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You may well enjoy this article from The Vinyl Factory.

DRUM PATTERNS AND MEMORIES: 12 ARTISTS REFLECT ON ICONIC DRUM MACHINES

including a pic of the good Doktor.

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-fa ... -machines/

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That was class, including one of my favourite performers as well; John Foxx cheers.
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Alex66 wrote:That was class, including one of my favourite performers as well; John Foxx cheers.
Mine too :D

ULTRAVOX were the band I really fell in love with (Foxx era only) - waiting for Amazon to deliver the new box set to me today!

Vinyl Factory do some great articles too.

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Interesting read ... ;D ... thanks for posting ... :notworthy: ...
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a shame tr606 and DR550E aren't covered. herr doktor was a 606 first of all i believe.
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Cool! Gonna read that pronto 8)
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:a shame tr606 and DR550E aren't covered. herr doktor was a 606 first of all i believe.
from the Technical Boys section of the website..

'Doktor Avalanche started life as a Boss DR55 'Doctor Rhythm' machine... but ours was always called 'Doktor Avalanche'.'

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thank you Mr Flagg. of course, thats why i stole my tr606 and bought my DR55. :von:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:thank you Mr Flagg. of course, thats why i stole my tr606 and bought my DR55. :von:
The inner geek in me would like to see a pictorial timeline covering all iterations of the Doktor..

I loved reading about the machines running DOS 3.3 and the need for SCSI back when the website was new and had fresh content added.


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Randall Flagg wrote:
Alex66 wrote:That was class, including one of my favourite performers as well; John Foxx cheers.
Mine too :D

ULTRAVOX were the band I really fell in love with (Foxx era only) - waiting for Amazon to deliver the new box set to me today!

Vinyl Factory do some great articles too.

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I have the originals and first generation CD reprints so I will probably give the box set a miss. Now if someone could just show Von how mr Foxx took a long break from recording and came back all guns blazing :). I think a lot of the post break Foxx has been some of the best of his career.
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Randall Flagg wrote:
The inner geek in me would like to see a pictorial timeline covering all iterations of the Doktor..
yeah, me too.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"

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