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Also, synths were around from the early 70s. Look up Bob Moog or ARP. The 80s marked the over-abuse and reliance on the instrument. Hollow sound for a hollow, s

• vacri 11y ago
  Yes, they were, but they hadn't really hit the public experimentation stage at that point. Guitars were around for centuries before guitar music really took off (and instruments similar to guitars go back millenia). I have the opposite view of sampling - I find it feels heavily artificial and manufactured (not always corporate, but still manufactured), and it doesn't really feel like you can 'hear' the musician's mood. Just a matter of taste, though. I just think you're giving the 80s a bit of rough stick - that corporate management increased through the 90s and 00s, and was around before the 80s, too - see the infamous 'wall of sound' methodology :)