Rick Astley and my childhood keyboard

[rirv]

When I was young, around 5 or 6 (1991ish), my brother and I had keyboard lessons. My dad bought us a keyboard. I remember it cost £100 and it was a Casio Tonebank - it could make loads of noises, had drum beats the lot. It came with a Richard Clayderman instructional video. But most importantly it had a demo button. You'd press the demo button and it would play this tune that went on and on before looping back again and repeating. It was awesome. I can still remember the whole thing in my head right now including the kind of instruments it played.

The other day I was driving down the M6/M56 from Manchester listening to Radio 2 when Together Forever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62p-dEfUZM) by Rick Astley was played. I was instantly transported back to being 6 years old. This was the demo song on my keyboard, I never knew it was a real song until now - 17 years later. I couldn't believe it when it started playing. Incredible.

So what I'm trying to say is that Rick Astley lived in my keyboard.

[b i o n i c]

my old keyboard used to let you play along to something by the beatles. my mom thought i was a musical genius, good times

also, the casio sk-1 sampler keyboard blew my mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4caSSVTKg)

[paul jones]

When I was in school back in 1984 our music teacher,Mrs Wood used to make us play stuff on Casio keyboards but mainly she demanded from us as much spare change in our pockets as we could to help the starving Ethiopians.Not many gave up their cash so she was a moody bitch because of this.
Sometimes the bitch taught us some music and one day I learnt to play Lionel Ritchie's haunting classic 'Hello' on the 'BIG' piano(y)

[TAL]

The mid-80s keyboard in our family had "Just The Way You Are" as it's demo song. I'm pretty sure it was a Yamaha.


The song was programmed into the Yamaha PSS series of synthesizers, popular in the late 1980s, as a demonstration mode.

I was correct!

[Knuckles]

The mid-80s keyboard in our family had "Just The Way You Are" as it's demo song. I'm pretty sure it was a Yamaha.




I was correct!

Oooh yeah. I had me one of those. (y)

[Dharma]

Rick Ashley is a sex kitten.

*swoon*

[paul jones]

Rick Ashley is a sex kitten.

*swoon*


ah you WOULD say ASHLEY!(y)

[Dharma]

Oh ...the good old days, she was quite the menace.

Fucking whore.

[paul jones]

Oh ...the good old days, she was quite the menace.

Fucking whore.

let's not ruin Mr rirv's piano thread now..

[faz]

My childhood keyboard played wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ)

[rirv]

My childhood keyboard played wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ)

I can't believe people that didn't know that George Michael was gay.

[Videodrome]

everyone knew, it's just nobody wanted to believe it.

[Lyman Zerga]

everyone knew, it's just nobody wanted to believe it.

im still not buying it