MIGHTY MOOG
MIGHTY MOOG
Keith Emerson and his famous moog.....anyone seen it? It is a fantastic peice of equipment and VERY impressive....and imo produces a fantastic sound. long live the moog!
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play.........played it?..........well...........i mean......WOW......how cool would that be? Hey, id just like to play the piano like Keith Emerson! But that Moog is a peice of genious! If i remember correctly, it was never intended to be played on stage! Mind you, a Hammond Organ was never intended to have knives rammed into it either!
Just in case anybody has any doubts
http://www.modularsynth.com/NAMM2001review.htm
Yeah, playing and hearing the thing in the flesh was a highlight of that NAMM show. Very very cool. I've never heard anything so huge on just two VCOs.
I don't have the MMV software so I can't comment on comparisions.
http://www.modularsynth.com/NAMM2001review.htm
Yeah, playing and hearing the thing in the flesh was a highlight of that NAMM show. Very very cool. I've never heard anything so huge on just two VCOs.
I don't have the MMV software so I can't comment on comparisions.
I think the URL should be http://www.modularsynth.com/NAMM2001review.html - cheers
http://www.myspace.com/thmsynthfreak
Re: MIGHTY MOOG
I read that Keith Emerson's modular was first built for Herb Deutsch's "Jazz in the Garden" concert in '69 and that there were three others like it. Dr. Moog designed the preset boxes to make it easier to change parches. [This was when it wasn't half as massive as it is, today.]
I've been fascinated by this system since I was twenty and read Mark Vail's book, Vintage Synthesizers. I was astounded by the stories Will Alexander, Gene Stopp and Dr. Moog had to tell. I'm a tad green to know that it still gets displayed and demoed at NAMM shows and that people can play it.
[Not to mention, you can possibly buy a brand new synth similar to it.]
I'm also interested to know if Emerson DOES still play this synth onstage, today.
Eric Benjamin Gordon.[/i]
I've been fascinated by this system since I was twenty and read Mark Vail's book, Vintage Synthesizers. I was astounded by the stories Will Alexander, Gene Stopp and Dr. Moog had to tell. I'm a tad green to know that it still gets displayed and demoed at NAMM shows and that people can play it.
[Not to mention, you can possibly buy a brand new synth similar to it.]
I'm also interested to know if Emerson DOES still play this synth onstage, today.
Eric Benjamin Gordon.[/i]
"The greatest thing we ever have is the will to survive," - Eric Benjamin Gordon, 2001
Thank you Lord for Doctor Robert Moog!
http://www.ericbenjamingordon.com
http://www.myspace.com/ericbenjamingordon
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ebgordon
Thank you Lord for Doctor Robert Moog!
http://www.ericbenjamingordon.com
http://www.myspace.com/ericbenjamingordon
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ebgordon
Keith and his monster moog
Yes, keith still plays it live . . . went to see him and the Nice play in south London last wednesday - fantastic other then the monster moog going down half way through Tarkus, bleep, bloop, no sound at all . . . . then as the 20 minute opus came to an end the modular kicked back into life and keith did a 5 minute improv as both sequencers ran frantically out of time with each other, getting faster and faster while Will Alexander rushed out from behind to stop them and change the preset. Eventually Keith ended by holding huge manic chords down on the GEM Promega3, Hammond and Triton88 . . . it was noisy!
Re: Keith and his monster moog
Like the book said, "Sometimes, the Moog has fought back."mee3d wrote:Yes, keith still plays it live . . . went to see him and the Nice play in south London last wednesday - fantastic other then the monster moog going down half way through Tarkus, bleep, bloop, no sound at all . . . . then as the 20 minute opus came to an end the modular kicked back into life and keith did a 5 minute improv as both sequencers ran frantically out of time with each other, getting faster and faster while Will Alexander rushed out from behind to stop them and change the preset. Eventually Keith ended by holding huge manic chords down on the GEM Promega3, Hammond and Triton88 . . . it was noisy!
"The greatest thing we ever have is the will to survive," - Eric Benjamin Gordon, 2001
Thank you Lord for Doctor Robert Moog!
http://www.ericbenjamingordon.com
http://www.myspace.com/ericbenjamingordon
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ebgordon
Thank you Lord for Doctor Robert Moog!
http://www.ericbenjamingordon.com
http://www.myspace.com/ericbenjamingordon
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ebgordon
Emo's latest comments on the Moog that got left out in the rain:
"Having brought “The Worlds Most Deadly Synth” - otherwise known as The Big Moog Modular System - out of storage, making it the playable monolith to the extent that it could make the most constipated become incontinent and leap for the nearest receptacle while blowing the eyebrows off a wasp at 40 feet provided further inspiration."
The thing is a museum relic and not much more.
"Having brought “The Worlds Most Deadly Synth” - otherwise known as The Big Moog Modular System - out of storage, making it the playable monolith to the extent that it could make the most constipated become incontinent and leap for the nearest receptacle while blowing the eyebrows off a wasp at 40 feet provided further inspiration."
The thing is a museum relic and not much more.
"The thing is a museum relic and not much more".
I recently visited a small museum in Greater London which exhibits a very fine selection of musical "relics" through the ages . . . coming into the 1970's there was a perfect condition Oberheim 4 voice, moog multimoog and Prodigy and various homebrew modular systems . . . all behind glass, untouchable and unplayable.
Now I don't see the point in this as all musical instruments should be played and having heard Keith's Monster Moog recently, this is no museum relic . . . . If I could patch together all my vintage analogue kit and get the same powerful sound as that modular I would be very happy.
I recently visited a small museum in Greater London which exhibits a very fine selection of musical "relics" through the ages . . . coming into the 1970's there was a perfect condition Oberheim 4 voice, moog multimoog and Prodigy and various homebrew modular systems . . . all behind glass, untouchable and unplayable.
Now I don't see the point in this as all musical instruments should be played and having heard Keith's Monster Moog recently, this is no museum relic . . . . If I could patch together all my vintage analogue kit and get the same powerful sound as that modular I would be very happy.