It doesn’t matter if they prominently feature moog’s or just use it on a few tracks…but there’s alot of bands out there that use 'em…
My favorite “moog band” is The Hippos!
What’s yours?
Stereolab
Tangerine Dream (before 1990)
Pink Floyd with their Minimoog (and their EMS VCS-3 of course).
See especially their albums from 1973-1981 (e.g. “Animals”, “Wish you were here”, and I think also “Dark Side of the Moon” - 'though I’m not sure about the latter).
im gonna go check these bands out, I knew Floyd, but I heard some good things about Stereolab.
i posted a thread like this already “bands that use moog”[/quote]
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btw- worst band I’ve ever seen in concert is probably Stereolab. those guys just can’t play!
You want a band that is insane and uses a Moog? Check out The Locust. It is thrash metal with a Moog player. All of there songs are about 30 seconds to a minute long. They rock.
“btw- worst band I’ve ever seen in concert is probably Stereolab. those guys just can’t play!”
That a very bold statement and is just plain wrong.
How many times have you seen Stereolab play? I’ve seen them about 8 times and will see them again on April 19th. Out of all those shows I’ve only seen them once where they weren’t 100% but were still very good. Everyone has off nights and the band isn’t always the same players each tour. They most definitely can play very well. what didn’t you like about their performance? when was it?
Just wait, the locust is going on tour with Andrew WK…the audience will die every night on this tour
Well this is my first post. I think that Herbie Hancock has to be one of my Favorite Synth players of all time. CHeck out the “Man Child” or “THrust” albums “headhunters” would qualify too. Funnky Stuff featuring a few moog’s and lots of other stuff. “Sunlight” album uses one alot too.
dude right on electricham or what ever your name was.
the locust is a sweet ass band. i have jsut started a simalar band and we want to name our selves the micro moog massacre, but we are not sure about whether or not its legal. i made a new topic about that in this forum check it out if you have info.
Manfred Manns Earthband!
They playing at May 13th in Darmstadt/Germany at the Centralstation.
I do not know if an individual counts as a “band”,
But I believe my favorite Moog “band” is Wendy Carlos (or Walter).
Although, right along side Wendy is Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schultz.
“Switched on Bach” is a great album. Another re-released album that is great is “The First Seven Days” by Jan Hammer.
There are several others I would like to mention.
Kraftwerk. or Gary Numan with his Polymoog.
Stereolab are just a bunch a badasses put together, how can anyone say they are not good? their last album is rocking! and those Moog sounds you hear in there are pretty inspiring.
ELP
THE RENTALS! yeah, matt sharp is the stuff and maya rudolph, come on. this is the best pimp and deva duo since tina and ike went wrong.
One of my favorite Moog solos is by Don Preston on Frank Zappa’s “Fillmore East, June 1971” album. The solo is called “Lonesome Electric Turkey” and is apparently an excerpt from “King Kong”.
In fact, just the other day I was thinking of putting together a mix of my favorite Moog solos: the aforementioned “Lonesome Electric Turkey”, the solo from the middle of the first movement of Yes’s “Tales from Topographic Oceans”, ELP’s “Lucky Man”, and Patrick Moraz’s solo on “Sound Chaser” from “Relayer” (not actually sure that that’s a Moog…)
Definately Emerson Lake and Palmer!
Keith Emerson was one of the first (if not THE first) rock artists to use a Moog onstage. His modular Moog system is legendary. See pix of it here on the Moog web site RE 5/18/2004 concert in NYC.