Savatage – Hall Of The Mountain King
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1987 album Hall Of The Mountain King.
Music from Hall Of The Mountain King
Artists on Hall Of The Mountain King
Gear Used On Hall Of The Mountain King
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Savatage – Hall Of The Mountain King (1987). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Robert Kinkel on Hall Of The Mountain King
Avg price: $209.50
DR: I want to skip ahead a little bit to your involvement with Savatage. The first record you were on was Hall of the Mountain King?
BK: Yeah, Hall of the Mountain King was the first record I played on with them. That's how I met Paul [O'Neill] and Jon [Oliva].
DR: Were they recording at Record Plant at the time?
BK: They were recording at Record Plant - that was the first record that Paul produced of theirs and Jim Ball was the engineer.
By this time, I had left Record Plant to go out and do session work and I was playing in a prog rock band led by Richard Termini. I'd be in sessions and a keyboard player would be brought in, and I was realizing that some of these guys would take four hours to play something that I could play in ten minutes. I started thinking, "Hey, I must be ok" because I never thought of myself as a great, great player. But I had chops and I was always practicing while I worked at Record Plant.
There was an early sampling keyboard called the Emulator II, which was the first one that made it easy to spread out samples. I was one of five people in the city that had one of those. I also had a Prophet 5, a Yamaha DX7 and a few other things. That was the era when I was doing jingles - that was when I did the Hefty commercial and was being successful in that world. I got a call from Jim Ball out of the blue who says, "Hey I'm working with this guy who wants to do a whole orchestra thing. Can you do that sort of thing with your samplers?". So I said "Sure" and came down to the studio and we did "Prelude to Madness". That whole thing is basically me and the band. I played every single part on that - the whole orchestra is me - and then we just all got along really well.
Avg price: $5,495.00
DR: I want to skip ahead a little bit to your involvement with Savatage. The first record you were on was Hall of the Mountain King?
BK: Yeah, Hall of the Mountain King was the first record I played on with them. That's how I met Paul [O'Neill] and Jon [Oliva].
DR: Were they recording at Record Plant at the time?
BK: They were recording at Record Plant - that was the first record that Paul produced of theirs and Jim Ball was the engineer.
By this time, I had left Record Plant to go out and do session work and I was playing in a prog rock band led by Richard Termini. I'd be in sessions and a keyboard player would be brought in, and I was realizing that some of these guys would take four hours to play something that I could play in ten minutes. I started thinking, "Hey, I must be ok" because I never thought of myself as a great, great player. But I had chops and I was always practicing while I worked at Record Plant.
There was an early sampling keyboard called the Emulator II, which was the first one that made it easy to spread out samples. I was one of five people in the city that had one of those. I also had a Prophet 5, a Yamaha DX7 and a few other things. That was the era when I was doing jingles - that was when I did the Hefty commercial and was being successful in that world. I got a call from Jim Ball out of the blue who says, "Hey I'm working with this guy who wants to do a whole orchestra thing. Can you do that sort of thing with your samplers?". So I said "Sure" and came down to the studio and we did "Prelude to Madness". That whole thing is basically me and the band. I played every single part on that - the whole orchestra is me - and then we just all got along really well.
Avg price: $3,454.70
DR: I want to skip ahead a little bit to your involvement with Savatage. The first record you were on was Hall of the Mountain King?
BK: Yeah, Hall of the Mountain King was the first record I played on with them. That's how I met Paul [O'Neill] and Jon [Oliva].
DR: Were they recording at Record Plant at the time?
BK: They were recording at Record Plant - that was the first record that Paul produced of theirs and Jim Ball was the engineer.
By this time, I had left Record Plant to go out and do session work and I was playing in a prog rock band led by Richard Termini. I'd be in sessions and a keyboard player would be brought in, and I was realizing that some of these guys would take four hours to play something that I could play in ten minutes. I started thinking, "Hey, I must be ok" because I never thought of myself as a great, great player. But I had chops and I was always practicing while I worked at Record Plant.
There was an early sampling keyboard called the Emulator II, which was the first one that made it easy to spread out samples. I was one of five people in the city that had one of those. I also had a Prophet 5, a Yamaha DX7 and a few other things. That was the era when I was doing jingles - that was when I did the Hefty commercial and was being successful in that world. I got a call from Jim Ball out of the blue who says, "Hey I'm working with this guy who wants to do a whole orchestra thing. Can you do that sort of thing with your samplers?". So I said "Sure" and came down to the studio and we did "Prelude to Madness". That whole thing is basically me and the band. I played every single part on that - the whole orchestra is me - and then we just all got along really well.
