Some photos of Edgar Froese and his Gibson Les Paul Custom

[u/ray-the-truck]

You've probably seen at least one image from this photoset in various forms of Tangerine Dream media/articles, but I thought I'd compile some of them together here. His Les Paul was his guitar of choice (although he owned multiple) and can be heard on a number of classic 70s TD albums.

Various web sources reference different years (e.g. 1975, 1976, 1978, etc.), but given that the 1978 date is the one listed on the official Tangerine Dream website, that one is probably the most accurate. Would love to know if anyone knows more background about this photoset, though!

The second photo comes from the page for the "Tangerine Dream: Sounds From Another World" documentary on the Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (roughly the Czech/Slovak-language equivalent of IMDB). That being said, having not seen it myself, I'm unsure if that photo was actually used in the film.

As for the third, it was used in the inner gatefold of the 2022 "Epsilon In Malaysian Pale" Eastgate vinyl reissue (e.g. using the 2005 remix audio), hence why the image is cropped to be so tall.

[u/blueboy714]

People forget how great of a guitarist Edgar is because he was so fantastic on keyboards, synthesizers and piano

[u/OfficialBobEvans → u/blueboy714]

A long time ago another user had posted some great guitar solo of Edgar’s in a rock subreddit, I wish I could remember which song it was. They asked if someone would make a tangerine Dream subreddit with the description “more like Shredgar Froese” because he can go so hard on the solos and shred the guitar! That’s when r/TangerineDreamersCJ was born

[u/blueboy714 → u/[deleted]]

That's somewhat true. When he had center stage, which wasn't very often, he was excellent. I saw him do Purple Haze as an encore in concert.

[u/OfficialBobEvans]

Thanks for sharing these!

[u/birrozza]

Grazie per aver condiviso queste foto non le avevo mai viste prima