Vintage Synths

[gingataff]

I was going to post this in the "What are we all listening to?" thread but decided it deserves a wider audience, even though it's not particularly guitary;

I've just discovered http://www.keyboardmuseum.org and they've got some great stuff. I've been playing with the Virtual drum machines, and the soundsheet section is very cool.
Remember back in the day when there was no internet and manufacturers had to advertise thier latest gear using cassettes and  :roll: FLEXIDISCS[/i] :roll: ?
To be honest I managed to find a favourite of mine that I got in a 1988 copy of Guitar Player magazine. Its for the Yamaha g-10 MIDI controller andTX802/TX81Z synth modules . The 'Rock' tune on side 2 still blows me away almost 20 years later.
Check out the other demos too, there are some real vintage gems!

[TwilightOdyssey]

I still have some Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, and Billy Sheehan flexidiscs!!

[gingataff]

Cool! I've got the Satriani Crush of Love/Power Cosmic, Vai Amazing Grace and  a Greg Howe flexi from the late 80s. One that I really liked was from an issue of Guitar player where they published songs from readers of the magazine. One was a guy playing ragtime and country style jazz on a nylon string and the other was a chap playing really crazy jazz fusion, I think the track was called Spak (and the name James Blackthorn also sticks in my head for some reason).
Flexis were great.

[gwEm]

gingataff: appriciate the post, i also enjoy vintage synths. not really vintage, but i just gassed a korg ms2000r which rules.

are you really based in tokyo by the way? i'm considering going there for holiday this year.

[blue]

i've got a load of old flexi discs that were given away with Kerrang!  they had the  sexi flexi series, and the flexible Fiends!  some good stuff on there.

[gingataff]

gingataff: appriciate the post, i also enjoy vintage synths. not really vintage, but i just gassed a korg ms2000r which rules.

are you really based in tokyo by the way? i'm considering going there for holiday this year.

Glad you found the link useful :)

Yes I am in Tokyo.  If you're planning a trip here I'd say you'd be missing out if you didn't go to Kyoto and Hiroshima as well. Tokyo has lots to see and do but like the UK there's so much outside of capital. Now's a good time to come as the strong pound will make everything much easier, a pint of Guinness is still over 4 quid though 8)