It was run by these proto-typical nerds who used words like bits and bytes, megahertz and gigahertz. "A friend of mine took me to The Computer Store, which was the only place in Los Angeles that sold them. Then in 1977, Linn heard about the invention of personal computers, a development that spurred him on to form his own company, Linn Electronics. "I later heard that they regularly intercepted baseball commentary at their gigs!"īy the time he turned 20, the Mini Moog synthesiser had started to infiltrate rock, and Linn got a gig playing guitar and programming synths for Leon Russell, the session player who had arranged Ike & Tina Turner's " River Deep, Mountain High" before becoming a solo star.
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"They were happy with the sound but at that stage, I hadn't learnt how to make things reliably," Linn recalls some 35 years later. Fanny, an all-girl underground rock group, bought his first product – a customised distortion pedal. A few years passed, by which stage he had gained a reputation for fusing together existing guitar effects pedals to produce unique sounds.
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Combining his passion for guitars and technology, the 14-year-old Linn took an afterschool job at a guitar shop in Hollywood, where he learnt how to install pick-ups. The son of an opera singer and a music professor, Linn took up classical guitar as a child but soon got distracted by the rock'n'roll revolution. Yet somewhat ironically, Linn's legacy stems not from an infatuation with beats, but from guitars. Without him, artists like Brian Eno, Prince, Dr Dre and Kanye West would have found it a lot harder to push back the boundaries of popular music. What he's really known for is inventing the world's first programmable, digital drum machine. Linn, you see, isn't only a mandolin virtuoso.
So it comes as somewhat of a surprise to hear that RZA, one of hip hop's most illustrious producers, regards the unassuming mandolin player as one of "the true foundations of hip hop."
When the weather's good, he even invites people up to his house to listen to jazz and world music.
Taken from the April 2006 issue of Dazed:Įvery Monday night, Roger Linn drives from his house in the north Berkeley Hills down to the Gaffe Trieste coffee shop to soothe its patrons with mandolin renditions of traditional Neapolitan songs.
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