minimoog D - rare parts ?

[thealien666]

Also, smoking is not only bad for your health:

Yeah, but damn if it doesn't make you look cool.

Not really.

And my mother certainly didn't look cool lying on her death bed, dying from lung cancer at the young age of 58. Her brother (my favorite uncle) neither, a few years after her... Both chain smokers.
I just hope that second hand smoke, in which I lived the first part of my life, didn't raise my "chances", if you can call it that, of developing some cancer.
I've never smoked anything in my life, except some Popeye candy cigarettes...
All I got from that were cavities...

So you see, no matter what you smoke, it's bad for ya!

[unfiltered37]

Just a joke. Sorry, I'm allergic to emoticons.

If you have never smoked cannabis, I strongly urge you to at least try it. Way safer than alcohol, tobacco, or any prescription drugs. You don't have to smoke it (but I don't recommend eating it the first time, try vaporizer), and your perception of music and food and life in general will be enhanced greatly. It's the most natural feeling in the world. It's kinda like waking up after the best sleep you have ever had, a little groggy, but feeling euphoric and serene. Cannabis actually improved my physical (and even more mental) health greatly. I figured out about 10 years ago that I could eat anything while stoned. So I would go to the health food store and just get all kinds of gross but extremely healthy food like wheatgrass, sprouted grains, all kinds of veggies, etc. and go home, get baked and gorge myself with health food, and now, I refuse to eat red meat, refined starch or sugar, or any junk food. I think food is incredibly important to music. When I spend time cooking a great meal, then puffing it relaxes me while giving me immense creative energy, and blissfulness that goes into the music I play. They say Miles Davis would alternate cooking and practicing all day.

Of course too much of anything is bad for you, but cannabis is an important medicine for humans (I have a prescription in CA), so much so that we have evolved chemical receptors in our brains for cannabinoids, of which cannabis is the only source. Society tells us to poison ourselves with alcohol, tobacco, chemical medicines for manufactured ailments, and crappy processed food that cause all sorts of disease, but a medicinal herb used for millennia is demonized and classified with poisons like hard street drugs.



Cannabinoid receptor type 1:


CB1 receptors are found primarily in the brain, to be specific in the basal ganglia and in the limbic system, including the hippocampus.[1] They are also found in the cerebellum and in both male and female reproductive systems. CB1 receptors are absent in the medulla oblongata, the part of the brain stem responsible for respiratory and cardiovascular functions. Thus, there is not the risk of respiratory or cardiovascular failure that can be produced by some drugs. CB1 receptors appear to be responsible for the euphoric and anticonvulsive effects of cannabis.


Cannabinoid receptor type 2:

CB2 receptors are predominantly found in the immune system, or immune-derived cells[5] with the greatest density in the spleen. While found only in the peripheral nervous system, a report does indicate that CB2 is expressed by a subpopulation of microglia in the human cerebellum .[6] CB2 receptors appear to be responsible for the anti-inflammatory and possibly other therapeutic effects of cannabis.[5]

[MC]

I played smokey bars for almost 25 years yet never put a cancer stick to my lips. I eventually "retired" from the gigging scene due to work demands. Some time later it was officially confirmed that second hand smoke is a carcinogen. Among other reasons I don't think I'll be going back to bars anytime soon!!!

I remember this one place where there was so much tobacco smoke (this is RURAL Pennsylvania) that my fingertips collected enough dust from playing my keyboards and I had to wash my hands between each set And this same place often had a half-eaten hamburger laying in the urinal And when the law was called to the joint the patrons took out their own form of vigilante justice by stealing the officers' clubs and busted the mirrors and dome/head/tail lights on the police car

I had a big 5-cell Brinkman flashlight that I kept up on stage in case I needed it for a weapon - never needed it

[thealien666]

@unfiltered37

Don't worry, my mom passed away 14 years ago. I got over it by now.

I've never tried pot. In fact, I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs.

I've never felt I needed those things to get the most out of life. I don't want to distort reality. I want to be fully, and 100% aware of every little detail of it, each and every minute of the time I'm awake. Life is so short.

And what good is getting so drunk, that the best sex you might ever have had the night before, you can't remember anything about the next morning ?

I have known people who smoked weed, but found them so uninteresting when they were high.

True that some of the best music was composed by people who were on powerful drugs. I'll give you that. But that had such a high price tag, that many died way too early.

And it's also very true that smoking a little weed will never really harm you.
But for me, for the time being, it's: thanks, but no thanks...
Maybe if I do get cancer, then I'll most probably change my mind and want to get some relief out of it...

Sorry for all the rambling...

[unfiltered37]

I've never felt I needed those things to get the most out of life. I don't want to distort reality. I want to be fully, and 100% aware of every little detail of it, each and every minute of the time I'm awake. Life is so short.

What you come to realize from mind altering experimentation is that you have so much more control over your own mind , perception and consciousness than you can imagine. When you speak of "reality" I think you and most people are really talking about the collective human consciousness, which comes from upbringing, media, and interaction with other humans. But I think we all have the ability to create our own reality, if by psychoactive substances, lucid dreaming, meditation, sensory deprivation (really want to try this), etc.

The uncertainty principle tells us that just by looking at something, we change it physically at the wave/particle level. So yes, you will be distorting what you have come to accept as reality, but that can be a good thing, if just for the experience. But this will allow you to get another vantage point of life. If you stay in one spot and try to get a lay of the land, vs. even moving to one other spot opens up your vantage exponentially. So if you have any existential tendencies at all, you might see the "distortion" as a new form of reality, one that can be completely on your own terms.


I know how cannabis affects people, especially when they are novices (which I was 15 years ago), they get tired, dumbed down, forgetful, eat junk food, don't practice good hygiene etc. But in a way (at least in my case) that can make you smarter, have better memory, more creative, better diet, etc. because it forces you to try harder to keep up (and there being two main sub-species of cannabis, sativa and indica, and fresh organically grown outdoor sativa is like a completely different experience altogether, very few of the bad side effects, it is actually very stimulating, almost like THC and caffeine mixed). Kinda like wearing weights on your ankles while running. Sure it may slow you down and make you tired quicker, but it conditions you to be stronger and have more stamina.

As good as Bob Marley sounds sober, you can't imagine how good he sounds when you put yourself in his state of mind. And if for nothing else, get stoned and play your minimoog, as I did for I think about 14 hours straight when I first got it. Or listen to Bob Marley AND the minimoog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlk9Sj4Ns2k

But if you are happy as is, then bleep it, don't listen to me.

[EricK]

We have an easier way to distort reality to whatever we like, whenever we like. Not inside a complex chemical or a simple plant, or a convoluted theory. We can do it in our imagination, just by reading a book.

[filtered]

good one Eric- and Voyagers should all come with a special brownie!- why not alter, at least just to see what it's like at least? I'm talking marijuana- sure, some habitual users can be dull company sometimes, but once every now and then, by yourself, AFTER you've recorded a Moogy piece of music, with good headphones on, and a box of triscuits, and a block of cheese, and so on and so forth! ever enjoyed an artist's reinterpretation of a song? then try reinterpreting your mindset with some good for the soul THC! ok, there's my endorsement

[MC]

In fact, I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs.

I thought I was the only one. I don't feel so alone now.

[thealien666]

In fact, I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs.

I thought I was the only one. I don't feel so alone now.

You'd be surprised of how many of "us" there are...

I'd rather get "high" on playing long drum solos or long inspired screaming leads (Jimmy Page style) on my Minimoog... Both of which I get better at, each and every day.

[MC]

I'd rather get "high" on playing long drum solos or long inspired screaming leads (Jimmy Page style) on my Minimoog... Both of which I get better at, each and every day.

I didn't know that shredding on a minimoog or playing In-Da-Gadda-Da-Vida was a vice

[Kevin Lightner]

All I can say is about pot is...

1. Our record collections wouldn't be the same without it.

2. One can't say they'd rather do something else, if they have no comparative experience to judge against.

3. Most people would probably say "I've never played a synth and see no reason to."

4. Several very notable synth designers and techs did their jobs while high.

5. Pot is not for everyone, nor should it be.

[thealien666]

4. Several very notable synth designers and techs did their jobs while high.

Is that the cause of early Moog synths being unable to stay in tune ? (I know it's not, just kidding...)

In these photos, it looks like Bob might have been a little "high" playing the Theremin along side Keith Emerson....






And I will add that I might have been on a buzz from secondhand pot smoke when I went to see rock concerts back in the early eighties, especially indoors !

[unfiltered37]

Is he shooting sparks out of a ribbon, that's badass. Have you guys heard the interview when Bob is talking about the Museum of Modern Art concert in the garden, and he says the musicians were all high including John Mclaughlin, and Bob's parents smelled a huge cloud of herb smoke, and his mother said "what's that wonderful smell, Robert?". The best Bob quote ever "Speaking of existential, man". I think the Dude and Bob would have gotten along well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-NZzc1AJs

[Voltor07]

Is he shooting sparks out of a ribbon, that's badass. Have you guys heard the interview when Bob is talking about the Museum of Modern Art concert in the garden, and he says the musicians were all high including John Mclaughlin, and Bob's parents smelled a huge cloud of herb smoke, and his mother said "what's that wonderful smell, Robert?". The best Bob quote ever "Speaking of existential, man". I think the Dude and Bob would have gotten along well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-NZzc1AJs

I have that video in my favorites list. And yes, Emo had his ribbon controller modded to shoot stuff, be it sparks like in the picture, or paper ribbons.

[thealien666]

Have you guys heard the interview when Bob is talking about the Museum of Modern Art concert in the garden...

That has always been my favorite interview with dear Bob !

There was also one with Herb Deutsch, where he explained that the first concerts with a Moog synth were so unpredictable, that they used car batteries under a table to power it up, just to make sure the power supply would be reliable and the instrument would stay in tune... Pioneering days indeed...

In this video, from the Moog Foundation channel on YT, starting at around 9:00.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYgwiWOyfvQ&feature=plcp