Synthesizer Innovator Robert A. Moog Dies

[skroo]

RALEIGH, N.C. . Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166385,00.html

[bascule]

I'm still looking for a copy of Switched-On Bach on vinyl...

[klepto]

I'm still looking for a copy of Switched-On Bach on vinyl...

By who?

http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?curr...0&Go%21=Search

[noid]

I'm still looking for a copy of Switched-On Bach on vinyl...

I have it. I'll send you photos of me holding it and taunting you.

[Chris]

RALEIGH, N.C. . Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166385,00.html

A spiffy Moog album is Return of the Rentals. It is Matt Sharp's (original Weezer bassist) side project from 1995. Good stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...music&n=507846

[bascule]

By who?

http://www.gemm.com/c/search.pl?curr...0&Go%21=Search

It's more of something I'd rather find in the $0.99 bin at our local record store

[skroo]

A spiffy Moog album is Return of the Rentals. It is Matt Sharp's (original Weezer bassist) side project from 1995. Good stuff.

And from around the same time, The Moog Cookbook. Nirvana's Black Hole Sun on the Moog, topping the charts. Heady stuff. Or not, but still rather nifty.

[Asbestos]

Wasn't "Black Hole Sun" made by Sound Garden?

Sorry to hear about Robert Moog, as well.

[big chopper]

And it shouldn't have to be said, but his is one of the most mispronounced names in history.
His name is pronounced like "MOUGE" or "MOAG" and not "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG" (as in Moo).

R.I.P Dr. Moog!
--bc,

[Voltage Spike]

Wasn't "Black Hole Sun" made by Sound Garden?

Yes, it was the Soundgarden (one word) song.

And it shouldn't have to be said, but his is one of the most mispronounced names in history.

It shouldn't have to be said? How else are we going to learn how to pronounce it?

His name is pronounced like "MOUGE" or "MOAG"

Which is funny because, at least to me, those two words are pronounced entirely differently.

Edit: I looked it up, and, by Robert's own admitting, his name rhymes with "vogue" (i.e., "mouge" was a type).

[skroo]

Yes, it was the Soundgarden (one word) song.

Gah! I suck at teh crediting bands today.

[bascule]

I'd like to hear Smells Like Teen Spirit on a Moog...

Wait, no I wouldn't