Pete Townshend’s Synth Secrets
04Jun09
Pete Townshend, in his studio, explains how he achieved the “arpeggiated” organ sound from the classic Who track, Won’t Get Fooled Again by running the organ through the filter of an Electronic Music Studios EMS Synthi VCS3, aka The Putney,
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Tags: demo video, Electronic Music Studios, EMS, EMS VCS3, Lowery, Pete Townshend, The Who, VCS3
I was always wowed by the arps on "Teenage Wasteland", er, I mean… harder-to-remember-name "Baba O'Riley" which was, as its namesake indicates, inspired by Terry Riley. I don't think Townsend gets enough props as a synth pioneer since he's mainly associated with "rock", but he was definitely ahead of his proverbial time with concepts like the virtual-reality Lifehouse.