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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Question about Synergy
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 15:22:32 EDT
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Synergy IS Larry Fast, a electronic whiz/synthesist from New Jersey (don't
hold that against him!) who has made a number of albums under the name
Synergy.  He has constructed a lot of his own equipment.  His "Games"
album from a few years back had a track performed on the then state-of-the-art
Bell Labs digital synthesizer, and Fast has been at the forefront of
digital technology in music.

Fast made some equipment for Rick Wakeman many years back.  I bring up
Wakeman because there is, to me, a similarity between Wakeman and Fast.
For me, Wakeman on his own was usually just a whiz kid showing off, but
within the more controlled group environment with Yes, he really did
shine as the multikeyboardist who "colored" the whole Yes sound.  Witness
"The Ancient" (Topographic side 3) and of course all of Close to the Edge.
Fast impresses me much the same way.  Most of his work on his own sounds rather
droll to me (especially his very early stuff), but he has been involved
with Peter Gabriel in the studio and on the road for the last few years
now.  His conributions to the Peter Gabriel sound have been nothing short
of incredible (listen to "San Jacinto" live to hear what I mean).
-- 
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
				Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr