Comments on: Flame-Throwing Keytar; Players, Not Instruments, Are Cool

By: The HooK: Charlottesville Music : Archive » Straight Punch To The Crotch

The HooK: Charlottesville Music : Archive » Straight Punch To The Crotch — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:16:23 +0000

[...] Clever indie pop, but more importantly, a sense of humor that leads to things like flamethrowing keytars. [...]

By: The HooK: Charlottesville Music : Archive » The Falsies

The HooK: Charlottesville Music : Archive » The Falsies — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:59:39 +0000

[...] to out-absurd the other. We’d like to bet on the chicken here, but Billy’s keyboard doubles as a flamethrower, so who [...]

By: Seirra

Seirra — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:03:17 +0000

Evan the keytarist for believe is the best and he has got a really nice bear hat!!!!
i was just at the believe confrence in St Charles and he was really good playing the chicken song!!!!!!!!!!!

SAVE THE KEYTARS!!!!

~SEIRRA~

fLAGSTAFF ARIZONA

By: moonweed

moonweed — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:07:21 +0000

By: moonweed

moonweed — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:06:08 +0000

Ah Yes indeed !
Here’s a “Master of the Universe” on tour with Hawkwind , December 2007

By: Keith Handy

Keith Handy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:29:58 +0000

TJ: you can’t ask for that from a scene, a culture, or a blogosphere. Talking about relatively superficial tech toys can be fun, amusing, and social, whereas something you have to work hard at is inherently lonelier, because you can’t share that experience as easily or with as many people. To breathe inspiration into music, you have to make the treacherous trek up the mountain alone. It’s been this way for much longer than we’ve had such a thing as electronics.

Or, you can sit there being pissed off. Resenting the CDM community will not have a positive effect on music, though — yours or anyone’s.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:39:46 +0000

I thought this was supposed to be a *music* site. What matters is what an instrument will do — or not — for your music.

This whole keytar thread is boring, juvenile, unprofessional. If you can wow me with a thumb piano (that’s possible) or an ocarino (still waiting), I don’t give a damn what CDM or anyone else thinks about it.

Circuit-bending, let me see, that seems to be cool here. OK, what’s the number one circuit-bending tune? Little blinkenboxes seem to be big here: what’s so hot about robotunage?

No fookin wonder the airwaves are so bland and uninspired these days. No fookin wonder the whole scene is going down in flames, when so little of it is about *music*.

By: Fish Organ with breath controller, and a Flame-Throwing Keytar

Fish Organ with breath controller, and a Flame-Throwing Keytar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:59:02 +0000

[...] Flame-Throwing Keytar; Players, Not Instruments, Are Cool - Peter Kirn says he can’t get away with using one. Of course you can Peter! [...]

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:23:47 +0000

They will always be called keytars, no matter what the devotes insist they be called. Just as frisbees will always be frisbees not “discs”, and, yes, Trek fans will always be Trekkies. People in whatever subculture may decide to take it upon themselves to try and devise a more noble sounding moniker for themselves, but in the common parlance we’ll just go on calling it what everyone knows it by.

But strap-on? From bad to worse, really.

By: wuruwuru

wuruwuru — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:13:13 +0000

The biggest problem with using a contact mic on an acoustic melodica is the degree to which key clicks are amplified. When playing at quick clip, the key noise almost drowns out the reeds.