Oberheim
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Sep 22, 2026
Michael BoddickerGUEST
know, close to double that.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
But anyway, now we're, I've been in talks with NAMM for a year and a half, and I have a couple of different synthesizer clubs, you know, that have really, really good you know, accomplished members, Rousseau and John Chowning and Tom Oberheim and those people in the synthesizer clubs.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
And, you know, we want to do something, particularly I want to do something while we have these people alive where we can actually get to hear them and talk to them.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
Most definitely.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
The whole reason why I did one of these back in like 1978 I did three of them under the banner of NARIS and the symposium, electronic music symposium.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
And back in that day, it was the two guys that started EMU and Roger Lynn himself and Tom Oberheim himself and Dave at Sequential Circuits, Dave Smith.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
And we just, we took over, Herb Alpert was a friend and he let us have A&M Records and we took over and you know, uh, Roger Lynn would be in one isolation booth and Tom Oberheim would be in the recording studio and, and, you know, and it was, it was terrific.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
And what happened was people got to interface with them and they got to hear from really accomplished musicians, you know, that that's, that's something that, um, And when I say accomplished, I don't mean just, I mean, you cannot.
Brad FiedelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
individual keyboards and they had to be played individually.
Brad FiedelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was all live, every note is live performed with the exception of this, I had an Oberheim situation where I could put a little drum machine and a little .
Brad FiedelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those things were chained together but it was their technology, it didn't interface with anything else.
Brad FiedelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So if my Prophet 10 was going, And the other thing was going...
Dylan StoneHOST
Of course, this song was Van Halen's first number one hit in America and their only number one with David Lee Roth as lead singer.
Dylan StoneHOST
Now, Eddie Van Halen played this on an Oberheim, a synthesizer.
Dylan StoneHOST
He was classically trained on piano growing up and he didn't start playing guitar, by the way, until he was a teenager.
Dylan StoneHOST
But here's that classic song.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
We could find out very easily.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
I want to say there's Oberheim on it.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
I'm just thinking of the DMX, that's why.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
Yeah.
Carlos de la GarzaGUEST
Um, and I think that was...
Carlos de la GarzaGUEST
Oh, and then synth-wise, um, Oberheim, I have an Ober- Oberheim OB-X, and a Prophet 5, and a Juno 60, and a Minimoog, and those things probably got the most use of any of the synths, um, on the record.
AdamHOST
Yeah.
Carlos de la GarzaGUEST
And yeah.
Harlan SilvermanGUEST
So yeah.
Harlan SilvermanGUEST
yeah it's just interesting to him that okay there's a whole resurgence and then there's a whole like love for then like when i talk to him about these instruments like the dx7 the jx10 the oberheim all these instruments that he had and then got rid of because they weren't cool anymore and now they're super cool and loved it's like funny to him a lot of this old gear that i buy he's like oh i sold that you're recording on tapes again you like reel to reel and a space echo oh yeah i remember those
Dan CableHOST
yeah
Harlan SilvermanGUEST
like all these things have come back
Alan KraslowHOST
Tom Teresi plays everything that is a keyboard.
Alan KraslowHOST
The Prophet 5, a Roland, a Jupiter 8, an Oberheim, a Clavinet, Rhodes Piano, and even a Kauai Grand Piano.
Alan KraslowHOST
Joe Gaeta is the guitar player.
Alan KraslowHOST
Jimbo Ross, the electric viola.
Bob JamesGUEST
I can remember the early stages of that when it was very primitive by today's standards.
Bob JamesGUEST
And Oberheim was the company that I remember that had the polyphonic synthesizer that had separate oscillators for each sound.
Bob JamesGUEST
So the Oberheim 8-Voice was the one I used a lot that you could play polyphonically on it.
Bob JamesGUEST
But each note and the chord was going to it through a different oscillator and manipulated very differently than the way the more recent polyphonic synthesizers are.
Bob JamesGUEST
So that gave it a character.
Bob JamesGUEST
Each oscillator you could kind of tweak it.
Bob JamesGUEST
And there was a thickness about it that gave that Oberheim 8-Voice where I made a lot of records using that.
Bob JamesGUEST
And I remember that they were also funky in the sense that, yes, you could play four, six, eight note chords, but the synthesizer was trying to catch up.
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
Yeah, I don't know what drum machine that is.
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
It might be an Oberheim, like a, whatever, but it's a drum machine, and the break is either being cut...
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
It could be a sample or it could s- it's-
Diallo RiddleHOST
It sounds like they're, it sounds like they're hitting a button.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
[synth music] Hello and welcome to Synth Icons with Andy Whitmore.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
In this episode, I'm recreating 20 famous riffs and keyboard parts using the Oberheim OB-8.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
You'll recognize plenty of these songs.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
They're all classics.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
Tracks from Prince, Van Halen, Rush, Eurythmics, Phil Collins, Simple Minds, The Police, and many more.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
The 20 tracks are made up of one to five riffs per part, and this podcast took five days to make.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
All the parts are from the Oberheim family.
Andy WhitmoreHOST
Here, I'm using the OB-8.
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