Larry Fast
“Imet Larry Fast in 1977 when I got invited to be a singer on an album called The Intergalactic
Touring Band. It was like a rock version of star Wars, released at colossal expense and featuring people like Frances rossi, Meat
Loaf, rod Argent and the London philharmonic Orchestra. Larry was the keyboard player and co-producer of the album, so we became friends.
“Larry has this astonishing pedigree. He helped rick Wakeman out with the keyboards on Tales From
Topographic Oceans, was involved in the switched On Bach ensemble, which is the first time synthesisers had ever been used in a classical music situation, and had his own group, synergy, which was just him playing all the keyboards. He was involved with Nektar in Germany. He worked with Bob Moog on the early synthesisers, but decided that he couldn’t afford to buy the stuff, so he made the synthesiser modules himself! He then went to become peter Gabriel’s keyboard player for 10 years, bringing a lot of different sounds and effects to his albums.
But the curious thing – as he acknowledges himself – is that he’s not really a musician! He’s a synthesiser expert, and he works things out very methodically.”