Looking back rather than forward, the main studio area of Rock City is equipped with a very nice Bosendorfer grand which unfortunately will have to be sold off. Gary also has a good selection of guitars and keyboards lying around, including a Linn LM-1 drum machine, Oberheim OBXa and the Wave Team's new Yamaha DX5.

In this 1982 documentary on the making of Gabriel's fourth album, we see a shot of several pieces of gear set up in his then-home studio. At the 11:04 mark, there's a clear shot of the LM-1.

Mike got his Linn LM-1 drum computer in 1981 around the time of Abacab, along with Tony Banks.

The Linn LM-1 appears on Mike's album Acting Very Strange from 1982 - it was programmed by Pete Phillipps according to album credits.

On the Genesis album, Mike Rutherford had used in his LM-1 to program the drum beat for "Mama". The LM-1 was fed through a Fender amp and heavily distorted - this was mixed with the direct signal from the Linn to give the sound some character. Linn percussion can be heard on "Taking It All Too Hard".

Mike's Linn LM-1 was sold in 2001 with other Genesis gear from the farm.

In this interview, Roland Orzabal talks about using a Linn LM-1 (which he had around the time of The Hurting):

“Yeah, there were a couple of things going on. The moment we had the original Linn LM-1, and you think, ‘Well this is pretty hard to work with in terms of the sounds for specifics.’ It was brilliantly used on Human League’s Dare, and you would occasionally hear them on like a Steely Dan record and you’d think, ‘What the fuck!? How have they made them sound so different, or have they built something around it?’ That was tough.”

The Linn LM-1 was used on Todd's albums "The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect" (on tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, and 9) and "A Cappella" (on the track Hodja). It also appears on his band Utopia's album "Oblivion" (on the track Itch In My Brain).

"My studio was called Pi West, and the initial bank of keyboards there when John and I started out working together were the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev3, a Prophet 10, an early ARP Quadra and two ARP Avatars — one Avatar was integrated with a Sequential Circuits Model 700 programmer — an ARP Sequencer, an Oberheim Four Voice, and an Emulator 1 sampler. I also had the Linn LM1 drum machine, which drove our main arpeggiator, the ARP Sequencer, using clock pulses."

On this photo of the crydamoure studio, we can see 2 Linn Drum LM-1 on the right

In this French translation of an interview published in Keyboard magazine in August 1995, Steve Porcaro mentions programming the drum beat of "Human Nature" on a Linn Drum (in fact referring to the Linn LM-1).

In a video by Behringer, it's mentioned that Curt Smith used the Linn Electronics LM-1 Drum Computer during the recording of Tears For Fears' iconic album "Songs From the Big Chair."

In this profile from the May 1982 issue of Electronics & Music Maker magazine, Keith states that he used an LM-1 while working with PiL.

These days Ocasek busies himself while at home with a TEAC 88 8-track tape machine connected to a Sound Workshop 1280 B board in turn hooked up with two Orban 622B equalizers (the board is also equipped with its own parametric equalizers. For keyboards he swears by his Prophets and Roland Jupiter 8. using a Korg Lambda for orchestral coloring and often calling in an assortment of little Casiotones for reinforcement. He probably has more drum machines than anything else-both the old Linn LM-1 Drum Computer and the new LinnDrum. a Korg KR 55, five Roland units (including a TR808. CR8000 and a Dr. Rhythm), some old Univox rhythm gizmos and a drum machine yanked out of a Hammond organ "that has the Liverpool beat." the kind of insect clicking you hear in organ shops in suburban shopping malls.

https://www.facebook.com/isatellite/photos/a.10150800858677024/10151517577152024/?type=3 This post features an LM-1 that is described as having been previously owned by Ric. It appears to be a very early model.

In this article, the Linn LM-1 drum computer is mentioned in William Orbit’s equipment list.