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good for the dance floor!

19 was young and willing

I heard something about radar on TV this morning and so naturally now this song's been on my mind all day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4&list=RDaRlSHG5hRY4&start_radio=1

I like Golden Earring's one better, but this is fun:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMyJxluMYQ&list=RDKFMyJxluMYQ&start_radio=1

which of course reminds me of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23W7--8DgQ&list=RDk23W7--8DgQ&start_radio=1

18yo daughter getting ready for school this morning to this song, now it's in my head:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s&list=RDTnHm4ro_l8s&start_radio=1

18yo daughter getting ready for school this morning to this song, now it's in my head:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s&list=RDTnHm4ro_l8s&start_radio=1

Your daughter wins 18 year olds.  (whatever that means.  But you've succeeded as a father.)

More music nerdery--I wish I knew more about those old analog synths.  I've only ever had the chance to mess around with one, and that not for very long.  Everything I've done with synths has either been with the Apple program Mainstage and the various plug-ins that are either native or compatible with it, or the Yamaha M0-8.  Either way, it's all digital. 

Hear how the synth chords in this song de-tune just a little sometimes?  I don't know if that's something inherent in the oscillators that produce the sound in some of those old real synthesizers, or if it's a setting or other technology they used to make that happen.  In the modern, digital synth-modeling world (what people call "synths" now are not really synthesizers),* the pitch is going to be relentlessly perfect, by human-ear standards, unless you modify it to intermittently de-tune like that.  I'm guessing they made that happen on purpose, because many, many songs from that era that used real synths don't do that.  However, I can't rule out the possibility that some of those things did that unintentionally and people realized it was cool.  There were about a billion manufacturers in those days, and they all made multiple lines of synths.  Truly a great time to be a synth-head and have a lot of money.  You could lose months playing around with that junk. 



* In the digital world, you have settings like BPM (beats per minute) that you can modify everything else with.  In the "old days," if you wanted, say, a low-frequency oscillator to come in and out in a specific rhythm that matched the song, you better know what "hertz" means, and be able to divide and multiply by 60 in short order, before everybody else gets fed up with your slothfulness and fires you from the gig.