Adventurings

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Sun Jan 23
“Rationale Behind Invention: Bopping across the stage with a keyboard that almost looks like a guitar, especially a purple one, is just a lot more rock-n-roll than crouching over a slab of keys.”  theatlantic: Celebrity Invention: Prince’s Custom Keytar: It’s a custom-designed keytar — that’s keyboard-guitar — which Prince dubbed the Purpleaxxe. Prince’s then-keyboardist Tommy Barbarella — who now plays with Justin Beiber’s band! — donned the portable purple keyboard, to both enhance Prince’s ’90s jams and his glittery ’90s fashions. Read the full article here.

“Rationale Behind Invention: Bopping across the stage with a keyboard that almost looks like a guitar, especially a purple one, is just a lot more rock-n-roll than crouching over a slab of keys.” 

theatlantic:

Celebrity Invention: Prince’s Custom Keytar:

It’s a custom-designed keytar — that’s keyboard-guitar — which Prince dubbed the Purpleaxxe. Prince’s then-keyboardist Tommy Barbarella — who now plays with Justin Beiber’s band! — donned the portable purple keyboard, to both enhance Prince’s ’90s jams and his glittery ’90s fashions.

Read the full article here.

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