• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.

    I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.

    Sorry to have failed your class professor.

    We couldn’t all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.

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      Synths were used so much in 70s rock (Moog) that it wasn’t uncommon for albums to have a ‘no synthesizers’ disclaimer.

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        4 months ago

        And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs

        Irrelevant I guess. I was casually reliving a memory from when I was a child, but there’s always got to be a pedant to further solidify my general withdrawal from society because I’m clearly not satisfactorily intelligent enough for it.