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Maybe this has been discussed before but can’t find it…

Read a blog some time ago where the gig at BZ in Stockholm 1983 was discussed, one guy remember Craig changing cassette before every song they played. Was the Doctor on holiday or what was pre-recorded?

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as i understand it, claire used to be 'nurse' and look after the dok at live gigs, aswell as working eldritch's echo/reverb & other vox effects

maybe she couldn't make that partcular gig/tour and craig was doing that stuff instead...?

i wouldn't have thought it was pre-recorded unless there was a serious problem with the dok :|

is sweden especially cold at that time of year? :lol:

fwiw, i also heard that with the early versions of the dok, you could only store a limited # of patterns in it at any one time (ie: songs), so frequently eldritch & marx would have to re-programme the thing to add songs back into it :o (not 100% sure about the validity of that one, but knowing those old pieces of kit i can well imagine its true :lol: :urff:)
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I vaguely remember reading something about someone (Craig maybe) accidentally wiping the Dok and Andrew and Gary desperately trying to reprogram it at one of the early gigs?
QB wrote:you could only store a limited # of patterns in it at any one time
hence the various Sister Ray / Ghost Rider / Louie Louie medleys all having the same drum pattern...
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Some early drum machines had a memory dump onto a cassette tape--though I don't know if that feature would have been available quite as early as 1983.
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markfiend wrote:I vaguely remember reading something about someone (Craig maybe) accidentally wiping the Dok and Andrew and Gary desperately trying to reprogram it at one of the early gigs?
That was Ben Gunn pressing the TR808's Big Red Button just before a gig in Brussels.
sultan2075 wrote:Some early drum machines had a memory dump onto a cassette tape--though I don't know if that feature would have been available quite as early as 1983.
The Oberheim DMX has a tape dump, but I'm not sure exactly when they got that one. Certainly they had one by the time of FALAA, but '83? I think that would still have been the TR808.
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Ah-ha! :D

http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/tech/doktors.htm
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Syberberg wrote:That was Ben Gunn pressing the TR808's Big Red Button just before a gig in Brussels.
Like that?
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Although that very page on the Official Site could give you all the answers you are looking for on why another album has not been made.....
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ashville wrote:Although that very page on the Official Site could give you all the answers you are looking for on why another album has not been made.....
Ancient history, my friend - that page hasn't been edited in eons.

See this thread... :wink:
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Yeah....just stuck my views in there as well....
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By the way...Read it a long time ago and nothing has changed....hence my comment. Once you get stuck in technology, its a long way out. And a very neat excuse.
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