Rather Have the Story podcast - ROGER MANNING: Pt1 (Beck, Jellyfish, Moog Cookbook, etc!)
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- The one, the only (almost, we discuss this) ROGER MANNING.
Incredibly talented and positive soul, RJMJ joins us for a great chat about music stuff. Great stories of digging for the then-unwanted "old keyboards" and what one does with them...
Hosted by Brian Kehew (www.briankehew.com)
Join us for Part 1 (of likely 647 more episodes where RJMJ will return).
You will hear about vocal harmonies, classic arranging, French music, Beck, Jellyfish, and not much else - because we have a lot more to come when he returns later (like Lickerish Quartet, Imperial Drag, The Moog Cookbook, Load, Malibu, TV Eyes, Roger Joseph Manning Jr, Morrissey, Blink 192... and on and on.)
The Was Not Was song we discuss was finally released nearly 15 years later, on their Boo! album. That track is "From the Head to the Heart" - hear it here in finished form. String quartet, Orchestron Cello, Mellotron flutes!
• "From the Head to the ...
#Jellyfish #MoogCookbook #ImperialDrag #vintagesynthesizer #Chamberlin #Optigan #Orchestron #Mellotron #ConBrioSynthesizer #Prophet10 #Jupiter8 #Beck #TVEyes #analogsynths - Zábava
I LOVE seeing these guys geek out about these keyboards. It takes me back to my own keyboard odysseys. I was a few years behind them. Playing Jellyfish and Moog Cookbook cd’s while driving cross country to spend all my money on old synths. These are my kind of nerds.
Parts 2,3,4 and 6 please. ❤🎉
5 was good tho!
Heard Jellyfish on a tape and was very impressed. Saw them live (almost by accident) and they became the benchmark by which almost every other band is compared to. I still get chills down my back thinking about that opening number "All is Forgiven."
I could listen to Roger all day. So eloquent and so very genuine.
just discovered jellyfish and now I'm obsessed
This is such an overload of history and info but I'm loving every bit of it, awaiting part 2 eagerly.
Fun interview.
I have all three Moog Cookbook CD’s. All well done and lots of fun. When I bought the third I recall Rodger shipped it and included a signed card saying “ thank you”
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode! Thanks for having Rog drop by to chat!
incredibly revealing conversation. Thank you for posting.Also, Jellyfish are the best!!
I was in a band in L.A. in the late 80’s (DirtyDogs) and one night I saw a girlfriend of mine at the movies with either Roger or his brother…don’t remember. Her name was Kama and she worked for Warner Bros. Normally I would have been pissed but she went “he’s in Jellyfish”….I went “oh, nice to meet you!” How do you compete with Jellyfish!?!?!
Miss you Kama…..
Man, I feel your pain. I know that feeling too, though not through an ex being out with a member of Jellyfish,
Love this, thank you.
Beck for adults. I'm already cracking up
Truth
Awesome interview
Incredible talk, I didn't want it to end! Dying over those vintage synths....
Those were the days...
Hi, Brian and Roger. This is fantastic, and thanks for making it.
Also, if everyone sings one note together, they're going to be trying to match each other's pitch. If you have three people recording three different notes, and then record it three times, you'll end up with a better chorus because no one is trying to match each other's pitch, they're trying to match the right intervals in the chord.
Melt.... That picture of the guys in a spacesuit. On the floor is an Oberheim 8 voice. So rare, so cool. Roger sold that keyboard to the guy who now makes the VST of it. It still is being played and has given it's voice to all of us in VST form. Roger got a pretty penny for it but there are not many of them.
well that was awesome
I could very happily spend an eternity in that physical space and -especially- inside of those conversations. Crestfallen, though, to learn that you only envision The Brian 'n' Roger Show reaching a mere fourteen episodes! And also to realize that demand for an OB-Xa OR Playboy's Miss May (*regardless* of the decade) will never fall to such depths that I could afford *either* of them. Thank you for the fascinating chat, Brian!
Love the stories (and premise of your podcast title!) Decidedly non-tech-nerd that I am, I found all this fascinating, I guess because you are sharing stories and parts of your non-mainstream personalities. And that Chamberlain saga was a heartbreaker!
Wonderful!
This conversation is shining with brilliance!
Thanks for the mention :) :)
Hey! We had to get you in there somewhere. Maybe a duet someday!?
@@briankehew579 - yes. Have thought that we should :)
Just watched the Jellyfish performance of All I want is Everything on Letterman 1990. Great song and performance. I couldn't shake off the feeling that Jeff Buckley must have listened to this too and took notes on the vocal delivery for his more rocky tunes. Sometimes you can't even hear a difference
This is amazing stuff! Great work, Brian!
This is enthralling… please, please more!
haha wow. i'm watching an interview between two guys whose albums i've listened to hundreds of times and a photo of me meeting one of them for the second time shows up.
i'm still working on it and hope to not disappoint you.
thanks for the music, guys.
Grazie muchos origato!!
Fascinating conversation! Subscribed!
Loved this interview. Thanks for sharing all your memories & stories !!! 😊🙏🏻💜 Hugs
THANKS - your family appears right up there, really adds to the story, this Chamberlin stuff!
I traded my Jupiter-8 for the extrusions i'm making for eurorack modules. I don't regret it.
I got a chance to see this wonderful band in 1992 at the greek theater with the a Black Crowes. Jelly Fish such a amazing band 😊🎉
I saw them on that tour in Nashville. I was impressed that the Crowes were willing to have that great of a band open up.
Oh man this interview is awesome, really, really enjoyable hearing all this incredible History👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎹🎼💯
Really enjoyed it!
This is amazing
Fun stuff!
Smart stuff!
This is a great interview, thank you!
Thank you thank you more Roger!
drummers are very territorial,
and you know what...
I too am RodgerRodgerManning
R.J.M.jr you are my Elvis! Always a huge fan of you and B.K. I remember when I discovered in late 90 the moog cookbook stuff, and only years later I made the connection with the jellyfish! I was astonished. then the Beck and AIR collaboration, it was like all the pieces of a puzzle finally finding the right place. Spent a lot of time in the nineties buying and repairing analogs, rhodes, clavinets etc as well as listening the same stuff as you, and playing in "old style" prog/rock/glam with friends. When I discovered your work it was an epiphany!. Internet was not as today at that time, everything was still a discovery. All the best ! Do new amazing music!
Super enjoyable conversation - thank you!
Jelly Fish were fantastic ,i was quite disappointed when they broke up
in 1978 I bought Herbie Hancock's Prophet 5 at Different Fur Studios when we recorded the helicopter FX on Apocalypse Now.
Great interview! Yeah, it's crazy how the prices of keyboards and synths went from pocket change in the 90's to now about outrageous. If anyone was lucky enough to obtain back then and manage to still have today, you could almost retire off them. The problem is having the will to sell lol. Somehow, even though I can get all this money for things I may have paid $50 for, the mere thought of parting with my babies makes me sick.
I'm pretty much your guys' age and I'm just getting into modular synthesis. Moog is doing such a good job staying relevant with their newer semi modulars. I keep wondering why I didn't get into this back when it was coming on. Then you reminded me I would have had to mortgage my house, which I didn't have at the time. Oh the irony. Great talk!
Also IMPOSSIBLE to find. Them you also could not choose your modules or buy more.
Skip Conte was in Blues Image, the band who did Ride Captain, Ride.
Cameo at 22:13
You and Steve M!
I remember being a regular on the Jellyfish bulletin board on AOL in the mid 90s and I believe Brian would post on it occasionally and we would tell him to get Roger on it sometime but he said when Roger got on AOL all he wanted to do was read the Saga and Chicago ( I think?) boards. Which is weird because I was a huge Saga fan and also a regular on their forum as well. Also I saw Dave Kerzner play at Prog Fest 94 in Los Angeles with Kevin Gilbert. I still have photos I took at that show. I could listen to Roger talk about music for days and so many of the Jellyfish alumni have made such great music over the years from The Grays, Umajets, Falkner solo and Lickerish Quartet. Thanks for the music Roger !
Thanks - there will be more w Roger - we didn't even do Moog Cookbook stories yet. And I'm overdue to visit him at home as it is. You must find Dave Kerzner - I bet he would love those photos!
RMI Electric Piano was cool. I used to tweak DX-7 sounds for Gary Leuenberger Yamaha.
I do have the original Orchestron flight case, upright as a pedestal 4 my parakeet cage.
L❤VE JELLYFISH 😎
Fantastic interview! When is the next chapter happening? 😊
JELLYFISH
Roger... you own the VCS3 that Eddie Jobson used on Curved Air's "Air Cut" album ... holy crap .. I need to touch it.. hahahaha
I worked at ARP with Roger Powell in the early 1970s. Bought a Minimoog D, Arp 2600, Hammond B9, Korg CX3, Oberheim 4 voice, Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter 8, Yamaha DX7s, Orchestron, Synergy from Wendy Carlos. Actually, if Roger Manning wants my Synergy...I hardly use it. You can see my Solina String Ensemble on Andrew Gold's videos of "Lonely Boy".
Thanks for the comments... Just was talking to Dina Pearlman two days ago. You had all the classics. I love the Synergy: I had two (black and brown) but the last one has been broken for 8 years, not fixable. Sad... They are great designs.
Did you play in a band or record,?
Yes the Jupiter 8 cost me 5k and sold used for 8k 20 years later
I bought Spilt Milk at the behest of my producer back in 1993. That album changed my life as a song-writer and recording artist. Both Jellyfish albums are holy grails for rabid Popsters.
Thomas Dolby hired me to work on phone rings
You know guys you're NOT DEAD YET! You can still create as great as you ever did! Why not kick start a new project with whomever you can still work together with and someone or two people new?? Come on it didn't have to die out because you got tired for a few seasons! ROLL With IT BABY!!
We both are doing TONS of things. Licorice Quartet is Roger's main thing. Mine is books
I bought a Vako Orchestron with five plastic disks in 1976. But I remember seeing some keyboard toy in 1966 which had the same concept. My favorite were Roland Jupiter 8, and ARP Quadra 1982. I also had a Solina string ensemble, Blue Meanie 2600, Minimoog, Korg CX3, Yanana DX7 stacks, Prophet 5, Oberheim 4 Voice, and Texture software from my friend Roger Powell. I never bought a Mellotron, Synclavier, Emulator, Kurtweil, or any MIDI sampler equipment. Stopped buying and recording circa 1985. I was friends with Gary Leuemberget who owned the Yamaha store in Frisco, and I programmed the CS80 and he had the $60,000 Dream Machine GX1. I once saw a Chamberlain at Guitar Center circa 1980 but did not buy it because I had the Orchestron. Big mistake. My Orchestron was stored under a pool table at a girlfriend's house and she threw it away when she moved. All I have left is a Wendy Carlos Synergy now gathering dust. I loved the Jupiter 8, but never liked the Sequential Circuits sound, although I bought it in 1977 from Different Fur, the one Herbie Hancock ordered, but I offered $5000 and took it home. Hated it. First time I played a Polymoog was in Emerson's setup with the Lyra and Taurus combo. In 1973 I got to play a piano duet with Keith during soundcheck at Boston Garden on the Brain Salad tour. I still have the original Vako flight case, but the Orchestron is gone. Actually, if Roger wants my Synergy, he can drive to San Francisco and take it for free. Serge and Jane Birkin....
Yes, Mattel's toy Optigan organ developed the technology first
Susan Ciani
the other roger manning is amazing,,,
Im one of those people that bought a cd from the other Roger Manning that had "THAT REACTION" from note one.... ummmm.. what?
Where’s part 2?
I was tricked into buying a Vako Orchestron in 1976 by Don Wehr for $2000. Terrible compared to the Mellotrom. Mu girlfriemd had it stored beneath a pool table, and threw it out one day. I still have the plastic disks. He also sold me the ARP Piano...horrible. But I did like my Quadra.
where's part two?
Someday it will happen...
Hey Rodger, wanna buy my Gleeman Pentaphonic?
Personally I do not like beck at all. Jellyfish is a million times better, to each his own.
how enjoyable of a conversation
Ah thank you, Roger is always great...
where are parts 2,3 4 ... ?
Yeah we need to do more.
Awesome interview