Jimmy Destri

"I used the Roland JP-8000 to approximate a lot of those sounds (vintage analog), it's pretty good. I've tried the Nord and some other stuff but the JP-8000 was really the best of the lot as far as being user friendly."

'The Kurzweil K2500x and K2500sx. This is a fully blown one but just under the maxed out model. It costs so much less but you get just as much. You don't get the brushed chrome exterior. I bought my first one at Sam Ash and I'm very happy with it. I was warned that the manual would drive me crazy. It turned out that I still haven't gotten through the manual but at a certain point in Kurzweil-eezz – when you're going through the thing and at a certain point in using it – a light bulb comes over your head and you say "Ahh, this is the method you're using.” This is how they distorted Ray's vision" (Jim's talking about Raymond Kurzweil, the designer of the original K250). I got my K2500sx from Kurzweil. It's fully blown with an internal hard drive and lots of memory. It's really a wonderful machine.'

"I used to own a Synclavier II and of course it was an old 16-bit machine with FM synthesis. It didn't have MIDI but the great thing about the Synclavier was that the FM synthesis strings and horns and a lot of their other sounds were so bizarre and so wild and so fat and thick that it really had a character of it's own and I haven't seen a keyboard match that until this Kurzweil series came out."

"I had the Polymoogs and I had a Mini Moog but that sort of fried."

"I had the Polymoogs and I had a Mini Moog but that sort of fried."

"We use the Yamaha 01v mixer and we have one as a back up. We like it because it's automated, when you change songs the faders fly. It remembers the MIDI patches, volume etc."

"The Kurzweil K2500x and K2500sx. This is a fully blown one but just under the maxed out model. It costs so much less but you get just as much. You don't get the brushed chrome exterior. I bought my first one at Sam Ash and I'm very happy with it. I was warned that the manual would drive me crazy. It turned out that I still haven't gotten through the manual but at a certain point in Kurzweil-eezz – when you're going through the thing and at a certain point in using it – a light bulb comes over your head and you say "Ahh, this is the method you're using.” This is how they distorted Ray's vision" (Jim's talking about Raymond Kurzweil, the designer of the original K250). I got my K2500sx from Kurzweil. It's fully blown with an internal hard drive and lots of memory. It's really a wonderful machine."

At 0:53 and 1:16, you can see Jimmy playing on a Gibson Les Paul. This is the only occasion for Jimmy to have played guitar on screen for Blondie but he has been known to contribute guitar work behind the scenes as well as keyboard on and off-screen.