just has preset rhythms.
2:02 whoa whoa whoa stop making up funny names. you are above that
He exists! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hyman
Where do you find those unusual devices, much less have the funds to buy them, Benny? 😮
Patience is the magic word. You can buy everything on ebay for a large sum, but if you're patient you'll inevitably come across this kind of stuff on fleamarkets and garage sales for a nice price.
@LimaVictor Nailed it. It's all about patience and persistence.
Patience is a virtue. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Awww...I was hoping it would sound like the drum machine from the infamous Godspell 8-track.
Oh well.
Still this is pretty cool
Wait is this the drum machine they used on the "Godspell" 8-track?
There's actually a novelty song called The Punk Polka, a favorite on Dr. Demento's radio show back in the day. And here it is: ua-cam.com/video/O5jK31CONVI/v-deo.html
I want to see a tear down of this... =)
12:31 When Smokey Sings and/or Freeway of Love
Nothing wrong with early 90s house, but at one point, it reminded me of the intro to "Mr. Self Destruct".
I like my Crate GX-15r amp. Good sounding little amp!
12:00 that reminds me of Sheep by Pink Floyd
Are you getting a new po box?
I did. www.theoddityarchive.com/faqs.html
Sounds like the same shit built into electric organs of the same period .
16:33 Benny boy Jarre
I was surprised to see that Dick Hyman was his more or less real name. Herb Alpert was probably jealous.
An organ might be nice to have if you have spare space and are looking for lifelong back problems
In which Ben accidentally invents a new style of music.
Fox trot sounds like tainted love.
Get an Optigan! Yeah, you'll be looking for quite some time. Just do a video about the Optigan with pre-existing footage. Trust me, right in your wheelhouse.
7:34 sound like da da da
From the 80s
1972...no ICs...how the hell does this thing work!?
Allot of nice gear there Odd, but were is the toaster?
10:10 sound like a bass drum and symbol
Did you really just call a cymbal a symbol?
OMG. I saw this video pop up last night and I kept passing it because I didn't know what it was about. If I'd known it was about a vintage drum machine I would have clicked on it immediately after work. You really need to reconsider how you title your videos.
It is in the title and always has been. Maybe YT nipped it off on some devices.
932 views.
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You could totally do a post-punk version of Pavanned with this thing.
I had to stop and have a childish laugh over Dick Hymen, even though it's probably not spelled hymen.
Please don’t sing