andeemac2006 wrote:Is this all you can talk about is the shirts in 86 !!!!!!!! LOL Not the music
Seriously When you listen to "song of the whale" and "Unicorn theme " and Alchemy of the Heart" which Franke had a huge hand in arranging if not composing in and around 85-86, 87 I think that that line up would have developed in different directions, Fantastic directions if Christoph Franke had stayed
Some of those tracks had PERFECTION written all over them
The thing that I dont understand is for a musician that had devoted his life to Electronic music, how could he just give it up !!!!
I mean has he some fatal disease, I hope not.
And Edgar never mentions him ????? oh well
all this begs the question...'Can fans tell who plays what on an album'? going by a few polls I've run the answer is they usually can't. We
all bend TD's history to fit our preconceptions, to a degree anyway.
I think Chris is referring to live stuff here, but it illustrates a point nicely
Franke: lt all depends on the piece, because we all play similar instruments and
we switch roles all the time. In general, Edgar is playing the lead stuff and the guitar-like parts. Johannes is playing chords. He's very much into chords because he used to be an organist, I am doing much of the rhythmical stuff
(note Chris doesn't say ALL) because I used to be a drummer.
The rules are very elementary, but they get changed around all the time. We all compose and we play off of what we composed for the other members. And then there are times when we're all doing the same things, playing unison lines or the same polyrhythms. It’s difficult, because the audience likes to know who is playing what, but that's something which we cannot deliver very easily.
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The results of the two polls:
According to Chris Franke (interviewed in 1985) what was Edgar's main role in TD in the early eighties?
You Said:
Playing Melodies: 1 vote (2%)
Playing Chords: 25 votes (50%)
Playing Percussion: 2 votes (4%)
None of the above: 22 votes (44%)
Chris's answer: Edgar played the melodies
According to Chris Franke (interviewed in 1985) what was Johannes's main role in TD in the early eighties?
You said
Playing Melodies: 41 votes (83%)
Playing Chords: 4 votes (8%)
Playing Percussion: 3 votes (6%)
None of the above: 1 vote (2%)
Chris's answer: Johannes played chords
All answers taken from:
Tangerine Dream: the original Sultans of Synth bring digital technology to the Silver Screen
by Gerald Seligman
Music Sound Output, December 1985
One last comment from Peter Baumann:
"We are different persons, of course, and we have different backgrounds, so we play differently on the same instruments. He uses the same synthesizer as I do, but he will never play the same as I do, nor will I play the same as he does. Everyone looks at the instrument in a different way. So you can't possibly say that Christoph is playing Moog, that's why he's making the most synthetic sound and Edgar is playing Mellotron, so he's doing the most classical sound. It's very hard to define by the instruments.