Playing Keyboards With Elton John

Elton John goes on tour this month to promote his new album The One; Julian Colbeck took the opportunity to talk to keyboardsman Mark Taylor about equipment, entertainment, and Elton.

Hughes & Kettner Tubeman Preamp

This dedicated guitar preamp benefits from hybrid tube circuitry, an integral speaker simulator and the ability to impersonate four quite different styles of amplifier.

George Duke, Ross Middleton, Salvator Mulligan

Two of the group write, the rest play, and they end up with "The Pacific Age" LP.

little Andy Taylor on big guitar sounds

Northern tape manipulators

Conclusion

The Teac 80-8 tape machine, Tascam Model 5 mixer and dbx DX-8 noise-reduction unit: last month we examined them individually, this month we look at them in combination.

All the snippety little secret bits of musicians' gossip that no-one else would print

Etcetera

Steve Gray, Keith Levene and Nick Rhodes

How to speak Musician

Understand record company executives, outwit shop assistants and grunt to roadies on their own level with our dictionary of musical terms.

Volume isn't everything

You can Run, but you can't hide — They're back again, Run DMC live at Hammersmith. Old Fogey Jim Betteridge covers his ears

...while Annabel Scott listens to words of wisdom from a Transatlantic keyboardist of a very different kind - Saga's Jim Gilmour.

The Master Room

Cutting masters is a fine art. George Peckham discusses the problems

Chris Davis, Our Sax Maniac Reports

A chat with keyboard person Mick MacNeil about technology, touring and techniques.

Can multi-keyboards match up to the latest hi-tech instruments? We take up the challenge.

Ampcheck

Putting the balls back into electronic drums. Messrs Henrit and Francis begin the quest

Throw away those leads

Something in the Shubbery — a new Capo, perhaps?