1985: MARK WOOD on the Roland GR-700 GUITAR SYNTH | Micro Live | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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- The synthesiser is typically thought of as a keyboard instrument - but is that about to change? Jazz guitarist Mark Wood, of Sunwind, puts the Roland GR-700 guitar synthesiser through its paces.
Originally broadcast 25 October, 1985.
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that outro riff where he plays over the chords is better than most complete songs written today
Incorrect. If you're going to be a blinkered musical snob, at least keep your lies believable
The 80s was just so futuristic.
It still is lol
Yes it was, especially compared to the 70s which was a bit grim. The 80s were incredible and I remember it all!
Yes it was a very exciting time when it came to new technology coming out. Particularly in the synthesizer and computer world.
I'm still impressed today, would love to play with one of these.
It's possible to get good tracking when you get rid of the awful tremolo. Too, I replaced the original pickups with EMGs.
I remember watching this, still talk about it.
I have this clip on VHS somewhere. I Saw Mark Wood play at the Brecon Jazz festival (upstairs in the Wellington Hotel), back in the mid-late 80s, with Chucho Merchán on Bass. He was quite an in-demand bass player back then. From what I remember it was a good fusion gig,
So proud to be born on the very same year! God bless the 80s!
Also born in 1985
I’m so glad I was born in the early 70’s, so I could appreciate the 80’s from start to finish! Yes, it was a great decade 👍👍
The bit at the end sounds like The Enid, I actually still own a a lefty GR707, I still can't believe they made lefties🙂
‘Memory banks’ - That dates it. Now quite an antiquated phrase.
Most people: ah, fusing a musical instrument and an Apple II isn't real.
Jeri Ellsworth: what about a Commodore 64?
I have the 707 and 700+ PG300 they are wonderful if a little slow… imagine how much all those boxes of ROLAND equipment would be worth unopened now ??? 😳
thank god this was uploaded
Happy 50th Anniversary Roland! (..you did design the future...back then !)
Fripp was all over this in 82
1:33 and there you have 80's fusion rock
What in your opinion are the best examples of '80s fusion rock? Sounds pretty nifty to me...
@@C345OFR Have a listen to SFX featuring Alan Murphy and if you like that move on to Allan Holdsworth!
Thanks 👍 ! @@eiffe
I bought the 700 the day it came out and its note tracking was SO poor that all it could really do without glitching out was a flute sound and a car horn effect! $4000, in '85, a thoughtless act that infuriated my ex and was partially responsible for our eventual divorce, yikes...I still cringe these years later every time I see one.
Even with the vastly superior processors and software we have in 2022, it takes a very specific, clean technique to get a decent result from MIDI guitars.
The guy in the video made it look pretty easy though, even pitch bending. Multiple takes?
Music is hard, it takes tons of practice to develop any proficiency on pretty much any instrument (my experience).
Did you have the guitar controller that went along with it?
there's a hilarious thread at muffwiggler where people relate their worst gear mistakes, absolutely hilarious. i used a mirage dsk-8 as the center of my studio for years. i always left the oscillator mix at 50 because i didn't understand phasing. i could never figure out why my drums and everything always flapped all over the place. for like four years. kids today don't appreciate what we didn't have.
@@jamesortiz6312 you only need a hexaphonic pickup, so unless it was the wrong one for the string spacing any electric guitar will do
Wow this was amazing
Does it go to eleven?
wow
may someone recommend modern guitar processors with such function and sound like on 1:30
I wish they reissue the roland gr700
1:34 sounds like The Enid
We used to call that the Dalek's handbag.
Electric Russell is doing well.
JX-3P Anyone ?
Would love one, thanks! Would go well with my JX-8P
Hell yeah
What is that bargraph led device at 1:06?
The "bar graph" is a representation of a musical keyboard. The machine is a Super Jupiter Programmer, made by Roland; I don't know the model number.
is this the future or the past?
Mm-Mmmm I LOVE Technology-gy-gy-gy....
tracks better than the enzo wtf
"The Mighty Apple 🍏 Computer.." ?
In 1985..❔
Apple was mighty even all the way back then... ❔
It certainly was. The Apple II was considered by many people to be the absolute cat’s pyjamas back in the day.
The Apple ][ was the bomb, until people saw the Commodore Pet, that is.
@@Grunchy005 - I presume that’s a joke as the PET predated the Apple by several years.
Did any artists really use this? I do remember it coming out, but then nothing after
I remember Midge Ure talking around this time about how hard they were to play, so it’s not surprising. A decade or so later, Mike Oldfield did make a whole album of tracks where all the parts were played on guitars, including MIDI guitars for the percussion and other “non guitar” parts.
I saw somebody playing blues guitar at King Eddy Hotel in Calgary in the 1990s, next thing you know he’s playing pipe organ - with the same blues guitar. It was pretty neat, I wasn’t aware of the exacting technique required to get that response.
Tony James from Sigue Sigue Sputnik used one.
Russ Freeman's album Nocturnal Playground was made almost exclusively with this, although one would never know it and would probably think it's the sounds of a full band.
Guitar synthesisers were a popular concept but didn’t really take off due to difficulties in chord detection and note following with lots of messy playing styles. Apparently there were prototypes with 6 independent synthesisers (one for each string) which did better, but were too expensive to go to production.
Excellent idea, but the only person who looked cool playing one was Tony James.
the guitar synth and simmons electronic drums dated very quickly and the sound is horrible when you hear it back now.
I love that sound
I cringe when I hear today's music.
Guitar synths are more popular than ever... although oddly even with improvements in processing power, the effect quality is usually poorer than devices from 20-30 years ago. Roland's Virtual Guitar series is a good example of this -- pretty much peaked with the VG-8 from the mid 90s & VG-88 from around 2000.
These days my all in one multi effects pedal does all this and looks better lol.
It's impossible to achieve a lot of what is demonstrated here without a midi pickup. So no, your multi-effects pedals cannot do this unless you're using a midi guitar going through a synth pedal i.e., a modern version of the GR-700.