Hay guys, Remember a fue months back we were all talking about "THEREMIN", This or that. I'm curious as to whether or not any of us pulled the trigger, and actually did something with one. And are you using it in your shows? I kinda forgot about it. You know the Senility thing.
----Danny,

Back in the day...we had one in our band . Crazy homemade job by the bass player.
Used it on Good Vibrations and a couple other tunes.
I'll have to ask him if he still has it...I know he threw out his bass and amp!

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-T

"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I got one Danny, it is a small one and I can tell you they are 'hellish' difficult to get any kind of tune out of. It would take years of hard practice for me to get anything sensible out of this and I just haven't got that much time, or patience. So I just wave my hands around it and get some wild sounds, in the right moments it sounds pretty good, with lashings of delay and distortion.
However it's usage is limited, if you notice, in his day, Jimmy Page and now Joe Bonamassa turn to these rarely in their concerts. More of a novelty thing.

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I've seen one used by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, too. The sound you here on Beach Boys songs is a Tannerin (or Electro-Theremin). They're supposed to be easier to master, but I don't know if anyone is making them anymore. The last company I knew of, Therevox, stopped making them about three years ago.

There are software and plug-in versions, too.

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Which is why I sold my Big Bryher (Bob Moog) Etherwave theremin. I was attracted by the challenge, but it demanded the sort of time and devotion I just couldn't spare. And I didn't want to be someone that just went oooooooooeeeeeeeeoooooooooooeeeeeooo on it. I have a rare CD of Clara Rockmore playing the theremin (she was a retired concert violinist and a contemporary of Lev Therman who designed the instrument). She took it up after injuring her playing hand and became the only true virtuoso ever to play the thing. You would swear you were listening to the violin.. Saw Therman's great niece Lydia Karvina too a few years ago at Bham University - she was extremely good, but not absolutely top flight. She was playing an instrument hand built for her by Bob Moog. It looked like an art deco sci fi prop - like something out of the film classic Metropolis.

In the Musician's Union National Handbook of Members 1999/2000, i am listed as one of only 2 thereminists - I must have been mad to have described myself as a pro player. Thank god no-one ever called me for a gig!

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