Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[GeeJee]

Well, I don't remember JMJ really pressing those keys indeed.. hmmm

[Big time]

I don´t think it´s a playable keyboard! It doesn´t look that way.... to me at least!

I think it was build for ze good looks!!

[Martman]

Magic? Mad Max?

LAG Magic. First appearance at Paris La Défense. 97 keys of impressiveness.

Looks like they've salvaged some parts from Destination Docklands' ruined Grand Central aka Immeuble.

As for the Mad Max controllers: There were some more remote keyboards made by LAG for Jarre, such as a completely gray, "double-necked" bigger successor for the Circular, and a very strange one, being mostly straight, but having the upper few keys bent up. They may or may not be the Mad Max models.

[Nico_Noyau]

The Destination Docklands' intrument was called "Le Meuble"
The LAG Magic is the Clavier Circulaire so !!! Ok !!

[GeeJee]

I have never heard mad max and magic before...

The big keyboard from La Defense is -afaik- called Clavier Circulaire, as nico said, and the whole desk from Docklands is called -afaik- Le Meuble, the black portable from Docklands is -afaik- Circulaire and the grey one played at PLD is -afaik- Circulaire 2. I don't know about the other keyboard you talk about... "mostly straight but with the upper keys bent up" ???

[radek tymecki]

lag insecte ??

[GeeJee]

But that was mentioned earlier in the thread...?

[Jakob BC]

Mad Max and Mad Max II are the portable circular keyboards. I have no idea where the name comes from, but I have seen them more than once on the internet.

Who knows? the first range of names are just specifications on the keyboards, the others are names if you know what I mean. I have also seen the Meuble as "Grand Central".

[Finaero]

This thread is the first place I've ever seen where portable LAG Circulaire's have been called Mad Max

[Jakob BC]

This thread is the first place I've ever seen where portable LAG Circulaire's have been called Mad Max

Remember, it's the portable...

I only know about the following sites. They also got the special names for some gearlists I found long time ago, but they were probably taken from the russian site.

http://www.hyperionwebs.com/electronics ... jarre2.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_la_Defense

http://jarre.kulichki.net/instruments/special.html

Anyway I do now only use the "original" names since as I found out many people don't even know about the Mad Max names, and know one knows where the it comes from.
I just doubt that some JMJ fan figured out these names just for fun.

[Finaero]

Oh, all right.

Hehe, I started that Paris La Defense article as my first Wikipedia article ever.

[Mogan]

If you had the opportunity,which of Jarre's custom instruments from his concerts would you most like to have a go at playing?
I myself would love to have a go on the Laser Harp!

I wan't 'em all!!! No, I'll chosen Laser Harp.

[Jon]

I like the portable keyboard he used during 'Paris La Defense'. I can just imagine that hanging on my living room wall.

[JimmyJamJarre74]

Going back a few threads to the discussion as to wether JMJ used the Yamaha KX-5 at the Houston show. He used it to play Oxygene 5

[Jakob BC]

Going back a few threads to the discussion as to wether JMJ used the Yamaha KX-5 at the Houston show. He used it to play Oxygene 5

Yes it was seen from those camcorder videos, but from that official video in the making off where JMJ show off the Lag Magic keyboard, it is lying on the top of it.