Herbie Hancock shows his Fairlight CMI to the Sesame Street kids
I always loved how Sesame Street brought in all sorts of fantastic musical guests for the kids and viewers. Here’s a great clip of Herbie Hancock showing the Sesame Street gang his Fairlight CMI:
My favorite line is “What do you need a monitor for in music?” Ahh, how times have changed.
It’s great that kids could learn about sampling and audio waveforms on a show like this. It sort of reminds me of the episode where the Huxtables went to Stevie Wonder’s studio and learned about the Synclavier on the Cosby Show:
New England Digital (makers of the Synclavier) went out of business in 1982, but In August 2009, Peter Vogel (who created the Fairlight) launched a new company with the objective of developing a ‘retro’ CMI-30A (30th Anniversary). You can check out the progress of the new Fairlight here.
How can you not mention a whole room full of YOUNG TATYANA ALIS!?!?1?101010110101
WOW, no doubt those are 2 of the greats. Herbie is going wild over there but Stevie is so nice!! The mom is not half bad too as a singer
Thank god samplers have advanced…