Matt Garfield: You know, for all the attention I get for playing the keytar, I'm not much of a keytar buff. Especially not in the genres of music I listen to most frequently. Hell, I'm not even sure there are many keytarists out there to begin with. Most keyboardists that can play worth a damn (unlike me) would opt for a keyboard on a stand so they could have full accessibility to the instrument. Playing a keyboard as a keytar is actually pretty restrictive. It works OK for playing basslines, which is how I use it in most of my songs, but to do anything intricate, you'd really be better off putting the keyboard on a stand.
"The best example I can give of a great keytar performance would be the Edgar Winter Group playing Frankenstein in 1973. But it's really just a keyboard slung over his shoulder with a strap."
"There's also this pretty sweet video of Rick Wakeman, cape clad, and his son Adam Wakeman rocking out a dueling keytar solo."
Mose Giganticus is touring through the midwest and the south until the end of November.
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That Edward Winter Group video rocked
If I was in Mose Giganticus, I would write an album called Mental Keytardation.
Fittingly, my captcha is "FAILO".
Hey jack, did you think to ask him if hijacking the Melvins old sound was part of the Relapse contract?
Norway's Atrox wields a keytar live..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltClx6X_DrY
...although the idiot camera man fails to focus on it during the fiery parts.
what's a "the melvins"?
Um, I don't think you guys heard me. I said MENTAL KEYTARDATION.
MENTAL KEYTARDATION!!!
YOU'RE mentally keytarded.
Atrox used to be really good.
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