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Re: nerds with toys



I think anything strap-on keyboard-ish is cool as long as it doesn't
imitate a guitar. But I'm biased and probably can't tell anyway 'cause
my instincts always had me look away every time Jan Hammer stepped up
to Jeff Beck on stage....

P ;-)


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:12 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> sorry.. but i think keytar players look a bit silly...
>
> ...they were cool in the 80īs, then in the 90īs we realized they were 
>naff,
> now Im supposed to think that they are cool again, in some, "I know they 
>are
> naff, but Im being ironic"...  kind of a way...
>
> However I will say that I always thought that Hazel O Connor in Breaking
> Glass, looked dead hot with that mini synth dangling around her neck... 
>IF
> only it was a real synth, and not a made up prop for the film. I also 
>put a
> strap on a Gnat Synth (the baby brother of the touch sensitive Wasp), and
> leapt about a bit... but that was in th 80īs so I think I was still 
>cool...