The Greatest Synth in History | T.O.N.T.O
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ABOUT THIS VIDEO
Dive into the revolutionary world of T.O.N.T.O, the legendary synthesizer that became synonymous with Stevie Wonder's groundbreaking music during his classic period. In this video, I explore the incredible story behind T.O.N.T.O (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), a pioneering modular synthesizer created by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff in the early 1970s.
Discover how T.O.N.T.O's vast array of analog modules and innovative design allowed Stevie Wonder to explore new sonic frontiers, shaping timeless albums like "Innervisions," "Fulfillingness' First Finale," and "Songs in the Key of Life." From its towering size, custom wood cabinets, to its intricate patching system, T.O.N.T.O not only expanded the palette of sounds available to musicians but also set a benchmark for electronic music production.
Through my interview with Grammy Winning Super-Producer Robert Margouleff, (T.O.N.T.O co-creator), we'll uncover its enduring impact on music production techniques and its part in shaping the evolution of synthesizers. From its role in creating iconic basslines and ethereal textures to its influence on the development of funk, soul, and electronic music genres, T.O.N.T.O remains a testament to the power of innovation in music technology.
Whether you're a die-hard Stevie Wonder fan, a synth enthusiast, or simply curious about the instruments that changed music forever, this video provides a comprehensive look at T.O.N.T.O's journey from obscurity to becoming an icon of musical innovation. Don't miss out on discovering the secrets and stories behind Stevie Wonder's magical sounds and the synthesizer that continues to inspire generations of musicians worldwide. Hit the play button and embark on a sonic adventure with T.O.N.T.O!
00:00 Intro (theme music)
00:09 Building TONTO
01:33 Meeting Malcolm Cecil
03:25 Writing Ads for the Moog
03:55 Designing the a Giant Synth on a Tablecloth
05:05 ARP, Serge, and other synths
06:45 Making "Zero Time" & 1st Record Deal
09:14 Stevie Wonder meets Robert, Malcolm & the Moog
12:09 Moving to Electric Lady Studio
13:16 John Storyk Builds TONTO's Case
14:54 TONTO's Live Concert
16:47 TONTO's Keeps Growing with Special Features
18:45 No Minimoog
19:26 Special Expression Techniques on the Moog
21:14 Stevie's Custom Pitch Bender
24:08 Logo (theme music)
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ABOUT ANTHONY
Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns , Internal Affairs , The Man From Elysian Fields , 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles , been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller .
His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones , Jack Nitzsche , Lamont Dozier , Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.
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It’s amazing how the custom cases are just as iconic as the synths themselves
Who needs a Mini Moog when you have a Maxi Moog?? Long live the Maxi Moog! 😁
😂
I need a Maxi Moog
You can't have too many Moogs, dude.
What an experience to have someone like Stevie drop by and catapult their dream.
"There's no Minimoog" 😂 Thanks Anthony!
"He went completely bonkers." These stories are great. Best channel on RUclips right now
Agreed 🤘😃👍
Zero Time blew away a generation of English Hippies.
At the time Stockhausen was popular,
Emerson Lake and Palmer were in their early days and Dark Side of the Moon 2 years away.
These sounds, this music, were from another dimension entirely and created a mystique all of their own.
You are creating an archive of electronic music history with these videos! You really leave a legacy behind! Thank you!
This channel is so important and I am so happy this has been documented.
So much valuable information right here, thanks to everyone involved ❤
I totally agree with you. This is an amazing channel and every day it just keeps getting better.
Every time I think how will they ever top this, but they do.
Cecil's work with Gil Scott-Heron is some of my favorite also. Delta Man.
Love hearing these stories about legendary artists just showing up to people's places ready to jam, Jimi's home studio, how they did things. Cool stuff.
I love the creative spirit behind TONTO, what an exciting time it must have been for those guys. Great interview!
Thanks again Anthony for unearthing these incredible pieces of history! Your relationships & contacts throughout the music industry are doing a great service of cataloging historic back stories that may otherwise get lost in time! I absolutely love this channel & your continuing labor of love for music and synthesizer history. Also thanks for enlightening us with musicians we may have never had knowledge of otherwise! Bravo.
Love that final reinforcement about 'no Minimoog' !
No Minimoog…
There’s
No
Minimoog…!
😂
Now I understand what your experiments with the Continuum are all about. MPE and MIDI 2.0 must be the key to continuing the work those three guys started all the way back in 1968.
Through Experience Hendrix, I found out from Eddie Kramer that Hendrix was never in the same room with the Moog that they bought. It sat in the booth at EL Studios and became TONTO before it was moved out.
I live a couple hours drive from TONTOs home. One day, I plan to visit and get some play time.
Is that a thing? You just go and play it?
@@funkingitup1805 Gotta schedule play time, but yes essentially. It’s at the National Music Centre in Calgary.
There's room for so many different kinds of talent, in electronic music. Great interview!
If they made the T.O.N.T.O. into a vst plugin, I would definitely pay for that.
God I love this stuff. It’s so amazing to get this… like historical texture.
I saw Malcolm perform with Tonto in Venice, CA. 1982 maybe. Took up a truck. I still have the LP he autographed for me.
Literally the most exciting new RUclips discovery for me in YEARS, is this channel. Been watching for about a month. So incredible. Please keep the videos coming, I have learned so much and continue to be inspired. Thank you, Anthony.
Let the guy talk.
Yup at 2:28 I was like wtf was that
no mini moog! lol
Phantom of the Paradise?
Absolutely love everything about this channel! Thanks for all of this Anthony.
I appreciate your love of music and commitment to sharing that love. Great video.
Anthony, you need to get in touch with synth historian Tom Rhea and interview him.
That’s an amazing orchestra of synths thank you for sharing. Interesting information . Fabulous.❤
This is great stuff! I never met Bob but had the fortune to meet Malcom C when he was teaching a bit at Columbia Greene Community College and got to chat with him did the lights for an event he was putting on with his students!
Super!!! Thank You!! The long version is very interesting too! You rock, guys!
What an AMAZING story 😮
I loved this. I'm going to have to watch the full video.
Brilliant entertaining and thought provoking stories, keep em coming
Another one of your videos that's left me with my jaw on the floor. Thank you! This was phenomenal to watch. What an amazing instrument!
Thank Anthony to bring and share that beautiful music history of synthesizer pioneers, I love watch your videos always learn❤
Fantastic overview, Thanks
Thankyou for your great video content Anthony !
I lover the videos you've been putting out. Thanks Anthony!
Superb.
Thank you !
Thank you, Malcolm & Robert you were such an inspiration to this Wookiee.
That was really enjoyable to watch!
Thank you for sharing. These are amazing historical learnings.
Thanks for posting this bit of music history!
Amazing interview, thank you!
Great Video many thanks for it :)
As always very informative!
This was great, Thank you!
Love this channel. Thank you.
I borrowed Zero Time from a friend of mine 50 years ago, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played it to death in my car, I eventually bought the album, this is the history of my younger life. I never knew the history behind this album until now. Thank you so much for this interesting interview
Liked & subbed.Thank You for a Great interveiw on the history of Tonto .Friend from highschool bought Tonto's expanding Headband in 72.Those were Cosmic Days.
Great interview!
Thanks for your work sharing these important and amazing stories from the history of Synthesizers. 💜
Grazie mille per il video! 🇮🇹
Absolutely facilitating!❤ thank you!
This is one of the craziest, epicest stories I've ever heard. "Stars lined up" for those guys. 😮
At the moment I can't think of anything other than to say thank you! Now I've to listen to any recording on which TONTO was performed. I wasn't even born when TONTO was born. Of course we know Devo, Stevie W. anyway, but I admittedly haven't listened to a whole album by either of them yet. 🥴
Thanks for this content
Massive learning- praise given.
‘It’s About Time’ remains one of the great electronic albums- it still gets regular play in the car.
Fascinating! : )
Thank you!!!
WOW! This is such a great story. I enjoyed listening to every minute of it! I had no idea there was "no Minimoog" featured in any of Stevie Wonder's hits from back then, although I do know he used the T O.N T.O on several songs during that time.
Thanks for making and sharing this video!
What a great story! Love it!
Excellent content, Mr. Marinelli!
I have a copy of the Zero Time album myself. Great fun!
This is so amazing. Great history of a great instrument.
Great info and history
We gotta go for a visit, Anthony. I think Bob’s ready.
Yes we do!
Wow. Thank you for this interesting interview!
Kind regards
Anders
Sweden
wow, what a beautiful story
What a great story! And I finally can put a face behind the name!
Such a visual nod to (albeit nod forward to the future) Chromeo's new mega system encased in the reflective shard like cases. Design wise also brings to mind one of Larry Fast's Synergy album covers. When Larry released that famous early '80s album, were there do-it-yourself cases that looked that huge and so like blades? Also. Look at the new uber-massive case design by Erica Synths. Same blade-like, shard-like bevel. Or as a nod back in time - Buchla's own original cases for the system 1. Go Rugrats!
This was so crazy to watch
Great Video! Listen to Steve Hillage " Motivation Radio" .
You can hear Malcolm Cecil playing TONTO!
I've often wondered who I saw at Stonehenge 1976, setting up a wardrobe sized bank of knobs, wires and electronica, in the dark. About half an hour before the solstice sunrise quiet ascending and descending sequences were beginning to come out of this marvellous box of tricks. The music was so cool and apt.
Remarkable !!
wow great video topic.
5 Classic albums of that era, not 4
4 are celebrated but it was 5
Music of my mind
Talking Book
Innervisions
First fullfillingness finale
Songs in the key of life
My all time favorite stevie albums
great content :)
Cool thanks
I got to go Listen to this music ...I have heard Stevie Wonder but after this I want to Listen again ,,,now knowing this .I want to hear the whole 27 mins of Aurora ...
absolutely love that
I've spent many hours with Tonto, in the basement of Mark's studio on Sunset Blvd. I've absolutely got to find my pics!!!
I think you missed the opportunity to ask Malcolm if they used a Minimoog back on Stevies albums... next time ;)
Ha Ha, and me looking at my Minimoog, wishing he would finally say yes.
Malcolm Cecil moved T.O.N.T.O. to his Laurel Canyon home. It was located in a room unto itself when I was there early ‘90’s. He was a very nice guy, a proper gentleman, and worked on producing LA artists. He opened his studio to accomplishing good music. Think of a musical Gandalf, and you’d be fairly close.
Agency work... especially back in the day... can pay really nicely. You just have to be willing to float them for net 90s or even 120s. But once the checks start coming in, that TONTO budget seems doable.
This guy is my hero just for that Duracell sound .Beep boop bong! Unforgettable
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Great stories
Tonto's expanding headband is a fantastic album. Well worth checking out to hear tonto at its full potential
I have heard Stevie used a mini moog. Oh the lies that get passed around. Thank you for clearing this up. Amazing device
I didn't get to hear the Zero Time until the early 1980's, I was a Punk Rocker who liked Devo/Cab/Metal Urbain/Suicide. Zero Time knocked me out, our drummer who was a Punk from 1976 went to a Hippy drug party and came back the Tonto album, traded it for some magic mushrooms, pure genius of an album. We used the composition 'Jet Sex' as an into to our New Wave band; called the 'Wreckers' (comic characters from 200AD Judge Dred stories) when we came stage to play. River Song is a most Beautiful piece, ever.
Great stuff , how interesting, I got the Tonto album when it came out , I played it a school dance the people not impressed.
Nothing mini about that Moog. :)
😍😍😍
That’s my time and I got so crazy with sounds I loved what S. Wonder is doing.At the music store there was S.Wonder photo with ARP 2600 I spent hours just dreaming if I will put my fingers on that ARP.Lately we have Roland SH-5 and it do a lot .
Ant with the Tracks🔥
but did they know that tonto means silly in spanish?
I came to write. That. It means idiot too
Great answer to why would you play live ! Why ? Why not?
It is so much fun that "TONTO" in Spanish means "SILLY" or "FOOL"
thank you.
Cool story :)
OMG! One of my absolute favorite albums from back in the day is Zero Time by TONTOS Expanding Head Band!
Tonto! Subbed. Wait. Anyway, Mother Mallard was an early user of the Minimoog.