Meister said:
Robert Moog is dead.
He paved the way to electronic music as we know it. Without him we would still be listening to endless Stairway to heaven.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050822/ap_en_ot/obit_moog_20
I agree with you. He was an amazing innovator. His work led to development and widespread use of synthesizers, so you could almost say he was the grandfather of New Wave, Techno, Trance, House, Ambient as well as other complete genres of music.
And who could ever forget the melody line of the Moog in Rush's "Xanadu"! (the first time the Moog synth caught my attention).
While many people are turning back to these retro sounds in modern music (Radiohead, Mars Volta, Beck, The Cardigans, The Eels, the list could go on and on), they're mostly using Moog samples, rather than firing up the old machines. They were mechanically fragile, some had extremely limited keyboard ranges, and they were heavier than today's instruments (not to mention that those that are still kicking around are 30 years old!).
So lets hear it for Mr. Moog: Goalie, Golf Pro, Musician, and Electronic Innovator Extraordinaire!
