Hi .. just wanna learn from them who made it to record their albums ..
Please mention some bands that are using any kind of moogs, even Korg MS20 or any synth-based bands.. Mention their rigs also if you could.
Thanks!
Joy electric is one I like a lot. VERY poppy berlin style synthpop. For the past 6 albums or so he used nothing but a voyager, synthesizer.com 960 sequencer, and a couple foogers and vocals to create entire albums. “Ministry of archers” and “otherly opus” are probably my favorites.
Or pick up an album by any prog band from the 70s and im sure you’ll find plenty of mooginess
Kraftwerk, JMJ, Radiohead, Gary Numan, Volt Per Octaves, and yeah, YES, Pink Floyd, ELP…bands like that. 
Pink Floyd used a lot of MiniMoog and ARP, and ELP used a Moog modular and later, a Yamaha CS-80 prototype which was simply massive. Had three, maybe four keyboards. Radiohead does a lot with the Rogue and Sonic Six. The VPO’s use a MiniMoog and Little Phatty as well as some 'Foogers and vintage stuff. Rick Wakeman from YES used a MiniMoog. Kraftwerk uses almost everything Moog. JMJ has used MiniMoog, MemoryMoog, Prodigy, and a bunch of non-Moog gear. Also Gary Numan is known for using PolyMoog and MiniMoog.
Funny that you ask, i was doing some research, earlier this week, to confirm the equipment used by some of my favorites bands. Now, you are probably asking more about contemporary bands, and some other people might answer you on that. Rush (Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson) have little phatties in their set-up, and not too long ago (probably still) you can see Paul Schaffer (David Letterman show) using one (Voyager).
After the 1968 release of Walter (now Wendy) Carlos’s Switched on Bach, everybody wanted one, and did get one. Prior to the mid seventies, if you hear a synth on a record, it probably is a Moog. The list is too long to put here, but among the earliest, you’ll find the Beatles on Abbey Road (Here comes the sun) and Pink Floyd.
The Monkeys and the Beach Boys were among the first in the US, although I consider (probably wrongly) Spirit, with Space Child (a beautiful piece) the first one where a moog modular takes center stage.
Again, the list is too long, but some favorites of mine, with prominent use of Moog instruments include : Gentle Giant, Triumvirat, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le Orme, Tangerine Dream, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Gary Wright (Spooky Tooth), Klaus Scultze, Patrick Moraz (Yes, Moody Blues), Manfred Mann, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Camel, Styx, Vangelis, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Zappa, Gino (Joe) Vannelli and of course, the master of them all : Keith Emerson.
Portamental, Styx used ARP. When did they use Moog gear? 
“As a keyboardist in Styx, DeYoung was best remembered for his prominent lead synthesizer solos performed on the Oberheim synthesizer that dominated the mix with a unique tone, a key element of the Styx sound. DeYoung pioneered the use of synthesizers in rock and roll. Influenced by the recent release of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s first album, DeYoung — a novice synthesizer player at the time — used a modular Moog to record the keyboard tracks for the first Styx album.”
And for accuracy, I meant : The Monkees, not the … what I wrote above loll.
acorkos, Portamental, thanks for the info. Schooled again. My posts seem to be getting worse instead of better. 
I think that you’re referring to the Yamaha GX-1, which wasn’t a CS80 prototype, it was more like a predecessor. It had two full manuals and a third manual made of mini keys. It also had bass pedals. The CS80 was somewhat like a single manual version of the GX-1. It did have polyphonic aftertouch that the GX-1 didn’t have. The monophonic mini keyed manual is pretty much the same as the Yamaha SY-1. The main difference being that the SY-1 has vibrato that’s triggered by depressing the key harder, whereas the vibrato on the little manual of the GX-1 is triggered by moving the key from side to side. I’ve owned two CS80s and two SY-1s, and using an SY-1 and a CS80 at the same time I could pretty much nail All My Love by Zeppelin.
That would be that unit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyCDWWPCik&feature=related. Video shot in my backyard (Olympic Stadium 1976-7 ?), included in the 2 DVD set “In the beginning”.
I can understand a musician’s never ending search for more gear (and polyphony), but I can remember being taken away from the Moog sound so characteristic of ELP’S music. Still sound pretty good. Hope the link works.
Yes, that’s the beast I was talking about. Only a couple GX-1’s were actually built, if memory serves, which is why I confused it for a prototype. Awesome machine. 
Alrite, that was back in a days, How about current bands? i heard boards of canada is one of them.
But if you really love synth based band, you should listen to “Spleen United” bunch of guys playing synths like no other .. this is currently my fave band .. but i’m not sure which moog they’re using, all i know for sure they have couples of MS20 .. look it up on youtube guys and lemme know your comment
AIR is a good modern band who make use of vintage synths, including the minimoog.
Listen to the Moon Safari album of their’s, it chockers.
I guess I should be a bit ashamed in admitting that my first awareness of any Moog was with Portisheads’ live in Roseland VHS_
I know they’ve also used the Arp on their latest Third record. I think they have the Voyager now on their live set as well.
Perrey-Kingsley
I think that they built around 70 of them.
Particle.
Back in the day the Grateful Dead used a Mini on Wake Of The Flood, US Blues, Loose Lucy, and of course Unbroken Chain. Very weird use as a sort of pulsating pad near the end of Chain as well as an interesting slow rising-pitch effect.
Also Little Feat used monosynths (I am assuming are Moog) in their live act in the 70’s.
And no mention yet of The Tubes either. What do YOU want from life???
Well, in one of their live vids, I can clearly see a MicroMoog. In a different vid I saw a Prodigy. Great band! Just can’t understand them, but that’s okay. I listen to Rammstein, and can’t understand them either. 
EDIT- I found some English vids of theirs…it’s just the live stuff I saw where they were speaking Danish. Cool band!
Rumour has it that Boards of Canada’s big secret is an old SH101, and possibly a Yamaha DX100. This synth has a reputation for having a good bass patch. I got one of those and my opinion of it is that it absolutely stinks. Sources all over mention their use of true analog synths while trying to maintain some secrecy about their equipment.
I watched Spleen United. Hard to make out models…what I thought at one point could be a Voyager turned out to be a Korg. There’s a pair of Roland’s in Failure 1977, possibly Juno’s. Hard to say, Roland’s look pretty much the same from the back. Roland is well known for its Supersaw waveform, mainly suitable for trance like music. My own entry level SH-201 can operate 4 Osc’s and 4 LFO’s simultaneously and is capable of the most luscious bells and pads I have heard. The filter section is not very good though. On the strong side for the SH-201 is the reverb and delay section. Overall, the construction of this unit is very poor. It came with a defective pot on the pitch lever, right out of the box. It’s been collecting dust since I got my LP, Mopho and Nord Lead 2x to handle polyphony. I’ll probably get back to it at some point. I played the new Juno (128 voices polyphony) a couple of weeks ago. Nice. For some unexplainable reason, I never was a Korg fan.
The Mopho has great sound, real analog. The Nord Lead 2x is a workhorse among virtual analogs. Both are a pain to setup though, compared to the LP, so easy to use and most enjoyable to play. Last week’s addition of the CP251 and an expression pedal gave it a whole new dimension. Add to that the build quality and of course the best sound in the industry, all good reasons for which I remain strongly Moog biased. There’s a lot of CV based hardware in my future. My only problem with the LP is it’s limited range keyboard, so I drive it often from a low cost 61 Yamaha keyboard through Midi.