This is still one of my favorite documentaries. I think I saw it at the Brattle in Cambridge double-featured with Crumb maybe? Quite the pair.
Watching the Jimmy Page clip, the theremin would have made a good Spinal Tap gag.
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Brian Wilson was definitely an innovator with using the theremin in rock songs.
And I dunno about “doped up” - he seems incredibly lucid and animated there, much more so than I’m accustomed to seeing in his interviews at the time.
In any event, I’m l pretty sure Brian was the first to have a theremin solo in a rock song:
And of course the most iconic use is in another Brian Wilson creation:
It’s such a cool sound.
And if you want to get really pedantic, The Beach Boys used an Electro-Theremin which is an entirely different beast:
Notably it is mechanically actuated and produced a very consistent and controllable sound.
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Aww, it doesn’t sound a day over 99.
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I saw this tour but not this show.
Any band that uses a theremin gets my love.
Any band that does battling theremins is beyond awesome.
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I never got to see them live, I’m afraid.
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I missed seeing them back in the 90s so I was thrilled to hear they had a new release and were on tour that year. It was my birthday present to myself.
ETA their facebook page appears to show they are doing shows still.
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you can see the Electro-Theremin being played in the background of the beach boys clip included with the Wilson interview.
Aw, I was hoping for ‘Dualing Banjos’ on theremins.
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Then, of course, there’s me “playing” one with a shih tzu named Dupont.
This is a weird recent copyediting trend that I see all over the place and it drives me batty. On the other hand, language gonna language; I’m not sure there’s anything to be done about it.
I so envious.
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It’s free, you just got to get to Asheville!
I… have no idea what’s going on with the one box link there, but it goes to the Moog Factory website, I promise…
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Then there were these guys:
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I feel the same way about building a ukulele and a hollow body guitar to match my bass. I’d probably never play them, but having a matched set I built myself appeals. But for me it’s mostly my champion- class procrastination.
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Why are there hyphens in this headline?
You could compromise, and buy a kit, then build that. (For example)
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No, you’re right. Nothing to be done. If I could change one thing by sheer force of will, it would be the use of “hone in on” instead of “home in on”. Actually, I heard a young athlete on a podcast say she wanted to “hone in on… my skills”; that’s interesting, because “honing my skills” is a perfectly good statement. So it was a kind of Schrodinger’s solecism. (Which is my new band.)
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as well as Richard Waters’s Waterphone. https://www.facebook.com/lisa.jones.92317/videos/10214110702022964/
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