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Moog Brings Back the Ancient Modular Synthesizer (This is Rather Awesome)
A Journal of Musical Things ^
| January 20, 2015
| Alan Cross
Posted on 01/20/2015 7:18:48 PM PST by Squawk 8888
If you remember guys like Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Rick Wright playing keyboard devices the size of refrigerators, you’ll love that Moog, the pioneering synth company, has gone back to making some of those monsters.
Behold this glorious synthesizer porn.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: carlpalmer; elp; emersonlakeandpalmer; emersonlakepalmer; greglake; keithemerson; moog; music; newwave; postpunk; progressiverock; rickwakeman; synthesizer; thenice
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:21:44 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:23:13 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
To: Squawk 8888; Norm Lenhart; Slings and Arrows; Salamander
YaY! Great News!!
Maybe they'll bring back the "Moogy Blues!"
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:23:23 PM PST
by
shibumi
("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:23:29 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Squawk 8888
It’s time for Prog Rock to make a comeback.
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:24:23 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
To: Squawk 8888
Thanks for the post. Please add me to the ping list.
To: Squawk 8888
Learn the spelling for ShostAkovich.
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:25:18 PM PST
by
Misterioso
(The essence of life is the achievement of joy, not the escape from pain. - Ayn Rand)
To: ClearCase_guy
Sure, if Hammond ever brings back the B3 instead of the “clonewheel” series such as XK1/2/3(C).
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:26:06 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
i really enjoyed my juno 60. one of the great roland analog synths.
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:30:44 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Squawk 8888
suggested retail price...”if you have to ask..you cant afford one”
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:33:37 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Squawk 8888
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends........
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:33:47 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: Secret Agent Man
I had one tiny moog board....which was the size of a mini but the name of which escapes me
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:34:50 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Squawk 8888
about 20 minutes from here, you never knew who you'd see drinking in the Rongo back then
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:36:14 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Squawk 8888
Everything in
this, except the bass-line, was done via synthesis.
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:39:07 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: aposiopetic
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:40:54 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Misterioso
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:41:37 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
I think I have the album, “Switched on Bach” somewhere. Now I have to go look.....
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posted on
01/20/2015 7:42:13 PM PST
by
CAluvdubya
(<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
To: Chode
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Robert Moog in the mid ‘90’s. He was marketing a line of polyphonic pianos (I can’t recall the brand name).
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01/20/2015 7:43:12 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: shibumi
Until you see the price it’s great ;)
Check the Moog Emmerson Modular . Be sitting when you do.
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