SequenceC wrote:It was the 82 Australian tour where Chris nearly was killed? As some wiring became faulty in the Moog Modular (due to the way they were transported), and when he switched it on, he got an electric shock.
1975 mate
Chris Franke: "All the modules had been built into one big case, to save time setting up on stage. The large case was shipped upside-down, and after 48 hours on the plane, the heavy transformers came loose and fell through the circuitry. When I first plugged it into the mains in Australia, I got a heavy electric shock. It wouldn't make any sound, and two days were spent repairing it and flying stuff in from Germany. That was a nightmare -- I nearly lost my life on that one".
from Sound on Sound
Edgar (interviewed by David James in Brisbane on the radio station 4ZZZ in 1982):
Edgar Froese: "The Major instrument, a sequencer which was doing all the rhythm structures, broke down on the flight from Germany to Australia. They've put it upside down, so the power supply, the screws of the power supply, came off and no one noticed. We plugged it in, at the first concert in Melbourne. After we plugged it in there was that typical sort of smell and crackling and the instrument was gone and there was nobody who could repair it. If the oscillators suddenly get a power of 220 volts instead of a count of one volt per octave, that's too much and the whole instrument was broken"
.."We had to rent some Minimoogs and you know what it means, if you are trained to use all these machines and if you can't and if you have to start playing Minimoogs and organs, and so the music was s**t to be honest"
I've slightly changed what Edgar said...just to make it more readable...but the meaning remains the same
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