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Jerry Lewis plays an alien visiting Earth in a movie called surprisingly enough: 'Visit To A Small Planet' and his character's name is Kreton...i.e. cretin. But Kreee-ton is still a pretty clever way in late fifties early sixties to slip one past a lot of observers, of doing a play on a word, a name.

 

And that bon vivant and American man of  letters who wrote the screenplay, Bob Carr's late erudite friend and American par excellence Gore Vidal did a fantastic job there; Homosexual,left-wing, privileged up bringing, Democrat, exceptional historical and contemporary scholar, wit and provocateur.

 

Fantastic bit of fifth columnist skulduggery slipped into the recent and occasionally reviled MaCarthyist Hollywood of the period.

 

Just thought you might need to know that little bit of trivia if your ever watching that rather dated film...it comes to life if you know it's background a bit. :)

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Listen to

for inspiration.
The Good Guys commercials have forever ruined that tune.

Not that I was really ever a huge fan of it anyway.

There's a bunch of vids on YouTube of a couple of guys doing covers of various music using a drum machine, a theremin and guitar.

The theremin usually replaces the vocals.

Very cool.

Especially one covering Crazy by Gnarls Barkley.

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I think it's one of the most awesome instruments ever created as it's purely based on waving your hands in the air.

I've never even seen one in real life, or heard one.

I couldn't care less if the kits are "tube" or not.

Just feel a need to stand and make weird 60's sci-fi movie alien noises in my music room :)

Maybe use some of the sounds for my own music.

Still hoping that someone can recommend a kit though.

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Hey, check out GT Stringer, Adelaide surf/spag western/spy soundtrack instro maestros. Nice theremin intro from baritone sax man GT Trevor

 

Miles Brown of the Night Terrors is one fine player

 

that's a Moog Etherwave theremin he's playing

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A friend who owns a kitset theremin replied  with this when I asked for his advice:

 

> Sold through Jaycar Electronics but you can probably get better ones from the US.

You can generally get better anything anywhere other than Jaycar.....

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Here's an instrument called a circon that is almost a guided theremin.

 

http://www.wendycarlos.com/circon.html

 

I have made enquiries about the giant-sized theremin here in Melbourne that you create music with not by waving your hands but by walking around and under and inside it.

 

Edited to add letter from Moog.

 

BMCircLetter.jpg

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