Moog @ I Dig Worms (Link)

It has an MP3 of The Beatles’ “Because” which featured the Mini Moog, plus an article & links:

http://idigworms.blogspot.com/2005/08/robert-moog-1934-2005.html

http://idigworms.blogspot.com/

That was very nice of you.

Fwiw, the Beatles broke up before the Minimoog was released.
They used a modular Moog on this song originally. :slight_smile:

My bad! Wasn’t it George Harrison’s? But didn’t t Paul played it the most on the Abbey Road album? “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” would be an obvious example.

I believe the Beatles used the Moog prominently on 3 songs, two of which you’ve already identified: ‘Because’ and ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’. The third is ‘Here Comes the Sun’.

At the very end of I Want You/She’s So Heavy, there is white noise that builds up to a climax. No doubt this is from the Moog Modular too.

All three are on Abbey Road … arguably the best album they ever made.

Sir George Martin was quoted on a UK news service (chan 4 or BBC?) in which he offered his condolences in a very eloquent way.

Wendy Carlos has also finished her hand drawn portrait of Bob, as she had done for Stanley Kubrick.
I’m speculating that she’s also now writing her memoirs regarding Bob to be included in a similar way, but even if not, she’s an amazing artist with charcoal as well as synths.

http://www.wendycarlos.com scroll to the bottom of the page.


It’s also rather interesting to me in the ways these early Moog owners approached their instruments.
The Beach Boys (Surf’s Up album is a good example), The Monkees, The Beatles, etc. All went for sounds that integrated very well with their songs, with few of the filter sweep sounds found so often in later usage.
Their approaches were of treating first as a musical instrument that fit into the context of a song, instead of using it as a themed “sound effect” or main line and writing a song around it. It didn’t seem to be their first choice as a composition machine as much as a “we need a color here” type of accessory.
Fine by me either way. Not hearing Tony Banks make filter sweeps was refreshing when I first heard him too, as Emerson and Wakeman were doing that considerably more through the 70’s.