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# Rhodes piano

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The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the hammers strike thin metal tines, which vibrate next to an electromagnetic pickup. The signal is then sent through a cable to an external keyboard amplifier and speaker.

## Quotes about the Rhodes piano

* It’s impossible to reinvent an instrument as iconic as the Rhodes piano. So we’re not going to try.
** Matt Pelling of Rhodes Music Group, as quoted by Mark Gilbert of Jazz Journal (October 8, 2024)
* The Rhodes electric piano [is] reviled by many purists, but [was] a key new sound in jazz from the late 1960s on.
** Mark Gilbert of Jazz Journal (October 8, 2024)
* While the Rhodes was initially introduced in the late '60s, [...] it really belonged to the 1970s.
** Jay Laughton of Reverb.com (March 02, 2016)
# Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha Åse Fältskog (born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist who is known for being one of the former members of Swedish pop group ABBA, and renowned as a solo artist prior to the formation of ABBA in her home country.

## Quotes

* I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now.
** Ask Agnetha No. 15, Agnetha Fältskog's YouTube channel (AgnethaOfficial), 16 May 2013
* That means a lot, it goes from generation to generation, and you can't wonder why, and I think it's because it's such a good energy in it, and I think the girls and boys, they want to dress like us, and they want to sing along.
** On other musicians who has 'grown up' listening to ABBA, who wants to work with Agnetha; Interview on 'Loose Women', Interviewer: Carol Vorderman, ITV 16 May 2013

### BBC interview (May 2013)

Abba's Agnetha 'not a recluse', BBC 10 May 2013
* I think I was more like the black sheep, maybe, that, I was someone that you could blame on, but we were actually agreed on, that we had to stop now, because we came to a point, when it doesn't feel good anymore.
** On her off-stage role in ABBA
* Why should we do it? We have done so many songs, during such a long time. The fact that we had two divorces, and there was no meaning, I think, with getting together, again.
** On reuniting ABBA

### BBC interview (March 2013)

Abba's Agnetha comes out of retirement, by Mark Savage, BBC 11 March 2013
* I have been described as a very mysterious human being and that hurts a little bit, because it's not like that at all.
** On the media's 'wrong impression' of her private life
* I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do.
** On planning her next album after 'A'; her thoughts on her 2013 solo album, 'A'

## External links

* ABBA's official website
* Agnetha Fältskog's official website
# Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, writer, producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–82), and co-composer of the musicals Chess,Kristina från Duvemåla and Mamma Mia!. He has recently coproduced the film Mamma Mia! with ex-ABBA member and close friend Benny Andersson.

## Quotes

* I miss those days when people believed in science and common sense as in the Fifties and Sixties. Now fundamentalism and contempt for science seems to be spreading. I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That’s not the way it is today, not even in Sweden. For hundreds of years we have struggled to achieve a secular society, and now we seem to be going backwards.
** Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
* Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn’t been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.
** Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
* The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
** Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
* We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition.
** Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008
* Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
** Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008

## External links

* Björn Ulvaeus at Newsmill.se
# Benny Andersson

Göran Bror 'Benny' Andersson (born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish composer, songwriter, and keyboardist who is known for being one of the former members of ABBA and composing "Chess", "Kristina från Duvemåla", "Mamma Mia!,"

## Quotes

* I don't get it... did we look like transvestites or something?
** Regarding: Drag queens often performing ABBA songs
** ABBA documentary, "Super Troupers: 30 Years of ABBA"
* I'd hate the sound of thirty thousand people booing.
** After being asked if he ever gets stage fright
** Interview during the 1977 Australian tour, included in "ABBA: The Movie"

## External links

* http://www.abbasite.com - ABBA The Site
* http://www.monomusic.se - Mono Music AB
# Polymoog

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The Polymoog is a hybrid polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on divide-down oscillator technology similar to electronic organs and string synthesizers of the time.

## Quotes about the Polymoog

* Troubled from the start, this cantankerous instrument nevertheless found favour with a number of high-profile users, Rick Wakeman among them.
** Scot Solida of MusicRadar (June 26, 2024)
* [A] main element of any ABBA track is the synth lines, and it was the Polymoog that gave their music that distinct electronic vibe.
** Benjamin Lamb of Mixdown Magazine (June 6, 2024)
* [The Polymoog] was more of a performance tool, thanks to its ability to zone its keyboard with different voices.
** Music Radar (June 26, 2024)
* Offering organ-style divide-down polyphony and just eight presets, the Polymoog was an early attempt to create a polyphonic synth. It was certainly powerful, and capable of creating beautifully lush sounds, but became known for its difficult interface and poor reliability record.
** Ben Rogerson of MusicRadar (Feburary 2, 2021)
# ABBA

ABBA were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.

## Quotes about ABBA

* You’d be hard pressed to find a group as original as ABBA. [...] ABBA songs are defined by the combination of their unique harmonies and feel good songwriting, but perhaps most importantly, showcase their original production and recording processes.
** Benjamin Lamb of Mixdown Magazine (June 6, 2024)
# Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a Swiss heavy metal band from Zürich. They are remembered for their strong influence on the development of several metal subgenres, particularly extreme metal, and for their avant-garde approach to music in general. In June 1984, guitarist and vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain formed Celtic Frost after disbanding their previous band, Hellhammer, a month earlier.

## Quotes about Celtic Frost

* Celtic Frost took the riffing ethos of Tony Iommi and applied it to their slightly thrashy nature and whole-hearted morbid attitude.
** Loudwire
# Chord (music)

In Western music theory, a chord is a group of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance. The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. Chords with more than three notes include added tone chords, extended chords and tone clusters, which are used in contemporary classical music, jazz, and other genres.
Chords are the building blocks of harmony and form the harmonic foundation of a piece of music. They provide the harmonic support and coloration that accompany melodies and contribute to the overall sound and mood of a musical composition. The factors, or component notes, of a chord are often sounded simultaneously but can instead be sounded consecutively, as in an arpeggio.
A succession of chords is called a chord progression. One example of a widely used chord progression in Western traditional music and blues is the 12 bar blues progression. Although any chord may in principle be followed by any other chord, certain patterns of chords are more common in Western music, and some patterns have been accepted as establishing the key (tonic note) in common-practice harmony—notably the resolution of a dominant chord to a tonic chord. To describe this, Western music theory has developed the practice of numbering chords using Roman numerals to represent the number of diatonic steps up from the tonic note of the scale.
Common ways of notating or representing chords in Western music (other than conventional staff notation) include Roman numerals, the Nashville Number System, figured bass, chord letters (sometimes used in modern musicology), and chord charts.

## Quotes about chords in music

* A chord is by no means an agglomeration of intervals. It is a new unit which, although dependent on the formative power of the single interval, is felt as being self-existent and as giving to the constituent intervals meanings and functions which they otherwise would not have.
** Paul Hindemith (1952: 72). A Composer's World. Cambridge, Mass.
* [Tonality is] the special meaning [functions] that chords receive through their relationship to a fundamental sonority, the tonic triad.
** Hugo Riemann, cited in Gurlitt, W. (1950). Hugo Riemann (1849-1919).
# Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop era. He was also known for his bowed solos. Chambers recorded about a dozen albums as a leader or co-leader, and over 100 more as a sideman, especially as the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "first great quintet" (1955–63) and with pianist Wynton Kelly (1963–68).

## Quotes about Paul Chambers

* John Coltrane once said, "Paul Chambers was one of the greatest bass players in jazz. His playing is beyond what I could say about it." Chambers played a vital role in both the Prestige recordings of Coltrane, as well as a part of Miles Davis's first great quintet, appearing on the 1959 landmark album, Kind of Blue. Chambers, who died at the age of 33, also released some fine recordings as a leader, namely Whims of Chambers and Bass on Top.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American jazz double bassist, known for his extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. He was also a founding member of the group that would later develop into the Modern Jazz Quartet.

## Quotes about Ray Brown

* While Ray Brown could swing heavy with bebop pioneers like Dizzy Gillespie, he's probably best known for part in pianist Oscar Peterson's trio from 1951-1966. Brown's buoyant playing seemed to match Peterson's relaxed attack on the piano. The bassist, who was briefly married to Ella Fitzgerald, backed up the singer, as well as countless other jazz luminaries until he passed away at the age of 75 in 2002. Brown released dozens of discs under his own name from the mid '40s to the early 2000s.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Dave Holland (bassist)

David Holland (born 1 October 1946) is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades.

## Quotes about Dave Holland

* Over the last five decades, Dave Holland has established himself as one of the most skilled bassists in jazz. As a leader, the English bassist released some excellent forward-thinking recordings, like his 1972 debut, Conference of the Birds, which also featured Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers, and 1982's Jumpin' In, which featured frequent collaborator, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role.
In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet. In 1969, he formed his first band, the Liberation Music Orchestra, featuring arrangements by pianist Carla Bley. In the late 1960s, he became a member of pianist Keith Jarrett's trio, quartet and quintet. In the 1980s, he formed his own band, Quartet West. Haden also often recorded and performed in a duo setting, with musicians including guitarist Pat Metheny and pianists Hank Jones and Kenny Barron.

## Quotes about Charlie Haden

* An integral part of Ornette Coleman's early groups, Charlie Haden played an important role in the development of free jazz, while also being an extremely competent and intuitive player. While his playing and writing with the large ensemble Liberation Music Orchestra, as well as his output with Keith Jarrett's group is stellar, his duo recordings are great, as well, namely Beyond the Missouri Sky with guitarist Pat Metheny and Nightfall with pianist John Taylor.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Scott LaFaro

Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 – July 6, 1961) was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. LaFaro broke new ground on the instrument, developing a countermelodic style of accompaniment rather than playing traditional walking basslines, as well as virtuosity that was practically unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Despite his short career and death at the age of 25, he remains one of the most influential jazz bassists, and was ranked number 16 on Bass Player magazine's top 100 bass players of all time.

## Quotes about Scott LaFaro

* Just 25 when he died in a car accident in 1961, Scott LaFaro showed an early proficiency on the bass after taking it up at the age of 18, just before starting at Ithaca College. A weeks into his sophomore year, LaFaro hit the road with Buddy Morrow, but left the band in Los Angeles, and then went on to play with Chet Baker, Stan Kenton, Cal Tjader and Ornette Coleman. LaFaro is probably best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio over the last few years of the bassist's life. His playing on Evans's Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby is just remarkable.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Abdulaziz Bayındır

Abdulaziz Bayındır (Born 1951) Turkish professor of theology, Islamic jurist.

## quotes

* Atheists say "We are convinced of God and I ask God to give me everything, but it does not give me orders" Those who say, the truth that no one on the face of the earth does not believe in God that he is creating everything and masterminding everything and that he will be held accountable for everything after death. When a person reaches puberty, or what we call today a teenager he realizes certainty that God exists and one and that there is life after death. According to the two verses 172 and 173 of Surat Al -A'raf this fact is clear But they put their desires and interests in the first place then God in the second place and this is angry with God and God is over everything.

## External links

* ↑ https://www.kurandersi.com/
# Ron Carter

Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy Awards, In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for playing on numerous iconic Blue Note albums in the 1960s, as well as being the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "Second Great Quintet" from 1963-1968.

## Quotes about Ron Carter

* Ron Carter has played on over 2,500 albums and secured a spot in jazz history as one of the world's finest bassists. Doing much more than merely helping anchor the rhythm, Carter is a melodic master. In his five-decade-long career, he's played with countless jazz legends, including a five-year stint in Miles Davis's quintet, an outfit that also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams. While his playing on most of the recordings he did with Davis are stellar, some of his albums as a leader, like Uptown Conversation, are excellent, as are his duo albums with guitarist Jim Hall, platters like Live at the Village West and Alone Together.
** Jon Solomon of Westword (November 14, 2013)
# Louie Bellson

Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums.

## Quotes about Louis Bellson

* At only the age of 15, Louie Bellson asked a question that would change jazz music forever: What if one bass drum just isn't enough? After pioneering the technique of playing two bass drums at the same time, Bellson became ingrained with the most influential big bands of the '40s, including those around Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Harry James, and Duke Ellington. Consistently blending genres in his work, Bellson also wrote a Broadway musical, Portofino.
** Mary Siroky
# Dale Crover

Dale Crover (born October 23, 1967) is an American rock musician. Crover is best known as the drummer for Melvins and has also been the drummer for Men of Porn, Shrinebuilder, Crystal Fairy and, for a brief time, Nirvana. He is also guitarist and vocalist for Altamont. He has toured with Fantômas (filling in for Dave Lombardo), Off!, and Redd Kross. In 2016, Rolling Stone listed him as the 69th greatest drummer of all time.

## Quotes about Dale Crover

* Dale had a super underrated drum sound, whether that was live or recorded — he was second to none.
** Johnny Lani of Skegss
# Alex Van Halen

Alexander Arthur Van Halen (born May 8, 1953) is an American musician who was the drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Van Halen, which was formed in 1972 by Van Halen and his younger brother Eddie under the name "Mammoth" before adding Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth in 1974 and changing their name to Van Halen.

## Quotes about Alex Van Halen

* Alex made me want to play rock 'n’ roll and was the first “rock star” drummer that I idolized when I was in elementary school. Hell, I dressed up as “Alex Van Halen” two years in a row for Halloween in grades 3 and 4! Alex has always been underrated and that’s always bothered me. He has a fantastic feel and is a unique drummer in the rock 'n’ roll world that should get more credit than he gets. Ask Jim Keltner… he’ll tell you!
** Josh Freese of Foo Fighters and A Perfect Circle
# Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological park, zoological garden, or animal park, and also called a menagerie) is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred.

## Quotes

* Nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond. They scan mechanically. … That look between animal and man, which may have played a crucial role in the development of human society, and with which, in any case, all men had always lived until less than a century ago, has been extinguished. Looking at each animal, the unaccompanied zoo visitor is alone.
** John Berger, About Looking (1980), chapter "Why Look at Animals?"
* The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
** Desmond Morris (2009), The Human Zoo, p. vii
* The directory of animals in the zoo ranges all the way from aardvark to zebra.
** Bernard Livingston (1 November 2000). Zoo: Animals, People, Places. iUniverse. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-595-14623-9.
# Barnabe Barnes

Barnabe Barnes 1571 - 1609 English poets He is famous for the Petroleum love of love.

## quotes

* Love is a beautiful thing a feeling and a mutual feeling between the two parties.

## Footnotes

* ↑ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barnabe-Barnes
# Berlin Zoo

The Berlin Zoological Garden (German: Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares (86.5 acres) and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo presents one of the most comprehensive collections of species in the world. The zoo and its aquarium had more than 3.5 million visitors in 2017. It is the most-visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide.

## Quotes about Berlin Zoo

* Berlin’s oldest zoo has a dark history. Not even 80 years ago, it was still displaying people. [...] Today there is very little doubt about the immense immorality of putting people in a zoo, and even back then, not everyone agreed. To assuage critics and give everything a “scientific” veneer, the German doctor Rudolf Virchow and the Berlin Anthropological Society came to measure the exotic bodies, classifying their races at “lower” and “higher” stages of development. As the historian Joachim Zeller explains, the colonised peoples were not exactly considered animals; “they were placed on a level between animal and human” and were presumed to show how people in Europe had lived thousands of years ago. Many Berliners had never seen a person from another part of the world, and their curiosity was extreme. Yet the Völkerschau was not about learning from these visitors – quite the opposite. The people behind fences were expected to present a “fantasy world bursting with stereotypes, as white people imagined life in the colonies”, Zeller says. One reason for the barriers: polite society was extremely worried that impressionable young white women could fall in love with “noble savages.”
** The Berliner (August 20, 2024)