Procession - Music

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Procession

The-Moody-Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

It Is Said That The First Electronic Drum Was Created By Graeme Edge Drummer Of The Moody Blues In Collaboration With Sussex University Professor Brian Groves. The Device Was Used In The Song 'Procession' From The 1971 Album 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favor'. Question - "One Of The Strangest Pieces Was 'Procession' Every Good Boy Deserves Favor 1971 Which Featured The Pioneering Work Of Graeme Edge's Electronic Drum Kit. How Did That Come About?"
Graeme - "I'd Got In Touch With The Professor Of Electronics At Sussex University Brian Groves. We Worked Up An Electronic Drum Kit A Marvelous Idea. I Had The Control Panel In Front Of Me It's Old Hat Now But We Were The First To Do It. There Were Pieces Of Rubber With Silver Paper On The Back With A Silver Coil That Moved Up And Down Inside A Magnet That Produced A Signal So It Was Touch Sensitive. I Had 5 Snares Across The Top And Then Ten Tom-Toms And Then A Whole Octave Of Bass Drums Underneath My Feet And Then Four Lots Of 16 Sequencers Two On Each Side. There Was A Gap—to Play A Space—a Tamborine Ebony Stick Snare And Three Tom-Toms. This Was Pre-Chip Days Back Then You Did It All With Transistors. So It Had Something Like 500 Transistors. The Electronic Drums Inside Looked Something Like Spaghetti. When It Worked It Was Superb But It Was Before Its Day Because It Was So Sensitive..."