Showing posts with label alan haven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alan haven. Show all posts

tuning up

alan on the keys
here's one i made earlier
got a call last night from alan - he'd noticed the myspace i'd put for him had gone awry... i blame flickr meself... lots of the images i'd linked to were "unavailable".
so i went through the html on the site and re-loaded all the addresses that i'd linked with.
in the interim, i also experimented with an animated gif. about 10 years after everyone else had been using them.
who says i can't embrace technology?
while working on the webpage, it occurred to me that i was also listening to a radio caroline rockabilly show on satellite, and that alan famously performed/recorded image which was used as a radio caroline theme tune for many years(amongst other uses!).

alan of course, played on hundreds of other musical projects, notably being john barry's organist of choice for all his big 60's film themes, as well as releasing plenty of his own material(i have a tidy little stash of his albums...).

image

so, the secret is out, i've put together a myspace for alan haven
i contacted him via his own website, got chatting to the man and asked if he wouldn't mind if i put a myspace up.
now i've been a big fan of the crumar organ for years... i have a Crumar Composer with a really authentic gritty sound to it -
synth city

i saw the dead 60's playing live with a Crumar Traveler and the sound blew me away, it was so good.
turns out in conversation alan was responsible for them, as he developed the Haven organ with Crumar, back in the day...
here he is, playing one, with an ARP 2600
Alan Haven and an Arp2600
small world....