picture: Giorgio Moroder

Marcio** · February 27th, 2005, 04:15 PM

:lol: believe or not, this guy is Giorgio Moroder

from

http://www.elsew.com/data/amerfilm.htm

:)

**discofrank** · February 27th, 2005, 08:22 PM

The caption is wrong here... That's a Multitrack Soundboard NOT A "Synthesizer."

The pic must have been shot sometime in the 80s, when he shaved that mustache off :lol:

**Jimmy-Michaels** · February 27th, 2005, 08:41 PM

Thats def the 80s..mid 80s cause of the clothes hes wearing and also it matches exact to the way he looked on the back cover of the original 1985 best of album "from here to eternity and back"

**Videoskooter** · February 28th, 2005, 10:21 AM

Jumpsuits!!!! Where have they gone???? I never wore 'em though, too uncomfortable!

I already said this: when Giorgio shaved off his moustache, things went wrong musicwise. Like the old Samson legend: a man has to keep his facial hair or he'll lose his forces! Proven fact!

**remicks** · February 28th, 2005, 01:42 PM

The article is dated September 1982 . Giorgio was always on the cutting edge .... even in fashion! 8) . So he's now in his mid-fifties.... time for a big resurgence!

**markydefad** · February 28th, 2005, 01:56 PM

Boy, nothing would make me happier than for a Giorgio Moroder COMEBACK to occur--REAL SOON.!!

I've been listening to a lot of his old Seventies stuff...and his musical prolificness and rarely erring ear for musical inventiveness is astounding. The endless inventiveness of the synth patterns and counter-melodys and great hooks just wow me. (Today the synths all sound the same--he got amazing variety from rather primitive equipment, no?) Listening to Once Upon A Time, one great production after another--all of them worthy of hit single status....especially sides I & II (I've been listening a lot to side II: "Now I Need You", "Working the Midnight Shift" & "Queen For A Day" (love it when he completely changes the instrumentation in QFAD from synths to real live instruments in the middle of the song!!! Breathtaking!!!)

Comeback, Giorgio!!!!! Music needs you!!!!! :D :D :D :D

P.S. Whatever happened to the Broadway musical version of "Flashdance" that he was supposedly writing with Michael Kunze (not sure if it's the Silver Convention guy--but wouldn't it be great if it was? "Love's Unkind" sounds like a Broadway show-stopper to me...MORE, MORE, MORE MORODER!!!!!

**remicks** · February 28th, 2005, 03:35 PM

thanks Marky for explaining what happens in the middle of that song that is so dramatic... didn't realize what was occuring there ..... I think "QFAD" is the stand-out of that impressive TWO- record set.....lots of sweeping violins , good full background chorus and Donna casually holding those notes in a most soothing way ....

**QUINNY** · February 28th, 2005, 04:29 PM

Puhleeaassee!!! He also made some of the most vacuous, soul less records of all time.

If anything, he is one guy you have to blame for the trash today (if you believe that everything today IS trash). He pioneered electronic music, didn't he, where mechanical/electrical perfection was more important than human emotion?

All said in the best possible taste and all IMO, of course.

**remicks** · February 28th, 2005, 10:32 PM

Yes. But you were also the same guy that said Casablanca wasn't very important in the disco era (!!!!)

**QUINNY** · March 1st, 2005, 02:20 AM

And I'd stick by both statements, especially as I had written that Casablanca was no great deal in the UK/Europe and hadn't said anything about the U.S.A. where it was undoubtedley a fairly major Disco label for a while.

If you're gonna cast aspersions, get your facts straight first.

**remicks** · March 1st, 2005, 11:15 PM

Don't know about casting aspersions , Quinny, but it seems to follow that someone who's exposure to Casablanca was so limited , would also have a limited affinity for the music that was behind it ..... such as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. For fact straightening , I believe your assessment that Casablanca was " a fairly major label for a while " isn't quite correct. Casablanca was THE most successful label of them all throughout the entirety of the disco era.

**BrunoRepublic** · March 1st, 2005, 11:49 PM

I've read that one out of every 10 disco records sold in the US was on Casablanca, but I have no idea if that's true or not. Besides, Neil Bogart was notorious for finding ways to skew the numbers.

**QUINNY** · March 2nd, 2005, 05:45 AM

Originally Written by remicks

Don't know about casting aspersions , Quinny, but it seems to follow that someone who's exposure to Casablanca was so limited , would also have a limited affinity for the music that was behind it ..... such as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. For fact straightening , I believe your assessment that Casablanca was " a fairly major label for a while " isn't quite correct. Casablanca was THE most successful label of them all throughout the entirety of the disco era.

Oh dear. You really make too many assumptions.

I was exposed to Casablanca during the Disco period, of course I was (have you ever heard The Boogie Man by Greg Perry for instance; so it wasn't under exposure that made me think the way I do about the label?). However, most of its material just didn't suit the UK audience and so we didn't buy into it as much as the US did. It's that simple.

If you can tell me that Casablanca was successful over at least a decade then I might subscribe to it being the epitome of Disco, but take away the monster hits and it would have been much less successful overall and a label that had a large degree of inconsistancy. I viewed its output as very hit and miss, compared to many others. And how long did its mega status last? Only a few years in reality (a relatively short time?).

No, Prelude, TK and to a lesser degree Salsoul, were the pre-eminent labels of the Disco era in my mind and the minds of many of my UK contemporaries. They had the product we craved. Casablanca was, for me (for us?) an also ran.

**discofrank** · March 2nd, 2005, 12:34 PM

Originally Written by QUINNY

No, Prelude, TK and to a lesser degree Salsoul, were the pre-eminent labels of the Disco era in my mind and the minds of many of my UK contemporaries. They had the product we craved. Casablanca was, for me (for us?) an also ran.

Quinny, Which labels in the UK had the most success with Disco? It seems that over here in the US, it's always been those awesome EURO disco imports everyone wanted to own. Casablanca tried to immulate that Euro sound, and they did it quite good, no? IMO, over here in the US - CASABLANCA RECORDS AND FILMWORKS was GOD in the mid to late 70s - with both ROCK and DISCO fans alike! Casablanca covered many musical areas (rock, hard rock, soul, funk, pop, r&b and jazz). NEIL BOGART (RIP) WAS A GENIUS!!

**SandraDee** · March 5th, 2005, 08:38 AM

You've just hit the nail on the head dear boy. The reason why Casablanca was not so successful here in Blighty is that they largely specialised in the Euro or rock-disco sound while British people tended to dislike Euro preferring funkier or more soulful/jazzy sounds (I'm talking about hard-core club-goers, not the masses). I exclude myself as I've said b4 (as Steely Dan) I actually love Euro disco just as much as funk/soul/r'n'b/jazz-fusion or whatever you wanna call them!

**Funky Dude** · March 5th, 2005, 03:01 PM

remicks wrote:

The article is dated September 1982 . Giorgio was always on the cutting edge .... even in fashion! . So he's now in his mid-fifties.... time for a big resurgence!

More like mid 60s, he was born 1940. Here's what he looks like in recent years: