Felt -- Classic or dud??

that's a bit rich coming from a Scottish dude

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Never forget
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he changed the name and before that he cropped the cover art. was he embarrassed at his headwear?

maybe just realized it was totally un-felt like to have an actual band photo for a cover

or ended hating one of the former members

RIP Martin Duffy

Aww man RIP teenage genius.

Awww, creator of some of the most beautiful music. Waaaaay too young.

Incredibly sad. Martin's playing sparkled over Felt's best records and added a lustre to every musical situation he was involved in. a true keyboard wizard.

Totally agree with that. The Felt albums he played on are the best. He was also one of the people responsible for bringing back keyboards as a "rock" instrument. There hadn't really been any fresh & distinctive keyboard players outside of synth-pop since maybe Una Baines.

I mean, come on!
Here's the link to the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTQW6oFoTs

Whoops wrong ling. I mean this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9bv1FO72A

Ling link whatevs. Ok I'm going to bed. RIP Mr. Duffy. A great keyboard player!

How rare was it for that generation of musicians to use organ rather than synth in the mid-80s? I can only think of Talk Talk as an example.

It wasn’t super-common but also by no means unheard-of, most often involving acts who were more or less 60s / beat inspired - off the top of my head you can expect to hear organ on records by the likes of the Prisoners, Makin’ Time, TVPs, Jasmine Minks, bit later on the Sea Urchins, Inspiral Carpets.

Interesting, though if Duffy was using a Hammond, that's a lot more trouble to take on the road than a more compact "garage-rock" style organ.

Identify the keyboard, nerds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuXIMylGQKo