What synth/keyboard - Crazy Horses

sound quality is better in this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28j5t_the-osmonds-crazy-horses_music

better shot of the keyboard in this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3q0l3_the-osmonds-brothers-crazy-horses_music

From what I see, it appears to be a Yamaha YC-45D combo organ.

Which would make sense because its one of the few combo organs out there with a pitch ribbon controller.

It's a single manual Yamaha YC-30, which also came in red and black.

Wow. At first I was sure the sound was overdubbing from another band. That actually is a rockin' sound! Really surprised me.

Oh no, that is the Osmonds, lip-sync'd though. The Crazy Horses LP was the second LP that I ever bought with my own money (first was Best of the Jackson 5 and third AFAI can remember was either a K-Tel hits compilation or Yes Fragile - funny contrast huh?). I think that I was about 8 or 9 years old. I loved the guitar sounds in the Crazy Horses song. Listening to it again, I still think it is a pretty well-done rock song. At the time I bought the LP there was a big anti-pollution and environmental campaign running through grammar schools called Johnny Horizon and the song was apropos even though it came out a couple years earlier. It carries the "Osmond" stigma with it, but the group was pretty "Rock and Roll". I think the stigma comes more from Donny becoming a teeny-bopper heartthrob and from the Donny and Marie show. It should also be noted that unlike many crappy Disney-pop artists of today, the group wrote their own music and performed the music live playing their own instruments. Donny was also a modular synthesizer fan. Someone posted a concert video or picture here a while back with him next to a big Moog Modular.

Crazy Horses was one of the first records I bought and it had a lot to do with the cover. Bought it at a garage sale for 10 cents if I remember correctly.

I was going through old records and found it and put it on and up until a couple days ago, never gave that intro sound any thought. I decided to see if I could find a live shot to see what the hell they used.

thanks for the info stubb. I'd have never gotten it.

I like KMFDM's version better =o]

I listened to that (for the first time just now). Please tell me it's an entirely different song because it wasn't familiar at all!

Listen to the lyrics.

FFD to 4:48

[YOUTUBE]erZ_5_UMxJo[/YOUTUBE]

They may have altered the lyrics a bit. En Esch isn't always easy to understand =o]

w o w.

Had I not gone straight to 4:48 I probably wouldn't have caught it.

Again, W O W.