Moog is gone

[seeker]

Bob Moog has passed away, RIP. A man who was -always- curious about the world around him. His impact on the music scene is undeniable.

Bob Moog Obit

I've never owned any of his synthesizers, but played with many keyboardist who have. OTOH, I do have his etherwave theremin, which is a BLAST!

[Guest galejt]

My first live experience with Bob Moog's products was at Pocono Int'l Raceway on July 8, 1973. It had rained and we were in the infield about 100 feet from the stage. We had rode in on motorcycles and rode right into the infield. Try doing that today! Anyway, Keith Emerson's Moog was about two feet higher than his head with patch cords running everywhere. He attempted to keep the moisture and the fog out of the electronics with a blanket but it didn't seem to work very well. I passed out soon after.

On the bill: Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Three Dog Night, Emerson Lake And Palmer, The Faces, J. Geils Band, Badfinger, Cactus, Edgar Winter, Bull Angus Mother Night, Savoy Brown, Ground Hog, Claire Hamill & Ramatam

I definitely pine for the old days.

[darc]

Sabbath '73. Damn, that's cool. I just got finished reading "How Black was Our Sabbath" (not very good IMO) and they talked about that tour w/ ELP a little bit. Weird double-bill.

[Hamer95USA]

Hey people,

I'm very sad to see that Robert Moog passed away. I thought his version of the Theremin and his synthesizers were one of the music's world most innovative products to come out to the point where you have orchestras banning synthesizers. Here is part of the obituary mentioning this:

"In 2004, musicians extracted a promise from the Opera Company of Brooklyn to never again use an advanced kind of synthesizer, called a virtual orchestra machine, in future productions."

I thought it was kind of closed minded for the Opera Company of Brooklyn to do that, but on the other hand, they are trying to keep classical music alive by having the actual musicians transcribe and perform on the actual instruments.

I have to say thank you Robert Moog for your wonderful inventions and impact on pop music today.

Guitar George

[Buzzy Fretts]

On the bill: Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Three Dog Night, Emerson Lake And Palmer, The Faces, J. Geils Band, Badfinger, Cactus, Edgar Winter, Bull Angus Mother Night, Savoy Brown, Ground Hog, Claire Hamill & Ramatam

My brother was out on the field at Pocono raceway that weekend. I long heard stories from that one. A few years later I watched that same moog blow over in a thunderstorm at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. They cancelled the show and they had to dry the big synth out, standing in the sun a few days.

RIP Moog. His name became synonomous with a whole family of synths. I think I'll go and listen to Hear Comes the Sun....

[Nitebob]

Whoa, I was at that ELP show in Jersey City.

hair dryers were used ...

nitebob

[JJ Paul]

Bob...wherever you may have landed I hope you keep on inventing cool stuff and pushing the envelope.

I own one of your studio EQs...I'd buy another one because it sounds so good and because it has YOUR name on it.

R.I.P.

(rock in peace)

Paul