@retrosponge@kind.social My personal theory is that Eddie Cochran, had he not died, might have become as important an influence on modern music as Kraftwerk had become, and possibly in this alternate timeline, Kraftwerk may not have been the dominant influence but an older Eddie Cochran would have, had he not died aged 21
Eddie Cochran’s approach to music was very technical, and like Les Paul, was very much intertwined with tape recording – Eddie’s music was highly systematic and patterned and regular, very heavy but quite simplistic yet airy where needed
Had he not died, he may well have had further hits into the 60s, perhaps declining because newer artists would overtake, and in this background period would fully immerse himself in the new technologies of the electronic synthesis equipment (being assembled by similar acts such as Silver Apples) and inevitably progress or at least influence the development of the sequencer, perhaps paralleling the similar move by Brian Wilson of Beach Boys
Maybe at some point Eddie would have released concept albums based on the technological platform he would have built up, perhaps not even aiming for the ‘pop world’ in the late sixties early seventies, but constructing a comeback as an electronic experimental music artist
The alternate-timeline still-alive but much older Eddie Cochran might even have ditched the guitar altogether and constructed his output entirely from early lab oscillators, filters, sequencing logic, at a point just on the cusp of the appearance of the early voltage controlled synthesisers, to propel and drive the mechanistic motor-like slabs of sound he would style as his own
Today in this alternate timeline we would revere late-career Eddie Cochran just as we do Kraftwerk, Dave Harman never got to play on that Gretch 6120, Marc Feld never met him, etc #EddieCochran #AlternateTimeline #electronicMusic #BeachBoys #SilverApples #synthesis #sequencer