Enter the Synthesiser and the music scene changed

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Guess around the same time was the mellotron.

Was used extensively by the Moody Blues

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It really is amazing what a synth can produce. My Yamaha PSR A-3000 provides me with a full orchestra at my fingertips and much more with each expander pack :+1:

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Francis Lai and Rick Wakeman

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I am not at all musical as far as creating music on any instrument or device but a family member of mine, at only 11 years old, taught herself to read and write music. From there she progressed to collecting musical instruments and learning how to play them, electric and manual guitars, piano and a small synthesiser and all self-taught. The latest was to save up and buy an Apple iMac and a program for making her own music on there. That’s really surprising what can be produced using that program. She’s very clever at that and it’s her passion so she will I am sure go far in her aims and ambitions. It’s all very clever and so much removed from the music and bands of the 1960’s.
:musical_score: :musical_note: :guitar: :musical_keyboard: :grinning:

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I played that LP a thousand times.

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For me, this production from Paul Young ticks two boxes 
 the deployment of a synth AND a tube screamer for guitar; wow, what a blend to excite the inner me :ok_hand::+1:

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OMD made many entries as synth-pop with Paul Humphreys at the synth :+1:

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Oh, Christ! How can we forget The Tornados, Telstar (1962)

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Good use of the synth AND stomp pedal for guitar too :point_down::ok_hand::+1:

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Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly

Boney M: Sunny

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Andreas Vollenwieder: The Glass Hall

Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath

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This is a classic example of the VC3 analogue synth used to its best.
EMS VCS 3 - Wikipedia

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What synthesizer did Eddie Van Halen play this on?

This was Van Halen’s first #1 hit, and their only #1 with David Lee Roth as lead singer. Eddie Van Halen played this on an Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer (Oberheim was a large synth manufacturer during the '80s). He was classically trained on piano growing up, and didn’t start playing guitar until he was a teenager 


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Rush - The Camera Eye (DVD Time Machine:Live in Cleveland)

Rush a Canadian band I have had the pleasure of seeing


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They were virtuosos. Can’t see the reliance on the Synth.