Comment Re:Early Fairlights were the true classics. (Score 1) 133
In The Art of Digital Music , Police drummer Stewart Copeland talks about scoring The Equalizer: "I had to turn over a show every week, and I did the first half of the first season with just the eight monophonic, 8-bit voices on that Fairlight. It was a chunky kind of sound, but it was one that most people hadn't heard before. So it registered as fresh.
"The Fairlight was very unfriendly for players. It was more something that you programmed. But that was perfect for me, because I'm not a keyboard player. With the graphic representation, I could create the notes I needed and put 'em on the page. The reason I'm a composer is because the music is in my head, and all I have to do is figure out a way of getting it out."
