Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71

[dredbyrd]

Everyone please stand and bow your heads for a moment of Low Frequency Oscillation.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

[fountain16]

Originally posted by dredbyrd@Aug 22 2005, 09:48 AM
Everyone please stand and bow your heads for a moment of Low Frequency Oscillation.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

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somewhere Keith Emerson and the members of Stereolab are weeping.

[kjoe]

I had a moog synthesizer in the seventies for a while. On the third cut of my Gibraltar album, "Reason to Be", I hold a low "A" and turn a knob which causes the note to cover about five octaves while a repeating guitar lick is played and the drums and bass come in. I gave a copy to Skippy, in hopes that it would somehow be used as bumper music somewhere some day----right after I made disparaging remarks about Nascar.

I hated "Lucky Man". Both because of the shitty music, and because of my service in Vietnam.