Stardrive - Funkascensions. Classic funky fusion with 2 ARP 2500 synths. video free download

Debra Lynn Paxton

I Still love the sounds in the ARP Omni...my father used it on several Nashville recording sessions.. Dad had Dave Huntsinger play that beautiful ARP Omni at WaxWorks in Berry Hill/Nashvile, TN, back in the early 80s...Precious musical times indeed ! :D ♡

菊地祐也

カッコ好すぎて痺れる

菊地祐也

カッコ良すぎて痺れる！

terry platt

I know it's a long time since your post, but... PLEASE can you post the track Rushes on YT. This was my introduction to the regrettably short musical voyage of Stardrive - it was the track chosen by WEA to represent them on the great sampler LP The One That Got Away, and it was a prog jewel amongst the folk/rock - pop/folk stuff that filled most of the album (good though most of it was). It was purely by chance I came across their 2nd album in a second hand shop - what a tour-de-force that was!

Dafro1974

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

ZINCOVIX8754.

Superb album.

pappyturk

How can 'language' describe the 1st time I heard this. Bought as a "Cut out" LP the year I 'got out' ot High School...1977...wadda TRIP!

Michael Clifton

yeah sorry - hit a key and.... anyway, it's been suggested that this "incident" helped convince Mason that he didn't wish to pursue a career as a performing pop musician. Who could blame him? Frank Zappa suffered a similar fate at the hands of a crazed audience member. He ended -up with 2 legs wracked with multiple fractures from an on-stage attack. There's a book in there somewhere - "Rockstars Who Paid For Their Fame (at the hands of nutters)

Sean Keane

the incident...?

Michael Clifton

I can only assume that the crazed audience member felt that the wild keyboard initiated sounds had to stop - one way or the other. Robert Mason would probably have an interesting angle all these years later. It has been rumored that the "incident

Sean Keane

This lady I work with told me this story! I would love to hear form the artist or even the dude who broke the synth on what that was all about

marscape1

nipper, a great shame - were you there ? Pretty traumatic way to finish a band...

Michael Clifton

It was the fall of 1975, Stardrive was opening for the newly-minted Jefferson Starship at Radio City Music Hall (NYC). In the middle of the 2nd tune a disturbed audience member ran from the wings (a considerable distance) and tackled Robert Mason, destroying his multi-keyboard rig in a burst of electrical flash and smoke as the bandleader and his assailant plummeted 12 ft. to the orchestra pit below. This was not a stunt! Never heard from the group following that bizarre concert experience.

marscape1

Seem to recall he was in Blood Sweat and Tears also. I must admit I know very little about him, but he plays with so much energy. Really like the wild germanium fuzz sound he uses !

crd560

Thanks for posting this. I had this album back around the time it came out in '74. It's amazing to me that the guitarist, Harvey Sarch, never had more success. His playing at times almost eclipses Mason's synth. Btw, I just looked on Amazon, and amazingly enough both Stardrive albums are available on CD from Wounded Bird Records.

NUN YAH

@marscape1 i had this LP when it came out on vinyl in "74". this WAS NOT with 2 "2500" synths, mason stated his synth was a combination of "ARP Oydessy" part's and some "Diy" parts. great 70's electronic music though,i alway's wondered what happen to this guy. there was a another great electronic LP that came out in "74" too it was by a guy named "Timo Laine" he played a "360" Easton guitar synthesizer interfaced to 12 Oberheim Sem's. i wore that OUTtttttttttttttt. guitar synth rock.

thechzman

@marscape1 Intergalactic Trot or Stardrive.....thanks!

thechzman

Do you have "Intergalactic Trot?

Model10b

That was not a look, he really was that pompous and pretentious. I worked with him for several years.

Jayhawk 4Life

glad to see this on youtube! I've been DJing this song for a few years now at my live gigs. I found it in a thrift store pile for 25 cents! It looked cool so I bought it. When I got home I called up my fellow DJ's, had them come over and listen, and we were all just blown away. I especially love the picture on the back with him looking all pompous sitting on his special machine and the pretentious paragraph under it. Super classic!!!

Stardrive

Stardrive - Air Sauce 1974. Funk / Jazz / Rock - from space !