Could anyone please give out an exhaustive list of all the songs in which the Stones had used actual synthesizers (not Mellotron, organ or electric piano)?

What defines a synthesizer? Names like Moog and ARP.

Notable synths:
*Moog Modular III
*Moog Minimoog "D" ("D" is the type that was widely produced; types A to C were prototypes that eventually led up to the "D" type we know and love)
*ARP 2500
*ARP 2600
*ARP Odyssey
*ARP Pro-Soloist and Pro/DGX
*Yamaha GX-1
*Yamaha CS-80
*Yamaha GS-1
*Yamaha DX7
*Roland Juno 106
*Roland Jupiter-8
*Roland JX-8P
*Roland D-50

List of Stones songs with synthesizers:
*"Fool to Cry" (1976)
*"Emotional Rescue" (1980)
*"Undercover of the Night" (1983)
*"Too Much Blood" (1983)
*"Might As Well Get Juiced" (1997)

~Ben

"Continental Drift"
"Time Waits For No One"
"Gunface"

Fingerprint File (played by Bill Wyman!)

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Fingerprint File (played by Bill Wyman!)

And he played it live on the 1975 tour. There's one soundboard I have of that tour (can't remember which one), and what he's playing on that tune sounds like flatulence; he had no idea what he was doing.

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Fingerprint File (played by Bill Wyman!)

And he played it live on the 1975 tour. There's one soundboard I have of that tour (can't remember which one), and what he's playing on that tune sounds like flatulence; he had no idea what he was doing.

The record was pretty good, I thought. I was at the show in LA in '75. Can't remember how well or badly Bill played on that one.

2000 Light Years from Home

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I love this clip LOL

Lots of Mellotron on "2000 Lightyears" but the Start-trek effects were done on early synth, no?

Thru And Thru. By of all people, KEITH.

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Fingerprint File (played by Bill Wyman!)

And he played it live on the 1975 tour. There's one soundboard I have of that tour (can't remember which one), and what he's playing on that tune sounds like flatulence; he had no idea what he was doing.

The record was pretty good, I thought. I was at the show in LA in '75. Can't remember how well or badly Bill played on that one.

On all the boots I have, I can barely hear him, if at all. But there was one soundboard I have from 1975 where he's all over the place. He's in the right key, but he's just just all over the place. On the record, it's great.

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Thru And Thru. By of all people, KEITH.

Amazing. I read the thread title and was getting ready to say what you said word for word. I blew my mind cause I'd read an interview the year before with Keith where he went into great detail on the evils of synthesizers.

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Lots of Mellotron on "2000 Lightyears" but the Start-trek effects were done on early synth, no?

It was most likely done with an oscillator.



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"Heaven"?

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Lots of Mellotron on "2000 Lightyears" but the Start-trek effects were done on early synth, no?

It was most likely done with an oscillator.

That sure is what it sounds like.

How about "Memory Motel"? It sounds like it to me but I can't be certain.

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How about "Memory Motel"? It sounds like it to me but I can't be certain.

Yep; Billie Preston overdubbed string synth on both Memory Motel and Fool To Cry.

Taylor and Wyman get synth credits on the IORR album.

'Thru and Thru' is a brilliant song to play on acoustic guitar or piano...is it really synths on the original recording?

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Memory Motel - yes.
Time Waits For No One

Brown Sugar Live Paris 1976
Billy Preston on a ARP Pro Soloist
You cannot hear him luckily.

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Around 0:21



Also Some Girls (the song) probably Bill replacing the bass by a (minimoog?) as of 3.40

"Send It To Me"

There's a number of weird little uses of synthesizer, much like the use of pedal steel where you barely notice it until it's pointed out.

Winning Ugly?

Might As Well Get Juiced.

…. Okay dandeeee .... any excuse to crack a bottle of booze ....



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…. Okay dandeeee .... any excuse to crack a bottle of booze ....

There always izzzzzz, Rockee..

That fart noise during the opening riff of Brown Sugar on LA Friday is Billy Preston playing a synth (ARP Pro Soloist?).That bit of blasphemy should have been caught and stopped during tour rehearsals, but it was part of the arrangement for that tour.



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That fart noise during the opening riff of Brown Sugar on LA Friday is Billy Preston playing a synth (ARP Pro Soloist?).That bit of blasphemy should have been caught and stopped during tour rehearsals, but it was part of the arrangement for that tour.

He also polluted Midnight Rambler and others with it

/I am the only one who loves the synthed-up live '75 versions of BS, GS etc? No I don't want every tour to have been like that, but I for one (perhaps the only one) love Billy's (and Ollie's) contributions to this most wasted of tours...

"Too Rude", Live version of "Cherry of Baby"

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"Too Rude", Live version of "Cherry of Baby"

Electric piano?

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Thru And Thru. By of all people, KEITH.

Especially the 8 minute outtake. Man, that is the spookiest song the Stones ever did.

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"Too Rude", Live version of "Cherry of Baby"

Electric piano?

Man, not even. I did that by impulse. It was actually Rocky D's post re 'Send it to me: that made me question pretty much all of Stones Reggae-fied tunes. But 'Too Rude", now that I give it a listen seems to be organic.
But to use the word 'synth' in modern recording is almost a misnomer because chances are there is a synth just about everywhere.