Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977

Klaus Schulze pilots his Moog spaceship through the composition "For Barry Graves" live in 1977. The track can be found on "La Vie Electronique Vol. 5." The Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series, which started in 2009, are reissues of The Ultimate Edition, a CD box set from 2000 that contained a staggering 50 discs, which is arguably more epic synthesis than anyone should or could possibly endure. (via WFMU)

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Gordon JC Pearce

It’s not all Moog, that’s clearly an EMS Synthi A to his left.
- http://twitter.com/fnutgreen Felix Scarlett
  
  ARP Odyssey Mark 1 in the foreground, I think
telechi

…whoa.
PaulDavisTheFirst

glad to see some of you youngsters connecting with the 2nd generation of synthesis wizards. the first? oh you don’t need to worry about them, they’re just old farts :))

what do you think it does to a teenager’s mind to spend the core of his adolesence listening to schulze et al. instead of the sex pistols or floyd. somehow i even managed this without drugs :)
David Kopelman

It’s not a toe-tapper, but I liked it.
Guest

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- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1118134806 Doc_S
  
  Moog 960 Gate trigger/Control Voltage analog sequencer and a delay line doubler…
  - Guest
    
    Seriously, dude? Seriously?
    - Thomas Zaraat
      
      There was at least one brief look at it during the video. They look like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wEbSUZQgVZI/TM4YuHaptMI/AAAAAAAAYFc/za-newT4jAU/s1600/m960.jpg
http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

Yes. My mind is blown.
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

A friend of mine and I were intoxicated once long ago, flipping through radio stations when we found a local college station playing an entire Klaus Schulze album.

We had no idea what we were listening to, but we both sat there in the dark and spaced out until it was over. I went to Amoeba the next day and bought all the Schulze albums they had.
- http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose
  
  Even without drugs, his album “Timewind” can distort your sense of time.
http://www.megatoothpastemammals.com Carpeteria

About 4:31 sounds like the WGBH hook.
Marktech

It sounds very like it fell out of the middle of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And he’s an ex-member of TD.

TD gigs weren’t the most visually exciting: there’s a recording on YouTube of one I went to years ago, and I’d been watching it for about a minute before I realised it was audio-only with a still picture.
askii

Some unbelievable stuff was broadcast on WDR – my personal fave is this sweet CAN jam from ’77:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkex5jHvuI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLECC37E8D6814BE70After about 4:20 it gets truly amazing.
technogeekagain

Haven’t heard Schulze’s work before, that I know of. Definitely “of the time”… The sequencer-driven style seemed to actually be more common on Buchla synths than Moogs, perhaps because Buchla leaned more toward controllers other than physical piano-style keyboard.
smeno smeno

Call me blasphemic- but come on….

EVERYBODY – PRESET PARTY

or

anyone can play synth like Klausi
- MisterTribal
  
  I miss your point, he’s clearly playing for half of the video.
- http://twitter.com/strangemachines strangemachines
  
  Back in 1977 Synthesizers had no Presets
http://xmacex.wordpress.com Mace Ojala

Oh how i love these works! We had this cool radio station called Radio Mafia, by the National Broadcasting Company and there was a show every Sunday between 20-22pm named Avaruusromua (“Space debris”) where they played all this Terry Riley+Tangerine Dream+Kraftwerk+Philip Glass+Schulze etc. stuff. Thank you Jukka Mikkola. I grew up on it!
mariancisar

What kind of watch is he wearing. Is it just me, or do his forearms seem unnaturally long?